FAITH CAPSULE: The Israelites allowed mixed multitude as they were disallowed from getting to their Promised Land.

Exodus 12:31-51, Numbers 11:1-15

In every journey of life, there will always be a crossing over. Are you at a point of crossing over in the journey of your life? Jesus went on a journey with His disciples on a cross over experience. It is written, “…when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” The cross over journey with Jesus did not carry along the multitude. Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him.” (Mark 4: 35-36) In the cross over journey with Jesus, exemption of the multitude was a priority as exemption was not ignored. In cross journey, multitude can be agent of discouragement. In any cross over journey, multitude should not be encouraged as an associate of any form.
The children of Israel allowed multitude on their journey to Promised Land. The bible recorded, “Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also…” (Exodus 12:37-38) As the journey continued, the multitude revealed their negative color among the Israelites. Mixed multitude should be exempted in any cross journey. As the journey continued with the Israelites, Numbers 11:4 recorded, “Now the mixed multitudes who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat?” With mixed multitudes influence, complaint started among the Israelites before God. With complaint, rebellion became the portion of the Israelites.
Are you on a cross journey with mixed multitudes?
Mixed multitude must be uprooted out of your cross over journey if there is desire to get through to the expected end of journey. Mixed multitude is the crowd and they will add unnecessary weight to your vessel. During the crossing over of Jesus with His disciples, windstorm experience was encountered. It is written, “And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”(Mark 4:37) The presence of Jesus in the boat with His disciples was not evidence that storm will not show up. However, with Jesus in every cross over journey for man there shall be assurance for safe deliverance. In your cross over journey, learn to discharge your mixed multitude just as the disciples did in their journey with Jesus. In your cross over journey, do not under estimate the effect of mixed multitude. The Israelites allowed mixed multitude as they were disallowed from getting to their Promised Land.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to accommodate or align with mixed multitude in your cross over journey.