Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

the judgment is God's" (Deuteronomy 1:16, 17).
"Then the Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and
took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the
seventy elders: and ... they prophesied, although they never did so
again." Like the disciples on the Day of Pentecost, they were filled
with "power from on high." The Lord wished to honor them in the
presence of the congregation, to establish confidence in them.
A strong wind blowing from the sea now brought flocks of
quails, "about a day's journey on this side and about a day's journey
on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above
the surface of the ground."
All that day and night and the following day, the people
worked to gather the food miraculously provided. Immense
quantities were secured. All that they did not need for present use
they preserved by drying, so that the supply, as promised, was
sufficient for a whole month.
God gave the people what was not for their best good because
they persisted in wanting it, but they were left to suffer the result.
They feasted without restraint, and their gluttony was quickly
punished. "The Lord struck the people with a very great plague."
The most guilty among them were stricken as soon as they tasted the
food for which they had lusted.
At Hazeroth, the next place they camped after leaving Taberah,
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