Reform Thinking but Accurate Assessment

I must remark that G-d is not a G-d of uncompassion and clearly he loves Israel.
So why make Israel walk around the desert for 40 years?

The reason given is that Israel has forsaken G-d and that he wanted to wait a generation before the Israelites could live in The Holy Land.

I suggest to you that this is a face painting for the reality that Israel had to for human interest reasons wait 40 years before inhabiting a new land.

Here is the gist of this.

Israel has a holy mission. Israel is a light to the nations and the future of all human ethical and spiritual purity in terms of Torah and G-ds covenant.

This is a big deal.

Had Israel been able to move immediately into The Holy Land, it would have set up a paradigm by which Egypt would have been conquered.

Here is the way this works.

If Israel was able to recolonize a new land, Egypt would have been a stepping stone for the future of the Jewish nation. Israel would have been united and functioning in its holier roles at the end of the Exodus and thus the future of faith and liberty would be in the hands of the Israelites. Thus the idea that Egypt played a role in Israels immediate transcendance, Israel exists only because it left Egypt to get its new land and thus to be higher than the future's gentile nations.

So thus, if Israel continues its mission by a 40 year wandering experience, the idea that Israel left Egypt simply to be a new nation in a new land is not exactly the direct contribution of Egypt's parlay on Israel's variablity.

Thus Israel is a new nation, but it has its own future and its future was not because of the Egyptian godlessness and paganism.

Even though Israel has of course taken its place among the nations as a harbor for dignity and honor and humility, Israel must not have been able to immediately open the door to the Holy Land.

So G-d has his reasons for all that he does. It does present a scary image of our G-d and perhaps that is a good way to manage that our lives are to be lived in fear of Hashem. But really to think that 40 years of suffering were evident as a result of a bad way of life, we are really being taken for a token appreciation of what G-ds real mission is for our people.