 When a minister tells you you don't need to pay any attention to the things in the Old Testament, don't pay any attention to them because all of these things were given to us, as Paul wrote, as examples of what we need to do and what we shouldn't do. Okay? Now, let's see what God says to Israel and how he wanted to bless them. And even though they went through the wilderness 40 years before they went to the Promised Land,