This post reeks of ignorance.........Did God forsake them? NO......they were not allowed to enter a position of REST in this life and yet...
a. God led them by day and by night -->pillar of fire and smoke
b. God gave them a system of worship and sacrifice which pointed to Christ
c. God fed them and provided water
d. God healed them BY FAITH when they looked to the brazen serpent
e. God gave them laws and good instruction which ALSO pointed to CHRIST
f. GOD's presence was never taken fro them during this time
Most workers for and salvation losers fail to bring up and or deny the truth of the facts above....and the BIGGIE....UNDER THE LAW ONE SIN = GUILT.............the reason GOD made the wander 40 years and the same reason MOSES was not allowed to ENTER.....1 SIN....
BY your reasoning MOSES was LOST as well.....
I am surprised by this response. So being killed, literally executed for worshipping the golden calf is the same as wandering in the desert?
The LORD replied to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book."
Exodus 32:33
And the LORD struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
Exodus 32:35
Do not cross God, no matter what covenants or promises that have been made, judgement will come.
Only a fool would be this stupid, knowing what He has done generation after generation to those who
claim to follow Him and walk in His ways, and then abandon Him and live in sin and do not repent.