The Lord said to Moses, "Is the Lord's power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not."There were several verses in this chapter that caught my eye, and I'm not quite sure why this one stuck out more than the others. I guess it's because this is the first time that God has to really prove his control to Moses. Up to this point, I believe that all His miracles have been what I would call supernatural. He's done amazing things, but they were all out-of-this-world-ly. The Plagues, the Red Sea, manna, punishments... all of them were definitely miracles, but they all had no plausible explanation besides God. Even manna apparently new, something never seen before.
But now the people want meat, and Moses immediately starts thinking in terms of logistics. The number of animals necessary to feed 600,000 people, the population of Boston proper, for a month of gluttony would be immense. Yet that is what God has promised, and Moses doesn't see how it could be done. God has to remind him that, even in natural matters, His power is not constrained to natural logistics. In this case he apparently doesn't make the meat out of thin air like he did manna, but he still causes what would be an impossibly improbably feat to occur, to bring the quail to the camp. This may be the best object lesson on the "cattle on a thousand hills" verse that I can recall occurring in Scripture.
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