Yes, cucumbers are mentioned in scripture as a manna alternative.
According to their complaining, the food the people miss from Egypt: fish, cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. While I'm with them on the cucumbers and garlic, I have a hard time imagining any of this raining down from heaven or appearing like dew in the desert the way manna did. Can you see a sea of cucumbers with racing people around picking them up each morning? There's something comic about praising cucumbers from above. And manna from heaven has a much better ring than garlic from heaven.
"Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took of the Spirt that was on him and put the Spirit on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied...." [Numbers 11:25]
Sounds a bit like the Day of Pentecost. And here is the Lord "come down" again. Again He dwells among this. Jesus was not the exception. He was the rule.
Two guys - Eldad and Medad - receive the Spirit and prophesy even though they didn't go to the Tent of Meeting with the other elders as God asked. In other words, in strictly legalistic terms, they didn't do what God asked but still received His Spirit. God just plain doesn't color in the lines like we want and expect Him to. He does the exceptional regularly. Even when it's outside the proscribed or the interpretation of the scriptures we swear by.
The righteous Joshua points out that Eldad and Medad are prophesying and aren't at the Tent of Meeting and says, "Stop them!" Moses replies, "I wish that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit on them!"
Thank you, Moses. Because I wish and pray the Lord would place His Spirit on all of His children and everyone would go to heaven.
And I would not object, Lord, if this is your plan.
My post from last year on this date.
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