Reading
SAA Notes
A party spirit is a most insidious and dangerous cancer in the Church. Korah, Dathan and Abiram form and lead a large antiMoses party. They use a good doctrine (the priesthood of all believers) to attack Church leaders out of motives of jealousy, ambition and pride. How should we handle such a spirit in our churches?
SJA Notes
* Mighty God, You are robed in majesty, Your throne is established from of old and You are from everlasting.
“Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards.”
This statement is everything wrong in this situation.
It can’t have been long at all since the people were soundly defeated by the Amalekites.
That defeat was immediately following their hard-headed stubborn rejection of God’s word in going up to conquer the promised land, and that was hot on the heels of their refusal to go into the land flowing with milk and honey in the first place (remember the spies).
These were the leaders who wanted to stone Joshua and Caleb for calling them out for their unbelief in not trusting the Lord God.
These were the men whose courage was lacking, who chose to listen to their fear instead of trusting in the Lord.
And here we find them complaining that Moses was the reason they were not in the promised land!
These people spurn the Lord’s order and His servants Moses and Aaron.
They didn’t want fairness or justice of God’s will to be done. They wanted power. They were jealous of Moses and Aaron, they coveted positions that God had given to others.
And the earth ate them up.
Korah’s rebellion is not far from our own, from the rebellion of all mankind.
We are jealous of God’s headship, and so we seek to take it for our own. But we have no ability to acquit ourselves well outside of God. We are broken, fallen, petty and covetous. Sinners, one and all.
We can then be ever-thankful for Jesus, who did a better work than even Moses – Bearing the wrath of God for our sin so that we could escape it. Moses couldn’t bear the wrath of God. Korah couldn’t. But Jesus.
Jesus could and did.
Praise God who rescues us from our rebellion!
* Dear Lord God,
Thank You for rescuing us, even in the midst of our rebellion against You.
Thank You for this passage. Please open the eyes and ears of our hearts.
Please help us humbly walk under Your will for us.
Amen.