Numbers 16 , wow...

If Numbers 16 was a movie I could not watch it. Korah and many others forgot Who is in charge and it was not Moses. They forgot Who picks who, for what He wants. They forgot what standing against The Lord looked like , as Pharaoh did.
We have a pit that opened , fire and a plague. It only took one day for the people to complain and blame Moses for the pit and fire , it seems the “congregation,” as they are called, decided they knew best.

We are now years of God trying to show the congregation , Who He was with things man can not copy as He did with Pharaoh.
We only have to read this one chapter to understand why we do not have direct access to God like Moses did. Moses in this chapter was called Holy. You could see where religions could take this and create a modern day Moses. They had Moses we have Jesus , God is the God of an all consuming fire , Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

It is humbling to read this and be thankful for what was done at the Cross. We all have access to read the Word and fall on our face in times of trouble. We all have access though Jesus Christ and our helper the Holy Spirit. The most important message in this chapter is , it is never about man. To see the Lord is to see what the Lord does through a man and it looks nothing like what the world can copy...Go back read Exodus and see all Pharaoh went through or Job 38.

Psalm 5: 5 The boastful shall not stand in Your sight;You hate all workers of iniquity.

God told them to not touch anything of those consumed in chapter 16, He hated sin then and He hates it now. We love and serve a God that time after time shows mercy but as in that story , the of Noah and of Pharaoh , His patience does run out.

Know what God hates , know what He loves , know God...We have access and the end of the story, Korah evidently did not. To Love God is to Love His ways not the worlds and not to be the Korahs and decide we know better ... To look and study hard the life of Moses or any God chose is to know and understand , Who we say we love...Thank You Lord for Jesus our Savior...Study and know the life of Jesus, He is the only way to The Father...