An Analysis Of Aaron's Argument Against Moses

Look what a serious offence it is for Aaron and Miriam to go against Moses; how they offended God.

Look at what God says to them in verse eight; they should have even been afraid to even speak against Moses.

You should be afraid to even speak against the pastor. He is God’s representative and God’s ambassador in the church.

You see, God’s perspective is that if you will not obey appointed authority, then, you will not obey divine authority.

One cannot say to God that they will follow God wherever he leads them, when, in essence, they won’t follow the pastor that God has placed over them.

You display what kind of leader you will be, when you show what kind of follower you are right now.

The sheep should always be at the pastor’s aid;

They are bold when they should be afraid, for when you fight against God’s anointed one, you cannot win.

God gave us a clear example of what happens to men that fights the anointed one, and men that place themselves as equal to the anointed pastor.

In the book of Numbers, there were men who had status and position in the congregation, so they thought themselves equal to Moses.

Korah, Dathan, Abiram, On, and two hundred and fifty men followed them in their quest to show that God used them just like he used Moses, and that there was no difference between them and Moses.

They said that Moses professed himself to be more than what he was in God. They asserted that the entire congregation was just as holy as Moses, so there was no distinction between he and them. But, boy, were they wrong!

Observe Numbers 16: 24-35:

24: Speak unto the congregation, saying Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

25. And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

26. And he spoke unto the congregation saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their

So they got up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

28. And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind.

29. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord has not sent me.

30. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that pertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then you shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.

31. And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them.

32. And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that pertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

33. They, and all that pertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

34. And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up