Why then do you set yourselves above the Lord's assembly? (Numbers 16:3)How could Moses be so misunderstood? He didn't have a self-serving bone in his body. He had left the luxuries of Pharaoh's palace to defend the nation of Israel. He had placed himself between God's wrath and the people, interceding for them on more than one occasion.
What precipitated this uprising? Was it the failed incursion into the Promised Land or the resulting defeat at the hands of the Amalekites and Canaanites? Or was it the Sabbath breaker whose execution was ordered by Moses (speaking for the Lord, of course)? Or something completely different?
Basically what we have here is one of the most tragic business meetings in church history. Democracy is a beautiful thing, but doesn't always have the best results in the church.
So much for getting out the vote.
A tragic business meeting - well put! Never thought of this confrontation that way, but that is essentially what it was.
ReplyDeleteCouple interesting things, one being Aaron's rod sprouting which I was vague on when exactly that happened, and the other being the statement that the Levites would not have any of the land, the Lord was to be their portion and they would rely on the working of the land from the others. I wonder if any of them had dreams of a few acres and a garden of their own and how they and their families took that news. (what, we don't get *both*?)