Numbers 16:20-25
"And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, separate yourselves from among this congregation that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be wroth (angry) with all the congregation? And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the congregation? And the LORD spoke to Moses saying, speak to the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him."
Now come on down and now verse 28. Moses is going to give an example and he said:
Numbers 16:28-30
"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 mine own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, (in other words, if they continue on living and die from whatever other reason) or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD has not sent me. But (Moses says, now take notice) if the LORD makes a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down into the pit; then you shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD."
Alright, now we come down to the confrontation.
Numbers 16:31-33
"And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave (or separated) asunder that was under them (that is under Korah and his followers) And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. (In other words, those who had connected themselves with him in his rebellion) They and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit, (that is into Sheol) and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the congregation."
That’s how seriously God dealt with false priests. So always remember that when God stipulated certain things it was not to be taken lightly. We saw in the book of Hebrews in one of our earlier chapters, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God. [And this is repeated again in Matthew chapter 22 verses 1 through 14. Dealing with God's invite to the marriage feast and Israel's saying No to His offer. And His then turning to the nations with this Gospel and the destruction of the city and the scattering of Israel throughout world. Which we know took place in 70 AD. Look closely at verse 5.] Well, Korah and his family found out.
Now come back to Hebrews again, so that Aaron was designated by God Himself, as the high priest and those that followed him. No man dared assume the role of a priest without God’s commission and that’s why we wanted you to see for yourself the account of Korah. Alright now then we’ll move on into the next verse and we move on into the priesthood again of Christ Himself. Now remember, that this Gospel is the revelation of Christ manifested in His Gospel of Grace and the Everlasting Covenant and the priesthood of Aaron was among men (Israel, and as such they now have NO right to partake of this table). They were human, they had the same failures, the same sinfulness as anyone else but God had commissioned them. But this priest, Christ, is not a mere man but the priesthood is a follow-up of what Aaron began. So, the functions of the priesthood are relatively alike but here they had a human priest and here we have the Son of God our High Priest over His Body, His Church a spiritual priest. Who is head and shoulders above the mere human priesthood under Aaron's family line. Not of this worlds order of things but rather of the Divine order of things, spiritual.
Hebrews 5:5a
"So also Christ glorified not himself…" In other words, now here’s where it gets ticklish doesn’t it? When we start dealing with the Trinity, the Triune God, it is so hard for us to reckon the fact that on the one hand Jesus was totally human. On the other hand He was totally God, Christ. We have to take this by trusting, faith. Here to is a mystery Jesus by being baptized by John the baptist was a conveyance of the priesthood of Aaron as John was the son of what? a high priest Zechariah for this is the meaning of “to fulfill all righteousness.” This can be seen in John 6:26-30, 7:18, 8:54, 11:4, 13:31-32; Matthew 6:9. So now here we see Christ from His humanity, not demanding that He be made a priest, but rather what? God declaring that He’s the High Priest. Just like He did with Aaron. But with this one difference Christ is now Spirit and Aaron and his priesthood was anything but spiritual. Okay, now look at this very carefully.
Hebrews 5:5
"So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but He that said to him, you are my Son, today have I begotten you."
Now go on and read verse 6 and look at verse 5. This is found in Psalm 2:7 this being here a repeat of chapter 1 verse 5.
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