Numbers 16: Korah’s Rebellion --- 2019/06/27
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Rev. Chris Biernacki, pastor of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Florence, Alabama, joins host Rev. AJ Espinosa to study Numbers 16.
The rebellion isn’t over. Numbers 16 records the final episode in a string of mutinous events, now led by Moses’s cousin: Korah the Kohathite. Korah gathers disgruntled Levites and Reubenites to his cause, and eventually the entire congregation of Israel.
Is Korah so wrong? He sounds so democratic. Isn’t God’s punishment too harsh? We sympathize with Korah because we have the same fallen nature, but the truth is that God is extremely merciful and gracious. As Moses again and again intercedes for mutineers, God reveals Himself to be the only Holy One. In the final scene, Aaron the high priest prefigures our Lord Jesus Christ as “he stood between the dead and the living.” Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Resurrected One, the “Lord both of the dead and of the living” (Rom 14:9) who intercedes for us like Moses & Aaron despite our disdain for authority and the hierarchies established by God.