These Has Provoked The Lord, The Earth Opened Up and Swallowed Them

 

Numbers 15:37 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:

• Fringes = OT:6734 a floral or wing-like projection, a forelock of hair, a tassel: KJV -  lock.
• Ezekiel 8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
  4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

• Whoring = OT:2181 to commit adultery and less often of simple fornication, to commit idolatry. (cause to) commit fornication, (be an, play the) harlot, whore, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.

40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

• Holy = Separated, or set apart for God. One identical meaning (as above) in all passages

41 I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.

 

Numbers 16:30 But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.

• Why did this happen?
• Numbers 16:9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
  10 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
  11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
• All thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him
12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
• They are saying, we had it better in Egypt
• They want to take over, they don't care about what God's said.
14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
• Here they are blaming Moses
• If they had followed God ways, they would of have, already been in the land of milk and honey.
• There's always a man that wants you to follow him, he doesn't care about what God said.
• Pit = Numbers 16:33 They, and all that appertained 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 also.

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:

• What happens when you get into God's Plan
• Here's were the earth open up and swallow them
• Revelation 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
• Dragon verse 9 = Satan
• Just as the earth stands as a bulwark against fire, It acts as a sponge to water.
• God will provide just such a sponge to gobble up the torrent of lies Satan will unleash upon the over comers.
• Our Father Himself, tells us not to worry about what we will answer when we are delivered up.
• He will obliterate the lies, His word, the truth is the two-edged sword, the very voice of God will speak through you. He will be using His elect as a tool to speak through them, the Holy Spirit.
• This passage is a promise of protection from the lies of Satan

32 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.

• The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up

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

• All that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them
• These that choice to live as the world

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

• Some did follow Moses and they were not swallow up

35 And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

36 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.

38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:

40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.

41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.

42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.

44 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.

47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.

Moses or Aaron did not enter the promise land, why?

 Joshua and Caleb was the only two that enter into the promise land in that generation, God said all under the age of twenty would not enter. God walked with them forty years in the wilderness.

What do we need to be doing in the last days? Teach God's word and warn people of what's going to happen in the last days. (Ezekiel 33)  (Jeremiah and Romans 13)

God has already told us people are going to hate you, If you teach God's word.

Moses or Aaron did not enter the promise land, why?

Numbers 20:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

Deuteronomy 32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

God told Moses to take the rod, and gather all together and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water.

Moses took up his rod and he smote the rock twice.

Numbers 16:9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?

10 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?

 

12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:

 

13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

• They are saying, we had it better in Egypt
• They want to take over, they don't care about what God's said.

14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

• Here they are blaming Moses
• If they had followed God ways, they would of already been in the land of milk and honey.
• There's always a man that wants you to follow him, he doesn't care about what God said.
• Pit = Numbers 16:33 They, and all that appertained 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 also.

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25