A million people complained... Is it a trial or a torture to eat the same food all year long?
On the first day of the second year after the Israelites left Egypt, the tabernacle and everything in it was completed. Moses once again proclaimed the commandments and laws of God to the people and established the Aaron family as the high priest.
On the eighth day of January, all the congregations gathered in front of the tabernacle. Aaron offered a sin offering, a burnt offering, and a peace offering. He raised his hand to bless the people and walked down the altar. Then Moses and Aaron walked into the tabernacle and came out to bless the people. At this time the glory of God appeared to all the people, and fire fell from the sky, burning the burnt offerings and fat on the altar. When the public saw this scene, they all cheered in unison and bowed down to worship.
On the evening of January 14th, the Jews spent the second time passing the Passover under Mount Sinai. Under the full moon, the spring is cold and the bonfire, next to the campfire, they eat lamb, recalling the last night in Egypt a year ago, and also recalling all kinds of magical experiences. For seven days, they ate and celebrated to commemorate God's salvation and celebrate freedom.
A week later, on February 1, God asked Moses to count the number of men in the 12 tribes who were over the age of twenty. The two sons of Joseph counted one tribe, and the tribe of Levi was not counted because of hereditary priesthood. According to the statistics, there are a total of 630,500 males in the 12 tribes. They are all recorded.
On the morning of February 20, the bright voice pierced the quiet camp, and people walked out of the tent and gathered in front of Moses. After being stationed under Mount Sinai for nearly a year, the time for God to leave them has arrived. The cloud column that has been shrouded in the top of the tabernacle has slowly risen and slowly drifted to the northeast. In accordance with Moses' instructions, the tribe of Judah, stationed in the east of the tabernacle, took the lead and became a pioneer. A Levi team followed closely and shouldered the dismantled tabernacle. Then there is the eldest son Lu Jun family. The other families set off in turn until the family was behind.
As the sun rises, the spring breeze rises, more than two million Hebrews squat, and walk slowly in the wilderness of the wilderness. In front of them are the pillars of the road leading the way, and they have been leading them since leaving Egypt. Behind them are the towering Mount Sinai, where they made a covenant with God and were disciplined by God. Among the ranks, the men are driving the cows, the women embrace the children, silently follow the family elders, and walk to the strange front.
Going further and further, from time to time, some people look back and don’t look at Mount Sinai. The spring water flowing out of the rock is still flowing. The pieces of stone that Moses broke are still scattered at the foot of the mountain, and the footprint left by them will soon be smoothed by the wind. The dark Mount Sinai will only remain in the depths of their nation's memory. They left here and never returned.
Seeing the pillars of the road leading the way, the shackles they left turned into inexplicable tension. Where does God take us? What Moses was obsessed with was God's promise to the ancestor Abraham four hundred years ago. It was called Canaan, who was known as a milky girlfriend. Canaan, is it really so beautiful? It is just a strange name, because it is more than us, even our fathers and grandparents are all born in Egypt, why do you have to "return" to Canaan?
What is the price of entering Canaan? Moses counted the number of our men, but he specifically counted the men who were suitable for snoring. Canaan is so fat, how can the people living there be able to give up? They must have a special army waiting, that is their territory, and they are willing to work hard. How can our 600,000 slaves win them? Even if God can help us win, can we avoid being killed?
Why did God not leave us a slave in Egypt? At least we don't need to go to the battlefield, and their army is not protected with us? Isn't it better to eat and drink in Egypt than the manna that God gives? Are we tired and tired again than the dead battlefield?
And God's discipline is really too harsh. We just worshipped a golden calf and were severely punished within one day. But when the Egyptians worshipped the sun god, when they bowed in front of the golden idols, how happy it was when they went to the temple to pray with the beautiful temples! But we have lived in Egypt for two hundred years. Don't talk about experience. There are no opportunities to see for yourself. Why don't God discipline them?
Thinking this way, they are afraid to speak because they have experienced God's actions for too many times. They know that God is indeed holy and awesome, and the Word of God is indeed unquestionable. They only put their complaints in their hearts, only bowed down and followed Moses.
The first night came as soon as it was. People were stationed in the wild, and they were sleepy. After eating the dinner made with manna, they fell asleep. Early the next morning, Yunzhu continued to move forward, and they still took the camp. The third day was still the same. When camping at night, the exhausted people looked at the manna in the pot, and the grievances in the heart finally found the catharsis. The entire camp was filled with complaints:
"I am starving to death, and I don't want to eat this! The stomach that I eat is nausea."
“When we were in Egypt, we could eat fish without spending money, as well as cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions and garlic.”
"Now? Except that manna is a manna! How can it be enough to compensate for the physical energy consumed?"
Moses heard the cynicism in the tents. He was exhausted and had nothing to do, so he prayed to God and lost his temper:
"Why are you hard for me? What have I done to offend you? You have not put the burden of managing them on me? Are they my own flesh and blood? Why should I take them to your promises like my father cares for my son? Where did they give their ancestors? They all cried and asked me to eat meat. Where do I go to find meat for them to eat! You treat me like this, it would be better to kill me, don't let me suffer!"
The waning moon hangs on the horizon, above the calm wilderness, and a southeast wind swells quietly, blurring the tens of thousands of bonfires lit by Israel.
The biggest hunting activity in history, the result is...
The night is deep, the stars are empty, and the wilderness should be quiet, but hundreds of thousands of tents, such as boiling steamers, noisy complaints and grievances, such as the steam coming out of the steamer, pervading the camp, Another example is the invisible Xia Wei, who vented his dissatisfaction with the heat.
The Israeli people have experienced the golden calf incident and know that they can't take the initiative to offend the gods. So no one walks out of the tent, but hides in the tent and echoes each other, turning the grievance into cynicism.
Moses, who had been marching for three days, was already exhausted. The complaints outside were more like the rivers that broke the dyke, and they rushed into his tent and drowned him. Moses struggled and almost suffocated and collapsed. He vented his complaint to God: These people did not celebrate the Passover for seven days in a row last month? Didn't they just experience the completion of the tabernacle and the ritual ceremony? Didn't they just finish eating mutton beef? How do they think of the manna that descended from the sky as normal? Even so, why can't they complain calmly? Why must we be so vicious to destroy God's guidance? Why do you want to miss Egypt?
God asked Moses to gather seventy elders and gather at the tabernacle. God not only authorized them to share the burden of management with Moses, but also asked them to witness the miracle that God gave the Israelites a month of meat. God told Moses:
"You must say to the people, 'You should cleanse yourself, and prepare to eat meat tomorrow, because you cried and said to the Lord, "Who is giving us meat to eat?" How good we are in Egypt. "So the Lord will give you meat to eat. You are not eating for two days, not for five days and ten days, nor for twenty days, but for a whole month, until the meat is ejected from your nostrils, and you become disgusted." s things."
The seventy elders came in order, surrounded by the tabernacle. The pillars of the cloud, such as the torch, cover the entire tabernacle. The spirit of God descends from the clouds to Moses and every elder. They speak loudly prophecy, and the voice of praise is like a sweet fragrance, and it is integrated into the pillar of the cloud. In prayer and praise, Moses waited for God's promise to come true. One month of meat, two million mouths, deep in the desert, how does God supply it?
In the voice of prayer, deep in the desert, southeast, there is a faint wind. After a while, the curtain of the tabernacle trembled, the sand on the ground was blown by the wind, and the ripples of water in the night were rippled. The wind is getting bigger and bigger, and the complaints in the hundreds of thousands of tents in the camp are blown out by the wind like floating candles. People hold their breath and listen to the wind outside. After a while, the clear night seemed to be covered by huge clouds. The camp was dark and the sound of the wind was mixed with strange sounds, such as the wind blowing through the forest and hitting the lake like a rainstorm. There are always sounds of impact and landing, such as the drum surface breaking open, and the ice lake cracking. In the dark, people are at a loss, but no one dares to probe out to see what is going on.
The sky was bright, and people who had not slept all nights walked out of the tent and were shocked by the sight. The entire camp is like floating on the gray-black ocean. There are countless rafts flying up and down from the ground, such as the waves of the sea. Looking around, the sight is everywhere, and obesity is everywhere. The screaming tweets and the fanning of the wings merge into the sounds of the fascinating art. God raised the southeast wind and moved the cockroaches that had lived around the Red Sea to the middle of the Israeli camp.
The Israeli people were in a daze, as if they were standing in the sea of deep waist, they were helpless. Moses and the seventy elders stood in front of the different tribes in the camp and shouted to them: "This is God's food. You must be self-cleaning, thank God, and take care of the food of the day as the family needs. God will I have been serving you for the whole month."
The cry of Moses seemed to awaken them. It turned out that this is God's food. It turned out that this is not God's punishment. The initial speculation and hesitation were completely thrown behind them. They are like a drunkard who has not smelled the wine for a long time and suddenly jumped into the sea of wine, and suddenly saw the Jinshan Yinshan as a bankrupt miser. They started to smile, followed by mad laughter, dancing and dancing. They grabbed the obedience, broke their necks, and quickly threw them at the door of their tent. This is not hunting, because 鹌鹑 is within reach, they seem to be in competitions, greedy and physical competitions, eye and hands and feet competitions, home and neighbor competitions.
The dead birds piled up in front of each tent slowly piled up, and the housewives picked up the biggest ones and put them on the fire on the barbecue. The whole camp raised the smoky smoke. Not waiting for the meat to be completely cooked, regardless of the bird's droppings, blood and dust on the hands, the men hurriedly picked up the whole bird and gorged the birds without waiting for them to sit down. They eat and greedy, eating meat is no longer their purpose, their purpose is to kill all the birds, not letting one escape "wasting", their purpose is to make their own bird pile the highest and the highest .
After lunch, the men hurried into the whirlpool of catching birds. The evening came very quickly, and the pile of dead birds in front of the tent slowly grew by half. Moses and the elders walked in the middle of the camp and warned people: "God's law requires us to cook meat on the day, and the remaining cooked meat can be left until the next day, and then must be buried. You have to keep so many dead birds. Why? Is it more fresh to catch a live bird tomorrow?"
The men seemed to be screaming by the birds, and no one noticed what Moses said, and no one looked back at Moses. The night is coming, they are tireless and continue to invest in the team of birds. Throughout the night, the voices of the people, the birds roar, the nights covered the dead birds and the internal organs. The dawn is coming again, and the pile of dead birds in front of each tent is already taller than the people. The men are mixed with bird feathers, smelling of sweat and bird's blood.
Breakfast is still bird meat, and the manna is still coming, but no one pays attention, no one picks it up, and is stepped on the foot, mixed with the bird's hair. The sun rises in the early summer, and the bird pile begins to emit a faint stench. But no one noticed that the men continued to invest in the team of birds. As long as there are live birds, they will not stop.
The sun is shining, Moses is sitting, no longer shouting, watching the people who are running, he is heartfelt: God's blessing, because of human greed and unbelief, will soon become a trial of people. God promised them a month of meat, how did they actually not believe it? How can I hate to catch all the things in front of me?
On the third day, the sun rises as usual, and the birds are still flying like sea water. The dead bird piles in front of each Israeli have already been raised above the tent, and the smell of the birds has been apparently deep. The housewives roast the birds and no longer have a bright smile. People smell the smell of rancid birds. After the men arrested for two days and one night, they finally got tired and finally realized that they were exhausted and could not catch these birds. They chewed the birds mechanically, looked at the flying cockroaches, and smelled the stench, seeming to understand something.
But it was too late, some people ate and ate, and suddenly vomited, spit out the bird that had just swallowed the stomach. They sweated on their foreheads, pale, first squatting on the ground, then fell to the ground, holding their stomachs, rolling around on the ground, covered with vomiting. Slowly, they stopped squatting, straight body, stiff into a dead body.
The crying in the camp filled the air. People, who did not fill their own desires, lost their lives.
If God gives you a piece of land, why don't you dare to step in?
A year and a half after leaving Egypt, two million Israelis finally reached the edge of the desert and came to the wilderness of southern Canaan. They looked north and saw the towering mountains and the shadows of the mottled white clouds cast in the green valley.
Since more than two hundred years ago, Jacob led more than 70 people to leave here, and no Israelis have returned to this place. Today, they finally saw the outline of Canaan, the land that God promised to their ancestor Abraham more than four hundred years ago.
They are all stationed in the same place. Although it is on the edge of the desert, there are still a few days away from the nearest city on the north side, and it deviates from any road. Although more than two million people stayed, they did not alarm any city state in Canaan. God's cloud column stayed on the tabernacle and did not move for more than forty days.
They stayed in the same place and were uneasy because they knew that they would wait for them to be war. God gave Canaan their promise, but did not promise them not to fight, not to be injured, not to die. When you enter Canaan, you must fight against the local people. There must be bloodshed and casualties.
They are uneasy because they are waiting for the twelve detectives sent by Moses to come back. They have been out for forty days, and if there are no accidents, they should have returned. Moses chose a representative from each of the twelve tribes, who were smart, brave, and physically strong. Moses pointed to the natural road signs in the distance, told them the general itinerary, and let them observe the topography, population, and climate.
Waiting, the sky is near dusk, and the day is almost over. The women began to drill wells and used the manna to make all kinds of dinner. The sharp-eyed man suddenly stood up and pointed to the north and said loudly: "It is them! They are back!"
It is indeed that they are back together. Moses stepped forward, and Aaron went on, and the elders of the tribes followed, and everyone surrounded them. Twelve spies saw their loved ones, and they were excited. They reached out and held the pomegranates, figs and grapes in their hands for everyone to taste.
Moses ate a grape and asked them, "What have you seen?"
Looking around the excited and embarrassed eyes of the villagers, the spies said good news: "We have not stopped for forty days, from south to north, looking for a secluded path to go all over the place. Canaan is really beautiful, there are mountains, There are canyons, plains, lakes, and coasts. There are green forests, crops and grasslands, flocks of cattle and sheep, and birds and flowers. It is really a milky girlfriend. Not only that, but the local products of that place are so rich. You see, how big a bunch of grapes in Iguchi Valley are, we need to hang them on the branches, and the two people will carry them back together. You see that the grapes are mostly sweet."
Everyone listened, and the saliva could not be secreted again. They didn't eat fruit for more than a year. They looked down at the bunches of grapes hanging on the branches, and they picked them up and tasted them. It was so sweet and juicy.
Moses was quiet and then asked, "What about the city and the population there?"
The faces of the spies sank and said with a slap in the face:
"Canaan is such a good place, many people live here, the Amalekites live in the south; the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites live in the mountains to the north; the Canaanites live in the west and the Jordan River Coastal. Although the people are different, their walls are tall and strong, and they pierce the clouds. They are all tall and strong, the cities are dense, they are leaning against each other, the posts and the checkpoints are everywhere. If we want to attack them, it is like smashing stones. ""
The voice fell, such as after the deep night rain, the remaining raindrops on the eaves fell on the stone steps. The Israelites seemed to have stopped breathing and heartbeat, and the entire camp was silent. They were pale, their eyes straight, and they stared at the spies, waiting for them to go on.
Caleb, sent by the tribe of Judah, broke the silence and stepped forward. He said to the people: "Citizens, God has promised our ancestors four hundred years ago. Since we have come all the way from Egypt, we have given us so much. Miracles and miracles, God will surely lead us into Canaan. Let us go forward and occupy the land with the guidance of the cloud pillar. God will make us victorious."
Moses fixed his eyes on Caleb and could not help but praise himself. He is not a descendant of Judah, as brave as a lion, and dare to take responsibility at a crucial moment, just as Judah came forward to redeem the younger brother Benjamin.
The voice of Caleb was just falling. Joshua, the spy of the Ephraim son of Joseph, was also the guard of Moses. He said loudly: "As long as you do not betray the Lord, you must not be afraid of the people of the land. We must conquer them as if they were in the bag. Take things. The Lord will be with us, and we need not be afraid. "
The other ten spies listened, and surrounded Caleb and Joshua: "You two are really arrogant, not self-sufficient! The folks, we even saw the giants there, the giants of ancient legends. We stood, only to them. The stomach is so high, it is as thin and small as a cockroach. Not only that, but they often have bloody battles between them, and they are extremely bloody. We only eat the energy of manna, and only graze bricks in Egypt. We will go there when we go there. Like a lamb entering a lion group..."
Everyone waited until they finished listening, and they were ashamed, like the first break after the rain, and the sudden rain. Except for Moses, Aaron, Caleb, Joshua, no one does not mourn, no one does not lick, and no one does not fall. The most brave, the most capable, and the most mature of their tribes tremble like this. Can other people change the situation? They recalled the bitterness of eating in the past year, imagining the bloody shadows in front of them. They looked at Moses, Aaron, Caleb, and Joshua. They could not help but be full of anger, enough, really enough! For the sake of their four ambitions, are we going to accompany our lives?
light came quietly and people returned to the tent, but no one slept. People are thinking and thinking. Before dawn, they must come up with countermeasures!
When many years of dreams come true, are you dying because of timidity?
t’s dawning, it’s time to pick up the manna for breakfast. Moses walked out of the tent, and the cool breeze in the early autumn passed through the wilderness. Joshua waited outside the tent, standing with a sword, his eyes covered with bloodshot eyes, his cheeks thin, and he stayed up all night because he was worried about the safety of Moses. Moses loved him and looked at him. He had just finished the 40-day mountain road and spent the first night of his return to the camp.
Moses looked north, and the cloud pillar had moved to the front as a signal that the Israelites entered Canaan. Crossing the pillar of clouds, Moses saw the lush green valley of Canaan, and the city on the hill was faint. After 215 years of living in Egypt, after nearly two years of trekking in the desert, God brought more than two million Israelis to the border of Canaan. God's promise, the ancestor's entrustment, the national dream is about to be realized.
Thinking of this, Moses could not help but sigh. Yesterday evening, twelve spies returned, except for Caleb of the tribe of Judah and Joshua of the tribe of Ephraim, and the fear of the other ten spreads like the plague spread throughout the congregation. Last night, all the families were crying and gnashing in the tent, just as the death season was coming, and the disaster was coming. Will they get back on this morning? Looking at the beautiful land in front of you, watching God’s promises come true through them, will they still be indifferent, even fearful and trembling?
Seeing that Moses and Aaron came out, the ten spies were surrounded, and behind them were the elders and chiefs of their respective tribes. Obviously, they had already discussed the countermeasures in the early morning. Their faces were calm and serious, and they said to Moses:
"There are two paths and two choices before us. One choice is to enter Canaan, but according to our reconnaissance, the strength of the enemy and the enemy is hugely different. Our men must be killed by them, our wives and children. They must be plundered into slaves. In contrast, there is another option to return to Egypt. If you take the official road along the coast, you will go back in less than a month. We have lived in Egypt for hundreds of years, and the customs there are not already Is it part of our life? Are we going back to the old business, is it not taken for granted? If we surrender, will the Egyptians be upset? Even if we are exhausted in Egypt, we will die in this wilderness, not always different from our body. Can you die in Canaan!"
Moses and Aaron never thought that they would have such a plan, and they were so stunned and overwhelmed that they were in the same place.
People also talked loudly to each other: "Moses has suffered in the past two years: suffering from fear, lack of water and less food, wind and sun, no place to go, floating around. Now he actually took our lives away, Let's break up our home. Why do we have to listen to him? We simply recommend your leader to replace him. Let our new leader tie us back to Egypt."
The anger of the congregation echoed each other, as the desert suddenly rose into a whirlwind. People surrounded Moses and Aaron and slowly approached them, and some people picked up stones in their hands. Moses and Aaron saw him, fell on his face, and prayed to God silently. At this time Caleb and Joshua pulled out the sword and stood up to protect Moses and Aaron. They were so passionate, tore their clothes, and loudly appealed to everyone:
"Father and old folks, listen to you, why have you forgotten how God led the way in the past two years. How did the Red Sea open? How does the rock flow out of the clear spring? How can the gods descend from the sky? God's cloud pillar and the pillar of fire have left us! Sinai How horrible the glory of God in the mountains is! How strict is God's discipline! But how kind and merciful God is, leading us all the way. God will give us the land before, because this is God's promise to our ancestors. How honored we are. I will witness the witness and personally participate in the fulfillment of God's promise!"
Their voices just fell, and the crowd broke out in a short, loud response:
"The two cowards, you are not afraid of death, you are going to die, don't catch us."
"What qualifications do you have to teach us!"
"Now even Moses dare not speak. Is it true that both of you dare to lie between us and Egypt!"
"Don't be jealous, we killed them."
There are stones thrown from the crowd to them. Some fell on the ground, and some hit them. The cloud column in front did not know when it had returned to the camp. At this time, it was suddenly densely covered with clouds, thunder and lightning, and the wind was raging. In the rumbling giant thunder, the ten spies who took the lead rushed to the ground, and the seven scorpions bleed and died. Others saw this and realized that God was personally involved. He immediately thought of the discipline of God under the Sinai Mountain a year ago. He couldn’t help but face the dead, the five bodies cast the ground, and did not dare to move. I am afraid that the killing of God will come to me.
God spoke to Moses in the whirlwind and the giant thunder: "When does this people despise me, how many days does this people believe that I will go to these days? Those who have seen the miracles I have done in Egypt and the wilderness still test me. Ten times, do not obey me. I will kill them with the plague and destroy them; I want to make you a great country, stronger than them."
Moses leaned on the ground and understood God's heart in his heart. Like Israel on the Mount Sinai, asking God to forgive idolatry, he once again asked God for the grace of the priest: "If God is angry, who can stand and live? If God says that Who can resist? But if God destroys Israel, it will surely make the Egyptians and the surrounding countries sneer and think that God cannot bring them into the promised land. But God, you are not easily angry, and have abundant love. Please forgive the sins of this people according to your great love, as if you have forgiven them from Egypt until now."
In the thunder of thunder, God said to Moses, "I have heard the complaints of the Israelites to me. You must say to them, 'The Lord said, I will swear by my eternal life, I will follow you. Treat you all: The ones that have been counted among you are those who are over twenty years old and have complained to me. You will fall in this wilderness. But your children, even though you say they will be plundered, I want Bring them into Canaan, and they will receive the land that you have rejected. But because you have turned your back on your faith, your children will drift in the wilderness for forty years, and will bear your sins until you die in the wilderness. You spy on the land. The days of the forty days, one day a year, you have to be guilty for forty years, so that you know why I am against you.'
"But my servant Caleb, because of his other minds, is following me with concentration, and I will lead him into the land he has been to; the children of his children will also receive the land for business. Now the Amalekites and Canaan People live in the valley, and tomorrow you have to turn back and go back to the wilderness."
After listening to Moses, the whole body was stiff like a stone, but the heart was like a wave of undulating waves: Canaan, which was almost within reach, was so lost with Israel. Forty years, 600,000 people and their wives are going to fall into the wilderness, and their children have to spend four decades.
And the reason is that God can't lead them, but because they don't want to be led by God.
Indomitable tragic struggle does not necessarily change God’s will
With the cloud column moving south, the Israelis returned to the depths of the desert, and people looked back and disappeared into the Canaan Mountains on the horizon, and the tides fluctuated. Because of their resistance to God, they can no longer enter the green Canaan in this life.
The outcome of the forty years later is also known, the desert will be like a huge prison to surround them, and they will eventually be the place to be killed. Some people are remorseful, some are desperate, and some have made the opposite. Seeing that Aaron and his sons performed the priesthood in the tabernacle as usual, and saw that they collected the best dedication of the people, and then left nine tenths of their own use according to God's rules. They saw that they were offering sacrifices. After the best cattle and sheep sacrifices, divide the rest of the fine meat according to the regulations, and then see that you can only take care of the cattle and sheep, pick up the manna, some people’s anger, such as the oil pan, will not stop once they are launched. .
Korah, the tribe of Levi, was violent. He led the leaders of the 250 tribes and came to Moses and Aaron at the moment, and loudly rebuked:
"You two are too self-reliant! Is it only God and two of your brothers who are chosen by God? Isn't God choosing each of us to leave Egypt and cross the Red Sea? God is with each of us. What are your qualifications?" Supreme, monopolize the priesthood of the tabernacle!"
Seeing the bloody red Kola and the 250 heads behind him, Moses prayed to the ground and said to Korah, "It is your Levites who are too self-sufficient! Tomorrow morning, God will reveal who belongs to Him, Who is holy. Korah, you and your accomplices will bring incense burners tomorrow, and ignite the incense in front of the Lord. Whoever the Lord chooses, whoever is holy."
When Moses finished, he said to Korah and the Levites behind him, "Levi, listen to me, the God of Israel has sanctified you from the people, so that you can come to Him." You are not satisfied with the work of the saints, and you are not satisfied with the congregation? Korah, is God not giving you the honor of being a presenter? Do you still want the priesthood? Do you know that it is not the establishment of these positions? Man, but God, you are not Aaron, but the Lord!"
Korah’s accomplices ridiculed: “You lied to us to leave the land of honey and honey, take us into this wilderness, and leave us dead in this desert. Isn’t that enough? Do you want to be self-reliant and rule over us? You promise us Where is the land of milk honey, where do you promise our fields and vineyards? Do you want to continue to deceive us? Hey, as you said, we will see you at the tabernacle tomorrow morning, each with a incense burner to add fragrance to God. See how God can do us."
The next morning, the morning was bright, and Moses took Aaron to the door of the Tent of Meeting. Kola took 250 people and was waiting there. Everyone held the incense burner, not far from the people they encouraged. According to their plan, at the moment of the incense, in the eyes of the public, Aaron and their incense burner must be no different. At that time, they took the opportunity to scream and shout, and swarmed away, eradicating Moses and Aaron.
Above the tabernacle, among the pillars of the cloud, the glory of God appeared, the wind was rising, and the thunder and lightning were mixed. God said to Moses: "You quickly call the congregation away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram." Moses listened. The speed allows the elders to inform the congregation separately. After watching the panicked people shun the three tents, Moses said loudly:
"You will know immediately that what I have done is in the life of the Lord, not in private. If these people die like ordinary people, and the experience is no different from the world, I am not sent by the Lord. But if the Lord does one Unprecedented things, cracking the ground, swallowing them and everything that belongs to them, so that they will fall into the grave, and you will know that these people despise the Lord."
The voice just fell, the thunder rolled, the ground shook, and the ground under the three tents suddenly split, like the abyss, straight through the center of the earth, Korah and others could not escape, and fell straight into the depths of the ground, screams Long time came. Surrounded by witnessing the people, they were horrified, and they were screaming, lest they were being beaten, but their knees were soft and unable to escape. After the moment, the cracked ground is restored like a giant bow, and it is closed as usual, and the dust is shaken up. The thunder in the sky is like a landslide. Lightning like a volcano erupts from the sky, the electric fire strikes the ground. The leaders of the 250 hand-held incense burners in front of the tabernacle are all hit. The body is black and charred, and the smoke falls to the ground. The incense burner holder, only Aaron is safe and sound.
The thunder gradually disappeared, and God said to Moses, "You must slice the incense burners of those who died because of sin to the altar, because the incense burners that are presented before the Lord are not only holy, but also to the Israelites. learn a lesson."
On the third morning, grief and indignation spread among the reluctant Israelis. They surrounded Moses and Aaron. They were dignified and looked mournful. They scolded Moses: "You killed so many people of God yesterday! How good they are, how are you poisoned? You have to pay for them!" When the situation was critical, Moses and Aaron ran to the tabernacle to take refuge, and the people followed suit. The glory of God appeared again on the tabernacle. God said to Moses, "You are leaving these congregations, and I will destroy them in an instant."
The two of them fell down on the ground and pleaded with God for the people. Moses looked back at the people, and the strong men chasing them in front of them died. Moses said to Aaron, "Go to the tabernacle and take the incense burner. Put some fire on the altar, add incense, and bring it to the congregation to redeem them. Because God is angry, the plague has begun."
Aaron listened, quickly, and ran over the dead, surpassing the spread of the plague, catching up with the frightened and helpless escaped people, as priests, standing on the occasion of life and death, standing in the stubborn people and the true God of righteousness Between, pray, give new fragrance, and ask God for forgiveness.
The plague stopped, and the number of people who fell to the ground was more than 14,700. Even so, the Israelis who were as stubborn as the ancestors Jacob still refused to accept that the Aaron family was the only priestly family designated by God.
What will God finally do to make them completely accept the tampering of God's choice?