The Rebellion

Moses, by the mighty hand of the Lord God, rescued Israel and brought them out of Egypt. The Egyptians were struck with 10 different plagues which ultimately resulted in the first born of Egypt being struck down by God’s angel of death. In return, God’s first born, Israel, was spared and saved. The Red Sea opened and dried up and the people crossed from the domain of slavery and bondage into the realm of freedom and service to the God of Israel. Korah, along with all the elders and the heads of the families of Israel ventured out through the Red Sea into the wilderness en route to the Promised Land.

Korah in Exodus chapter 6 represents the fallen man who has encountered the savior and in spite of the offer of rescue and deliverance, resists and rejects the offer in unbelief! It was not until God demonstrated His awesome power, by unleashing a series of judgmental curses upon Egypt, that Korah and all the rest of the children of God realized who this God was. He was unlike any one of the gods of Egypt: silent, immobile, impotent! The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was a LIVING God who heard, spoke, and responded to the circumstances with appropriate actions. He was a different God from all others. Thus by proving His power and might through His servant Moses, all Israel came to believe and trust Him as God! Likewise, the fallen and lost man, in the manner of Korah and Israel, is an unbeliever by birth and substance until God demonstrates His power and love in a single act of placing His own Son on the cross to gain our trust and belief in Him and His purpose for us. Yes! Just as there was a Passover lamb prepared and substituted for each and every Israelite who trusted in the efficacy of its shed blood, so was Jesus Christ our Lord given up and offered up as a sacrifice for all man’s unbelief, rebellion, and sin in order to open to way for man’s escape from the tyranny of Satan and entrance into God’s wonderful and blessed presence and fellowship. Jesus was not only in type the Passover Lamb, but He, as the firstborn of His Father, was struck in our stead that we may live. Similarly one firstborn son was struck that night in Egypt for another to live! What a marvelous grace! What a horrific price God had to pay for the redemption and the freedom of His people from slavery to sin and death!

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