“And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the children of Israel, and get from them a rod from each father’s house, all their leaders according to their fathers’ houses—twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod. And you shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi. For there shall be one rod for the head of each father’s house. Then you shall place them in the tabernacle of meeting before the Testimony, where I meet with you. …
Sometimes it’s really hard to learn a lesson! After all they had witnessed of God’s power against the Egyptians; and all they had just witnessed of God’s wrath with the spies that had lied about the Promised Land…some of the Israelites were still not happy with Moses and Aaron! The ring leader this time was even a cousin of Moses! Korah and Moses were descendants of Kobath, a son of Levi. Moses’ father was Amram, son of Kohath (Numbers 26:58,59) and Korah’s…
The Israelites had failed in their test of faith and believed ten of the twelve spies who had given exaggerated and distorted reports, instead of believing God. This was getting to be a pattern for these people. They were descendants of Abraham, it’s true; but they had lived their entire life in Egypt. Their sin nature appeared to be stronger than their faith in Yahweh! So, when God had given His sentence of death for that generation before they entered…