"Something New…"

August 3, 2014

“Something New…”

Blessings folk!

Numbers 16:25-30

25 Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.
26 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.”
27 So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.
28 And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.
29 If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the Lord has not sent me.
30 But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”


This was “something new” that Dathan, Abiram and the gang had not anticipated.

They had been warned.
Moses spoke the words of the Lord.

The congregation listened and departed.

Dathan and Abiram stood defiantly in their doorways with their families.

Moses stated the judgment of the guilty.
The ground would open and swallow them...something new.
They would be taken alive into Sheol.

Defiance will cost you.
Rebellion will destroy family.

It is about to happen in this passage.
It happens in many lives today.