Korah!

By Pastor Bill Taylor

A publication of My Father's House, inc. Volume 7/Issue 3

Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. (Jude 1:11) Cain brought an unacceptable sacrifice and for that reason he kills his brother Abel who brought an acceptable sacrifice, and very similar things are going on in Christianity today. Those ones who bring the acceptable sacrifice are envied, slandered and resented by those who are not bringing an acceptable offering to Christ. The error of Balaam is that he is serving the Lord to make money. And how many are doing that today? And we have also looked at that in detail in the past. (See our book “God’s Perfect Will”) But the subject we are going to look at here is the rebellion of Korah which is a very common sin amongst people who claim to be Christians today. And notice, in all of these – the error of Cain – the error of Balaam – and the rebellion of Korah, these are not sins of pagans, these are not concerned with unbelievers. These are sins of those who claim to be believers but they do not behave in accordance with truth. Cain offers a sacrifice but it isn’t acceptable. Balaam believes in God but he is trying to use God for his own temporal advancement. And Korah rebels against God’s given authority.

But as we prepare to study Korah let us begin with this scripture in Deuteronomy. “That there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood; and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I walk in the imagination of my heart’-- as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.” (Deut 29:18-19) One of the terrible things about modern Christianity is the extraordinary disunity in the churches and that disunity is a sin. And it has been described in 1^st Corinthians chapters 1,2 and 3 as a sin of the flesh. There is one body and one Spirit… one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all…(Eph 4:4-6) that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. (1Cor 1:10) There is only one mind in Christ. If we are all of Christ and in His true church we are to be led by His Spirit. We are to hear His voice. We are to do His will. Jesus is alive! He directs the people who listen to Him. And the fact of the matter is that what carnal men think concerning religion is, “Well you have your idea of how to serve God and I have mine and we are all free to serve God any way we want to.” And such people think that they are acceptable to God serving Him whatever way they want to without realizing that they are commanded to be of the same mind. And so that when someone is serving God according to the dictates of his own heart, he is a drunkard – he is presumptuous – and he is unacceptable to God. And he is bringing forth, in a sense, Cain’s offering – the unacceptable offering if not something worse. So in the churches the diversity of opinions of how to serve God is a sin in itself. And what God is saying here in this passage is that there is going to be a curse upon the one that is serving God according to the dictates of his own heart instead of according to God’s word. And that is not just Old Testament because we see that in Galatians. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. (Gal 1:9) So in the New Testament there is still a curse upon the one who serves God according to the dictates of his own heart.

Now in “My Father’s House” we are a church where we are not serving God our own way. The very origin of this church was that God asked me to found and pastor a church where He could do things His way. And in much prayer and in much searching and seeking the Lord, Jesus showed me that He was very dissatisfied with the churches around us who are not doing things His way. And He called me to found a church where He would be in charge. And that is what the bible says the church is supposed to be and it is a pathetically wicked thing that God has to come down in our contemporary society and actually command someone to start a church where Jesus can really be Head! And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, (Eph 1:22) It is a condemnation of contemporary Christianity as a whole. And there is no other way to say this. I cannot commend the Christians around us because God is not happy with them. I cannot pat them on the back and say, “well done” to a people that God is not happy with. And so my very existence is a confrontation to the Christianity that doesn’t in reality make Jesus their head because that kind of Christianity is in direct opposition to what God is calling us to do. And we didn’t come here to build a church according to man’s opinions. I came here to get on my face before God and ask Him how to have church and He has been teaching us and we have been listening to Him and He is showing us the way to have church with Him in charge. Which means that when someone says, “Well you can have it your way” they are lying and they are blaspheming because we are not having it our way. That is the whole point. If you are Christ’s church you can’t have it your way. You must have it His way. And if you don’t have it His way you are reprobate and you are not acceptable and you are not His church. And if you are going to have it your way you are the drunkard and you cannot consider yourself to be brethren with the sober because the sober are the ones who are listening to Jesus and doing it according to His will and His word.

And just the fact that we are different doesn’t mean that we are having it our way though people in the general majorities of what is called Christendom today think, “Well we have it our way and you have it your way” yet there is something else. There is another way. And it isn’t our way and it isn’t your way – it is Jesus’ way! And that is the way it is supposed to be. And if you aren’t having it His way, you aren’t having church! What you are doing isn’t church! It is not acceptable to Him! It is SIN! So that is the first point to get across here as we consider the rebellion of Korah is that the drunkard is not going to be included with the sober and the person who does it his own way is not equal to the one who is listening to God.

Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. (Jude 1:8) Now dreamers are like drunkards – they don’t have a true apprehension of reality. And that is a characteristic of the rebellion of Korah – they reject authority and they speak evil of dignitaries. Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman… (They are speaking evil of a dignitary, aren’t they?) So they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the LORD heard it. (Num 12:1-2) Now we are going to find as we look into Korah this is a very similar thing to what Korah’s people are saying. They gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, for all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?” (Num 16:3) But back to Miriam. “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the LORD heard it…. Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out. Then the LORD came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward. Then He said, “Hear now My words: if there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream. Not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house. I speak with him face to face, even plainly, and not in dark sayings; and he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?” (Num 12:2,4-8) Here is a principle which is repeated in other areas of scripture. But I want to make sure that we understand what we mean when we say that there is no partiality with God before we get into this. But from those who seemed to be something-- whatever they were, (Paul is speaking here of Peter, James, the apostles and the leaders of the church) it makes no difference to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man-- for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me. But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter … they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. (Gal 2:6-9)

Now, there is no favoritism – no partiality with God. And whatever good there is in a man comes from God. Paul has his calling and the others have theirs. But their doctrines agree. Paul got his doctrine from God and the original Apostles got theirs from God, and they are both complete “They added nothing to me and they agree.” The doctrines were the same and they gave Paul the right hand of fellowship to go where God was sending him. So the fact that God isn’t partial does not mean that everybody has their own doctrine or the right to choose a calling for themselves or promote themselves into a self-chosen position of leadership in the church. The fact that God doesn’t show favoritism doesn’t mean that He doesn’t choose officers for the church. “And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.” (Matt 23:10) – doesn’t mean you can ignore or disrespect the officer that Christ chooses, which is the problem that Jude is talking about. Evil men have crept into the church and they don’t fear speaking evil of dignitaries. And what we see here where God is talking to Miriam is “Why weren’t you afraid to speak evil of Moses? Don’t you understand how close Moses is to Me? Don’t you understand that Moses hears me better than any man you have ever met?” And when somebody hears God that well you better respect them. Because, you see, blessed is the man whom the Lord causes to draw near to Him. (Ps 65:4) If you receive the one I send, you receive Me. (John 13:20) And there are many other scriptures which prove that even though God does not show personal favoritism or partiality we still have to respect the anointing, or the calling or the offices that God puts men into. In fact, God says to give honor where honor is due even to the worldly dignitaries – even to the men in governments. (Rom 13:7) And so to dishonor someone that God has called and is using is going to bring the wrath of God upon you and that is exactly what happened here in the case of Miriam.

Now let me show something about this. The first point was this, Miriam and Aaron decide that because the Lord has used them to some degree that they are equal to Moses and that they can judge Moses in something that is really none of their business. God answers and tells them, “You should have been afraid to come against Moses because he is My friend and he knows me better than any person you have ever met. And that ought to give you some reverence and piety towards this. And you ought not to be judging him and furthermore if I had a problem with his Ethiopian woman I would have dealt with it. You wouldn’t have to.” In other words what ever it is Moses has done here God didn’t have a problem with it. So why is Miriam having a problem with it?  So the anger of the LORD was aroused against them, and He departed. And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper. So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! (He doesn’t say this to God. He says this to Moses.) Please do not lay this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned. Please do not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb!” So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, “Please heal her, O God, I pray!” (Num 12:9-13) Now Miriam has sinned against Moses and she sinned against God in that she didn’t recognize the position that God had given Moses and when the time comes for her to ask for help she has to go to the man of God she has sinned against.

And we see this also in Job. And so it was, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has. And once again here we have a man that knows God better than they do yet they speak against him and because of that God is angry with them. Like Miriam accusing Moses they have tried to accuse Job of sin, haven’t they? Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him...” (Job 42:7-8) Now listen close. Do you know what is going on here? We saw it happen in Moses. Miriam could not cry out to God unless Moses cried out for her. And Job’s comforters could not cry out to God unless Job cried out for them. And this is something of a great truth that the people of God – those that are acceptable to God – the power real people of God have with God, is that the people who are unacceptable often can’t get to God except thru the people of God who are acceptable.

“Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.” (Matt 5:23-24) You aren’t going to get to God when you have a sin against a brother that you haven’t dealt with. You had better settle that thing with your brother because if your brother has an honest grievance against you and you don’t straighten it out, God is not going to receive you. And in Matthew 18 we see it again. “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.” “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” So if he refuses to hear the church he isn’t going to Heaven. If the church rejects him because he won’t repent and get right with his brother, that man is damned. “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.” (Matt 18:15-19) And that is a revelation God has given us of the power a righteous church has from God has to deal with the unrighteous. And in John. “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” (John 20:23) So had Moses not cried out for Miriam she would have stayed a leper. Had Job not been willing to cry out for the comforters, they would not have been accepted by God. “Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him...” “I will accept him. I won’t accept you. I won’t accept your offering. I will accept the righteous one. He can intercede and I am going to forgive you for his sake because he loves you.” Isn’t that awesome?

And that is exactly what happened with Miriam. God accepted Moses. Moses was in right standing and acceptable to God. Moses is a friend of God. And when Moses says, “Please save my sister.” Then the LORD said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven days, and after that she may be received again.” (Num 12:14) So even with the intercession God still chastened her. This is not some small thing, is it? It is New Testament. It is Old Testament. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. You see it again in Revelations. “Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie (A good way of translating that today: “They say they are Christians and are not but they lie”)-- indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.” (Rev 3:9) “They are not going to come to Me unless they come to you first. They are not going to be able to come to Me and repent without coming thru you. You can’t reject My people and go around behind their back and get to Me,” God says. And that is Jesus standing up for us. If we stand up for Him, He stands up for us. And He is going to stand up for us because we stand up for Him.

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. (1Cor 10:11) God has given us the scriptures in order that we should be able to know how to behave right before God. We have an extraordinary wealth of instruction in the scriptures to teach us what God likes and what He doesn’t like and what constitutes a righteous and proper behavior towards Him.

We have already learned something concerning the way God deals with people who think of themselves as equal to someone that God is using in a much greater way than they have been used. We see it was evident that Moses knows God a lot better than Miriam does and yet she thinks of herself as equal. This is a haughtiness and arrogance and pride that is of the human condition of men in the flesh. It is a difficult thing to attain to a true righteous humility. That flesh has to be crucified to get to where you regard yourself as you really are. On the one side without being in a false humility that disobeys God and uses humility as the excuse for disobedience and on the other side to not usurp yourself above someone who is being greatly used by God or knows God better that you. And can you see the subtlety of flesh using the teaching ‘there is no partiality with God’ as a foundation for the sin of being like Miriam.

Well the fact is there is no partiality with God but at the same time there are officers in Christ and they deserve proper respect and God is going to uphold those offices. But you have to test apostles to make sure they are true. (Rev 2:2) You have to find out who is the false apostle and who is the true apostle. But you see what the flesh does is it advances itself for its own purposes. And that is the sin in it. It doesn’t test to see who is the true apostle and who is the false apostle. It will find a true apostle false. It will find Abel false just because it is jealous that Abel’s offering was accepted. That is the wickedness of the flesh. And that is what the rebellion of Korah is. It is that kind of a wickedness. Now remember that these things were written for our admonition. Hebrews says, Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; “I will repay,” says the Lord. “God will repay.” Nobody is going to get away with sin. They are either going to repent and crucify their flesh and become real saints or they are going to be punished. And again, “The Lord will judge His people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. ” (Heb 10:28-31) And God will be absolutely perfect and righteous in His judgment. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will? (Heb 2:2-4)

Now let’s go to Daniel and learn a lesson that is going to relate to Korah. This concerns the writing on the wall where Belshazzar pridefully is partying. And when no one else can interpret what the writing says he brings in Daniel. And Daniel gives him a tongue-lashing. He isn’t afraid of him. The king has offered some riches and things and Daniel says, “You keep them.” Then Daniel answered, and said before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.” “O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor. And because of the majesty that He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down. But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. Then he was driven from the sons of men, his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses.” (Dan 5:17-21)

Now if you go back to Dan 4:34 that is Nebuchadnezzar telling of what happened to him when he was lifted up in pride. And in the previous verses is the prophecy of what would happen to him. So Nebuchadnezzar was warned but he did not heed the warning and so these judgments fell on him then. And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: for His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation… He does according to His will… No one can restrain His hand. “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. And those who walk in pride He is able to put down.” (Dan 4:34,37)

Now we have a detailed account of what happened to Nebuchadnezzar in the bible and there is absolutely no possibility that Belshazzar didn’t also have that. “But you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this. “And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.” (Dan 5:22-23) And for that reason Belshazzar was slain that very night.

Now Nebuchadnezzar was lifted up in pride and he was not slain. He was chastened. Belshazzar was lifted up in pride and he was killed. He was not chastened. Why? It was because he knew better. And that is the point. Like Belshazzar Christians today ought to know better because they have all of these lessons in the scriptures. And if we don’t want to end up like Belshazzar we ought to be paying close attention to what God is saying in these lessons in the scriptures. So that if a Christian today becomes lifted up in pride and falls into the error of Korah, he is not any different than Belshazzar, is he? Because the story of Korah is right there for him and the warnings are right there for him and he ought to know better. And do you know what? Korah is killed, in a sense, because he should have known better because the example of what happened to Miriam was well known to him.

In Numbers 12 we saw what happened to Miriam and the whole camp knew about it because it held the travels of the camp up for a week waiting for Miriam to come in. And they knew why because God made her ashamed before the whole congregation. So when the time came that Korah’s rebellion began it wasn’t like he was ignorant of what had happened previously. Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men; and they rose up before Moses with some of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, representatives of the congregation, men of renown. They gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, for all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. (Now what did Miriam say? “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” (Num 12:2) Isn’t that the meaning?) …for all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?” (Num 16:1-3)

What is the sin of Korah? He thinks, “Well what right do you have to rule over us since we are all God’s people? We can rule over ourselves. We have the right to do it our way because we are all God’s people. We are all ‘equal.’” Well is that true? There are a whole lot of people today that think it is. Why isn’t it true? God appoints leaders. How is that leadership recognized? How the leadership is recognized is by how well they hear God. That is how to recognize them. And you can’t consider yourself to be equal to someone that hears God better than you because if you were equal to him you would be hearing God better than him. The measurement of Spirituality is how well you hear God – how well you are able to hear and obey and follow after God. And that is the measurement that God used when He rebuked Miriam. And when God appoints someone to a position of leadership He is going to validate that leadership by giving the person He appoints the anointing to be able to lead. And that means God is going to give His servant the ability to hear God so that he can lead the people. (1Cor 11:1) That is the whole point of it. Moses could lead the people because God was leading Moses. And if a pastor of a church is truly of God he is going to hear God and lead the church better than anyone else in the church can. Otherwise God would be undermining the whole reason for having a pastor. And if He has an apostle like Paul, Paul is going to know better how to lead the churches and teach the churches than anyone else because he has been appointed to that. So he is going to have the anointing to do that and, in a sense, you are going to be doing your own salvation great damage if you come against him because he has been appointed to that position for your salvation as a helper and a blessing to you. A real man of God doesn’t assume a position of leadership to advance himself. He has been appointed to that position for the good of the church. And Jesus gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastors and teachers so the church could be advanced and edified and built up in the work of the ministry. (Eph 4:11-12) And when someone who has been appointed by God and is hearing God and is teaching and leading according to what God says, he is acceptable to God and things are going to work out right where he leads because God is in charge. But when someone decides well I am going to be the leader because I don’t like following someone else he is not going to be led by God. He is going to be following the dictates of his own heart and he is going to lead people astray because he is not submitting to God when he rejects the leadership God chooses.

And it is the drunkard trying to walk with the sober again. And on some prideful reason of not wanting to submit to the authority of a God given leader, people rise up and want to be the leader themselves. But they don’t have the anointing to lead – they don’t have the intelligence to lead – they don’t have the Spirit to lead because God hasn’t given it to them because they are doing this of their own volition. (Prov 16:25) And this is anti-scriptural. And that is where Paul says again and again, “I am an apostle of God, not of man” because he is making sure you know the difference between these two types. We can see that pretty plainly in Galatians. Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead)… (Gal 1:1) Paul demonstrating the fact that I didn’t appoint myself to this, it was God that appointed him. Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, (2Tim 1:9) In other words I didn’t call myself. You can’t call yourself. God will not allow you to call yourself.

If you are going to work for Him, you have to accept the place that God gives you. who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, (2Tim 1:9) You cannot appoint yourself because the positions in God’s Kingdom are positions that have been foreordained by God. Men of God do not earn a position. They are appointed sovereignly by God to the position. And if they are appointed by God, God backs it up. He doesn’t give a bad gift. He gives what is needed for that gift to operate. He gives what is needed to that person so that they can fulfill their calling. But if a person calls himself, he will not receive what is needed to fulfill the calling because he doesn’t have a calling to fulfill. And so what he is going to do if he calls himself is he is just going to end up doing everything in the flesh – coming up with his own ideas of how to serve the Lord – his own ideas of where to go and what to do – and it is not going to be attaining to God’s purposes – and it is not going to lead people where God wants them to go. And so there is an extraordinary danger when ambitious men try to call themselves or count themselves equal to men who are appointed by God. And I also warn you – the fear of bad leadership is not an excuse for you to reject godly leaders. God requires you to discern the difference between the ungodly and the godly and reject the one and obey the other. The drunkard cannot walk together with the sober. And it is up to you to be sober and to avoid walking with drunks. And a person who is not called by God is by no means equal to that person who is called by God. And even though God is not partial that does not mean all people are equal for there is a different way of considering equality. And no person who calls himself – no person who raises himself up into a position of leadership in the church is acceptable or equal to a person called by God. The people who call themselves think everybody calls themselves. In their arrogance and their pride they think, “Well you called yourself and you made yourself what you are.” And that is not true, I didn’t and Paul didn’t and Amos didn’t.

Amos said,  “I was no prophet, nor was I a son of a prophet, but I was a sheepbreeder and a tender of sycamore fruit. Then the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’” (Amos 7:14-15) And Amos says, “I didn’t become a prophet on my own.” And he says this to the priest who was trying to tell him to get out of Samaria and to stop prophesying. Amos replies, “You didn’t call me, God called me. You can’t tell me to get out. God called me and you are going to die in a foreign land and your wife is going to be a harlot and your children are going to die because you have usurped authority over someone that God has called and that is usurping authority over God because you looked at me as though I was just a man and as though what I am doing is of myself as though it was my idea. When in reality there is a supernatural work of God going on in me. What I was when God called me I stopped doing it. I am not a sycamore tree tender anymore. I am not a shepherd anymore because God called me out of it. I didn’t leave it to do something I desired more. I left it to obey the Lord. I didn’t leave it to get rich. I left it to obey the Lord. I laid my business down – I laid my life down because God called me, whereas you are trying to make something big for yourself out of the Kingdom of God. You are trying to be somebody. You are trying to get rich. You are trying to be uplifted in your own eyes. How can you walk with the sober when you are drunk like that? How can you think of yourself as equal to someone that God has called and that God has anointed when you are advancing yourself against the very people that God has chosen?” And this is what is going on with a lot of people in the churches today. These people think that we are all just doing our own thing and they have a right to do their own thing also but I am not doing my own thing. I pray to God that you aren’t doing your own thing. In this church we are doing God’s thing. When we are doing God’s thing that makes us His people.

And when you are doing your thing that makes you not His people no matter how much religion you have in it because there is a big difference between doing His thing and doing your own thing. Even though your own thing may be covered up with all kinds of Christian words and talk and activity that are supposedly based on the bible, if it isn’t God leading you, you are drunk. If you aren’t listening, following and obeying Him, you are drunk and you can’t walk with the sober and you are not equal to the real people of God.

 “Why then do you exalt yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?” (Num 16:3) Why do you get to be my boss?” Is what Korah is saying. “Where do you get the right to boss around God’s people?” And my answer to you is where do you think he got it? God gave it to him. A better question would be, “Korah, where do you get the right to rise up against me? Where did you get that right?” there is always another side to it that would expose the sin. How many times did the Pharisees come to Jesus and say “Where did you get the authority to do this?” (Matt 21:23) The answer is, “Where did you get the authority, Pharisees? Where did you get the authority to change God’s word? Where did you get the authority to elevate yourselves above the word of God to teach corban (Mark 7:9-13) and such? What gives you the right?”

So when Moses heard it, he fell on his face; and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will show who is His and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to Him. (Remember the Psalm, Blessed is the man You choose, and cause to approach You, (Ps 65:4))That one whom He chooses He will cause to come near to Him. Do this: Take censers, Korah and all your company; put fire in them and put incense in them before the LORD tomorrow, and it shall be that the man whom the LORD chooses is the holy one. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!” (God hasn’t called you Korah. He hasn’t appointed you to this position and you are trying to take it by theft.) Then Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi: Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the work of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to serve them;(so they had a calling – they had a place but it wasn’t good enough for them) and that He has brought you near to Himself, you and all your brethren, the sons of Levi, with you? And are you seeking the priesthood also?” (Remember Uzziah. What happened to him? God gave him position as king but he wanted to be priest too so the Lord struck him with leprosy. Jesus teaches when you are invited to a feast don’t take the high seat or you will be shamed. (Luke 14:8) Korahs always want to take the best place.) “Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against the LORD. And what is Aaron that you murmur against him?” (Num 16:4-11) Because if you are against the one the Lord has chosen, you are against the Lord. And if you are using some doctrine of equality in order to refuse to submit to godly authority, you are against the Lord. And as the Spirit is demonstrating here godly authority is recognizable in one’s accuracy in hearing the Lord – the one God calls nearer to Himself hears God best. So you can tell by the accuracy of the instruction that you receive from a godly authority that he is of God. How well is he able to open the scriptures? Is there true conviction in his teaching and preaching?

You can settle the argument on the fact that the Kingdom of Heaven is not divided and when there is true conviction that causes people to see their sin and put it away, it is coming from God because the devil doesn’t give you conviction. He can’t give you conviction because conviction casts out the devil. Conviction breaks satan’s hold. It breaks the power of sin over a person when they are convicted and repent. The devil isn’t in the business of convicting people. He is in the business of deceiving them. He is in the business of hardening their hearts and keeping them from being convicted. But where there is real conviction that is bringing about real holiness in people there is a work of God going on.

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come up! Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you should keep acting like a prince over us?” (vs 12-13) Now here is the problem with Dathan and Abiram. They did not receive what they had been promised when they came out of Egypt, which was to enter into the promised land. But it wasn’t because of Moses they didn’t enter in. It was their own sin. Moses took them to the land and they behaved like cowards and wouldn’t go in and now they are blaming it on Moses. How many times does a man of God take the people right up to the promise of God and then they reject the conditions necessary to receive it and refuse to pay the price to enter in, and then they reject the man of God and are angry with him because he didn’t get them in? And it was their fault but they still blame him. And they try to start their own church because they wouldn’t follow Moses into the true work of God. They want a work of their own, under their control. So now they are going to reject Moses and God’s true church and start a man-made spurious church because Moses didn’t give them what they wanted, but it was their sin that caused their problem. “Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up!” Then Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I hurt one of them.” (vs 14-15) And that is the truth, you see, the man of God that says, “All I have done here is I have done what You said to do, God. All I have done is given them Your word. I haven’t taken advantage of them in any way so don’t respect their offering.”

Now notice the power that Moses has to say, “Do not respect their offering.” Do you understand that we as the true church have the power to say that about the false Christians and those spurious denominations and self appointed “leaders” that are opposing the work of God? Do not respect their offering, Lord. Why is that? It is because they are attempting to usurp the authority. They have appointed themselves leaders of churches when they have not been called to it by God. They refuse to enter in to real Christianity and they lift themselves up and form their own churches, and reject the leadership that God anoints. And God doesn’t appoint the leaders in churches that are not His. They appoint their own. (Hos 8:4) They are Korah churches. They may be huge denominations; there are 250 men in the company of Korah. Yet they are rebellious groups that will not submit unto God given leadership. They will not submit unto the word of God. They want to have things their own way and they speak evil of God appointed dignitaries. (Jude 8) They are not humble men. They are rich men – educated men, high born men, leaders who will not be led. They refuse to accept the teachings that come from the Spiritual men who are taught by God. They want to have it their own way. It is all Korah, the same spirit as Korah. “Do not respect their offering.” (vs 15) And Moses said to Korah, “Tomorrow, you and all your company be present before the LORD-- you and they, as well as Aaron. Each of you take his censer and put incense in it, and each of you bring his censer before the LORD, two hundred and fifty censers; both you and Aaron, each with his censer.” (vs 16-17) And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” (vs 20-21) I am telling you that is a prophecy and it is just as real today as it was then. If you don’t want to be consumed, you had better separate yourself from the Korah-type congregations.

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.” (Rev 18:4) Then they fell on their faces, and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and You be angry with all the congregation?” So the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’” (If you are not going to be destroyed with the sinners you must “come out from among them and be separate. 2Cor 6:17) Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart now from the tents of these wicked men! Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins.” (vs 22-24)

God gives warnings before He destroys and in the churches today a warning is being given. This book is a warning right now. Make straight the paths of the Lord. If the warning is heeded, people will be saved. Those who heed the warning will separate from the Korah churches, from the congregations of the sinners, and save themselves. The next step though is that God is going to bring judgment upon those who don’t heed the warning. “Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me.” (Mal 3:1) That is the Spirit of Elijah. That is the Spirit that says, “Prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill brought low; the crooked places shall be made straight and the rough places smooth;”  (Isa 40:3-4) Make the crooked places straight means straighten out the bad doctrines and get those mountains out of the way means pull down the proud and powerful organizations that oppose God – fill in the low places means lift up the humble true Christians to their proper position in the church – pull down the high places put the self exalting proud people in the low seat where they belong. (Luke 14:9) This all has to do with preparing for the coming of the Lord so that when He comes you are not going to be destroyed by His coming. “Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come…”  (“Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief...” (Rev 3:3) Jesus is going to take you by surprise.) “But who can endure the day of His coming? …He is like a refiner's fire...” (Mal 3:2)

The first stage is a warning that He is coming so get ready – get holy – get pure – get right, because when He comes He is not going to spare. (2Cor 13:2) He is going to refine. He is going to make sure that everything wrong is removed – burnt up. He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; he will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness. (This is absolute truth – a certain prophecy – it is going to happen. Jesus is warning that He is coming and when He comes it is going to be fire. Get straight now so that you don’t get burned up in the fire when He comes because He is going to have a church that will be holy and righteous and they are going to give an offering in righteousness. It has to happen and it will happen and Jesus is going to do it!) “Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the LORD...” (Mal 3:1-4) And He will have a church that makes a righteous offering, an Able offering, an offering that God can accept. God has done that here in “My Father’s House”. He gave us warning years ago and then He came in fire and people started getting chastened and many left the church. But now we have an offering that is acceptable to Him.

Then the next step is that He makes us a fire that is going to start refining the others and start putting that process to work in them. (Zech 12:6, Isa 41:15-16) And as Amos says, there isn’t going to be a place where anyone can run to escape. “Though they dig into hell, from there my hand shall take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down; And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel, from there I will search and take them; though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them…”(Amos 9:2-3) No-one is going to escape the judgment of God. People can run from it but they won’t escape it. Malachi talks about the purifying here and then later he talks about the destruction. “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.” (Mal 4:1) There will be a complete destruction of evil. The first step though is a warning. The second step is a purification of the church. Then comes a complete destruction of the evil in the world. And the people shall be like the burnings of lime; like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire. The sinners in Zion are afraid; Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: “Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?” He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly…(Isa 33:12,14-15)

How can you escape judgment when God comes into the church? You better get right before He comes. But fearfulness has seized the hypocrites in the church because they aren’t right and He is coming as a thief and He is coming suddenly and they don’t have time to get right when He comes if they haven’t listened to the warning and prepared before He comes so most just end up running because they can’t endure it when He comes. And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart now from the tents of these wicked men! Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins.” (vs 24) Once again there is a command to be separate, isn’t there? Touch not the unclean thing. Do you see anything similar in the New Testament about being consumed in their sins? If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds. (2John 10-11) And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. (Rev 18:4) When men like Korah reject the authority that God has given to those that He has appointed and called to lead the church, that is a sin against God of a very serious nature. And those who have elevated themselves into the position of being self-called leaders; that is essentially stealing God’s people from Himself when they do that. The scripture says that will happen. “Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.” (Acts 20:30) That is exactly what is going on in Korah’s rebellion. So what happens to them? So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the congregation. (vs 33)

And there are numerous admonitions in the New Testament concerning how the unrighteous are going to perish also. What does it say in Jude? Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. (Notice what it says, they have… perished in the rebellion of Korah.) These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. (Jude 11-12) But paying no attention to the leadership. In other words because they speak evil – they reject authority – they think they have the right to lead themselves while they cavort about in God’s church. But they have… perished in the rebellion of Korah. It is already a done thing. You see it in Peter. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed. (1Pet 2:8) Their destruction does not slumber. (2Pet 2:3) They are appointed to this because of their disobedience. It is already foreordained what is going to happen to them and that they are going to perish. Why? Because they would not submit to God appointed leadership.

Do you know the bible says we are supposed to admonish one another and even submit to one another? (Eph 5:21) I was explaining to one of the boys about this and I said, “If your younger brother tells you that you are getting out of the Spirit, you submit to him, check up on yourself and see if you are because the bible tells us to do that because we are watching over each other and we are to be submitted to one another in the fear of the Lord. Meaning that, it is the job of the church members to help keep each other in the Spirit. So if I or one of the brethren sees you getting out of the Spirit we are to admonish you and you are to receive it and check up on yourself. And if you see someone getting out of the Spirit you are to admonish them. (Col 3:16) We must be careful that we are seeing rightly. (Matt 7:4) But if you see me getting out of the Spirit and I am the pastor and you say, “Well he is the pastor so I can’t admonish him.” Yes, you can admonish me. If I am truly getting out of the Spirit you need to tell me. But you are not supposed to rise up against a pastor who is doing right and say, “You don’t have the right to lead me because I am a man of God as much as you are.” You don’t have a right to say that if you haven’t been called by God. See we all submit to one another in the fear of the Lord. We all are supposed to be admonishing one another and receiving that admonishment when it is fitting. But our “equality” never allows us to usurp authority over the positions that God has established. And when someone starts resisting godly authority and exalting themselves against godly authorities there is terrible pride there. Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. (Rom 13:1-2) We are all, in a sense, equal before God but not in such a way as we are able to lift ourselves up against the God given authorities whether in secular government or in Christ’s church. You are never equal in such a sense as to be able to refuse to submit to a righteous authority. You are not even permitted do that in the world around you. You don’t have the right to refuse to obey the lawful order of a policeman, do you? Is it because the policeman is better than you? No, on a man for man basis he is equal with you before God but when he stands in that uniform he has an authority that comes out of his position as an officer of the law that you must obey, unless he tells you to do something contrary to God. Well if you can understand that in the sense of worldly authorities, how can you not understand it in the church? And the uniform of the worldly authorities is they give them blue suits and badges. But what is the uniform in the church? He who is of God hears God’s words. (John 8:47) The anointing – the fact of how well does this person hear God – does God confirm the word – how much is God speaking to this person – is God’s power manifesting?

For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake. (1Thes 1:5) And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, (1Cor 2:4) If God is speaking to this person and this person is being mightily used by God and there is a great call upon him, and if you are going to usurp authority against him, you are in a dangerous position. It is not because his manhood is better than yours but it is the office – the calling – the position that God has assigned to him. Jesus is a man and yet He has a position that is Lord of lords and King of kings and His name is higher than any other. And God says every knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess that Christ is Lord because God is going to back up Christ’s calling. And every knee is going to bow and every tongue confess that the true church is God’s true church too? “Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie-- indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.” (Rev 3:9) And Jesus said His twelve apostles are going to sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes and those tribes are going to bow, aren’t they? I mean the authorities God assigns over men, God is going to make men recognize, isn’t He? And if you look at the pattern in Jesus how do you know Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of God? It is because of the word. You’ve never seen a man that knows the word like He does. And how He fulfills the prophecies concerning Himself in the word – and how He understands the word perfectly – and how God works thru Him with power and gifts. 

The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!” And many of the people believed in Him, and said, “When the Christ comes, will He do more signs than these which this Man has done?” (John 7:46,31) Well then there is no doubt that He is the one that was chosen and there is no doubt that we must submit to Him. And then how are you then going to recognize the lesser authorities? To a lesser degree it is the same thing. It is the word of God. Is God working? If His word is working, God is working. If that word is accurately being preached – if it is accurately being interpreted – if it is doing the work – bearing the fruit than you are not messing around with a man here you are messing around with God and a man in an office that God has assigned. And you are doing that to your own destruction. You are going to perish in the rebellion of Korah if you are usurping authority over God’s man in your own mind, lifting yourself up in arrogance and thinking that you are equal to any man when your calling and the work God is doing through you is by no means equal to what God is doing through that man. And you better recognize what God is doing thru His servants because we know no man after the flesh. And that is the point you have to recognize. You have to recognize that Bill Taylor is not a drunkard – I have been called – God talks to me – the things I am doing I am doing because I am listening to Him. And you don’t usurp authority over this because it is God that is doing it. And if you are following the dictates of your own heart and you think you have a right to do that, you are mistaken because you are a drunkard. And that goes for the real men of God wherever they are versus the ones who think, “Well we are all the people of God – we all have the right to serve God whatever way we feel like.” No you don’t because the real men of God aren’t doing it the way they feel like – they are doing it the way God is telling them and you, the ones that haven’t been called, you are doing it the way you feel like and that makes you wicked and that makes you proud and arrogant and that makes you worthy of censure because you are drunk if you think you are equal to the men who have sacrificed their lives to obey God when all you are doing is lifting yourself up to do your own ways and walk your own ways and make yourself think you are somebody when you are nobody! For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. (Gal 6:3)

When it comes to callings men aren’t equal. And God isn’t going to accept the offerings of those who reject His appointed leaders. How much of Korah is there in the churches today? There is a lot! If there is a lack of recognition of the men called by God then there are an abundance of Korahs. If there is a lack of obedience to the men that are called by God then there are an abundance of Korahs. And Korah and all his followers perished in their rebellion. And those who are going to follow men and not follow God and not follow godly men are going to perish. And it is a certainty that they will. There is no rapture for them. There is no deliverance from the wrath to come for them. The wrath is going to come upon them to the uttermost if they do not separate from the congregations of Dathan and Abiram and Korah. And that is part of the warning that has to go out. There is a difference between those that are following their own ideas and those that are truly called of God and you had better discern it. The difference shows up in the way they preach. It shows up in the way they speak and the way they live and you had better discern it because the real men of God don’t do their own will they do God’s will. The false men of God they may have all kinds of religion but they are not bearing a cross. The real men of God are bearing a cross. They are not doing their own will. They are doing God’s will and that makes them acceptable to God. And the ones who are not bearing that cross and are not called by God and are trying to raise themselves up are unacceptable to God and their followers are unacceptable to God also.

Now Jesus has said that if you do not believe Him you will die in your sins. (John 8:24) He also says that if you reject the one He sends, you reject Him. (Luke 10:16) God never sends a prophet to tell people how well they are doing – when He sends a prophet it is to correct error. (Jer 23:21-22) And God didn’t send me to repeat what everybody else was saying. He sent me because there is a serious error in the faith of contemporary “Christians.” Most “Christians” today believe they are saved because they agree with the “fact” that Jesus is the Son of God and Savior. (John 5:39:40) And they are taught to believe they are saved because they agree with that fact. In reality the bible teaches that saving faith is the faith that produces the reality of Christ living in you.

Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? (must be in you) -- unless indeed you are disqualified. (2Cor 13:5) “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Gal 2:20) He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. (1John 2:6) He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him. (1John 5:12,18) You can see the people that are really of God. You can see that they are not ambitious and they are not after money and they are not after the things of this world. You can see that their lives are exhibitions of the reality of an indwelling Christ and they live to do God’s will. Those are the brethren. Whereas most so-called Christians today you can plainly see that Christ isn’t in them – they are worldly, faddish, covetous, proud, they think they are saved because of their belief in doctrines which they suppose to be true but which are actually gross misinterpretation of scripture. Christ isn’t in them – yet they think He is saving them! In truth they are in worse condition than the five foolish virgins, the servant who buried his talent or the guest at the marriage supper who didn’t wear the right garment because instead of believing in such a way that Christ can actually live in them and live His life thru them they merely believe they are saved. Now Jesus didn’t send me to you with this word for you to ignore it and you still go to Heaven. If people didn’t need this word of correction, He wouldn’t send it. If their salvation was already Ok, He wouldn’t need to correct. So hearken to the word of the Lord – If you do not become serious about having a faith for Jesus to live in you and if you don’t examine yourselves to see that He is indeed in you – you will die in your sins – if you reject these words which come from Christ you will die in your sins – no matter how much you may think you are saved!

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. (Rev 12:14) Notice the Lord is guarding the woman and protecting her from the serpent by sending her into the wilderness. Now I am not going into the final fulfillment of this prophecy here but we know that the Revelation and even the prophecies that were written in the Old Testament were for our admonition. (Rom 15:4, 1Cor 10:11) And, Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. (Rev 22:7) In other words it is not just out of curiosity we read it but its teachings apply to us because the Spiritual principles are valid today even though the final fulfillment of the prophecy is yet in the future. And one principle is that the woman represents the church in some form, as was the church in the wilderness under Moses. And Moses’ church also was delivered out of Egypt into the wilderness to be protected from the serpent. And we at My Father’s House as a church have been sent out into the wilderness, in a sense, to be separated from the worldly wickedness around us to be protected from the serpent.

Let’s look at Exodus 19. “You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.” (Exod 19:4) And couldn’t we say the same thing? But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. (Isa 40:31) So God is going to protect us from the dragon as we do Christ’s work. And He is not going to let us be overwhelmed or overburdened by the evil around us but He is going to lift us up and we are going to be sailing on His wings as He works His mighty works through us and for us. So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. (Rev 12:15-16) This is similar to what happened with Moses. God has delivered Moses and the children of Israel from Egypt and taken them away from the devil Pharaoh but then the serpent attacks them again thru the rebellion of Korah. Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Korah, with all their goods. (Num 16:31-32) So concerning the visions in Revelation, we’ve already seen a type of this fulfilled in the rebellion of Korah. And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” (Num 16:20-21) And then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and You be angry with all the congregation?” So the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’” (Num 16:22-24) So this is a very important teaching in which God illustrates that you not only had better not be a rebel like Korah, but you better not even associate with a Korah-type lest you perish with him. And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart now from the tents of these wicked men! Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins.” So they got away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram…(vs 26-27) And then the rebels are destroyed.

Now these things happen because Korah exalts himself against Moses. But Moses had been chosen by God, and God upholds His choice against Korah. Consider the statement that Moses makes. “By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works…” (vs 28) And in the New Testament it says. Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead), (Gal 1:1) And this is the issue. Most of those today who claim to be ministers are not of Jesus Christ – they are of man. One of the faults that God had against the northern kingdom that began with Jeroboam and his institution of the golden calves was that they did away with the priesthood of God and they would give the priesthood to anybody that had the price to buy it with. Anyone that came with seven rams or seven oxen could buy the priesthood.

Today all it requires of you to buy the priesthood in just about any denomination is just pay the tuition and attend their seminary. It has nothing to do with the call of God. It has nothing to do with the fact that a man is fit to be a preacher. Seminaries are selling diplomas. And some diploma mills are selling them very cheaply by mail. And whether or not you get your diploma for $50 in two weeks or $20,000 in four years. It is still being sold. And the qualifications are still being set by men and not by God. And you see it says in Ephesians 4; He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) (vs 10) Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” (vs 8) And then it says those gifts are the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. (vs 11) As an example, Paul was an enemy to the church and Jesus captured him and then gave him as a gift to the church. That is what Christ does with the ones He calls. That is what He did with me. And then you know that Paul from then on would say, “I am a prisoner of the Lord.” People relate that mostly to the fact that he was in prison a lot but the fact was that he was a prisoner of the Lord because he was captured by the Lord. And he was made a bond slave of the Lord. And the victory that Jesus wrought in defeating the enemy was so grand that Christ could go into the enemy’s camp and He could capture men out of that camp and bring them back and give them as a gift to the church to do the work of the ministry, in a sense, and they became slaves of Christ and worked very, very hard. (1Cor 15:10) And it is Christ Himself who gives the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. You don’t get a true apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher from anyplace else. The ministry is not valid if it comes from anyplace else. “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.” (John 10:1,7) You must be conquered and come in by Christ. The minister is then presented to the church by Christ as a gift to the church to help the church to accomplish its purposes. And having been conquered by Christ that minister is serving Christ and he is not serving himself and that is why he can be such a great gift to the church. But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts. (1Thes 2:4) Because when a man raises himself up in the ministry he hasn’t been conquered by Christ and he is serving himself. And if he is serving himself, he is going to be taking advantage of his position for his own purposes. And if a man is appointed by men, he owes his position to those men and will do the will of those men, rather than Christ. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. (Gal 1:10) But Jesus isn’t giving you those kinds of leaders. If the churches are not receiving Christ sent apostles, prophets, pastors, etc. it is because they are appointing their own and are not asking for the ones Jesus gives because the ones Jesus gives are gifts that have been conquered by Him. He has taken them captive. He led captivity captive. And there should never be anybody accepted in a ministry position in the church if he has not been taken captive by Christ and called to that position and given to the church to fulfill that position.

And the first point I would like to make here is you see this in the way Paul talks about his own ministry. “I am not an apostle of man.” And when Paul says to Titus, “I want you to appoint elders.” I would ask you this –do you think Timothy and Titus were appointed by man or appointed by God? It says specifically concerning Timothy; Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. (2Tim 1:6) So God put something in him that had to do with his calling, didn’t he? In other words, we know that Timothy was appointed by God because God is equipping him with gifts to fulfill his calling. We know that Timothy had a real genuine faith and Paul said so. (2Tim 1:5)

Look at Jesus when Jesus chooses His twelve apostles. What did Jesus do that night? He spent the night in prayer. So even though Jesus is going to appoint them He is not appointing them of His own volition, is He? He is asking the Father who to appoint. Now if Paul says to Titus, “Go appoint elders in Crete” what do you think Titus is going to be doing? If he is a man of God he is going to pray and ask God whom to appoint, isn’t he? And so although the appointment may seem to be coming from man it isn’t. And if it is coming from God it is going to be witnessed to by the Spirit. There will be prophecies and Spiritual gifts and such that will confirm that the man is appointed by God. In that he is actually being given as a gift by Jesus Christ as an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher.

Now concerning true Christianity nobody has a right to call themselves a Christian who has not had an experience with Jesus Christ in which they know Jesus has accepted them into the body. They shall all be taught of God is a requirement of Christianity. (John 6:45) And if you have never heard God – if He has never spoken – you have never had any sense of Him leading you, you don’t have the right to say you are taught of God. There has to be a place in your testimony that you became a new creation and all things became new; God supernaturally met with me and changed me. If you don’t have a confirmation that God has supernaturally changed you and that you are a new creation then you are not a Christian. You are a faker. And when it comes to apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers if they are valid they must have a supernatural testimony that they have been called of God. And there has to be something supernatural from God that witnesses to the church that they are of God too. That real Christians can say, “Yes, they are. There is an anointing and there is something there that we know is a gift to the church that is coming from God and it is real. There has to be an evidence of it. And if it is not there, they have no right to usurp that position because those positions are not given to God’s church by mere men.

Now as a contrast to this in Acts 6 the deaconry that position is appointed by man, isn’t it? Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:2-4) But what is the ministry of the deacons? If you go to 1^st Timothy 3 it describes the qualifications of bishops, which are in the category of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. When it describes the qualifications of deacons the qualifications are virtually the same except for one point. The bishop has to have an aptitude for teaching because the deacons don’t teach. Now that is a very important distinction, isn’t it? The deacons are appointed in Acts 6 because the apostles don’t want to leave the ministry of the word of God and prayer because it is too important for them to stay in a place where they are hearing from God so they can properly lead the church and they need to do that thru the word of God and prayer. If you are going to teach the church, you have to be taught of God. And so they have to be in a position where they are hearing God and they have to keep their focus on that. So they cannot do that if they are distracted by serving men and waiting on tables. Their ministry is to God. They are called by God. They owe their position to God. They don’t owe it to men. Now they are going to go out before men and they are going to give men what God says to give men. That is a real apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher. Their ministry is to the church and they have authority in the church because they are called by God and the authority flows from God and from Christ the head of the church. But the deacon, he isn’t called for teaching. His deacon ministry is not primarily a ministry of the word. The needs of the people, their physical needs for food (and perhaps clothing) is what the deacon is working with. So he doesn’t go to God and say, “What am I supposed to do?” He goes to the people and says, “What do you need?” So he is appointed by the people and is serving the people. And yet even so the qualifications are very high for holiness and Spirituality. “Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; (Acts 6:3) well regarded by the congregation. Let the congregation choose the best men it can find and appoint them.

Now one of the things about the contemporary church is deaconry is mostly apostate. It usually has little to do with biblical deaconry. Deacons have nothing to do with ruling over pastors or hiring pastors or governing the church. They are chosen in a servanthood position. Biblically the people can choose deacons to serve their physical needs, but they cannot choose or “deacon” men to be pastors and teachers, yet that is what is happening. God is to choose those who minister the word of God and prayer for the people. The people choose those who help with the physical things yet in today’s church people are choosing “pastors.” And such pastors are not true pastors but “people-serving deacons” that defile the pastorate. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. (Gal 1:10) “Having itching ears the people heap up for themselves “(people-chosen) teachers.” (2Tim 4:3) Today in America much of what deacons used to do has been replaced by government services, welfare and food stamps, etc. You just don’t have that level of poverty that existed in the early church society. But on the other hand where you are involved in the teaching ministries you have to have men appointed by God because they have to teach what God gives them and they have to be hearing from God. The whole point of Christianity is that the people must hear from God. They shall be taught of God. How can you be taught to hear from God if your teacher doesn’t hear from God? How can anybody be put in the position to teach you to hear from God if he doesn’t hear from God himself? You see the first criteria of the apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher is that he has heard the call himself. He has been called.

Now this doesn’t mean a deacon can’t witness for Christ. Stephen was a deacon and he was powerfully representing Christ with the people on the street and outside of the church. Every Christian has the right to go out in the world and defend the gospel and preach the gospel. Every Christian has the call to do that. But when it comes to exercising the authority to teach and lead in the church only those called of God to rule in the church have such an authority in the church. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers do an authoritative work in the church. (2Cor 10:8) Every Christian is called to minister outside of the church. And it is important to see that. That just because we are considered called by God, in some sense, God doesn’t mean we are equal as concerning the positions in the church. “…all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?” (Num 16:3) That is the problem. I haven’t exalted myself. Moses didn’t exalt himself. Paul didn’t exalt himself. And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was. (Heb 5:4) But all the true men of God are appointed by God to their positions. And in fact, when you say you are equal to them, you are exalting yourself into a place that is not yours when you haven’t been appointed. “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him; and he who invited you and him come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man,’ and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place.” (Luke 14:8-9)

And that gets us to the main issue that we have been looking at and been concerned with in this teaching on Korah. Then Moses said: “By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will. If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are visited by the common fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.” (Num 16:28-29) And 1^st Kings. And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. (1King 18:36) Now I would remind you in the book of John how many times did Jesus say, “I do not do anything Myself. I only do what the Father shows Me.” (John 5:19) Now the lie that we are working on defeating here is that the terrible state of apostasy that calls itself Christianity today is such that everybody does what is right in their own eyes and they think they are free to do that because they think they all have Jesus in them in some sense that permits them to do that. And yet in fact what they are doing is just being rebellious. “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today-- every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes…”(Deut 12:8) Korah is in most of them – not Jesus – refusing to submit to authority – refusing to submit to one another – refusing to obey the word of God. They don’t have Jesus in them. They haven’t been called by God. And they are on their way to hell thinking that they are on their way to Heaven. and they justify themselves and try to use these straws that they grasp at in the scriptures to justify themselves such as “we are all equal before God.” Certainly we are all equal before God. God is not partial. However where it says who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, (or our theory) but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, (2Tim 1:9) God has a right to do that. And when He does that you don’t have the right to argue with Him about your calling because He is the Lord. In fact you are supposed to submit to how He calls – who He appoints – and what He does in that regard. And that what we have in the rebellion of today is the grasping of straws and saying exactly what it says in Korah that “We are all holy before the Lord. We all have the right to be led according to our own spirit” and yet you see it is totally detrimental to the unity of the church and it is totally contrary to the Spirit of unity because Jesus doesn’t give everybody an independent spirit that just runs its own way, but Christ is the Head of every man. (1Cor 11:3) And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, (Eph 1:22)

So every man doing what is right in his own eyes is absolutely not of God since it rejects the headship of Christ. “He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.” (Luke 10:16) But they justify it by thinking this way. They think, “Well you have your way and I have mine. You have a right to your way and I have a right to mine.” And that is the lie. And I stand before man and God today and I tell you that is a lie. I do not have my own way. My way died when I came to Christ. And I began to do it His way. And “My Father’s House” was never an idea of man. It was God’s idea. And that those of us that came to this church we didn’t come to this church because we liked it better that the other churches. I think it has been a lot harder on us that any other church that we have ever been in. But we endured this church because God said, “Stay!” And that the people who claim that we are just “having it our way” they are in truth having it their way and not God’s way. And they are not enduring the chastenings of being in a real church because whenever anyone tries to chasten them they run and say, “I am not going to put up with that” because they will not allow God to have His way. (Heb 12:8) And they choose preachers that they like that are able to tickle their ears instead of reprove and rebuke them because they don’t want what God has for them. (2Tim 4:3-4) They want to have it their way. And they won’t pay the price which all of us here have paid and all true Christians pay in one-way or another – forsaking all. I forsook my business. I didn’t obey God’s call to pastor in order to get rich. I gave up being rich to be what God called me to be. Forsaking any life in the world and having church seven days a week. Forsaking families that turned against us and giving them up for God. Every one of us here has forsaken things to be in God’s church and to do it God’s way.

And we are surrounded by a people who say, “Well you have a right to do it your way and we have a right to do it our way” and their way is to forsake nothing and to give up nothing and to hold on to everything that they have in the world and claim that they are equal to the people who have obeyed God. And what I am saying is do you think God is going to put up with that? No, He is not! This is an insult to Him and it is an insult to His word. It is an insult to His righteousness. It is an insult to His justice. And God says the drunkard is not going to walk with the sober. It is a presumptuous, wicked sin to look upon the real people of God – the real men of God  - the real church of God and say, “You are having it your way” when in fact we are not having it our way – we have died to our way and have suffered in order to have it God’s way (1Pet 4:1) and we have paid the price according to the scripture in order to have it God’s way! And you are having it your way but we are having it God’s way! And that is the truth.

And there is another aspect of this that the people had better learn. God is not partial but He rewards according to your works. (Rom 2:6) And in not being partial He means that you can draw as near to Him as I can. He will not reject you. He may not put you in a position of being an apostle or a prophet but He will allow you to get as Spiritual as you want to be and as close to Him as you desire to be. He will not limit you from coming very, very near to His throne of grace if you desire it and to be led by His Spirit in an awesome way if you desire it. So if you are willing to pay the price and sow to the Spirit (Gal 6:7-8) and forsake the temporal to be near to God, He will reward you in a way that He will not reward someone who will not pay that price. (2Cor 9:6) Even though He is not partial He does reward according to your works. And that is repeated over and over and over in the scripture. (1Pet 1:17) No amount of the “saved by grace and not of works” can undo that because God rewards according to your works. (2Tim 4:14) And those who sow to the Spirit are going to be rewarded with life and those who sow to the flesh are going to reap corruption and death. (Gal 6:8) And it doesn’t matter how much doctrine they have in their heads. And so when someone is actually drawing near to God, laying down the temporal life, God is going to use them – bless them and draw near to them in ways that He won’t draw near to those that don’t. And there is no way that you can slice the bible up into enough pieces to change that. What is it that Moses says? “God show them this isn’t my way. Show them it is Yours.” “By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.” (Num 16:28) And what is it Elijah says? “God show them I have done this at Your word.” (1Ki 18:36) And what is it Jesus says? “The Son can do nothing of Himself but what He sees the Father do.” (John 5:19)

Now it may seem difficult for us to prove that we are actually serving God and not ourselves but it is not difficult for God to prove it. And God is not going to let the drunkard walk with the sober. And God is not going to let the Christian who won’t forsake all to be considered a real Christian equal to the one who has forsaken all. And God Himself is going to make known the difference. And it is right for us to pray that He would make known the difference because people that are serving God in their own way are not serving God at all. And they are not Christians at all according to the bible because the only Christianity the bible teaches is a Christianity of submitting to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and obeying Him in all things. (Acts 3:22) and being taught by Him and being led by His Spirit and coming to Him and bowing the knee to Him and surrendering your life up to Him and making yourself a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to Him. He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. (2Cor 5:15) And that is the only Christianity that Jesus is going to accept.

And all of this Christianity that keeps saying, “You can do it your way and we will do it our way” the very fact they are doing it their way is a condemnation to them. And it is a proof out of their own mouth that they are not doing it God’s way. And God is going to make a difference between the two. “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46) Anyone who is not obeying Jesus as Lord, Jesus is not their savior. “Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock.” (Luke 6:47-48) For 10 years we have been digging deep in “My Father’s House.” Now when you dig deep here is what happens. Your house is built very slowly; in fact, when you dig deep to find the foundation for a long time it doesn’t even look like you are building a house. And everybody out there that is in a hurry to make a name for themselves, they won’t take the time to dig deep and find out how to serve the Lord right. They just run out and start building. And I am telling you when the flood comes they are going to find out their house is not on a solid foundation, but sand. And such Christians are not going to be able to stand what is going to come upon this earth. And such churches are going to come down and those people are going to be swept away by the coming flood if they don’t repent and start digging deep and find the true foundation, which is what we have done here. We found out what it is to serve the Lord – what it means to do it His way – how to hear Him – how to know Him. And now our house is being raised up. And it isn’t going to fall because it is based on a solid rock because we have been digging deep for a long time and we found that rock and we have built on that rock and we are set on that rock and we are not coming down. But all those who are around us who have not dug deep but just started building on their assumptions and presumptions without digging to find out how to build in the way Jesus would have them to; their house is coming down. And that is the word of God. And that is prophecy and it is going to happen. And great is going to be the fall of it. And if they have any sense right now they are going to get out of those houses that are built on the sand. Disassociate from the man-made churches because it is Korah again – people who have raised themselves up – who wouldn’t take the time to find out how to do it right. They are in too big of a hurry – don’t have the patience to ask the Lord what to do and go thru all the things you have to go thru to get to where you hear and understand God rightly so that you can interpret and obey and do His word rightly and be founded upon the rock. (Matt 7:24-27)

When God builds, He builds slow but He builds strong. And God has been building here. And when God builds it doesn’t get torn down and doesn’t get washed away. Remember again. For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was. So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: “You are My Son, today I have begotten You.” As He also says in another place: “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” (Heb 5:1,4-6) Even Jesus did not appoint Himself to the priesthood. And it is a presumptuous thing for any man to appoint himself to any office in God’s church. Only Jesus can appoint an officer in His church. That has to be understood. And those that Christ has not appointed are going to be plucked up (Matt 15:13) and are going to be dealt with accordingly.

Notice in the book of Revelation the seven letters are written to the seven angels of the seven churches and those angels are the pastors who Christ holds in His hand. There were problems in these early churches. There was a Jezebel in one of them. There was somebody teaching a doctrine of Balaam in another. There was a problem with the Nicolaitans. But Jesus never said to anyone of those churches that they had a preacher that wasn’t appointed by Him or pastor that wasn’t appointed by Him because you see He held those seven angels in His hand. Meaning that no matter how bad the sin seems to be in these early churches they did not commit the sin of appointing their own pastor. And that is why God is still speaking to them and that is why God still considers those churches to still be His – even the Laodicean church. But when you have a pastor in that church who is not appointed by Christ then he is not in Jesus’ hand and the church isn’t Jesus’. And that is what has got to be understood. He can correct these churches – He can rebuke and He can reprove these churches because the man in charge and in authority in these churches is His man. And the pastor of the church is going to listen to Christ because he has been appointed by Christ. And the letter is written to the messenger and the very word “angel” means the “messenger” of the church which is the pastor. That very word indicates that the pastor is Jesus’ messenger. And Jesus is speaking to the church thru the pastor. Notice He didn’t say, “send this letter to the church at Ephesus.” Who did He say send it to? Send it to the pastor. The pastor is going to speak to the church because he is My messenger, which means, Jesus is upholding the authority that He has appointed. Now He is going to do the same today. Things are not going to change just because time has gone by. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Heb 13:8) He still operates these same ways. There can only be a real church when there is a real pastor that has been appointed by God and who answers to God and who hears God. Where there is a real pastor when the time comes for that church to be chastened, that real pastor is going to obey Jesus and do the work of chastening. He is going to answer to Jesus and he is going to do what Jesus says and things are going to change because he is a real pastor and he is appointed by Jesus.

Now here in the book of Revelation, a moment of crisis has come. Jesus has spoken to the apostle that He has appointed and says, “Write a letter to the pastors.” The apostle then sends the letters to the pastors. The pastors are then going to take the letters to their congregations. That is what is going on here. Jesus is going to speak to the apostle. The apostle is going to speak to the pastors. The pastors are going to realize the apostle’s word is coming from Jesus if they are from Christ. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. (1John 4:6) “He who is of God hears God's words…”(John 8:47) And the churches are going to be corrected and receive correction because Jesus has spoken. He spoke to the apostle. The apostle has spoken. He has spoken to the pastors. And now the congregations that are of God are going to hear. And that is what is going on now. And Jesus is going to bring things back into order just like He did in the beginning. Those who are not listening they are not of God. “Churches” that don’t have a pastor from Jesus, they are outside the Kingdom. To those who are rising up against the pastors that are of God, those are the Korahs. And whoever follows them will perish with them.

And right now what God is doing is He is starting a new work and that work is a work of correction. And He begins a work of correction by revealing what is wrong and by showing the sins to the people. And then He follows that work up with judgment on those that don’t repent and with blessing on those that do. And that is where we are at right now. So choose who you will follow but know that if you choose to follow the true men of God you will live but if you choose to follow the Korahs, you will die.

Prophecy: It is to you to know what you follow and who you follow. I tell you it is between life and death for when I raise up a man of God, what he teaches, what he speaks are not his own words but My words. And they are spoken by My Spirit. And those who hear and take heed are conformed to Christ not to themselves. The man of God that I raise up leads you to Me not himself. The man of God that I raise up by My Spirit speaks to you My words not his words and they cause you to change and they cause you to please Me. I tell you as I have been showing you that those who follow Korah perish with Korah. Those who rise up against a true man of God and speak against a true man of God and say, “We are going our way and we are doing our thing. We hear God also.” They do opposite of My word and also lead others to do opposite of My word. And it is death to them who follow such a one as Korah. So take heed My people. It is very important that you take heed to the true man of God who preaches My word and lives according to My word and is the example of My word and My ways and lives by My Spirit. And I tell you that in all the things that I have been bringing forth and in what I am showing you, My purpose is in setting the captives free and these words are going to show the peoples who they have been following. And My people are going to have their eyes opened and some will see that they have been following Korahs and that they have fallen under the same sin as Korah. And many will be ashamed and they will repent and they will cry out for Me. And they will cry out for Me to reveal to them a true man of God who will lead them according to My will and according to My way. I tell you that the things that I have been bringing to you, as I bring this word forth are going to cause many people to see that they have been following death and that their man appointed leaders are leading them to death. And I will cause them to fear and tremble at My word. I will cause them to fear and tremble at Me who can consume them if they do not repent. But I tell you that these things I am bringing forth to you and thru the man of God whom I raised by My Spirit are My revelation to open blind eyes to see what they are following is not of Me – what they speak is not of Me. And they will also see how important it is to know what to follow and who to follow for those who want life must choose Me and they have to choose My word and they have to choose to obey My word and they have to choose not to rise up and contend against the men of God whom I raise up, says the Lord. (Prophecies delivered at “My Father’s House”)

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