“And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.”
— Numbers 16:3-5
In Korah we see prototypical Universalists. Ah! The entire congregation, all of us are holy, and we all have access to the holy spirit so why should we have a ruler over us? Liberal scholars will argue that because we are all created by God we are all therefore God’s children so whether we worship God through the Bible, or the Koran, or in nature God is bound to accept our desire to worship him any way we please.
An agenda-driven liberal exegesis of the New Testament could say that “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,[1] who “should taste death for every man[2],” and God “is not willing that any should perish[3] therefore all people have access to eternal life. If God is the God of all flesh he is bound to deal with all of his creatures equally, so say the liberals and Universalists. This is why we see rainbow flags on church buildings and ecumenical feel-good churches devoid of doctrine.
But Moses, who the Spirit called “very meek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth,[4]” responded to Korah’s insurrection with the doctrines of election and limited atonement. “The LORD will shew who are his…and cause him to come near.” Likewise sang David, “When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.[5]” The Spirit must first work on the depraved heart of man, otherwise he will never seek after God. We love him, because he first loved us[6].
“For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel. Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, be they all children[7]…” warns the Apostle. Likewise Jesus said to the multitudes, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven[8].”
In Luke 19 verses 12-27 the Lord gives us the parable of the pounds. The servants in the parable perform to varying degrees with the wealth entrusted to them, but then there are these other citizens who hated the nobleman and said, “we will not have this man to reign over us” as Korah and his followers said to Moses. The parable ends with the nobleman saying, “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me” and such was the fate of Korah and those that dissembled with him.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
— Galatians 6:7
Selah.
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