Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey guys, Kristen here and you're listening to the a year in the Bible with Daily Grace

Podcast. Today we're in number 16 to 18, and if you remember from yesterday's podcast,

we talked about how God was leading his people into the Promised Land, but they disobeyed

God and they were punished for it. And as we pick up with today's chapters, unfortunately,

the rebellion of the people continues. So in chapter 16, some men named Kora, Daitham,

and a bi-room rose up against Moses. These men were Levites. They were special chosen priests,

whom God had chosen as his special people to lead the people to worship God and to make sacrifices

to him. But these men came before Moses and basically said, who put you in charge? Everyone

is holy. Why should you be our leader? Even after Moses had led them out of slavery, even after

God had affirmed Moses as their leader, they still rebelled against him. And Moses fell on his

face. And he said in the morning, God will show you who is his and who is holy. And the next day,

they each took a censor and they put incense on it and they put the censors in a fire. And Kora

got all the congregation, it says, all the congregation to gather against Moses. He had really

stirred up the crowd against their leaders and then Moses prayed, insured enough. God showed the

people who he had appointed to lead them. In a spoiler alert, it was Moses and Aaron. And the

ground even opened up and the people who belonged to Kora were swallowed up by the ground because

of their disobedience. But that, even that wasn't enough for the people. The next day, the people

of Israel started complaining to Moses again saying, how could you kill all these people? And God was

going to wipe out the Israelites because of their disobedience. But Moses and Aaron made an

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