Hey, this is Shelby and Scott. We're walking you through the book of numbers. Today we're in

chapters 16 through 18. And let's jump by then. So, okay, I want to start with a question for you,

Shelby. So I know you've been in various leadership positions. I'm thinking particularly you used to manage a coffee shop.

And so I'm curious, did you ever come across customers or maybe even employees who did not approve of your leadership?

All the time, Scott, in my former life, yes, as a braceda and coffee shop manager, that was a

common experience for sure.

Yes, I'm not surprised.

Leaders get darts thrown at them all the time.

And I ask, because that's what these chapters are really about as we get to numbers 16

through 18.

Some Israelites are essentially asking Moses, who made you boss?

Which is funny because literally God made him boss. They're essentially rejecting Moses as the

leader of the Israelites and rejecting Aaron in the idea that only Aaron's line can be a priest.

And they're basically claiming, hey, everyone can be

a priest. And it's funny they accuse Moses of exalting himself and appointing him as ruler over the

people, because Moses is probably thinking, I never wanted this. Remember Exodus III? He tried to get

out of this whole deliverance from Egypt thing. But as the study mentions, you've got these

three moments where God just

clearly demonstrates to the people who his chosen leaders are. And so you've got this scene

with a guy named Cora and his co-conspirators offering incense and then being destroyed.

God's wrath coming against the Israelites in a second scene who complained about Moses and

Aaron.

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