Guest trirway Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 What was the root cause of Korah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Q4. (Numbers 17) What was the root cause of Korah's rebellion? Which of their accusations were true or partially true? Why is challenging the authority of a spiritual leader so dangerous to the challengers? How is intercession for a sinful people such an important part of a leader's job? Answer: 1 What was the root cause of Korah's rebellion? PRIDE. They might have waited for this moment,when to their estimation they have the right number of people to overthrow Moses.They might have been thinking that,with their sheer number,the favor of the Lord will be on their side.. In Chapter 15,we haven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csreeves Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 Q4. (Numbers 17) What was the root cause of Korah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashech Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Q4. (Numbers 17) What was the root cause of Korah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trusting God Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 Q4. (Numbers 17) What was the root cause of Korah's rebellion? The root cause of Korah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blezed Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 Q4. (Numbers 17) What was the root cause of Korah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvoryEagle Posted May 19, 2012 Report Share Posted May 19, 2012 Numbers 17) What was the root cause of Korah's rebellion? PRIDE AND JEALOUSY Which of their accusations were true or partially true? THE LEVEL OF PRIESTHOOD Why is challenging the authority of a spiritual leader so dangerous to the challengers? THEY ARE CHALLENGING GOD HIMSELF. How is intercession for a sinful people such an important part of a leader's job? THEY DON'T KNOW GOD LIKE THE LEADER KNOWS GOD. THEY CAN DISCERN WHO IS SINCERELY MISLED AND WHO IS INSINCERELY REBELLIOUS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onerivertrail Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 Q4. (Numbers 17) What was the root cause of Korah's rebellion? Feeling set apart from the others caused him to demand equal power and recognition. Which of their accusations were true or partially true? They were a set apart people, a holy people planned by God but God had included all of them in this. Korah wasn't seeing that. He was just seeing the differences of their positions. Why is challenging the authority of a spiritual leader so dangerous to the challengers? When you challange the authority of a spiritual leader that God put into place you are actually challanging God's decisions. You are challanging God Himself. How is intercession for a sinful people such an important part of a leader's job? It keeps a leader in a right state of heart and focused on what God's heart or intentions are in a situation. Intercession pleads for the mercy of God in the lives of a people who are not walking correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ademola Posted July 11, 2017 Report Share Posted July 11, 2017 lesson 8: Q4 A. Pride and arrogance was the root cause for korah's rebellion. He desired the position God has not given him. B. The accusation against Moses Tha was partially true was that God has consecrated all Israelites. C. Challenging spiritual authority is dangerous to the challenger, because whenever anyone challenges spiritual authority such person is indirectly challenging God. And no can prevail against God. D. Without timely intercession from leaders many followers will be destroyed in Gods wrath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irmela Posted January 29, 2023 Report Share Posted January 29, 2023 Q4. (Numbers 17) What was the root cause of Korah's rebellion? Which of their accusations were true or partially true? Why is challenging the authority of a spiritual leader so dangerous to the challengers? How is intercession for a sinful people such an important part of a leader's job? The root cause was jealousy. The Levites had been given certain responsibilities and then among the Levites , Aaron and his descendants had been given the role of priests. Korah and his group complained that everyone was the same. The Lord was among them all. This was so, but God had allocated to certain persons certain duties to be fulfilled. The complainers added that Moses had taken on himself the choice of who was to take the role of priests. Or who was to perform which duty. They felt that they too could perform those duties. They were questioning the fact that God had given Moses these instructions. When God has allocated the roles then it is dangerous to challenge the authority of the leader because it is actually challenging God directly. It is very important because a little murmuring and complaining quickly spreads through the ranks. When not taking out that 'rotting' or not dealing with it, it then gives the impression that everyone is in favour with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krissi Posted May 1 Report Share Posted May 1 Within Christian organizations and collectivities, there exists a tension between spiritual egalitarianism (priesthood of all believers) and spiritual hierarchy. Perhaps, it’s not a tension but a balance. In some denominations, hierarchy is so overwhelming that believers have little to do, lack agency and defer to the priest rather than take initiative for their own spiritual development. In other denominations, it’s a free for all. So, I see Korah’s rebellion as an expression of this tension. He was saying, in so many words, that the balance has gone too far toward hierarchy and too far from egalitarianism. "The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them." Moses responded by reiterating the claim that He alone could speak for God, and that Korah was not only challenging Moses’ hierarchical position, but God Himself! God responded by killing Korah and his followers. Pretty brutal. God went further by killing anyone associated with Korah – the plague. Obviously, in this circumstance, God wanted the people to obey Moses, his mediator, and respect the hierarchy He had instituted. Is this a principle? Is this the New Testament pattern, too? Those are the big questions that remain, for me. -- Top-down organizations, including political structures, tend to ossify. In time, the people disregard them and revolt or move toward more responsive structures. Chaos is rare. Hierarchy is the norm in society. This doesn't make it moral or right in the eyes of God, but it is, I believe, an accurate observation to say that all societies tend toward striation and hierarchy, placing some people above others, and causing grave social inequities. After a long time, these political structures become stone-like, immovable and oppressive -- at this point, the only recourse is revolution. Does this apply to the church? Churches, because they're usually not part of the government or state-enforced, lose members when they no longer meet the needs of their congregants. Congregants vote with their feet -- they go to churches that grow them spiritually, which are often, though not always, churches that are less ossified and hierarchical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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