The Book of Numbers, 12:1-13, tells us the utterly transfixing story of Miriam & Aaron. Miriam & Aaron were Pastor Bobs. When we read their story of vanity and pride, we should consider that those who lead people from The Church Jesus Founded today are like Miriam & Aaron of yesteryear. Miriam & Aaron were Pastor Bobs, consumed with the desire to be just as important as Moses, God’s appointed intermediary.
‘Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on the pretext of the marriage he had contracted with a Cushite woman. They complained, ‘Is it through Moses alone that the LORD speaks? Does he not speak through us also?”
These three sentences perfectly portray the protest against God and His chosen authority on earth. Those overwhelmed by the Demon of Equality insist, in whatever age they live, “We are just as good as Moses or Jesus or The Only Church Jesus Founded!”
“And the LORD heard this. Now, Moses himself was by far the meekest man on the face of the earth. So at once the LORD said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the meeting tent.” And the three of them went. Then the LORD came down in the column of cloud, and standing at the entrance of the tent, called Aaron and Miriam. When both came forward, He said, “Now listen to the words of the LORD:
Should there be a prophet among you, in visions will I reveal myself to him, in dreams will I speak to him; not so with my servant Moses! Throughout my house he bears my trust: face to face I speak to him; plainly and not in riddles. The presence of the LORD he beholds. Why, then, did you not fear to speak against my servant Moses?”
So angry was the LORD against them that when He departed, and the cloud withdrew from the tent, there was Miriam, a snow-white leper! When Aaron turned and saw her a leper, he said to Moses, “Ah, my lord! Please do not charge us with the sin that we have foolishly committed!
Let her not thus be like the stillborn babe that comes forth from its mother’s womb with its flesh half consumed.” Then Moses cried to the LORD, “Please, not this! Pray, heal her!”
Consider what The Bible tells us about Miriam & Aaron, early Pastor Bobs. We should ask God to heal those who think they are just as good as those whom God has appointed over them in The Only Church He Founded. Otherwise, they run the risk of rotting painfully away forever, their souls endlessly and painfully devoured by leprosy. If, like Miriam, they repent and return to The Church while they have time, they are forgiven and healed.
If not, their agony goes on forever. The Demon of Equality cackles gleefully when those who said “I’m just as good as Moses, Jesus and His Church” suffer for their sense of self-importance. Their painful punishment goes on forever, fitting for the crime of having led people away from God and His appointed intermediaries in order to feel important, and make a few dollars, for a very short time.
