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The Modern Korah By H omera H omer -D ixon
an actual prediction of the end of the last great evil trio; the beast, the false prophet, and the false church, who are to be cast alive into the lake of fire (compare Num bers 16 with Rev. 19:20). W hat N ow ? We have seen the prophesied end of the wicked. What bearing does it have upon our present conduct? The same story of Korah, Dathan and Abiram has a vital message for us today. It speaks volumes as to our im mediate attitude towards apostasy. “DEPART , I PRAY YOU, from the tents o f these wicked men, and touch nothing o f theirs, lest ye be con sumed in all their sins.” They may be very mighty and famous men, they may be renowned and splendid orators, high in the world’s esteem—even high in the esteem of the Laodicean church. Yet in the sight of God they are as those who are plague- stricken and abhorrent, to be avoided, lest we be included in their swiftly approaching doom. Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, for they despise the Holy One and tread underfoot the Blood of the Cove nant. “ Tomorrow!” Swiftly the night passes; the day of vindication is at hand. Watch ye, and pray. CM'. M M , ,, . Blue ( Continued from page 426) “ The natural man receivcth not the things o f the Spirit of God : for they are foolishness unto him : neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things.” And the princeling understood Bill’s quotation. Constance was satisfied. She stood upon the railroad platform with her friends gathered close about her, as Constance’s friends loved to gather. It was good to be going home! “ Good-by, good-by!” whispered Eleanor. “ Forgive me for looking down on you and I— I’ll try, Connie—truly I w ill! You know what I mean! I’m going to be different!” “ Good-by, Miss Constance,” and a distinguished look ing missive with a small crest was pressed into her hands. It was from the princeling, who was not yet recovered sufficiently to come himself. But it contained a precious word of appreciation and ended with the words, “ Christ is such a Saviour, and a Refuge even for all the poor cast-away, cast out kings of the day! God bless you, Con stance, “ Your friend, “ Franz Josef.” ’ “ God bless you, little sister in Christ,” said Bill the Brilliant as the train started. “ I’m off tomorrow for the fields that are white to harvest. Give my love to America —the United States, and the Thin Red Line.” He turned to jump from the step but looked back to say finally, “ You’re true Connie, that’s what you are! True blue!”
“ VT T E also are holy—we need no blood-stained Aaron,” W spake those long ago, who slighted the appointed minister of Jehovah. The type of mind-is still with us; we find everywhere today those people who coolly place themselves on a level with the anointed High Priest of the Lord. They degrade the blessed Saviour till He appears in their writings and sermons merely a splendid man who dared to stand for certain advanced opinions. Does a good man consistently lie? Does a fine char acter continually live a lie, encourage a lie, speak a whole sale mass of lies? If Moses and Aaron were honest men, their insistence upon the God-ordained sacrifices and God- .appointed ministry was true. I f Christ was “ good” (as Modernists are pleased to acknowledge) then His insist ence upon His deity, His acceptance o f worship, and encouragement of those who owned His Godship, was right. Which was right, Aaron claiming the approval of the Almighty, and living a life of rectitude under the blood, or Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, rebels and upstarts, in sulting to the others ? Which are right, those who honor, love and obey Jesus Christ, who claimed to be the One and unique Son of God, one with the Father, the Only Way into the Father’s presence, and recognized His authority as final? Or those (who are, alas, ‘ . . . o f the assembly, famous in the congregation, men o f renown . . .” ) who have gathered themselves against the Lord and His faithful ones, saying: “ Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congrega tion is holy, everyone o f them, and the Lord is among them; all men have the spirit of God, which only needs to be developed . . . ” ? (W e know the rest of their manner of conversation, as it is to be found everywhere today.) W hat N e x t ? When Moses heard it, he fell upon his face, and know ing his God, spake right boldly of the immediate future. “ Even tomorrow the Lord will show who are his, and who are holy, and will cause him to come near unto him; even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.” Even so today do the servants of God fall on their faces overwhelmed with the awfulness of this tide of apostasy sweeping over the churches, and they who know the secret counsels of the Most High can safely predict the outcome. Soon— oh, very soon—will that day dawn when the mighty God will show who are His, and cause them to come near unto Him, even into His presence, for the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up with them to be forever with the Lord, called, chosen, and faithful. Then will come the end, and all the universe will behold the doom of the unfaithful, the ungodly, who had sinned like Balaam, and walked in the way of Cain, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. The strange and fearful death o f the three apostates in the sixteenth chapter of Numbers is a vivid and comparatively accurate type o f the destruc tion of the scoffers and mockers of the last days. It was
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