Numbers 16:43

Numbers 16:43 says, And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.  Moses  and Aaron once more came before the tabernacle of the congregation, which represented where thay worshipped God.  Even if others are murmuring against us, we still need to gather together where God is to be found.  Verse forty-four adds, And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  Though the people might have been questioning Moses's right to lead them, God wasn't, and that was what mattered with Moses then and what matters us today as followers of Christ. What other people say, even other Christians, should not keep us from doing what God has called us to do, and it certainly won't stop God from talking to us.  Verse forty-five continues, Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.  God told Moses to move away from the congregation so that He might immediately destroy them, and Moses and Aaron fell on their faces.  If we as Christians continually murmur against God and those He has placed in authority over us, I wonder if He sometimes feels the same way about us.  Verse forty-six states, Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.  Moses once again interceded for the people of Israel, even though they were rebelling against him.  He told Aaron to take a censer from the altar, fill it with incense, and move quickly into the congregation, because the plague had begun.  This would put Aaron in danger of dying himself if God wasn't with him.  We should be willing to place ourselves in danger if need be in order to share the gospel with the lost people of the world today.  Verse forty-seven adds, And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.  Aaron did as Moses told him to do, and ran into the congregation with the incense to make atonement for them, even though the plague had already begun.  We cannot reach everyone with the gospel today, because the plague of sin has already begun, and some will never listen to the gospel.  Still, no matter if they treat us badly, we must be willing to make intercession for them.  Verse forty-eight continues, And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.  Aaron stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.  Jesus Christ stands between those who are spiritually dead and those who are spiritually alive today. Verse forty-nine says, Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand, and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.  Fourteen thousand, seven hundred had already died before Aaron interceded for them, in addition to those that died with Korah when the earth swallowed them.  Many people are going to die in sin today no matter what we do, but we have a commitment from God to be sharing the gospel with them and I believe that we also need to be praying for them making intercession for them before God.  Verse fifty adds, And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.  Aaron then returned to Moses at the door of the tabernacle and the plague was stayed.  We may never know what our intetercessory prayers do to give others an opportunity to be saved, but we should never stop offering them, even it it requires us to put feet to our prayers and even put ourselves in a dangerous situation.