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In Numbers Chapter 20, Moses disobeyed God’s instructions and struck the rock rather than spoke to it. Although water did flow out of the rock, God was angry with Moses. God was not going to let the Israelites move one more inch. They were going to stay right there until they got this thing right. They were trying to get to the promise land. However, King of Edom would not let them go through his land and threaten to kill them if they tried. Moses tried to negotiate with the King. He promised not to drink the water or ride their beast but rather walk through the land. They promised to take off their shoes. They were willing do whatever the King wanted. But King of Edom refused their request.

Have you ever been in a place where God wouldn’t let you out? Nothing would happen. Every time you went into a pray place, nothing was happening for you that was good. It seemed like the heavens were closed. You couldn’t get through. You couldn’t hear God. Nothing was changing. Everything kept dishing out sorrow upon sorrow. There were only trials and tribulations. We wondered how we were supposed to persevere through this, have endurance and grow in faith. Have you ever been in that place where all of a sudden you felt a void? You question whether you are even saved. Maybe you felt that you had messed up so bad that you were not even going to make it. This is what is actually happening. God does not want you to go any further until you deal with your disobedience of His word. God told you what to do and you did not do it. Children, have you ever been in a situation where you couldn’t go some place you wanted to go because you didn’t throw out the trash like you were told? Your parents were not going to let you go until the trash was taken out and you couldn’t understand why? It is not any different with our heavenly Father. He wants you to do what He wants you to do. And He wants you to do it the way He said to do it. We are talking about hearing God. If you are not hearing God and you are not doing what God said, how will you do His will? This is paramount. This is everything about being a Christian. Pray, hear and obey.

I am just like you. Sometimes I am beating my head up against the wall. I didn’t hear God on a situation. It really is not that difficult to hear God. Yet when you are hearing God for yourself and you are in the midst of situation and your emotions are screaming at you and all these worries are hollering at you, it is difficult to find out what we need to do. This is the same situation with Moses and Aaron. They were thinking, “What are we going to do now? We can’t get through Edom. Let us go back to the tabernacle and fall on our faces and see what God has to say.” It doesn’t say how long they prayed. But when they went back, this is what the Lord had to say, “I want you to take Aaron and set him up at Mount Hor, strip him naked and leave him for dead.” What? The Leviticus law tells us that we are cleared of our sins by putting an animal up for sacrifice. It didn’t say anything about a brother. When did it come about that we are supposed to leave a brother, a human being, as a sacrifice? Nowhere in the Leviticus law did it say to do that. But this is what God was telling them to do. Someone had to pay the price before these people could go on and the price was Aaron’s life. The Lord said take Aaron and put him on the mountain, strip him, put his clothes on his son and leave Aaron there to die. And that is what they did. Aaron paid the price.

Do you see the prophetic story in that? Aaron paid the price for Moses’ disobedience. Just as Jesus Christ has paid for the many times you and I have disobeyed the voice of God. Each and every one of us has done it. Each and every one of us at some point in time has not done what God told us to do. But Jesus has been made a sacrifice for us. Out of our disobedience we have been made obedient through what Jesus has done for us. Aaron is that symbol, a type, and a shadow of Christ. Now the Israelites are able to go on but they went around Edom. God gave them victory for they were able to go to the next nation of people who resisted. They prayed to God that if He would give them the ability to go through, they would not leave one living soul alive. They killed them all and God let them go. But they would not have gone forward until a price was paid.

So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and He said: "Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do. So he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.” Exodus 4:14-16

God told Moses He gave him Aaron to be his spokesman. Aaron was the prophet and voice for Moses. Aaron vocalized whatever he heard Moses say. Aaron was also the sacrifice that allowed the people to be able to go on through. The type and shadow of Aaron is obvious. Jesus said, “I speak only what I hear the Father say and I only do what I see the Father do.” Jesus is the prophet who was laid up as the sacrifice for you and me so that we can go on and be victorious with our enemy and take the ground that is in the next nation. And we receive God’s promises of the next portion of our lives because of what Jesus has done. It is not that we can just do whatever we want to do. Grace abounds but grace can run out. Understand what the Lord is bringing to us. You must know from experience that the closer you get to the Lord, the more quick and severe the judgment comes when you are out of line with His will. What you used to get away with, you can’t get away with any more. You can not afford to mess up because judgment will happen quickly. But it can help because you will start to understand the will, the ways and thoughts of God.