*A GLOBAL SHAKING IS COMING IN 2025 | DAY 3 | STAY AWAY FROM THE TENTS OF KORAH, DATHAN AND ABIRAM*

*A GLOBAL SHAKING IS COMING IN 2025 | DAY 3 | STAY AWAY FROM THE TENTS OF KORAH, DATHAN AND ABIRAM*

 *OPENING*

Grace upon grace greetings, Word of Life. Welcome today!Merry Christmas to you all, wherever you are watching. God bless you in Jesus' name!

We are celebrating the coming of the Lord, the coming of Jesus into the world, the Savior, the Redeemer, and we give Him all the praise today in Jesus' precious name.

Father, thank you for today, the day you have made for us to rejoice and be glad in you. Thank you for the coming of Jesus, the Incarnation, Jesus made flesh. We thank you and we bless your name. In Jesus' precious name, we have all praised, and we say Amen. 

*INTRODUCTION*

Today, I want to talk to you about the topic captioned "Stay Away from the Tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram." 

We are still raising a trumpet, and the trumpet I am blowing is against pride. That is what I heard from God, from *Isaiah chapter 2, verse 11* : "The lofty looks of men shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day." 

*Verse 17* : "And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day." 

So, it is a trumpet that I am blowing as we are preparing to cross the year, against the spirit of pride, against the pride of men, because pride is a spirit. 

God says in *Haggai chapter 2, verse 6*: "For thus says the Lord of hosts: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all nations.'" 

*Verse 7* : "And the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory," says the Lord of hosts. "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine," says the Lord of hosts. "The glory of this latter house will be greater than that of the former." 

So, the shaking will be targeted toward the proud, the lofty, the man of pride. 

God is sending us a clear warning against pride. Be very much warned, and in this particular time, may we pray to God to show us mercy as far as pride is concerned. 

There are some individuals in the Bible who were clear examples of the shaking because of pride. Those men are in *Numbers 16:24* : "Stay away from the house of those men. Stay away from the Tabernacle of Korah. Stay away from the Tabernacle of Dathan and Abiram." Who is Dathan? Who is Abiram? Who is Korah? 

*CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EVIL SPIRITS OF KORAH, DATHAN AND ABIRAM* 

Friends, stay away from the house, the Tabernacle, from the Church of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. 

Those are spirits, and we are in this season where that spirit is moving around all over the world: *the spirit of Korah, the spirit of Dathan*.

*CHARACTERISTIC 1 : Rebellion Against Divine Authority*

The Bible says in *verse 2 of Numbers 16*: "They rose up before Moses." They rose up before Moses; it means, in other words, they rebelled against Moses. 

To push their agenda, they selected some famous people in the congregation, the men of renown, and those famous people had the mandate or the assignment to push the agenda of rebellion against Moses.

In fact, when I talk about Moses, I am talking about the authority of the law, the authority of the Word of God.

So, there are people today in the world where we are; their assignment is just to rise up, to rebel against the Word of God, to rebel against the authority of the Word of God. 

*CHARACTERISTIC 2 : REBELLION AGAINST THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD OF GOD* 

*Verse 3* : "And they gathered themselves against Moses and Aaron and said, 'You take too much upon yourselves. All the congregation is holy, and why do you lift yourselves up above the congregation of the Lord?'" 

Pure and clear rebellion against the authority of God, against the authority of the Word of God. They believe that they can also interpret the Word as they think. So, why is your interpretation right and mine not right? That is the thing. Not everybody is allowed to interpret Scriptures, if not by the Spirit of God. 

*2 Peter 1:19* : "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts." 

*Verse 20* : "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation." *Verse 21* : "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of men, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." 

So, it is not everybody; just because you are speaking in tongues or maybe you are a pastor or a bishop, you cannot interpret what you want. 

There are those whom God has allowed and authorized, you know, because of the Spirit of God being in them. Because the Bible says the holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. So here, those people in Numbers 16:3 are challenging the authority of Moses. It means that they are challenging the authority of the Word of God. They challenge what God says. 

That is pride. Pride will make you challenge the word of God. Pride will make you challenge what God says. God said, "Don't do that," but because of your pride, you will still do it. 

Sometimes it can happen that people twist scripture to favor them, to fit their desires. The Bible says in *2 Peter 3:16*, "It is for their own loss." 

*2 Peter 3:16* states that nobody is permitted to twist other scriptures to their own destruction. 

Anytime you challenge the authority of the word of God, you prepare yourself for destruction. That is what Korah and Abiram do; that is the spirit of pride challenging the word of God. 

God says He will shake the world; He will shake the nations. Why will He shake the nations? To establish the authority of the word of God. 

I take Moses as the embodiment of the word, and because he is the one God has sent to speak through, I call Moses the metaphor of the authority of the word of God. 

They say, "Oh, you are taking too much; we also have the spirit of God." 

*MOSES' RESPONSE TO KORAH* 

*RESPONSE 1 : HE FELL ON HIS FACE* 

In *Numbers 16:3*, *verse 4*, when Moses heard, the Bible says, he fell upon his face and said, "Oh, well, there is no problem. You think that you are okay? Oh, it is well." So let God show who He has chosen. Let God show. 

In other words, you don't defend the Word of God; we are not there to defend the Word. The Word will defend itself. What God has said will defend itself. I don't need to defend the Word. 

Yes, we can stand on the Word; we can confront error; we can confront the wrong that people are saying there, but the word of God will defend itself. 

*RESPONSE 2 : HE CALLED UPON GOD TO SHOW AND CONFIRM WHO IS WHO* 

That is what Moses said: let God show Himself, that what He says is true or not. He said, "Okay, well, put some fire." He said, "Take your censers." 

In *verse 6*, Korah and all his company put fire there. "Oh, well, because you are becoming too much, you sons of Levi." 

In *verse 9*, he says, "you think it's a small thing that the God of Israel has given you a position? Okay, and then you want to go beyond what God has given to you". We need to stand in the Word of God and not go beyond what the Word says. 

Then the man of God says, "Well, God will now show that the word of God says what it means and means what it says." 

A shaking is coming, and the shaking will come against the proud, the proud who resist the authority of the word, the proud who think that what God says in His word is not true. 

God will show who is who; He will confirm the authority of His word. You know what He told them in *verse 28*, "You shall know that the word of God is true. You will know that it is the word of God; it is not my mind." You will know. 

God says it will be clear the difference between His word and the mind of man. 

Today we have a problem; there are many people who are not preaching the mind of God; they are preaching their own mind. Those motivational speakers, good, what they are doing, I like what they do; it's not a problem, but there must be a clear line between the word of God and the mind of man. 

He says, "You will know that the word of God is true." 

As you are coming this year, you will know that God never lies. 

*RESPONSE 3 : HE CALLED UPON GOD TO CONFIRM THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS TRUE* 

Do you know the problem of Korah and Abiram? They wanted to show that the Word of God lies; they wanted to show that God did not fulfill His word. 

We have so many people who want to show that God has lied. They are telling Moses, "Well, since we left Egypt, we have never reached where we should go. The Word of God is not true. God made some promises to us; those promises are not coming to pass." 

Read it in Numbers 16 yourself. 

Finally, Moses said, "You know what? Let God show Himself now how the Word of God will be confirmed as true." A shaking is coming. 

*RESPONSE 3 : HE CALLED UPON GOD TO SHOW AND CONFIRM HE IS THE ONE WHO CALLED HIM* 

Moses said in *verse 29*, "If these men die a common death of all men, then the Lord has not sent me." It means if they die normally, it is not me whom God called. But if God does a new thing... 

God will do a new thing. The earth will shake; the earth will open its mouth and swallow those people. All those who challenge the authority of the Word. A shaking is coming. 

That is why I'm telling you to be very careful. Sometimes we preach the Word of God; some people can be saying, "Ah, those pastors, you have always said that every year is the year of this, grace upon grace. We don't see it." My friend, the earth is ready to open its mouth to swallow, and I pray it will not be you. 

*RESPONSE 4 : THE EARTH SHOOK ...*   

Go to *verse 31* immediately; as Moses was talking, the Bible says the ground clave under them and swallowed them.

*Verse 32* : the Earth opened her mouth. 

I did not know that the Earth has a mouth; it opened its mouth and swallowed their houses, all that pertained to them, and all their goods were swallowed to confirm the Word of God.

*FINAL WORDS* 

The word will be confirmed in your life this year in the name of Jesus Christ.

What I mean is this: accept the Word of God, accept the authority of the Word, and submit to the authority of the Word. 

Those who are preaching the Word of God, submit to their authority. Be humble enough to know that you do not know everything. The Word of God is true, and see what God will do for your life. 

That is my message, my Christmas message. It's a strange kind of message for Christmas, but the Word of God is true. 

Don't challenge the word; accept it the way it is and let God confirm it in your life. God confirms the Word of God by shaking, so the shaking that will come is to confirm that God is true. It is to confirm that a man and a man cannot be together, and a woman and a woman cannot be together. 

To confirm that, you have to give your tithe for God to open heaven for you. God is the God who will be confirming the word. 

This 2025 will be the year of confirmation of the word, that God never lies, that He means what He says and says what He means. 

God bless you wherever you are. 

Have a blessed Christmas season in your home, and may God show you His mercy in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen and amen. 

*REVEREND TD KASUKU*