Overcoming Jezebel, Athaliah, And Belial In The ... - Kanaan Ministries

They plant little seeds – often it is not blatant enough where they make it real obviousthat they are trying to split the church. This spirit is very subtle – planting little seeds inthe church, or in relationships in friendships, etc, to cause a person to doubt and toquestion someone else’s heart and motive.Miriam and AaronNumbers 12:1 “1 NOW MIRIAM and Aaron talked against Moses [their brother]because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite woman.”Miriam was the older sister of Moses. God called her as aprophetess.Aaron was the older brother of Moses as well as the highpriest. Both had significant positions of leadership andauthority.They criticized Moses for marrying a Cushite woman. Thewoman was not a descendant of Abraham; she wasoutside the covenant of Abraham. Miriam and Aaronbelieved that Moses had sinned or made a bad decisionby marrying this woman.Were they correct in their opinion? According to the Word,it would appear so because God had given instructions forthe children of Israel to marry among themselves. Foreign wives would draw away theirhearts to foreign gods. Miriam and Aaron were right in their assessment, yet wrong asHam was! Criticizing their leader was out of order. They were not to gossip amongthemselves or discuss his behaviour with anyone else. They had strong spiritual gifts and God was also speaking through them. Theirsin was viewing spiritual gifts or abilities above authority. They reasoned that Moses was now not qualified as an authority over them. They allowed their spiritual gifting to elevate themselves above the authority thatGod had placed over them.56