Good catch on the humble Moses. Doubt Aaron wrote it either.

I tight it was interesting that God spoke to Moses because he trusted him. God could have spoken to everyone and left out the middle man. But he wanted someone else to do it, and he wanted someone he trusted. Trusted apparently for his humility. I literally had just finished an article about Facebook and how people scan for things that reinforce their own ideas. Even if that idea might have been just a wild hair, the belief in the idea quickly becomes stronger as the get confirmation someone else agrees and the spiral continues until people are fervently fighting for an idea they might have been very open about had they not so easily found confirmation that others agree while ignoring those that don't. I'm not trying to say there aren't things worth believing or ideas worth fighting for. But like Moses I think we have to be humble for God to trust us not to take his words and twist them to our advantage. Moses humility is what made him an available vessel for God's word. It wasn't his ability to rally the people, or his self assuredness. I think now more than ever we have to be humble to hear God's word. And as people get more and more extreme and polarized by the ease of which they can confirm their own crazy ideas, the more important it is for us to look for confirmation from the bible and the Holy Spirit rather than other people.

I think that pretty much boils it down.

Sometimes I wonder if death was a mercy back then. Not sure where God's chosen people are now who were struck down by divine intervention or what their eternal fate is. Have to trust God wanted those two alive, or wanted us to read this story and give someone whose shafted us another chance or who knows. But I agree, it doesn't feel like justice.