1. "Rebellion is as witchcraft." "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you" ~ 1 Samuel 15:23 "And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!" ~ Matthew 10:14-15 "And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!” ~ Mark 6:11 Numbers 16 "Today, if you will hear His voice: “Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, as in the day of trial in the wilderness, when your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they saw My work. For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they do not know My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ” ~ Psalm 95:7-11 “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” ~ Hebrews 3:15, 4:7 “You shall have no other gods before Me." ~ Exodus 20:3 2. "The first shall be last." "So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen." ~ Matthew 20:16 "For I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy.......You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy." ~ Leviticus 11:44-45 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy." ~ Leviticus 19:2 "Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God." ~ Leviticus 20:7 "Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." ~ Isaiah 55:6-9 “Be holy, for I am holy.” ~ 1 Peter 1:16 3. "The chosen are My beloved." "Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him." ~ Proverb 26:27 "With the pure You will show Yourself pure; and with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd." ~ Psalm 18:26 “Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.” ~ Psalm 105:15 "Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths." ~ 2 Kings 2:23-24 "So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair" ~ Nehemiah 13:25 "You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me, even this whole nation." ~ Malachi 3:9 "the LORD struck Nabal, and he died." ~ 1 Samuel 25:38 "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." ~ Hebrews 10:31 "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" ~ Philippians 2:12 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRVrIiHfHng