In his last killing, God showed whose side he's on by opening up the ground and burying alive the leaders that opposed Moses (along with their families). And it made quite an impression on everyone.
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also. Numbers 16:34
But they were safe, at least for the moment, because God had his mind on other victims.
Remember Moses' original plan for dealing with Korah's rebellion? He told him and his associates to burn incense before the Lord and let God choose who is holy.
This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company; And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy. Numbers 16:6-7
But then God came up with the burying alive thing and the censer-swinging, prayer contest was put on hold.
In the meantime, 250 of Korah's followers did as Moses asked and burned some incense. So God burned them all alive to teach them a lesson or something.
(If you do what he says he'll burn you to death?)
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. Numbers 16:35
At least I don't have to guess the number of victims this time.
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Don't obey Yahweh, he kills you.
Obey Yahwe, he still kills you.
Just can't win with Yahweh.
Does that mean you just can't lose without Yahweh? If so, I'm in!
I guess this would be classified under collateral damage. It wasn't the fault of those 250 people, but when Yahweh's angry, people must die.
busterggi and matt311, your comments reminded me of a quote by Norm from the show Cheers.
"Women, you can't live with them...pass the beer nuts."
So why should we bother to try to do out what Yahweh wants if he might kill us anyway?
Yahweh, you can't live with him... pass the beer nuts.
I wonder what kind of incense it was. Smelly? May be its a typo, should be incest. thats it, mystery solved. Its INCEST. They got toasted because they were burningwith incest.
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