Numbers 26:10-11; 61 KJB
When Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, he had to get the Word of God exactly right. Because of his strict obedience to God, God made him the leader of the Israelite nation. But being a fallible human, Moses did disobey the Lord when he struck a rock to obtain water instead of speaking to it as God had commanded. Numbers 20:7-13 (KJB). But Moses' sin did not endanger the exact messages that God required His Word to convey. When false leaders rebelled against Moses, they also rebelled against God. They put the Word of God in danger of never being written or of writing false messages to future generations. God sent His fiery wrath to burn up Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and the 250 rebels who followed them. God meant to protect His Word for the teaching of the Truth to all mankind. But God did not kill the children of the rebels in keeping with His teaching that children should not suffer for the sins of their fathers.
God opened the earth and swallowed these rebels down to Hell. Numbers 16:30-35 (KJB). But no verse in the Bible teaches that when God sends humans to Hell, they remain there forever. The Devil injects spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans who sin against God with the Devil's desire that it become eternal. But when Christ resurrected from the dead, He made eternal death only temporary for all humans. Genesis 2:17; Hebrews 2:9; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). God gave only temporary punishments to Adam and Eve for their sins because He had already promised them that He would send them, and the whole human race, a Savior who would crush the Devil, and He would gain complete victory over all eternal death. Genesis 3:14-19; Revelation 1:17-18; Hebrews 2:9 (KJB). Taste is only a temporary experience. God made Eve "the mother of all living," and since all humans are alive to God, and Christ has abolished death itself, then God has already devised a plan to save all of His living humans in Hell and on the earth in the end of the world in Christ's final judgment. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; II Timothy 1:10; Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 4:1; Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29 (KJB). God simply cannot lose to eternal death any living human that He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). Since Christ holds "the keys of Hell and of death," then He can certainly open up Hell and save all of His repentant, living humans from eternal death. Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB).
Apparently, God required that all incense that the priests would burn in worship to Him be composed in accordance with an exact recipe. God killed Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu because they offered "strange fire before the Lord." Numbers 26:61 (KJB). This symbolized the fact that God required the ancient Israelites to worship Him strictly in accordance with His instructions to Moses. God meant to convey an exact message from the Old Testament to all future humans. "Strange fire" meant that the Israelites could have sent a false message from a false cult to the future human race. God had to prevent that possibility.
In this age of grace, God usually does not kill the leaders of cults because His mercy prevails. God requires His universal Church to preach that all Christians must believe a number of exact truths about Christ in order to become saved by grace. All denominations hold some false beliefs, but all true, Christian churches adhere to the true gospel about the nature and the mission of Christ. Any church that deviates from teaching that exact gospel cannot be a true, Christian church.
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