Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

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The Great Test: Whom Would God Acknowledge?
The next day the two hundred fifty princes, with Korah leading
them, presented themselves with their censers, while the people
gathered to await the result. It was not Moses who assembled the
congregation to see the defeat of Korah and his company. The
rebels, in their blind judgment, had called them together to witness
their victory. A large part of the congregation openly sided with
Korah.
Korah had left the assembly to join Dathan and Abiram when
Moses, with the seventy elders, went down with a last warning to
the men who had refused to come to him. At God's direction, Moses
told the people, "Depart now from the tents of these wicked men!
Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins." The
people obeyed, for a sense of approaching judgment rested on all.
The chief rebels saw themselves abandoned by those whom they had
deceived, but they stood their ground with their families, defying the
divine warning.
Moses now declared in the hearing of the congregation, "By
this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works,
for I have not done them of my own will. If these men die naturally
like all men ... then the Lord has not sent me. But if the Lord creates
a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up
with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit,
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