Does Numbers 16:30 Prove the dead are Conscious?
Numbers 16:28-30 Then Moses said: “By this you will know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these things, that it is not of my own heart: 29 If these people die a natural death as all men do and if their punishment is the same as that of all mankind, then Jehovah has not sent me. 30 But if Jehovah does something extraordinary with them and the ground opens and swallows them and everything that belongs to them and they go down alive into the Grave, you will certainly know that these men have treated Jehovah disrespectfully.”
In this passage we can see that the people in this story have wronged Jehovah and were going to experience death unlike the rest of mandkind. How did they die?
Numbers 16:31-35 " As soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split apart. 32 And the earth opened and swallowed them up, along with their households and everyone who belonged to Kor′ah and all their goods. 33 So they and all who belonged to them went down alive into the Grave, and the earth covered them over, so that they perished from the midst of the congregation. 34 All the Israelites who were around them fled at their screaming, for they said: “We are afraid that the earth may swallow us up!” 35 Then a fire came out from Jehovah and consumed the 250 men offering the incense."
They fell into the Earth, then were destroyed when it closed up. So they literally went into the grave alive. They are not alive in the Grave. The rest that didn't get swallowed by the earth were consumed by fire.
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