YE HAVE KILLED THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD. "And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods." "And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense." "But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord." Num. 16:32, 35, 41. This was surely one of the most singular instances of rebellion on record. Indeed, it has sometimes seemed hard to reconcile such blindness, such mad infatuation, with the ordinary sense with which they must have been possessed, and the light they had received from the many manifestations of God's power in their behalf. And, 1. We read that the earth opened, and swallowed up a certain company who were in open rebellion. By what method of reasoning could they make Moses and Aaron answerable for this? 2. A fire came out from the Lord and consumed a company who aspired to the priesthood in direct opposition to the ordinance of God. Was this the work of Moses and Aaron? or if they thought it was, would it not then prove to them that Moses and Aaron had power over heaven and earth? that they held them under such control that they would do their bidding. How, then, dared they so soon inaugurate a new rebellion against them? Such blindness seems almost unaccountable. But the Lord said, by Samuel, "Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft." 1 Sam. 15:23. We know that witchcraft has a power to so pervert men's faculties, that everything is distorted to their vision. Wrong is made to appear right, and they are blinded to the simplest and plain-