Numbers 16:35

Numbers 16:35 says, And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.  Those who were offering incense under the leadership of those who had rebelled against Moses, these false priests, were consumed by fire from the LORD.  We don't have such drastic signs today that someone is a false priest, but must rely on the Holy Spirit to reveal to us if they are or not.  Verse thirty-six adds, And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  Verse thirty-seven continues, Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.  Moses was instructed by God to have Eleazar, the son of Aaron the true priest of God, to collect the censers these false priests had used to bring their incense and scatter the fire in them outside the camp, for they were sacred.  The censers themselves were hallowed, since God had instructed them to bring them.  Even though the priest may be false, they cannot make the things that are truly God's to be as well.  Verse thirty-eight states, The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.  The censers were no longer to be used the same way in the tabernacle, but were to be beaten into broad plates that would serve as a sign to the people of Israel about what would happen to those who attempted to claim to be something that God had not called them to be.  Verse thirty-nine adds, And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:  These censers were made into a broad plate to cover the altar.  Verse forty continues, To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.  This was to be a memorial to the people of Israel that no one who was not a descendent of Aaron should attempt to offer incense before the LORD, as Korah and his company had done.  Though we may be not see the drastic results when someone falsely attempts to claim to be called by God as a preacher today, the everlasting result will be the same.  Verse forty-one says, 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.  The next day, the people of Israel were once again murmuring against Moses and Aaron, accusing them of having killed some of the children of Israel.  They were attributing what God had done to Moses and Aaron.  We need to be careful as followers of Christ that we do not attribute God's righteous judgment of those who would falsely claim to be His spokesmen today to some other church leader.  It should have been very obvious to these people, who had seem the power of God manifested many times, when something was His work.  Verse forty-two adds, And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.  While the people who were gathered against Moses were looking toward the tabernacle,  it was covered by a cloud and the glory of the LORD appeared.  God will always stand with those that He calls against all who defy them.