Adultery During The Burning Times

HOW DO YOU MAKE SUSPECTED ADULTERY CERTAIN? In chapter 5:11-31 of Numbers we have some reasoning not unlike reasoning during the Burning Times where they made certain tests to determine if a suspected witch was one in truth. They said things like this: if you throw a witch into the water and she floats she’s a witch but if she sinks she’s not. Either way the witch would be dead. Here is the test for a woman suspected of adultery with absolutely no evidence mind you. And why is it always the woman in the Bible? It begins with the LORD telling Moses to tell the people that if a “spirit of jealousy comes upon a man” and he suspects her of having commit adultery, he is to bring his wife to the priest with the appropriate offerings and the priest will present her before the LORD. Then the priest takes holy water in an earthen vessel and mixes it with dust from the floor of the tabernacle. And he tells the woman that she must drink this concoction

They protest that “seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them” why should he be singled out and lifted up before them? After falling on his face, Moses tells them that tomorrow the LORD will answer their question. So on the next day Moses told Korah, Dathan and Abiram and the 250 to put incense in their censers and lit them before the door of the tabernacle. Then Moses said if they have a common death then they will know that God has not sent him but “if the LORD makes a new thing and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up” then you will that these men have provoked the LORD (16:29-30). And so Korah, Dathan and Abiram were swallowed up along with their homes and all of their goods. Then “there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense” (16:35). Talk about unusual