Those died in the wilderness , because they didn't qualify for the Promised Land. Remember ...Neither did Moses!!
So you are trying to tell us that even though Moses blew it and was not allowed to cross over...Moses was cast out into outer darkness!!!!
Why on earth do people read the OT and just presume that when God judges someone , say even Uzzah who touched the ark...are all "going to hell for eternity".... Shaking my head here in amazement.
Of course not. You are overreacting here and overreaching with your display of outrage. You should understand the judgments of God. But the wilderness is there to teach us something that we would be wise to notice. God grades on a curve...according to what we have been given. Moses wasn't rebellious...but he paid a temporal price for what He did although to us it seems like a trifle. God is just. And I'm not like most people that judge others on where they are going to go. So please don't put that on me.
God has laid out very specific places for the people of His creation. For some...they are destined for reward and honour...and others...from the same group...the same lump...to be outcast in shame and dishonour. And that's just the people of God.
As Peter said...
1 Pet. 4:18 Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
Of course the saints are abundantly saved.