“And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.” (Leviticus 9:24)
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The duties of a priest were many and detailed. In didn’t just include the perfection of the animals for sacrifice, but every step the priests must take. (Leviticus 1-9)
The priests were Aaron and his sons. The process of a sacrifice was to be solemn and intended to bring glory to God. These sacrifices were done with the children of Israel being present at the door to the tabernacle.
“And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.” (Leviticus 10:1)
What did they do wrong?
Nadab and Abihu had been appointed by God to be priests (Ex 28:1) with a perpetual honor as priests (Ex 29:9). Everything about the sacrifice had been done perfectly. Their error was to add incense and then light the censer (a fire pan for the altar) by using fire of their own addition. In haste they made their own decision. Their sin was to not wait for God. When adding a “strange fire” to the censer was profane. They lost their patience.
The wages of sin is death.
Remember Nadab and Abihu, their sin is easily our sin.
The bajillion* laws in the Bible are there for a reason.
“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” (Romans 15:4)
*bajillion is not a real number.
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