“Adonai said to Aharon, ‘Don’t drink any wine or other intoxicating liquor, neither you nor your sons with you, when you enter the tent of meeting, so that you will not die. This is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations, so that you will distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean […]

“Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.” So they came and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses ordered.”-Leviticus 10:4 Following the death of Nadav and Avihu, we’re told that Moses summoned their cousins […]

For those who hold to a warped theology that says God was only a God of judgment and wrath in the Old Testament but changed in the New Testament, I think the account of the death of Ananias and Sapphira as told in the Book of Acts is a sobering story to take a good […]

“Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what the LORD spoke, saying, ‘By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the people I will be honored.’” So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.” -Leviticus 10:3 The question I want to explore today is why was the Lord so severe in how He dealt with Nadav and Avihu? […]

We are now in the midst of discussing the death of Nadav and Avihu at the Lord’s hand, a most shocking incident indeed. I can only imagine how Aaron must have felt to witness his sons instantly roasted alive, not to mention the horror the onlookers must have felt. In my last post I made […]