“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 […]

“But Nadav and Avihu, sons of Aharon, each took his censer, put fire in it, laid incense on it, and offered unauthorized fire before Adonai, something he had not ordered them to do.  At this, fire came forth from the presence of Adonai and consumed them, so that they died in the presence of Adonai.”-Leviticus 10:1-2 The main reason […]