God created humans to worship. In the Garden, Adam and Eve were able to worship their Creator face to face. In their rebellion, humans were cut off from the face of God. The Cherubim were set in place throughout history to guard the worship of God. First in the entrance to Eden (Genesis 3:24), then set on both ends of the mercy seat of the ark of the covenant (Exodus 25). Eventually, they were set to guard the Holy of Holies (2 Chronicles 3).
Though all of mankind was cursed through the sin of Adam (Romans 5:12), the Lord was gracious in letting His people worship Him from afar. God was specific in His commandments to His people regarding how sinners were to worship him (Deuteronomy 12:32), and the punishment for veering from that command proved to be severe. Consider Nadab and Abihu:
Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ And Aaron held his peace. – Leviticus 10:1-3
In short, the two priests were flippant and disobedient (Exodus 30:9) with the worship they offered to God, and they died because of it. Granted, this is not the normative penalty for this sin, but because God’s character never changes (Numbers 23), the truth remains—God cares how He is worshipped.
You might say that this is simply an Old Testament narrative that doesn’t apply to the church today, but that notion would simply deny the immutability of God. We may not worship with burnt offerings under the New Covenant, but does that mean God is now indifferent about the way in which we worship Him?
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If our worship is lacking spirit or truth can it really be worship. These two components were what Jesus told the Samaritan woman at the well we need for true worship.
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Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend! God Bless you 🙏
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Thank you and God’s blessings to you.
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Hmm.
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Of course, the relevant question is “What did they do that displeased the LORD enough to burn them?” And the story doesn’t really tell us. However, it does give us some clues. The story starts in Leviticus 10 with Nadab and Abihu offering “strange fire.” Then chapters 11-15 are a whole bunch of purity laws, and then 16 picks right up with the story again. If you were writing a novel about the events, you’d skip 11-15.
So there’s two obvious possibilities. One is that Leviticus was compiled haphazardly from other sources. An editor added five chapters of purity codes right into the middle of a story without realizing it’s the middle of a story. The other obvious possibility is that these purity codes have something to do with what Nadab and Abihu did.
So what do they say? A bunch. For one, they have the kosher laws for which animals are clean and which aren’t. (Chapter 11) So that’s strange. Then there’s purity codes related to child birth. (Chapter 12) Then there’s the rules about leprosy. (Chapters 13&14) Then how to deal with those who have running issue. (Chapter 15)
This doesn’t paint a very clear picture of what they were doing. Sacrificing pigs and camels with the aid of lepers with children in tow and running issue?
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Leviticus 10, 8&9 suggests that they may have been drunk. That’s another possibility.
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Could you do anything in your parents house? “No. Of course not!” you say. Well the same principle applies to worshiping the true God. We have to follow His guidelines as set out in His Word the Bible. Just as children have to follow the house rules of their parents; we too have to follow God’s standards and “house rules.”
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No we can’t worship anyway want. Can you go to your job and work any way you want? 😁
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