Leviticus 8 – 10 and The Vow

Leviticus 8 – 10

The Lord was very specific about how priests were to be ordained, how they were to dress, how the sacrificial offerings were to be carried out. In the last verse of chapter 8, Aaron and his sons “did everything the Lord had commanded through Moses.” We see this continue in chapter 9.

Aaron presents the offerings just as the Lord commanded. After Moses and Aaron go into the Tabernacle and come back out, they blessed the people again and the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole community. Imagine seeing fire blazing out and consuming the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. No wonder the people shouted with joy and fell face down on the ground.

How quickly things changed, though. For some reason, Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, put coals of fire in their incense burners and sprinkled incense over them. In the same way the fire consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar, fire blazed forth from the Lord’s presence and burned them up. They “died there before the Lord.”

Moses has Aaron’s cousins remove the bodies from in front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp, but he would not let Aaron or his other sons grieve in public on threat of their death and that the Lord’s anger would strike the whole community. Aaron and his sons were not even allowed to leave the entrance of the Tabernacle.

I wonder of Nadab and Abihu lit the strange fire because they had been drinking, because right after that, the Lord told Aaron that he and his descendants must “never drink wine or any other alcoholic drink before going into the Tabernacle.”

Tomorrow, it’s Leviticus 11 – 13.

The Vow

Today, I emptied some more stuff out of my storage space and then went to see The Vow starring Rachael McAdams and Channing Tatum. Jessica Lange played Rachel McAdams ‘ mother. Either they did a fantastic job of make-up or age has not been kind to her.  The movie got panned by the critics, but I enjoyed it.

I’m considering moving my camper down a couple of spaces so I can take advantage of my cousin Richard’s WiFi. I think I can move it into the site where I created the fountain a couple of years ago.

Until next time…