Today, I am reading and commenting on Leviticus 10-12.

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I mentioned this a few days back but I want to cover it a bit more as we actually come to the place where Nadab and Abihu die.  Back in Exodus 24, we were told that Nadab and Abihu were among the leaders of Israel who accompanied Moses up Mount Sinai to see God.  We are not told why they were given this honor, but their brothers, Eleazar and Ithamar, were not.  That experience seems to me to be the likely reason that they had the arrogance to use “unauthorized” fire (the translators’ notes for the passage says that the Hebrew word literally means “strange”) before God.  They had been selected by God to be part of an elite group of people who were allowed to see Him on the mountain.  (Please forgive me if I word this poorly, or fail to fully explain what I am trying to say.  I have an idea about the point, but am struggling to get the wording correct.)  It seems to me that Nadab and Abihu thought that their experience in seeing God made them better than other people.  What we see here is something which we often see among people who have been called by God in an unmistakable way.  Nadab and Abihu were privileged to see God, which made them realize that they had been called to a special ministry by Him.  Rather than be humbled by God’s call, they became arrogant.  They appear to have believed that they were called by God because they were special, that God needed them.  All too often, men, and women, who God calls in a way which makes it impossible to deny God’s calling make the same mistake.  God does not call us because we are special.  He does not call us because He needs us.  He calls us so that He can show His power through us, and by doing so transform us into someone who is worthy of being called by Him.  Nadab and Abihu thought they were “big men on campus” (or, in this case, “big men in camp”).   They wanted to show off that they were priests by burning incense in their censers, even though God had not yet given instructions about how that should be done.

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