wait, let me see if I understand the question.....this kindergarten teacher.....did she create Neptune?.....if not, no....it wouldn't be okay with me......
The Case of Nadab and Abihu
Nadab and Abihu were the elder sons of Aaron. They had been privileged to accompany Moses to Mount Sinai when the great prophet received the tables of stone containing the Ten Commandments—though they were prohibited from coming “near the Lord,” but were instructed to remain “afar off” (Exodus 24:1-2).
It had been a glorious day. Aaron had been consecrated as “high priest,” and had inaugurated the ceremony of the Day of Atonement. Apparently later in the day, Nadab and Abihu felt they should participate in the festivities. Hence, Moses wrote:
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them. And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them and they died before Jehovah (Leviticus 10:1-2).
This is a shocking turn of events to the person who is uninformed, or who has but a casual regard for the precise commands of the Almighty. Exactly what was the sin of these two men?
Commentators have proffered a variety of possible explanations. (a) Some suggest they did not offer the incense at the proper time of the day. (b) It is alleged that they may have been “making an ostentatious and irreverent display of their ministration to accompany the shouts of the people, on their way towards the Tabernacle” (Clark 1981, 540). The most common view is that they did not get their “fire” from the altar of sacrifices (see 16:12). It is clear that the expression “strange fire” conveys the idea of disobedience, as confirmed by the phrase “which he [God] had not commanded them.”
R. K. Harrison declared that “chapter 10 makes clear how swiftly divine retribution came upon those who refused to follow the guidelines, and insisted upon pursuing an independent course” (1980, 108-09). A few pages earlier Professor Harrison noted: “Implicit obedience, not individualism or innovation, was what God required of the worshipper” (106). Does not the same principle apply today? Some translations render “strange fire” as “unauthorized fire” (NIV, ESV).
The modern professor of Christianity would do well to take note. Far too many feel that so long as their heart is right, it matters little about the form their worship takes (contra John 4:24). This is a deadly mistake, as these men learned.
Nothing about corruption, but being your own person, now that was punishable by death!
Lock step you lemmings!
