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Hey, this is a year in the Bible with daily grace. I'm Shelby, and I'm here with CJ and today we're talking through Leviticus 8 through 10. So in the first seven chapters of Leviticus, we talked through some different offerings. Now it feels like there's a shift here, and we're talking about something different starting in chapter eight. Can you tee that up for us?
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Yeah. So Leviticus 8, 10 are gonna feel more like narrative, may be something we've come to experience or relate to in Genesis and Exodus. And it's going to feel different than the ritual instruction that we just read about in Leviticus 1:7. So essentially, what's happening here is, for a while now, Moses has been functioning as Israel's priest. He's been the intermediary between God and Israel. And now that we have the tabernacle up and running, now that we have all the sacrifices up and running, and we know how to do those, presumably, even though they're confusing, Moses can now get ready to ordain Aaron and his sons as the priests moving forward. So that's kind of where we're at in Leviticus 8, 10.
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Okay, so they're, like, actually now entering the tabernacle. That's, like, kind of where we're at here. We've got the groundwork laid, and now it's, like, time. Okay, so walk us through these chapters and what happens.
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B
Okay, so Moses can finally enter the Tabernacle in Leviticus 8. And then he brings in Aaron after Aaron is properly ordained, using some of the sacrifices that we learned about in Leviticus 1 through 7. And then the fire of the Lord's presence leaps out from the most holy place where God dwells, and it consumes all the sacrifices on the altar, which is showing that God is pleased with what's going on. This is. This is exactly what the tabernacle is supposed to be used for. So here I kind of want to pause for a second, and I want to think back to the last time that God dwelled with his people, and that would have been in the Garden of Eden. So this is sort of like a high point for us. If we're reading Scripture from Genesis to Exodus and Leviticus chronologically again, God is now dwelling with man again. And things seem to be going really well. And maybe, as we've come to expect in the Bible, when things are going well, something is probably going to go bad soon. Sad as it is. That's just kind of the way it works.
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Yeah.
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And that's where Nadav and Avihu come in, these two guys who are Aaron's sons who end up offering what the Bible says is strange fire to the Lord, whatever that means. It seems to mean that they enter into God's holy presence when they shouldn't have. They kind of rush in and they're foolish. And as we know, God's presence is not something to trifle with, and it requires order, the sort of order that he's been laying out in Leviticus. So when they rebel against God, fire leaps out again, but this time to consume Nadav and Avihu. Essentially, this is judgment. Previously, when the fire leapt out to consume the sacrifices, that was a blessing. This is judgment. And Nadav and Avihu are burned to death. And then they have to be carried out by some of their family members. And then Moses gives a huge, hugely important exhortation to Aaron and his sons in Leviticus 10:10. He says, you must distinguish between holy and common and the clean and the unclean. And this phrase, the holy and the common and the clean and the unclean, are going to sort of define the rest of Leviticus as we're going to see in the following episodes.
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Okay, yeah, thank you for breaking all of that down. I think that's super helpful. So we see the death of Aaron's sons in. It's not an easy passage to read. Right. But one thing about studying Scripture is we can look at any passage in the Bible and we can learn from it about God, who he is and his character. And so even in this difficult passage, do we learn something about who God is?
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Yeah, for sure. So if you were to read Leviticus 10:4, God says, I will demonstrate my holiness to those who are near me, and I will reveal my glory before all the people. And. And again, this is a blessing and a threat. It's a blessing for those of us who are in Christ and those of us who have his blood covering us. And even though we're sinful and sometimes even though we wouldn't like to admit it, we're kind of like Nadav and Avihu. When we rebel, we have the blood of Christ covering us, but it's also a threat in the sense that, as Hebrews talks about, it is a scary thing to fall into the hands of the living God. So, again, God's holiness, but also his compassion, I think, are both on display here.
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Yeah, absolutely. I think my takeaway for today, sometimes we can become apathetic toward the sin in our lives. And, you know, it just begins to seem like not such a big deal. And I think what this passage is reminding me is that God has given us His Word, just like he gave the instructions for the offering in the tabernacle to Moses, to Aaron, to his people.
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And.
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And he's given me that instruction so that I can live by it. And so maybe today's a great day to sit down and examine where maybe there's sin in my life, where I've become apathetic toward living according to God's word because it can happen to all of us. All right, thanks, C.J. i'm excited to keep talking through Leviticus. I'm thankful for the way you're breaking down these difficult passages for us. And we'll be back to talk through more tomorrow.