DEATHS OF AARON’S SONS NADAB AND ABIHU TEACH US THE AWESOME RESPONSIBILITY OF TEMPLE PRIESTS OF GOD OF WHOLE EARTH

Levi are separated for service of God

Nu 16: 8--I pray you, ye sons of Levi:---9  Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel,

Levi are separated for His services---(notice in Mal 3: 2,3 we see how the LORD requires Levi to be silver and gold!)

Nu 17:3  And thou shalt write Aaron‘s name upon the rod of Levi:

Nu 3:6  Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.

Levi are separated for service of God, Aaron’s name is on ROD OF Levi!-

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LOOK AT A FEW RESPONSIBILITIES OF Levi--

Levi was son of ISRAEL from Leah, Ge 35:23, Kohath son of Levi, Ge 46:11, Aaron is a Levite, Ex 4:14,

Nu 1:50  But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it:--- Nu 8:19  And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.

Therefore---Levites HAD THE RESPONSIBILITY TO SANCTIFY ISRAEL LORD’S PEOPLE, WHEN THEY COME INTO SANCTUARY !

Nu 8:22-- after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron,

1Ch 23:13  -- and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto Him, and to bless in His name for ever.

THEN WE UNDERSTAND ---

Aaron—Levi has a responsibility FOREVER!—that is why the correction of sons of Levi in Mal 3!---LORD considers ministry as sons of Levi!---THEN MINISTRY SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SERVE LIKE Levi!

Levi TO HONOUR AND GLORIFY GOD--

LE: 10: 3 - And Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD spoke, saying: ‘By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; And before all the people I must be glorified.’" So Aaron held his peace.---- Ex 19:22-- Let the priests who come near to the Lord sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them.

THESE ARE LESSONS FOR TODAY!

In Lev. 10 we see the deaths of Aaron’s two sons Nadab and Abihu. They were killed by God because they used profaned fire---BUT TODAY WE SEE that the LORD had been merciful to EVEN THE COVENANT BREAKERS as He is faithful to the fathers to make the eternal covenant to give inheritance to ISRAEL—

Therefore WE SHOULD SEE---how the LORD is merciful, longsuffering to get back His chosen people ISRAEL, His patience, love, kindness, justice, Righteousness He pours on the children of ISRAEL in spite of their DISOBEDIENCE!

PRAISE BE TO THE LORD OF ISRAEL, AMEN.

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NADAB AND ABIHU---

LE 10: 1 -And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. Vs. 2--And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

How many ministers of God would not mind to act upon all the words of God today?

They do not regard God’s instructions according to His instructions!

So much so, Ez 44: 7 tells us how the last era church broke the COVENANT OF GOD OF WHOLE EARTH which they made in Eze. 16: 8!

AARON DID NOT LAMENT WHEN GOD KILLED HIS SONS FOR THEIR DISOBEDIENCE—LE 10: 1-7---- many lessons could be learnt through Aaron today!

When the prophet’s wife was taken by a stroke he was asked to go on working! Read comments in these writings—God’s servants have a tremendous responsibility to SERVE THE GOD OF WHOLE EARTH! HE HAD GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS IN THE BIBLE! Leaders should learn scriptures to follow the instructions, and there are enough examples in different situations!

In history LORD turned Saul into Paul! A persecutor of church into an apostle!

Jonah was sent in the belly of a fish to Nineveh! LORD GETS HIS WORK DONE IN MIRACULOUS WAYS!

Even today the LORD is molding ISRAEL of Ro 9: 4-6, who had erred tremendously, through gentile work!

TO SERVE THE GOD OF WHOLE EARTH IS NO SMALL THING!

Nu 16: 8--I pray you, ye sons of Levi:---9  Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel,

Moses’ writings teach us today how he gave instructions of God to Aaron and priesthood, and TODAY, it is JESUS CHRIST who teaches His servants, the Levi, Mal 3: 2,3, and save them from sin, Mt 1: 21, when His sacrifice is made effective to them, when they get Baptizm unto His death, Ro 6: 3-7, which gives His righteousness unto Holiness, vs 19, 22, to serve Him.

GOD’S MINISTRY SHOULD GIVE THE FIRST PLACE TO GOD OF WHOLE EARTH TO GLORIFY HIM IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL—Lev. 10: 3, Jer 10: 6-8

LORD did not give PCG Revelations after she committed spiritual harlotry, ----

Jer 3: 3  Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.--4  Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? (from the time she committed Bamah abomination, she had been calling her husband-- “my Father”, vs. 19-- Thou shalt call Me, My father; and shalt not turn away from Me.--20 -  Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD). That is what the LORD says!---when the marriage covenant was broken, that is how she acted, not turning away from God! JESUS CHRIST is FATHER too, Isa 9: 6---

we had shown how she is compared to Re 17: 5, 15!

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BUT GOD IS MERCIFUL, HE WOULD NOT BE ANGRY FOREVER—Jer 3: 12.

She would be purified through the blood of the Lamb, Re 7: 14, 15, they would be seen in Re 21: 2,3.---the whore of Re 17: 5 would be pardoned through Ro 6: 3-7, and she (the land of Jerusalem) would marry JESUS CHRIST as Hepzibah and Beulah, as a virgin, Isa 62: 4,5. THE POWER OF RO 6: 3-7 WOULD MAKE THE WHORE A VIRGIN FOR THE LORD! He would not marry a whore, but a virgin! JESUS CHRIST is faithful to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Jer 33: 17-26, to make the eternal covenant with their spiritual generations, Ro 9: 4-6, who were called out by Him, Jn 6: 44 - No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.--45  It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God..

The promise is that THEY WOULD BE TAUGHT OF GOD, AND THEN RAISE THEM AT THE LAST DAY! ---Eze. 39: 28-29 says so—vs. 29--“for I have poured out My spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD”. His spirit are the words that give life, Jn 6: 63.

GOD’S PEOPLE ARE TO RECOGNIZE HIS WORK OF TEACHING THEM, TO BE RAISED through Ro 6: 3-7!

Raise means Resurrection –

Joh 6:40- every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Joh 6:54  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

1Co 6:14  And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

2Co 4:14  Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus,

IT IS AWAKING TO Righteousness--1Co 15:34  Awake to righteousness, and sin not;---WHEN WE BECOME NEW MEN IN CHIRST THROUGH BAPTIZM UNTO HIS DEATH WE ARE REQUIRED  NOT TO SERVE SIN, RO 6: 3-7.

LORD HAD SET WATCHERS FOR JERUSALEM TO HELP THEM--

Jer 4: 14- O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

Jer 4: 16-17- 16  -- behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.17  As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against Me, saith the LORD.---these vss show the gentile work done from far Tarshish, Ge 10: 4, Jer 10: 9, Re 11: 2, Jer 3: 14,15, Isa 23:10, Isa 60:9, ships of an ancient city, serving king Solomon, 2Ch 9:21. they are the first born of poor, Isa 14: 30, Gal 2: 8,10, gentiles made righteous to serve JESUS CHRIST by His blood, Eph 2: 11-13, when JESUS CHRIST came in clouds, Eze. 30: 3, 9, they serve in house of God of Isa 56: 4-7 (as eunuchs preparing the bride of Christ, Re 19: 1,8, eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake , Mt 19:12).

They publish how Jer 4: 14 could be done-- Jer 4: 14- O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.---the only way to wash the hearts and be saved is Baptizm unto His death, Ro 6: 3-7, which gives His righteousness unto Holiness, vs 19, 22, to serve JESUS CHRIST!

Watchers are pastors whom LORD gave ISRAEL, Jer 3: 14,15.

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Isa 62: 6 -I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

7  And give Him no rest, till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

One should see how the LORD had commissioned these watchmen to work until LORD establishes Jerusalem as a praise in the earth!

This is how the LORD is served by watchmen set upon walls of Jerusalem!

WALLS OF JERUSALEM SHOULD KNOW HOW TO GUARD THE CITY!

Levi should guard all things given to them!

Nu 1:50  But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it:---

BEFORE ALL PEOPLE THEY SHOULD GLORIFY GOD!

Lev. 10: 3-Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh Me, and before all the people I will be glorified.

Jer 10: 6-8—VS. 6  For as much as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

We could glory that we know Him—Jer 9: 24  But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

LORD’s ways should be our ways! His servants too should exercise His ways!

He does not delight in wickedness! He is the God of love!

He did not delight in the way prophet treated the poor gentiles, disfellowshipping them when they reported Bamah abomination! Isa 3:15  What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

He does not delight when prophet disfellowshipped His called out, Eze 45:9  ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people," says the Lord GOD.

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The ways of the ministry brought curses on them—

LORD said He would punish circumcised with uncircumcised, and that all the house of ISRAEL is uncircumcised in their hearts, Jer 9: 25,26—therefore LORD punished the prophet and leading ministry giving them the cup of fury as they did not circumcise their heart, Jer 4: 4, they should take the examples of Moses, Aaron.

They should not tarry, but look forward to serving JESUS CHRIST as He is forgiving them through His sacrifice, Ro 6: 3-7. they should get pardoned through His blood, Eph 1:7 , Col 1:14 , and get power from JESUS CHRIST, 2Co 12:9 , Ro 5:6 .  

It is serious business serving the God of whole earth—but it is folly when leaders err!--- Jer 11: 2  Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;--3  And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

The covenant was broken by the men of Ro 9: 4-6! Of Eze. 16: 8! It is PCG!

The last era church had exhibited their folly ---THEY SHOWED THAT THEY ARE DRIFTED FROM GOD ---HOW?----

They built a performing arts centre and housed LORD’s temple in it! True worshippers would do such things!

IT IS A DISGRACE DONE TO THE GOD OF WHOLE EARTH! Then they NAMED it after a dead man, H.W.Armstrong! IN SMALL LETTERS they inscribed GOD’S NAME ON IT!

The whole world sees it! They had disgraced God openly! IS THAT A SMALL MATTER?

Lev. 10: 3- Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh Me, and before all the people I will be glorified.

Jer 10: 6-8—VS. 6  For as much as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

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Isa 5:13  Therefore My people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge:

Isa 45:20-- they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. (H.W.Armstrong is dead—they always proclaim to the world to read H.W.Armstrong! not the words of the ever living God!)

Jer 4:22  For My people is foolish, they have not known Me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jer 9: 17  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women,--- 19  For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.--- PCG does not understand that they are blind—Laodiceans –that they are not in spiritual Jerusalem!---- they do not know that they are spiritually CAST OUT!

They are scattered by LORD in spiritual nations, Eze. 12: 15, Jer 23: 7,8,  and from there they would be gathered says the LORD, after giving them knowledge, Eze. 39: 28,29.

Jer 9: 21- 21  For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

22--Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

Laodiceans are spiritually DEAD! LORD describes their condition in many parables!

When the leaders do not know the LORD, how will young men know Him?

Alex Harrison devised Bamah matter, but when prophet consented to break the marriage covenant of Jerusalem with LORD,  through Bamah abomination, Eze. 20: 29, -----In Eze. 24: 16, LORD took away the wife of prophet through a stroke, and required prophet to continue the work—Eze. 24: 17-21. God does not change—He is not partial. In history Aaron too was required to work after the LORD killed his two sons, Nadab and Abihu--

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We could also note the instructions of God to Moses which Moses explained to Aaron and the other two sons of Aaron , Eleazar and unto Ithamar, of their responsibilities AFTER the deaths of the other two sons—Le 10: 1-20---although we do not have animal sacrifices to perform ---we are to be obedient to His commandments, Judgments, statutes, precepts, lines, testimonies, keeping Sabbaths, new moons, Isa 66: 23,24, Eze 46:1, 6, daily and continual, giving Him thanksgiving and praise for all what He does to ISRAEL and the world. ---IT IS NOT A RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MINISTRY OF GOD TO MAKE KNOWN THINGS TO THE WORLD---there are people for those things!

After all, curses had come because the LORD is not worshipped by His people according to His Judgments!

De 29:19  "and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart’ ––as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.

De 29:20  "The LORD would not spare him; for then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven.

De 29:27  ‘Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book.

De 30:1  "Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God drives you,

Those were prophecies for the end time leader of one-man government who thinks nothing would happen to him, his name cut off, Eze. 13: 9, Jerusalem was cursed,

And NOW—THEY ARE TO MIND THAT THEY ARE SCATTERED IN NATIONS, Eze. 12: 15, from nations LORD would gather them, Eze. 39: 28-29.

THE WHOLE PROBLEM IS THAT THE LEADER HAD MADE ALL TO OBEY HIM TO DO WHAT HE SAYS---and what he says is AGAINST GOD! prophet of PCG is strengthening God’s people to acknowledge H.W.Armstrong’s teachings!

WHAT A DANGEROUS THING THAT IS! In GOD’S LAND, he IS MOLDING A DIFFERENT god!---he is tearing God’s people with his words, which are like a “lion” to destroy God’s people!

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The ministry should perform the duties by the LORD to glorify Him!

Heb 13:15  Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

LEARN WHY AARON WAS REQUIRED NOT TO LAMENT WHEN GOD KILLED HIS SONS FOR THEIR DISOBEDIENCE—LE 10: 1-7----

As COMMENTS FROM MHC (commentary) explain Le 10 very well how Moses instructed Aaron when Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu died, we too could be exhorted with those words.—(high lighting by me,).

Quotes from comments from MHC--

Indeed God’s law spoke this, that being a holy God, and a sovereign Lord, He must always be worshipped with holiness and reverence, and exactly according to His own ordinance; and, if any does against His laws, it is at their peril. examples -Ex 29:43-44; 34:14; Le 8:35.

Ex 29:43  And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory.

Ex 29:44  And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to Me in the priest's office.

Ex 34:14  For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

Le 8:35  Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

What was it that God spoke? It was this (the Lord by his grace speak it to all our hearts!) I will be sanctified in those that come nigh Me, whoever they are, and before all the people I will be glorified.

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Note,

• First, Whenever we worship God, we come nigh unto Him, as spiritual priests. This consideration ought to make us very reverent and serious in all acts of devotion, that in them we approach to God, and present ourselves before Him.

• Secondly, It concerns us all, when we come nigh to God, to sanctify Him, that is, to give Him the praise of His holiness, to perform every religious exercise as those who believe that the God with whom we have to do is a holy God, a God of spotless purity and transcendent perfection, Isa 8:13 .

• Thirdly, When we sanctify God we glorify Him, for His holiness is His glory; and, when we sanctify Him in our solemn assemblies, we glorify Him before all the people, confessing our own belief of His glory and desiring that others also may be affected with it.
• Fourthly, If God be not sanctified and glorified by us, He will be sanctified and glorified upon us. He will take vengeance on those that profane His sacred name by trifling with Him. If his rent be not paid, it shall be disdained for.

   (3.) But what was this to the present case? What was there in this to quiet Aaron?  Two things:—

   [1.] This must silence him, that his sons deserved their death; for they were thus cut off from their people because they did not sanctify and glorify God. The acts of necessary justice, how hard soever they may seem to bear upon the persons concerned, are not to be complained of, but submitted to.

[2.] This must satisfy him, that the death of his sons redounded to the honour of God, and His impartial justice would for it be adored throughout all ages.

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2. What good effects this had upon him: Aaron held his peace, that is, he patiently submitted to the holy will of God in this sad providence, was dumb, and opened not his mouth, because God did it. Something he was ready to say by way of complaint (as losers think they may have leave to speak), but he wisely suppressed it, laid his hand upon his mouth, and said nothing, for fear lest he should offend with his tongue, now that his heart was hot within him. Note,

   (1.) When God corrects us or ours for sin, it is our duty to be silent under the correction, not to quarrel with God, arraign His justice, or charge Him with folly, but to acquiesce in all that God does; not only bearing, but accepting, the punishment of iniquity, and saying, as Eli, in a case not much unlike this, It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth Him good, 1Sa 3:18. If our children have sinned against God (as Bildad puts the case, Job 8:4), and He have cast them away for their transgression, though it must needs be grievous to think that the children of our love should be the children of God’s wrath, yet we must awfully adore the divine justice, and make no exceptions against its processes.

   (2.) The most effectual arguments to quiet a gracious spirit under afflictions are those that are fetched from God’s glory; this silenced Aaron. It is true he is a loser in his comforts by this severe execution, but Moses has shown him that God is a gainer in His glory, and therefore he has not a word to say against it: if God be sanctified, Aaron is satisfied. Far be it from him that he should honour his sons more than God, or wish that God’s name, or house, or law, should be exposed to reproach or contempt for the preserving of the reputation of his family.

No, now, as well as in the matter of the golden calf, Levi does not acknowledge his brethren, nor know his own children;  and therefore they shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law, De 33:9-10. 

Ministers and their families are sometimes exercised with sore trials that they may be examples to the believers of patience and resignation to God, and they may comfort others with that with which they themselves have been comforted.

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   II. Moses gives orders about the dead bodies. It was not fit that they should be left to lie where they fell; yet their own father and brethren, the amazed spectators of this dismal tragedy, durst not offer to lift them up, no, not to see whether there was any life left in them;

They must neither be diverted from nor unfitted for the great work that was now upon their hands. Let the dead bury their dead, but they must go on with their service; that is,

"Rather let the dead be  not buried, if there be nobody else to do it, than that work for God should be left undone by those whom he has called to it."

But Moses takes care of this matter, that though they died by the hand of justice in the act of sin, yet they should be decently buried, and they were so, Le 5:4-5--.

1. Some of their nearest relations were employed in it, Le 10: 4, who were cousins related to their father, and are here named, who would perform this office with tenderness and respect. They were Levites only, and might not have come into the sanctuary, no, not upon such an occasion as this, if they had not had a special command for it.

2. They carried them out of the camp to be burned, so far were they from burying them in the place of worship, or the court of it, according to our modern usage, though they died there, that they did not bury them, nor any of their dead, within the lines of their camp; as afterwards their burying places were out of their cities.

The tabernacle was pitched in the midst of the camp, so that they could not carry these dead priests to their graves without carrying them through one of the squadrons of the camp; and doubtless it was a very awful affecting sight to the people. The names of Nadab and Abihu had become very great and honourable among them; --- and next to Moses and Aaron, who were old and going off, Nadab and Abihu (who had been in the mount with God, Ex 24:1) were looked upon as the great favourites of heaven, and the hopes of their people; and now on a sudden, when the tidings of the event had scarcely reached their ears, to see them both carried out dead, with the visible marks of divine vengeance upon them, as sacrifices to the justice of God, they could not choose but cry out,

Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? 1Sa 6:20.

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3. They carried them out (and probably buried them) in their coats, and the garments of their priesthood, which they had lately put on, and perhaps were too proud of.

Thus the impartiality of God’s justice was proclaimed, and all the people were made to know that even the priests’ garments would not protect an offender from the wrath of God. And it was easy to argue,

"- can we expect to go unpunished?"

And the priests’ clothes being so soon made grave-clothes might intimate both that the law worketh death, and that in the process of time that priesthood itself should be abolished and buried in the grave of the Lord Jesus.

   III. He gives directions about the mourning.

1. That the priests must not mourn. Aaron and his two surviving sons, though sad in spirit, must not use any outward expressions of sorrow upon this sad occasion, nor so much as follow the corpse one step from the door of the tabernacle, Le 10:7. It was afterwards forbidden to the high priest to use the ceremonies of mourning for the death of any friend whatsoever, though it were a father or mother (Le 21:11); yet it was allowed at the same time to the inferior priests to mourn for their near relations, Le 10:2-4.

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But here it was forbidden both to Aaron and his sons, because,

   (1.) They were now actually waiting, doing a great work, which must by no means cease (Ne 6:3); and it was very much for the honour of God that their attendance on him should take place --- and that all services should give way to those of their ministry. By this they must make it to appear that they had a greater value and affection for their God and their work than for the best friend they had in the world; as Christ did, Mt 12:47-48. And we are hereby taught, when we are serving God in holy duties, to keep out minds, as much as may be, intent and engaged, and not to suffer them to be diverted by any worldly thoughts, or cares, or passions. Let us always attend upon the Lord without distraction.

   (2.) Their brethren were cut off for their transgression by the immediate hand of God, and therefore they must not mourn for them lest they should seem to countenance the sin, or impeach the justice of God in the punishment.  Instead of lamenting their own loss, they must be wholly taken up in applauding the sentence, and subscribing to the equity of it. Note, The public concerns of God’s glory ought to lie nearer our hearts than any private affections of our own. Observe, How Moses frightens them into this submission, and holds the rod over them to still their crying (Le 10:6):

"Lest you die likewise, and lest wrath come upon all the people, who may be in danger of suffering for your irreverence, and disobedience, and ungoverned passions;"

and again (Le 10:7), lest you die. See here what use we are to make of the judgments of God upon others; we must double our guard over ourselves, lest we likewise perish. The death, especially the sudden death, of others, instead of moving our passion, should compose us into a holy reverence of God, a cautious separation from all sin, and a serious expectation of our own death. The reason given them is because the anointing oil of your God is upon you, the honour of which must be carefully preserved by your doing the duty of your office with cheerfulness.

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Note, Those that through grace have received the anointing ought not to disturb themselves with the sorrow of the world, which worketh death. It was very hard, no doubt, for Aaron and his sons to restrain themselves upon such an extraordinary occasion from inordinate grief, but reason and grace mastered the passion, and they bore the affliction with an obedient patience: They did according to the word of Moses, because they knew it to be the word of God. Happy those who thus are themselves under God’s government, and have their passions under their own government.

2. The people must mourn: Let the whole house of Israel bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled. The congregation must lament, not only the loss of their priests, but especially the displeasure of God which appeared in it. They must bewail the burning that was kindled, that it might not burn further. Aaron and his sons were in danger of being too much affected with the providence, and therefore they are forbidden to mourn: the house of Israel were in danger of being too little affected with it, and therefore they are commanded to lament. Thus nature must always be governed by grace, according as it needs to be either constrained or restrained.

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MY COMMENTS—

The responsibility of high priest or prophet of last era was very great of having to make all house of ISRAEL repent before the LORD, Eze. 16: 2,  to have established the eternal covenant , but---prophet, Eze. 2: 5, 33: 33,  was instrumental in breaking the marriage covenant (Eze. 16: 8) through allowing strangers to come into altar, Eze. 44: 7, seen by gentiles, Eze. 39: 21-23. therefore LORD took away his wife, Eze. 24: 16. and made the ministry boil in the boiling pot, they have to be thoroughly cleansed,  Eze. 24.

He made them Laodiceans and then started His short work upon the earth, Ro 9: 28, to give knowledge of Him, to do a work of being faithful to the covenants of fathers, Jer 33: 17-26, to bring back the Laodiceans again to Jerusalem making it new---thus NEW JERUSALEM , Re 21: 2,3 would be made in spiritual heaven as we had shown.

LORD dwells in a SANCTUARY, Ps. 77: 13, so He requires a Levi as gold and silver, Mal 3: 2,3, in His SANCTUARY –therefore He gives knowledge to them, to show them THAT they WOULD BE FORGIVEN of all sins committed under law THROUGH HIS BAPTIZM UNTO HIS DEATH, Ro 6: 3-7,  which gives His Righteousness unto Holiness –SO THAT THEY COULD DWELL WITH HIM AND SERVE HIM!

LORD PITCHED THE ETERNAL TABERNACLE THROUGH HIS SACRIFICE-

Heb 8: 1 - Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

2  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.--6 - But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

(Zec 12: 8-10--house of David would be as God,---- and He would pour the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced,---WHICH MEANS—that they HAVE TO LOOK TO HIS DEATH---so that they be baptized unto His death, Ro 6: 3-7)

Heb 8: 7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8  For finding fault with them, He saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

9  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in My covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people:

THAT IS THE WAY THE LORD WOULD EXALT HIS LAWS AND COMMANDMENTS FOR ISRAEL TO OBEY THEM, TO BE HIS PEOPLE!

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Isa 8: 13  Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.—read the rest of that chapter—vs. 16 - Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples.—that happened because they did not follow His laws---PCG, WCG members applause when the leaders come to give the sermon---they should not exalt men! We ought to glorify God----ministers should even kneel down to pray before Him, and GLORIFY WITH THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE, then people would learn to honour God, that way ministry would glorify God, AND HALLOW HIM IN THE PRESENCE OF PEOPLE. .

The above commentary OF MHC said---

"Rather let the dead be not buried, if there be nobody else to do it, than that work for God should be left undone by those whom he has called to it."

And following vss are SOME prophecies for the present day ministry—THEIR SPIRITUALLY DEAD BODIES WOULD NOT BE BURIED OR LAMENTED--

Jer 33:5  ‘They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but only to fill their places with the dead bodies of men whom I will slay in My anger and My fury, all for whose wickedness I have hidden My face from this city.

Jer 34:20  ‘I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.

Am 6:10  And when a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, "Are there any more with you?" Then someone will say, "None." And he will say, "Hold your tongue! For we dare not mention the name of the LORD."

Am 8:3  And the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in that day," Says the Lord GOD––"Many dead bodies everywhere, They shall be thrown out in silence."

WE CANNOT SEE THAT Laodiceans are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, Re 3: 17! Similarly we cannot see their dead bodies! Spiritually they are thrown everywhere!

HE DID NOT KILL PHYSICAL LIKE THE DAYS OF Aaron, because the eternal covenant has to be made as promised to fathers, Jer 33: 17-26. instead He sent them into captivity, and brings them back from captivity, Jer 33: 26, Eze. 39: 28,29!

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PCG TAKING Bamah MEN AS MINISTERS TO SANCTUARY, Eze. 44: 7,  IS ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING VSS.OF GOD’S LAW--

Lev. 5: 4-5---4  Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

5  And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:

6  And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.

VS. 6 REQUIRES THE LEADER TO MAKE SIN OFFERING—

THAT IS THE REASON WHY LORD INSTRUCTS THESE LAWS IN Ezekiel TEMPLE---

Eze. 43: 19  And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto Me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.

AGAIN---Eze. 45: 18  Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:

19  And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

20  And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.

21  In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

22  And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

23  And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.

25  In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, is the Feast of Tabernacles! Feast of Tabernacles is to be kept as Passover ! that is to unleaven!

Lu 12:1-- "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Mt 16:6, 11—12----- Mr 8:15

HYPOCRISY COULD GROW AS LEAVEN---the hypocrisy of leaders had grown now!

1Co 5:6  Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Ga 5:9  A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

1Co 5:7  Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

1Co 5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

IT IS THROUGH THE LORD’S SACRIFICE THAT YOU COULD CLEANSE HYPOCRISY AND ALL SINS!

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In Ezekiel temple LORD had given ordinances to be kept---ALL OF THEM TO BE KEPT AND GOD SPECIFIED DAYS -- Eze 43:11  "And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them.

Eze 43:18  And He said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: ‘These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.

Likewise many instructions were given—SPRINKLING BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST WHEN THEY SEE HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED!--GOD’S MINISTRY SHOULD FEAR HIM TO PERFORM THEM EXACTLY HOW HE REQUIRES!

  Commentary of MHC said--- II. Moses gives orders about the dead bodies. It was not fit that they should be left to lie where they fell; yet their own father and brethren, the amazed spectators of this dismal tragedy, durst not offer to lift them up, no, not to see whether there was any life left in them; they must neither be diverted from nor unfitted for the great work that was now upon their hands. Let the dead bury their dead, but they must go on with their service; --

In the same way---

LORD’s words to prophet of Eze. 2: 5, 33: 33---is—

Eze. 24: 16  Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

17  Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

Those words sounded just as the words to Aaron! LORD’S WORK HAS TO BE GIVEN THE FIRST PLACE---HE SHOULD BE GLORIFIED FOR WHAT HE DOES FOR HE IS A MARVELLOUS COUNSELLOR, Isa 9: 6. AFTER ALL THE WORLD IS HIS, HIS CREATIONS WE ARE FOR HIS PURPOSES! WE SHOULD OBEY HIM FOR HIS WORK!

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Eze. 24: 21  Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

22  And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.--23  And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.

INSTEAD OF KILLING THE PROPHET, AND MINISTRY, HE PROFANED THE SANCTUARY! THAT IS BECAUSE HE WANTS TO EDUCATE THEM THROUGH HIS LONGSUFFERING!

Just ask yourselves---all of us have our own bibles! Cannot we examine and study? Cannot the ministry who receive tithes of people study the word of God to take care of the SANCTUARY MATTERS? ---CANNOT YOU UNDERSTAND THE GRAVE SINS THAT HAD HAPPENED IN THE SANCTUARY OF A HOLY AND A RIGHTEOUS GOD?

GOD KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THE END—HE WAS PREPARED WITH HIS WORDS THAT WERE TO BE FULFILLED! Eze. 12: 25-28

Eze. 24: 24  Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

Through the Ezekiel book of bible we could understand how the prophet was sent to captivity, Eze. 12: 3, and the ministry too into captivity, Eze. 12: 15, they are in spiritual nations from where they would be gathered by the LORD, Eze. 39: 28-29.

WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PROPHET WAS THE SAME AS FOR AARON!---LORD DOES NOT CHANGE---

Ps 18:25  With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

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Not only for PCG---but when some gentiles fell away as written before, 1 Tim 4: 1, AS PROPHESIED –WE SHOULD GLORIFY GOD’S POWER IN PERFORMING HIS WORDS AS WRITTEN IN Eze. 12: 25-28.

Although we do not like brethren falling away, IF ANY PEOPLE OF GOD DOES NOT HONOUR GOD’S LAWS, WE SHOULD NOT PITY THEM, BUT RATHER CARRY ON OUR DUTIES BY GOD, SERVING GOD AS HE IS OUR POTTER!

HE HAD CREATED US FROM THE WOMB FOR HIS PURPOSE, IT IS A GLORY TO SERVE THE GOD OF WHOLE EARTH AS TEMPLE PRIESTS, BUT---SUBMITTING TO HIS LAWS, COMMANDMENTS , JUDGMENTS, STATUTES, PRECEPTS, LINES OF HIS WORDS, TESTIMONIES, -----ORDINANCES AND LAWS OF HIS TEMPLE.

HE IS A PERFECT GOD! A HOLY GOD! HE DOES NOT FAVOUR ANY!

Aaron , Aaron's sons, Moses, David, Eli, and many others got punished for their disobedience---these are lessons for us to be obedient to Him, WHEN HE IS MAKING ETERNAL THINGS!   

OUR MERCIFUL GOD CALLS FOR REPENTANCE IN HIS MERCY AND GOODNESS, RO 2: 4.

Mt 16:26--What profit is it to gain the whole world and lose your own soul?

What defiles a man-evil thoughts-Mt 15:19

Although we could pray for one another, for certain sins we cannot pray for them, Mt 12:31, Heb 10:26-29, 

1Jo 5:16-- There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

Rom 1: 32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, (Ro 1: 28-31 is a list of sins which had been allowed by God as a punishment for not honouring the KNOWLEDGE HE GAVE) FOR SUCH WE CANNOT PRAY!

That is why they are to seek out their own salvation with trembling and fear, Php 2:12  We are to daily go through cross, 1 Cor 15:31.

When you seek salvation they should repent just as the harlots and publicans repented having John’s Righteousness , Mt 21:31, 32.

Mt 21:31-- the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

Mt 21:32  For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

So we see that publicans and harlots repented.

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But, once you are enlightened IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE RENEWED TO REPENTANCE, Heb 6:4,6, --but---what is impossible with men is possible for God,   Mt 19:26, Mr 10:27, Lu 18:27, LORD is very merciful to those who repent!

Once enlightened people are given knowledge and if they do not practice that knowledge in their lives, GOD GIVES A DEBASED MIND TO DO THINGS NOT FITTING, and a list of such is found in Rom 1:28-31. Those who do such things deserve death, vs. 32 that means they are sinning LEADING TO DEATH. We are to turn away from such people, 2 Tim 3:1-5, 1 Tim 6:4-5. These are the instructions of the word of God. Ministry should note these things and teach people also.

As first fruit of poor, Is 14:30, gentiles, Gal 2:8,10 are enlightened through His blood, Eph 2:11-13, they should be producing fruits of knowledge mentioned  in 2 Pet 1:2-10 (according to vs. 10, you would stumble if you do not practice knowledge, that means you are stumbled because you had fallen from Righteousness ,–Ez 3:20 which says God would lay a stumbling block if you turn away from Righteousness )---and that’s how Rom 1:28-32 sins are committed when you do not honour GIVEN KNOWLEDGE ----THEY LEAD TO DEATH, vs. 32---such people have to seek out their own salvation through fear and trembling,  Php 2:12.They have to seek power to repent from the LORD, HE MAY GRANT, Rom 2:4, 2 Tim 2:25.  

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NEVERTHELESS HE MAY FIND SOME WHO HAD NOT PREPARED THEMSELVES TO BE WITH THE LORD--

Re 22:11  He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

They could be the transgressors found in Isa 66: 24!

Anyhow, the LORD would create NEW EARTH, NEW HEAVENS, AND THE WORSHIPPING on Sabbaths and New moons, Isa 66: 22-23.

We God’s people should know that God is Holy and perfect and require His servants to be so,

Eph 1:4-- we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:

Php 3:15  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, -- 2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect,-- 2Co 13:11  Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Isa 60:18  Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

THAT IS HOW THE LORD ENDS HIS WORK AMONG ISRAEL, when they are brought from captivity, THEY WOULD NO MORE DESTROY THE LAND OF GOD! THE NEW COVENANT WOULD BE THUS ETERNAL!

Read many articles relating to restoring captivity of ISRAEL of Ro 9: 4,6 in --

http://www.restoringcaptivity.com

ALL PRAISE BE TO THE GOD OF WHOLE EARTH, JESUS CHRIST, AMEN, AND AMEN.

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