Hey Bible Readers I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap [Music] let's talk about the difference between anointing consecrated and ordaining since we saw those words a lot today to anoint is to apply oil to something to consecrate means you're setting it apart for sacred use and to ordain is to establish in this specific instance of ordaining they're establishing someone in Ministry we see Moses anointing consecrating and ordaining Aaron and His Four Sons the whole process lasts seven days and Aaron offers the very first sacrifice on the altar as a part of that seven-day ordination Ceremony this takes us roughly a week past the Assembly of the Tabernacle on day eight we have the first official Tabernacle service where Aaron and his sons offer more sacrifices on the altar in 9-6 Moses says this is the thing that the Lord commanded you to do that the glory of the Lord may appear to you God's commands are always for the blessing of his nearness and His glory when I was reading about all the stuff God is doing to draw near to his people it reminded me of when I travel once I arrive no matter who I see first I usually want to tell them all the details of my trip to be near them my flight was delayed and just as we were supposed to board they changed the gates and I had to run through the terminal my seatmates smelled terrible and stored loudly and leaned on me and I did all this to be near you aren't you happy this feels a little bit like this to me like God is saying look at all the provision I've made I'm giving you animals to slaughter and I'm anointing priests to be mediators between us and look I know you weren't there but I wrote it all down in this book so you could read about it and I did all this to be near you aren't you happy and we're over here like boring can we just get back to the storyline please and God is patient even with that so here's Aaron doing his first job as high priest by making atonement for himself first then for the people remember that atonement means covering this is to cover their sins the order of this process is important it starts with the toning for sin through the sin offering that it moves to the petitions and Praises in the burnt offering then onto the communion and the fellowship in the peace offering Aaron blesses the people then he and Moses both Bless the people and then comes the biggest blessing of all the glory of the Lord appears to all the people the fire comes down and consumes the offering and the people lose their minds they fall on their faces and worship praise is the proper response to All God's actions in chapter 10 we hit an important passage God has just established the Tabernacle and all these rules for keeping it holy and Aaron's two oldest Sons decide to completely ignore God's commands and do their own thing nadab and abihu offered incense in a way that was not consistent with God's orders it could have been that they offered something other than God's special incense remember how he made such a big deal about that in his instructions or it could have been that they offered it at a time that wasn't authorized or that they were possibly drunk when they offered it or most likely that they offered it at all instead of Aaron doing it and God sends down fire to kill them on the spot what they've done is arrogant rebellion and God establishes right out of the gate that he will not stand for it also in keeping with the theme that we've seen God establishing the two oldest Sons here are passed over Moses has two of Aaron's cousins dispose of the bodies Since Aaron can't touch a dead body or he'll become unclean then Moses tells Aaron and his two younger sons that they aren't supposed to perform the traditional grief practices in response to God killing nadab and abahu for their blatant Rebellion other people can grieve respectfully but not them in the midst of this God speaks to Aaron directly which is a rare occurrence but it's really sweet considering he just lost two of his sons and God gives him specific orders about the way he and the other priests are supposed to be set apart first they have to avoid drinking on the job the fact that this is his first command is one of the reasons people think Aaron's two oldest Sons had been drinking when they offered the incense the priests are supposed to protect the Sacred Space of the Tabernacle they're supposed to distinguish between the clean and the unclean and not only that but they're also called to teach everyone else what God has revealed to Moses teaching was one of their main jobs Moses orders the two remaining sins to make an offering then eat it as a gift of provision from God but they don't eat it and Moses is furious these are the people who are supposed to be teaching others to obey the things God tells Moses and they can't even obey those things themselves Moses may have feared that God would strike Aaron's two other Sons dead as well and then the priesthood will be done forever once Aaron dies he's old after all how would God keep his promise if he kills all four of Aaron's sons on the same day Moses is stressed out and here's where I saw my God shot for today I saw God's character in Moses response to Aaron Aaron appeals to Moses reminding him that he does revere God's holiness but eating the sacrifice would have been inappropriate today given how it's been uniquely stressful and Troublesome and Moses relents this reminded me of when Moses would appeal to God about things and God would lean into compassion instead of being strict it's almost like all this time Moses has been spending with God has rubbed off on him have you seen that happening in your own life since we started reading together have you found yourself growing in patience and kindness and compassion have you seen yourself trusting him and his sovereignty and his goodness more than you did six weeks ago do you have more joy in reading his word than you did before we started Genesis 1. 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