祭司的失败
利未记九章23节至十章3节
23摩西、亚伦进入会幕，又出来为百姓祝福，耶和华的荣光就向众民显现。
24有火从耶和华面前出来，在坛上烧尽燔祭和脂油；众民一见，就都欢呼，俯伏在地。
利未记10
1亚伦的儿子拿答、亚比户各拿自己的香炉，盛上火，加上香，在耶和华面前献上凡火，是耶和华没有吩咐他们的，
2就有火从耶和华面前出来，把他们烧灭，他们就死在耶和华面前。
3于是摩西对亚伦说：这就是耶和华所说：我在亲近我的人中要显为圣；在众民面前，我要得荣耀。亚伦就默默不言。
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但如今，我们忽然看见审判和死亡。亚伦的两个儿子拿答和亚比户究竟犯了甚么罪呢？
当亚伦首天担任大祭司的工作将尽，他的两个儿子却各从外面的营火拿来一些烧着的炭，放进自己的香炉里面。可是，香炉只可以用神特定的火。留意第1节说：「是耶和华没有吩咐他们的」──他们的罪正在于此。
神曾经用火烧尽祭物来表示祂悦纳摩西所做的一切；但此刻，神却用火来施行审判。同样地，在初期教会的时期，圣灵曾经降临在使徒和信徒身上，让他们得着能力(火同样象征圣灵)，可是，亚拿尼亚和撒非喇却因为欺哄神，遭到圣灵的审判而猝死。
这两出悲剧的背后都隐藏着同一个教训，摩西在第3节所说的话便直接道明：「我在亲近我的人中要显为圣。」
亚伦突然之间痛失了两个儿子，该怎么办呢？在第6节，我们看见神吩咐他不要为儿子的死哀哭，反要继续事奉。对亚伦来说，这绝非易事，但我们从中得到的教训却是：别人的罪和失败，不应成为我们事奉神的障碍。
这是一出惨痛的悲剧。但愿我们能够紧记，神是圣洁的，祂期望祂的儿女都能表现出圣洁和顺服；对领袖岗位的信徒就要求更高。
THE PRIESTS WHO FAILED
Leviticus 9:23 - 10:3
23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of meeting, and came out and blessed the people. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people,
24 and fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
1 Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.
2 So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
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.
Message
Now suddenly we are in the presence of judgment and death. What did these two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, really do?
The first day of Aaron's work as high priest seems to have almost ended, then his two oldest sons took their fire-pots and filled them with live coals from a camp fire somewhere. Only the fire that God had given could be used. This was their sin-notice the words of verse 1-'which the Lord had not commanded them'.
The very fire of God which had shown his acceptance of all that Moses had done, now became a fire of judgment. In the same way in the early days of the Christian church, two people acted out of the will of God and the same Holy Spirit (whose symbol is fire)-the one who gave such wonderful power to the apostles and believers-came on Ananias and Sapphira in judgment.
The lesson behind these two incidents is the same. It is expressed in the words of Moses in verse 3. 'By those who come near me, I will be treated as holy'.
What did Aaron do on the sudden death of his two sons? In verse 6 God told him not to mourn for their death but to continue in God's service. This must have been hard on Aaron but the lesson for us is that sin in the life of someone else is no excuse for us to stop serving God. The failure of others is no excuse for us.
This is a sad section. May it impress again on our hearts the holiness of God and the holiness and obedience which God desires to see in the lives of his children. This is especially true of those who are in a place of leadership or special service.