Leviticus
10
– 12
Verse 10:2 is one of those events I don’t understand:
Flames
erupted from before the Eternal and burned up Nadab and Abihu. They both died
in the presence of the Eternal One.
Here they were doing something wrong and it cost them their
lives. I often read events like this and wonder why God would kill people
because they did not follow procedures correctly. Where is grace in this? Why would Nineveh be
spared because they repented, yet Nadab and Abihu are not given that chance. If
you look at this closer, they were Aaron’s sons and therefore had been in the
presence of God and therefore should have known better. Also, in verse 1 it
says the fire was “unauthorized” yet in the KJV it calls the fire “profane”
which gives us a better understanding to why they were killed. In a nutshell
they should have known better.
Chapter 11 contains the food laws. Again I don’t think it
was meant to be a sin eating pork, but rather a good guide to eating. God
wanted to set aside his people and therefore wanted to ensure they were
healthy. We get to Peter’s vision in Acts which shows God saying it’s ok to eat
food outside the Law assuming it’s blessed. This is in direct conflict with the
Law! Why? I am not 100% sure but the Law was set aside to show what was the
standard and we are not expected to be able to uphold it. No chapter 11,
in my opinion, was more guidelines and
not hard lines.
Chapter 11:22 is good news:
You may eat the following insects:
locusts, destructive locusts, desert locusts, and grasshoppers.
We can eat bugs!! See to all the parents who grab the bugs
out of their children’s mouth, it’s ok!!
Verse 12:2 starts a question on a conflict:
Go, talk with the
Israelites, and tell them, “If a woman conceives and gives birth to a boy, then
she will be ritually unclean for seven days, just like she is unclean when she
is menstruating.
Why then in verse 5 does it double the time if she had a
girl? This is a non-scientific study, but in watching Katy during both
pregnancies. Vern, the first, was more difficult. She was sick and recovery
seemed to take longer, Devon was much easier. Now one would say D was the
second one, but have read this over and over again concerning pregnancies. So
maybe God was protecting women, since there is a difference in carrying and
delivering a girl over a boy.