Notes for Acharei Mot – After the Death (God’s People and Gog)

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Lev. 10:1-2 Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command. So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.

Lev. 10:3 That is what HASHEM [meant when he] said, Through those near to Me I will be sanctified, and be glorified before all the people.' And Aaron was silent.

Ex. 29:43-44 and there I will meet with the Israelites, and it shall be sanctified with My Glory. I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests.

Gen. 18:17-19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.

Heb. 12:14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

2 Cor. 7:11 Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

Lev 20:7-8 He said to Israel, Consecrate הִ֨תְקַדִּשְׁתֶּ֔ם yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. And you shall keep My statues, and perform them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

Lev. 16:1 HASHEM spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they approached before HASHEM and they died.

Lev. 16:2 And HASHEM said to Moses: Speak to Aaron, your brother that he shall not come at all times into the Sanctuary, within the Curtain to the front of the Cover that is upon the Ark, so that he not die for in a cloud I will appear upon the Ark-cover.

Heb. 9:7-9(parts) But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people’s sins committed in ignorance the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing. It was symbolic for the present time...until the time of reformation.

Acts 3:21 Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.

Jer. 6:16 This is what the LORD says: Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.

Jer. 16:15-17 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,' says the LORD. This is what the LORD says: 'Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’ I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’ But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’…

Lev. 18:1-3 Then the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God. You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.…

Ez. 22:1-16 (a summary of Israel’s behavior)

22:4a You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made...

22:7 In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

22:8 you have despised My holy things and profaned My Shabbats...

22:9a,b In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed;.....and those who commit lewdness...

22:12 In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are set apart during their impurity. One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.

Jer. 3:2 Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see: Where have you not lain with men? By the road you have sat for them Like an Arabian in the wilderness; And you have polluted the land with your harlotries and your wickedness.

Lev. 18:24-28 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. The land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. But you must keep My decrees and My laws . . . If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

Ezl 22:15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.

Rv 21:27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.