THE Scriptures of Truth recognize the difference between the holy and the profane, between the things consecrated to holy service and those designed for common use. Because Nadab and Abihu failed to recognize this distinction, the wrath of the Lord was visited upon them. The priests were required to take holy fire from the altar and put it in their censers when they went in before the Lord. The record is that Nadab and Abihu took common fire and “offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.” God has made a distinction between the tithe, which he declares to be holy, and the nine tenths of our income. He has made a distinction between the seventh day of the week and the six laboring days. We cannot, with impunity put forth our hands and take the Lord’s money and turn it aside to our own uses. We cannot with impunity trample upon the Sabbath of the Lord. There may not flash forth from his presence at the moment we do it a fire that will consume us, as the fire of God consumed Nadab and Abihu, but their experience is set forth as a warning of what inevitably will be visited upon those who have violated the holy things of God, as they violated them. “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” Eccl. 8: 11.