Numbers 16:36-50 - "between The Dead And The Living"
The censers served as plates for the altar. Even evil men and evil things will be made to subserve the divine purposes. See Acts 2:23. What a wonderful anticipation of our Lord's eternal priesthood and intercession is furnished by this picture of Aaron waving his censer between the living and the dead, and arresting the plague! On which side do you stand? Are you among the living, or among the dead? Is Christ to you a savor of life unto life or of death unto death? Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and Christ shall enlighten thee.
The priesthood and the incense-offering had been usurped by Korah to his destruction; but as exercised by God's appointed priest, they brought life. It is an awful thing for mortal man to intrude into the sacred prerogatives of Christ. See 1 Timothy 2:5. [source]
Chapter Summary: Numbers 16
1The rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram 23Moses separates the people from the rebels' tents 31The earth swallows up Korah, and a fire consumes others 36The censers are reserved to holy use 4114,700 are slain by a plague, for murmuring against Moses and Aaron 46Aaron by incense stays the plague
What do the individual words in Numbers 16:44 mean?