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In this section of the Book of Leviticus are the annual feasts or festivals that Israel would celebrate before God as a way to worship the Lord. Most of these feasts or half of these feasts would happen in the springtime, and half of these feasts would happen in the fall season.
Read moreSevere warnings open up Leviticus 20, where we're continuing on in the book of Leviticus in a section where we're seeing the law codes in ancient Israel, laws for God's Old Testament era people.
Read moreNow, turning to Leviticus chapter 18, we turn to a chapter of Scripture, again for the people of Israel, where we have laws restricting sexual activity, laws restricting sexual activity. I should remind you here at this point in Leviticus that a proper interpretation of the Old Testament law is that Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament law.
Read moreToday here in chapter 16, we're looking at the Day of Atonement, commonly in modern times thought of as Yom Kippor. This was the most important day of the Jewish religious calendar, and Leviticus 16 is the introduction of this day. There's no coincidence, likely, that it's found here at the center of the priestly manual, the center of the book of Leviticus. And not only in the center of Leviticus, but really if you space it out, it's at the center of the Torah itself, Genesis through Deuteronomy. This is an important day, and the ceremonies described here were for the priests to engage in on this special day.
Read moreWe turn to everyone's favorite subject in the Bible, leprosy and skin conditions. I say this humorously of course. We are about to enter into a few messy chapters here in the book of Leviticus. And what we're going to see are the priests, that they had a duty to examine the symptoms of God's people
Read moreOne of the first things to notice in this new section of Leviticus, a section where God will declare to Moses and Aaron what is clean and unclean, what is appropriate and inappropriate for God's people, what makes them ceremonially clean and what makes them ceremonially unclean. One of the first things is that, Aaron, is addressed by God right alongside Moses. This is rare throughout the book of Leviticus. Normally, God addresses and Moses then hands down the dictates to Aaron, and of course, to the rest of the nation.
Read moreIn a solemn moment, the Lord tells Moses that the congregation is meant to gather at the entrance of the tabernacle to watch Aaron and his sons become consecrated. The first generation of priests for Israel are to be consecrated for the work of the Lord.
Read moreIf you've followed along with us in our study of the Book of Exodus, you saw Moses receive on the mountaintop, the command of God and the instructions from God specifically on how to build the Tabernacle and also the instructions on the priesthood itself that would serve inside of the Tabernacle along with the instruments that would populate the Tabernacle. But now in Leviticus, we learn specifically how the instruments, how the priests, and how the Tabernacle would be used in order for the people of Israel to approach God.
Read moreToday, I want to take you to a little passage in Joshua 5:13-15. These three short verses really have been meaningful in my life and in my heart. And the reason why I want to share these verses with you today, whenever you're listening to this, is three-fold.
Read moreAs I shared with you in our previous study, these last five or six chapters of the Book of Exodus, they feel fairly repetitious because we already, at a previous section in Exodus, have learned about all these different instruments and dwelling places that God has prescribed for the people of Israel. Part of the reason that this is said twice, it's not just to help us see what obedience looks like but to help us understand that God is identifying with this structure.
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