Author: Bill Nicholson
Posts by Bill Nicholson
June 9, 2022 — Priests & The Bread Of God
Even those who cannot at present be acting as priests must make sure to keep eating as priests. Beginning in Leviticus 21:16, the Lord discusses with Moses the physical disqualifications of functioning priests. Let’s remember that what Israel had in a physical way we now have in a spiritual way. Yes, we do have a […]
June 8, 2022 — The Priests’ Sanctifying & Sacrificing
Here the subject is: the difference it makes when our lives are lived just to please the Lord. The idea of priesthood in the Bible cannot be over-emphasized, for four reasons at least. First, because the priesthood was the divine solution to provide a bridge between sinful Israelites and a holy God. Second, because the […]
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June 7, 2022 — Capital Punishment (Part 2)
Sin is a nation’s greatest weakness. When it proliferates, it can overthrow the whole system. Capital punishment was instituted long before we read about it in Leviticus 20. After the Flood in Noah’s day, God began to establish the basis for human government when men proved their own consciences were not sufficient governors against sin. […]
June 6, 2022 — Capital Punishment (Part 1)
Here’s a controversial topic if ever there was one. But God is up front in His dealing with it. There are certain big ideas we must grapple with first if we are going to think rightly about Leviticus 20, the chapter on capital punishment. First, all life is borrowed from God. The wise man, Solomon, […]
June 3, 2022 — And Another Thing!
This chapter provided a whole array of ways to practically live out what it means to be holy. When I read Leviticus 19, it reminds me of a caring mother giving final instructions to her child before he heads to summer camp, or a thoughtful father warning his daughter going off to college. There are […]
June 2, 2022 — Father Knows Best
Contrary to the notion that sin is pleasure, it distances us from God and His true abiding joy. When the human race was in its infancy, obviously it was necessary for the first families to intermarry. But as the population grew, God placed restrictions on this. Today we know that inter-family marriage is unhealthy. But […]
June 1, 2022 — The More Things Change…
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jer 17:9). We need a heart transplant! You’ve heard the phrase, “from the frying pan into the fire.” That was the situation with the children of Israel, as described at the beginning of Leviticus 18. “According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where […]
May 31, 2022 — Blood-Red Warning
Safety rules require lots of repetition. God never tires of telling His people about the blood. The latter half of Leviticus 17 (vv 8-16) underlines again the importance of Israelites not eating blood. The explanation goes like this: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you […]