Could you paint a panorama of Israel’s history with seven special holidays? The Lord did! Three vital chapters reveal God’s plan for the ages: Leviticus 23, outlining the seven festivals of Jehovah, show God’s view of the history of Israel; Matthew 13, with seven parables, explains God’s view of the history of the kingdom; and […]
The Lord puts us in a very special place in His mind and heart. Do we do the same with Him? In the same way that a disfigured priest was not to serve in the holy place, so any sacrifice offered to the Lord, “must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect […]
Read More… from June 10, 2022 — The Two-Way Holiness Highway
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 […]
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 […]
Read More… from June 8, 2022 — The Priests’ Sanctifying & Sacrificing
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]