May 2021

Priests represent God to the people and represent the people to God. Since God must be presented as perfect, priests had to be as perfect as possible. Furthermore, being human, there are different ways a priest can become “unclean”. In these next two chapters of Leviticus, we find what a priest has to do to

God led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt into the desert. He was taking the long route. This gave Him time to prepare the Hebrews, to teach them laws, rules and proper worship rituals in preparation for the Promised Land. See, the land of Canaan was inhabited by pagans. The pagans did everything that

The Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, is celebrated by Jews all over the world in the fall of every year. Why? They are following the Mosaic Law (laws given to Moses). They don’t acknowledge or believe that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. They don’t believe that He came and when He died on the

God is Holy. And because God is Holy, He is picky as to what can and cannot come before Him. Here in Leviticus, God is laying down the rules on purification. People had to go through rituals of bathing and waiting before they could be considered “clean” rather than “unclean”. If you failed to do

As we’re fast-tracking through Leviticus, we find in the next few chapters further instructions from God to Moses and the priests. God doesn’t want to leave any circumstance regarding sin and how to get atonement to doubt. So, the burnt, grain and peace offerings that we covered in the last post, is just the start,

We left Moses at the end of Exodus unable to enter the Tabernacle because God’s Presence was too Holy, too great. Besides that, Moses, Aaron and the priests were unworthy. So, the next book in the 5 Books of Moses, is Leviticus — or for the Levites — the priests. It is God giving Moses

Here we are at the end of Exodus. You’re probably thinking, “Yay! This was boring!” Yeah, I know, but this is only the 2nd of the 5 Books of Moses. Don’t worry, I’m going to skip over a lot of the repetitive and dull passages, as I’m doing here. However, I do recommend that you

We left Moses up in Mt. Sinai talking with God, as God gave Him detailed directions in how to build the Tabernacle, and even how the priests — Aaron and his sons — should dress while working in it. Unfortunately, the people were impatient. They got antsy. Furthermore, what happened next is a critical lesson

God described to Moses how to build the tabernacle. Next, He describes how the priests — Aaron and his sons — should be clothed. The priestly garments are rather ornate, but each piece serves a purpose or represents something. God goes into a lot of detail here, so I’ll skip and summarize through it, and

So Moses is still up on Mt. Sinai talking with God. God gave him the 10 Commandments along with directions on how to live justly. Now, God’s giving him very specific instructions — a blueprint — on how to build the Tabernacle — the first church or temple. It’s where the Israelites were to worship,