Leviticus 10:1-20
The death of Nadab an Abihu. Because they took their censers, put fir in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord.
Aaron and his sons do not let your fair become unkempt and do not tear our clothes, or your will die and the Lord will be angry with the whole community. Do not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting or your will die, because the Lord's anointing oil is on you.
Moses said to Aaron offer grain offering and eat it in a holy place,
The rejoicing short-lived. In no time Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu are deciding to do things their way; and God meets fire with fire, reducing the preiesthood to three.
Perhaps they were under the influence of drink.
Whatever the reason, God's holiness requires absolute respect from those who serve him. His commands are meant to be obeyed, not tailored to suit anyone's fancy
Uncombed hair and torn clothes are signs of mourning.
God's priests are to avoid the excesses of Canaan, where drunkenness went along with religious rites.
The people's sin-offering should have been eaten by the priests in the sanctuary area as a sign that God accepted the offering - Aaron's excuse is not clear, but Moses accepts it.
Why?
The background of the righteousness is mercy of the Lord.
It is the motion of human being(人情世故), God knows the heart of Aaron.
There is the duty to the Lord, so Aaron have to give up the mourn to his sons, this is the duty before the Lord, there is the blessing under this duty.
How?
God's holiness requires absolute respect from those who serve him. No any excuse or whatever the reason.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Three steps to be a priest of the Lord
Leviticus 9:1-24
The Priests begin their ministry. Aaron and sons take office.
On the eight day, Aaron took a bull calf for his sin offering and a ram for his burnt offering.
Israelites took male goat for sin offering and a calf and a lamb for burnt offering and a grain offering mixed with oil for the glory of the Lord may appear to them. They did as Moses said.
Fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell face down.
The order of their first sacrifices is significant:
1. A sin-offering: obtaining cleansing and forgiveness.
2. A burnt-offering of dedication to God.
3. A peace-offering: fellowship and communion with God is restored and enjoyed.
Why?
This fire show that HE is the Lord, He is God.
Priests have to be sacrificed and so as to the Israelite, so the God may present before them.
Job of the Priest is to make sacrifice of the sin offering for people and blessed them.
Fire symbolizes the God.
How?
Servant of God, three steps, 1) cleansing and forgiveness 2)dedication to God 3) restoring fellowship and communion with God.
The Priests begin their ministry. Aaron and sons take office.
On the eight day, Aaron took a bull calf for his sin offering and a ram for his burnt offering.
Israelites took male goat for sin offering and a calf and a lamb for burnt offering and a grain offering mixed with oil for the glory of the Lord may appear to them. They did as Moses said.
Fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell face down.
The order of their first sacrifices is significant:
1. A sin-offering: obtaining cleansing and forgiveness.
2. A burnt-offering of dedication to God.
3. A peace-offering: fellowship and communion with God is restored and enjoyed.
Why?
This fire show that HE is the Lord, He is God.
Priests have to be sacrificed and so as to the Israelite, so the God may present before them.
Job of the Priest is to make sacrifice of the sin offering for people and blessed them.
Fire symbolizes the God.
How?
Servant of God, three steps, 1) cleansing and forgiveness 2)dedication to God 3) restoring fellowship and communion with God.
Monday, October 12, 2015
Ordination offering
Leviticus 8:22-36
Ordination offering of Aaron and his sons
Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
Moses took them and burned them one the altar on top of the burnt of burnt offering as an ordination offering. Moses' share of the ordination ram - and waved it before the Lord as a wave offering.
Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his sons.
Cook the meat at the entrance to the tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offering. Aaron and his sons are to eat it. Then burn up the rest of the meat and the bread.
Why?
The blood on Aaron's ear, hand and toe indication of the whole man to God's service, to hear and carry out God's instructions.
Those meat and bread are sacrificed so it won't share to others.
How?
Servant of the Lord needs to hear God's word and carry out God's instructions.
Ordination offering of Aaron and his sons
Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
Moses took them and burned them one the altar on top of the burnt of burnt offering as an ordination offering. Moses' share of the ordination ram - and waved it before the Lord as a wave offering.
Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his sons.
Cook the meat at the entrance to the tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offering. Aaron and his sons are to eat it. Then burn up the rest of the meat and the bread.
Why?
The blood on Aaron's ear, hand and toe indication of the whole man to God's service, to hear and carry out God's instructions.
Those meat and bread are sacrificed so it won't share to others.
How?
Servant of the Lord needs to hear God's word and carry out God's instructions.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Priesthood
Leviticus 8:1-21
Moses consecrate them, sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, all garment and utensils and the basin with its stand, etc.
Moses did burnt offering for Aaron and his sons, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Now the priest's sacrificial duties have been listed, Moses implements the instructions given in Exodus 29. In an elaborate and impressive ritual Aaron and his sons are instituted to the priesthood.
Mose performs the priestly duties on their behalf.
Why?
Moses did what the Lord commanded him. The honest servant of the Lord!
To be a priest have to be consecreted whole body and heart, mind. Clean the body is easy, but clean the heart and mind are more difficult, unless the help of Holy Spirit.
How?
Separate from the world, clean my heart, my mind and be an honest servant of the Lord.
Moses consecrate them, sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, all garment and utensils and the basin with its stand, etc.
Moses did burnt offering for Aaron and his sons, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Now the priest's sacrificial duties have been listed, Moses implements the instructions given in Exodus 29. In an elaborate and impressive ritual Aaron and his sons are instituted to the priesthood.
Mose performs the priestly duties on their behalf.
Why?
Moses did what the Lord commanded him. The honest servant of the Lord!
To be a priest have to be consecreted whole body and heart, mind. Clean the body is easy, but clean the heart and mind are more difficult, unless the help of Holy Spirit.
How?
Separate from the world, clean my heart, my mind and be an honest servant of the Lord.
Saturday, October 10, 2015
The Priests’ Share
Leviticus 7:28-38
On the day they were anointed, the Lord commanded that the Israelites give this to them as their perpetual(永久) share for the generations to come.
These, then, are the regulations for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination(配合,按立) offering and the fellowship offering, which the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai in the Desert of Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the Lord.
Why?
God takes care the living of Priests who serve the Lord, part of the sacrifices from Israelite. So God's servant should take the wage from congregation, they should get the wage from God's people in church.
How?
God's servant has separated from the world and doing the holy things before the Lord, they should have not worry about their life, let them do their best to serve the Lord.
The Priests’ Share
From the fellowship offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their perpetual share from the Israelites.On the day they were anointed, the Lord commanded that the Israelites give this to them as their perpetual(永久) share for the generations to come.
These, then, are the regulations for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination(配合,按立) offering and the fellowship offering, which the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai in the Desert of Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the Lord.
Why?
God takes care the living of Priests who serve the Lord, part of the sacrifices from Israelite. So God's servant should take the wage from congregation, they should get the wage from God's people in church.
How?
God's servant has separated from the world and doing the holy things before the Lord, they should have not worry about their life, let them do their best to serve the Lord.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Fellowship offering of thanksgiving
Leviticus 7:1-27
Along with his fellowship offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of bread made with yeast. He is to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the Lord.
The meat of his fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; he must leave none of it till morning.
Offering of a vow or is a freewill offering, the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day he offers it, and may be eaten on the next day. Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up. Because of the healthy and the meat may spoiled, rotten.
Unclean people can not eat the meat of fellowship offering must be cut off from his people.
Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats.
Must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. Eating fat and blood forbidden.
Why?
You must not eat the fat: This 'choice' part of the animal was offered to God.
You must not eat the blood: the reason is give in 17:10-14 For the life of a creature is in the blood, the life of every creature is its blood.
Only thanksgiving the flour may be made with yeast.
How?
God made these regulation to care the health of his people. Do not ear blood is to respect the life that God created.
Along with his fellowship offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of bread made with yeast. He is to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the Lord.
The meat of his fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; he must leave none of it till morning.
Offering of a vow or is a freewill offering, the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day he offers it, and may be eaten on the next day. Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up. Because of the healthy and the meat may spoiled, rotten.
Unclean people can not eat the meat of fellowship offering must be cut off from his people.
Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats.
Must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. Eating fat and blood forbidden.
Why?
You must not eat the fat: This 'choice' part of the animal was offered to God.
You must not eat the blood: the reason is give in 17:10-14 For the life of a creature is in the blood, the life of every creature is its blood.
Only thanksgiving the flour may be made with yeast.
How?
God made these regulation to care the health of his people. Do not ear blood is to respect the life that God created.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Regulation of the offerings
Leviticus 6:1-30
When he thus sins and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion or what was entrusted to him, or the lost property he found, or whatever it was he swore falsely about. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the owner on the day he presents his guilt offering.
Burnt offering:Every morning the priest is to add firewood and arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat of the fellowship offerings on it. The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously.
Grain offering: This is the offering Aaron and his sons to bring to the Lord on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening. Every grain offering of a priest shall be burned completely; it must not be eaten.
Sin offering: The priest who offers it shall eat it; it is to be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. But any sin offering whose blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place must not be eaten; it must be burned.
Why?
A tenth of an ephah of fine flour is about 2 liters.
Restitution(歸還) is not only full return, but add fifth of the value to it. It is the penalty to this sin.
Keep fire on the altar is the job of priests. Keep praise to the Lord.
How?
All these regulation were told to the Israelite, so as the words of God has told to us through Bible.
When he thus sins and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion or what was entrusted to him, or the lost property he found, or whatever it was he swore falsely about. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the owner on the day he presents his guilt offering.
Burnt offering:Every morning the priest is to add firewood and arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat of the fellowship offerings on it. The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously.
Grain offering: This is the offering Aaron and his sons to bring to the Lord on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening. Every grain offering of a priest shall be burned completely; it must not be eaten.
Sin offering: The priest who offers it shall eat it; it is to be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. But any sin offering whose blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place must not be eaten; it must be burned.
Why?
A tenth of an ephah of fine flour is about 2 liters.
Restitution(歸還) is not only full return, but add fifth of the value to it. It is the penalty to this sin.
Keep fire on the altar is the job of priests. Keep praise to the Lord.
How?
All these regulation were told to the Israelite, so as the words of God has told to us through Bible.
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