Leviticus 20:1-27
Sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.
A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death.
Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the Lord, who makes you holy.
V 6-21: list the penalties for disobedience to laws in chapter 18 and 19.
That such a wide range of offences should be punishable by death seems incredibly harsh to the modern reader. (Where we remove wrongdoers from the community by putting them in prison, these laws remove them by death: a kind of moral/judicial surgery.)
All-it is worth nothing - are in deliberate defiance (蔑視) of God's holy law, or offences against people; none relate to property.
How?
For the custom in Canaan were worse and human personality are bed so the Lord made judicial surgery to cut off all wrongdoer and let people fear the law.
A man with clean heart and righteous behavior keep society or community clean and peace. Love make society has joy.
How?
Keep God's decrees and follow them, for He is the Lord, He makes me holy.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Leviticus 19:15-37
Rebuke your neighbor frankly(坦率地說) so you will not share in their guilt.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it.
Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves.
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.
God wants to see honestly, fair dealing, impartial justice: God cares if wage are delays.
He calls his people to respect life and reputation.
God is also concerned for the natural world, how we care for his creation.
Patience while a tree is immature means better long-term yield.
V26b-31 These are all heaven practices.
Why?
Aggressive to do something is needed, not only do not do some laws.
Respect life and reputation and love your neighbor as yourself is the principle of those decrees of the Lord.
How?
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Rebuke your neighbor frankly(坦率地說) so you will not share in their guilt.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it.
Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves.
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.
God wants to see honestly, fair dealing, impartial justice: God cares if wage are delays.
He calls his people to respect life and reputation.
God is also concerned for the natural world, how we care for his creation.
Patience while a tree is immature means better long-term yield.
V26b-31 These are all heaven practices.
Why?
Aggressive to do something is needed, not only do not do some laws.
Respect life and reputation and love your neighbor as yourself is the principle of those decrees of the Lord.
How?
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Reflect God's holiness, but fear your God
Leviticus 19:1-14
1. Respect your mother and father, observe Sabbaths
2. Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves.
3. Eaten on the day you sacrifice fellowship offering or on the next day. Do not eat it on the third day.
4. Left some to the poor when reap harvest of your land.
5. Do not lie, deceive
6. Do not swear falsely by God's name
7. Do not defraud(騙取) your neighbor
8. Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight.
9. Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind
But fear your God.
This chapter echoes the Ten Commandments.
Mose law are forbidden to do, but respect parent and care the poor are enouraged to make it.
Why?
God's holiness, the holiness we are to reflect, shows itself in concern for the underprivileged(弱勢): God cares about the poor.
How?
Fear the Lord and obey God's commandments, reflect God's holiness.
1. Respect your mother and father, observe Sabbaths
2. Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves.
3. Eaten on the day you sacrifice fellowship offering or on the next day. Do not eat it on the third day.
4. Left some to the poor when reap harvest of your land.
5. Do not lie, deceive
6. Do not swear falsely by God's name
7. Do not defraud(騙取) your neighbor
8. Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight.
9. Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind
But fear your God.
This chapter echoes the Ten Commandments.
Mose law are forbidden to do, but respect parent and care the poor are enouraged to make it.
Why?
God's holiness, the holiness we are to reflect, shows itself in concern for the underprivileged(弱勢): God cares about the poor.
How?
Fear the Lord and obey God's commandments, reflect God's holiness.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
He is my God, do not defile the land where I am living
Leviticus 18:1-30
I am the Lord your God. Do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselvess with them. If your defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before.
There are many unlawful sexual relations have been done in Canaan.
Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them.
From what we know of Canaanite and Egyptian religions it is clear that many of these laws are directed against the specific practices of Israel's neighbours.
Marriage between those closely related by blood or by marriage is forbidden in Israel. In Egypt, which had no marriage-laws, such marriages were common.
Adultery, child-sacrifice, homosexual relations, bestiality were all pat of the indescribably debased religions of Canaan. Israel is to shun behaviour which is bringing God's judgment on the land.
V18 Jacob had done just this, and it led to great unhappiness.
V22 Among the ancient Egyptians and Canaanites sexual activity was almost deified: cultic(邪教) prostitutes were called 'holy ones' and homosexual practice and female prostitution were bound up with religious worship.
Why?
Fear the angry of the Lord, honor God's name, appreciate his salvation so we must obey his decrees and laws. It is good to us, we may live by them.
How?
He is the Lord, He is my God, do not defile the land where I am living.
I am the Lord your God. Do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselvess with them. If your defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before.
There are many unlawful sexual relations have been done in Canaan.
Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them.
From what we know of Canaanite and Egyptian religions it is clear that many of these laws are directed against the specific practices of Israel's neighbours.
Marriage between those closely related by blood or by marriage is forbidden in Israel. In Egypt, which had no marriage-laws, such marriages were common.
Adultery, child-sacrifice, homosexual relations, bestiality were all pat of the indescribably debased religions of Canaan. Israel is to shun behaviour which is bringing God's judgment on the land.
V18 Jacob had done just this, and it led to great unhappiness.
V22 Among the ancient Egyptians and Canaanites sexual activity was almost deified: cultic(邪教) prostitutes were called 'holy ones' and homosexual practice and female prostitution were bound up with religious worship.
Why?
Fear the angry of the Lord, honor God's name, appreciate his salvation so we must obey his decrees and laws. It is good to us, we may live by them.
How?
He is the Lord, He is my God, do not defile the land where I am living.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Blood - pays the price of another's freedom
Leviticus 17:1-16
Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox, a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it. instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord—that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed.
The Lord said to them: "I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people. For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar."
One who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth, because the life of every creature is its blood.
The context is one in which the killing of domestic animals is thought of as a kind of sacrifice. so as a safeguard against sacrificing to the demons of desert places, all sacrifice must be offered in the proper place, and to the proper Person.
Why?
Because the life of every creature is its blood, and blood is used to make atonement for Israelite on the altar.
Offering is job of priests so anyone can not present offering to the Lord by himself.
Blood - that is the life laid down/poured out in death - which makes reparation(賠償): the animal 'stands in' as substitute for the offender. One precious life, forfeit(被沒收), pays the price of another's freedom. For Christians, the connection with the atoning death of Christ is inescapable.
How?
Respect life in the world, for the blood is the life of a creature.
Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox, a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it. instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord—that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed.
The Lord said to them: "I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people. For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar."
One who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth, because the life of every creature is its blood.
The context is one in which the killing of domestic animals is thought of as a kind of sacrifice. so as a safeguard against sacrificing to the demons of desert places, all sacrifice must be offered in the proper place, and to the proper Person.
Why?
Because the life of every creature is its blood, and blood is used to make atonement for Israelite on the altar.
Offering is job of priests so anyone can not present offering to the Lord by himself.
Blood - that is the life laid down/poured out in death - which makes reparation(賠償): the animal 'stands in' as substitute for the offender. One precious life, forfeit(被沒收), pays the price of another's freedom. For Christians, the connection with the atoning death of Christ is inescapable.
How?
Respect life in the world, for the blood is the life of a creature.
Monday, October 26, 2015
Leviticus is fulfilled in Christ
Leviticus 16:23-34
This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work—whether native-bornor a foreigner residing among you— because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins.
Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites.
So year after year, Israel was reminded of the sin which cut them off from God's presence - of the need for atonement to bring forgiveness and restore relations.
The New Testament Letter to the Hebrews sees Leviticus fulfilled in Christ.
The trappings(服飾,外部標誌) of the first covenant are 'symbolic, pointing to the present time'. Christ, the high priest of the 'new covenant', has entered, not a 'sactuary made by human hands', but 'heaven itself, to appear before God on our behalf', appearing 'once for all at the climax(高潮) of history to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself'.
Outside camp: Neither offering might be eaten, since no one was to eat any of his own sin-offering, and Aaron identities himself with the people in their sin-offering.
How?
Jesus Christ is my Savior and this is an everlasting good news to all men.
This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work—whether native-bornor a foreigner residing among you— because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins.
Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites.
So year after year, Israel was reminded of the sin which cut them off from God's presence - of the need for atonement to bring forgiveness and restore relations.
The New Testament Letter to the Hebrews sees Leviticus fulfilled in Christ.
The trappings(服飾,外部標誌) of the first covenant are 'symbolic, pointing to the present time'. Christ, the high priest of the 'new covenant', has entered, not a 'sactuary made by human hands', but 'heaven itself, to appear before God on our behalf', appearing 'once for all at the climax(高潮) of history to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself'.
Outside camp: Neither offering might be eaten, since no one was to eat any of his own sin-offering, and Aaron identities himself with the people in their sin-offering.
How?
Jesus Christ is my Savior and this is an everlasting good news to all men.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
The annual Day of Atonement for the nation
Leviticus 16:1-22
Aaron is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or he will die.
Aaron is to enter the sanctuary area: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household.
The two goats one for the Lord and the other for the scapegoat- the goat of removal, to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat.
Aaron is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take the behind the curtain. The smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the Testimony, so that he will not die.
The tenth day of the seventh month was to be the annual Day of Atonement for the nation. Only on this occasion was Aaron allowed into the innermost part of God's Tent.
Why?
Azazel: A place in the wilderness to which the scapegoat was sent, symbolically carrying away the sins of Israel. The meaning is uncertain, but it cannot refer to an offering to a demon, as some suggest, for this was strictly forbidden.
How?
Jesus Christ once be sacrificed on the cross then the atonement is made for ever to all who believes in Jesus Christ and repent to his own sins.
Aaron is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or he will die.
Aaron is to enter the sanctuary area: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household.
The two goats one for the Lord and the other for the scapegoat- the goat of removal, to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat.
Aaron is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take the behind the curtain. The smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the Testimony, so that he will not die.
The tenth day of the seventh month was to be the annual Day of Atonement for the nation. Only on this occasion was Aaron allowed into the innermost part of God's Tent.
Why?
Azazel: A place in the wilderness to which the scapegoat was sent, symbolically carrying away the sins of Israel. The meaning is uncertain, but it cannot refer to an offering to a demon, as some suggest, for this was strictly forbidden.
How?
Jesus Christ once be sacrificed on the cross then the atonement is made for ever to all who believes in Jesus Christ and repent to his own sins.
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