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Don’t do dumb stuff, and don’t be like everyone else (Leviticus 16–20)
There’s an old saying that is common among parents who are trying to teach their children to resist the temptation to follow their peers into making disastrous life-changing mistakes: “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?”
God was preparing the children of Israel to enter the Promised Land, a land where the Canaanites who, by God’s account, lived immoral or amoral lives. Underlying the lessons in the Torah passages אחרי מות Acharei Mot and קדושים Kedoshim (“after (the) death” and “holiness,” Leviticus 16–20) on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and morality is that God did not want the Israelites to follow His laws on autopilot — not in apathy or indifference — but mindfully and purposefully.
In this study
Don’t enter God’s house uninvited (Leviticus 16:1–2)Brief notes on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16:3–34)Without repentance and confession, animal sacrifices are just a BBQ (Leviticus 17)Think different, act different, be different (Leviticus 18–19)Fear the beard?Accidental vs. flagrant sinTime of the month for husband and wife to ‘take a break’
Don’t enter God’s house uninvited (Leviticus 16:1–2)
Two sons of Israel’s high priest Aharon (Aaron), Nadab and Abihu, seem to have committed three egregious affronts to the One they served:
* Offered profane (common) fire.* Offered incense at the wrong time.* Entered the holy place uninvited.
Anyone one of these could have been a death penalty offense, considering how far Nadab and Abihu deviated from their instructed tasks.
Their deaths was a stern warning to Aaron, Elizar and Itamar of the sacredness and the seriousness of their duties and that they were to perform them exactly as they were instructed, and when they were instructed.
Brief notes on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16:3–34)
The sacrifice of the bull on Yom Kippur addressed the priests sin, the two goats were brought to deal with the sins of the community.
This shows us that the Day of Atonement is designed to take sins away from the people. The priest, the ark and the tabernacle are not the source of the sin that had to be cleaned, but the people. Yeshua, our perfect High Priest, is not the source of sin, we are.
Without repentance and confession, animal sacrifices are just a BBQ (Leviticus 17)
Atonement is through blood, it removes sins, but it is not the only thing that removes sin. Confession of one’s sins is also required for atonement. Without confession of sin, killing an animal is just a barbecue. We have to admit guilt for our sins.
If you can’t admit your sin, you can’t repent and any sacrifice for sin is useless if there’s no confession and repentance.
If the children of Israel committed a sin and paid the “fine” without repentance and confession, that apathy to their sin, the death of the animal, this indifference added to the sin and contamination of the Tabernacle that had to be cleansed at Yom Kippur.
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By Hallel FellowshipThere’s an old saying that is common among parents who are trying to teach their children to resist the temptation to follow their peers into making disastrous life-changing mistakes: “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?”
God was preparing the children of Israel to enter the Promised Land, a land where the Canaanites who, by God’s account, lived immoral or amoral lives. Underlying the lessons in the Torah passages אחרי מות Acharei Mot and קדושים Kedoshim (“after (the) death” and “holiness,” Leviticus 16–20) on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and morality is that God did not want the Israelites to follow His laws on autopilot — not in apathy or indifference — but mindfully and purposefully.
In this study
Don’t enter God’s house uninvited (Leviticus 16:1–2)Brief notes on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16:3–34)Without repentance and confession, animal sacrifices are just a BBQ (Leviticus 17)Think different, act different, be different (Leviticus 18–19)Fear the beard?Accidental vs. flagrant sinTime of the month for husband and wife to ‘take a break’
Don’t enter God’s house uninvited (Leviticus 16:1–2)
Two sons of Israel’s high priest Aharon (Aaron), Nadab and Abihu, seem to have committed three egregious affronts to the One they served:
* Offered profane (common) fire.* Offered incense at the wrong time.* Entered the holy place uninvited.
Anyone one of these could have been a death penalty offense, considering how far Nadab and Abihu deviated from their instructed tasks.
Their deaths was a stern warning to Aaron, Elizar and Itamar of the sacredness and the seriousness of their duties and that they were to perform them exactly as they were instructed, and when they were instructed.
Brief notes on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16:3–34)
The sacrifice of the bull on Yom Kippur addressed the priests sin, the two goats were brought to deal with the sins of the community.
This shows us that the Day of Atonement is designed to take sins away from the people. The priest, the ark and the tabernacle are not the source of the sin that had to be cleaned, but the people. Yeshua, our perfect High Priest, is not the source of sin, we are.
Without repentance and confession, animal sacrifices are just a BBQ (Leviticus 17)
Atonement is through blood, it removes sins, but it is not the only thing that removes sin. Confession of one’s sins is also required for atonement. Without confession of sin, killing an animal is just a barbecue. We have to admit guilt for our sins.
If you can’t admit your sin, you can’t repent and any sacrifice for sin is useless if there’s no confession and repentance.
If the children of Israel committed a sin and paid the “fine” without repentance and confession, that apathy to their sin, the death of the animal, this indifference added to the sin and contamination of the Tabernacle that had to be cleansed at Yom Kippur.