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Heaven’s promise of a fresh start: You can count on it (Leviticus 26–27)
The Bible book of Leviticus may seem like a lot of dos and don’ts for a Tabernacle service that hasn’t existed for two millennia. But what’s revealed at the end, in Torah reading בְּחֻקֹּתַי Bechukotai/Bekhuqotai (“in My statutes,” Leviticus 26–27), is that it is the gospel of hope, promises from Heaven of the new covenant, that our past can be removed, setting us up for a bright future ahead of us.
The Shabbat for the Torah reading בְּחֻקֹּתַי Bechukotai/Bekhuqotai (“in My statutes,” Leviticus 26–27) is day 42 of the 50-day counting of the Omer (the seven sevens of days plus one between the wave offering just after Passover and ending at Shavuot/Pentecost). I want to draw your attention to day 40 of the Omer, which was the day of Yeshua’s ascension into Heaven that year. Acts 1 records this, recounting His final instructions to His Apostles.
The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” (Acts 1:1–5 NASB)
If we forget and forsake Yeshua’s sacrifice, there is no other sacrifice that can bring salvation to us (Hebrews 10:26–27). There is only one Way into the Kingdom.
God broke the might of Mitzraim (Egypt) three times to teach both Israel and Mitzraim who was the real power, the real authority that builds up and breaks up empires:
* The 10th plague* Crossing of the Red Sea* Assyria and Babylon. When they invaded Israel and Judah, rather than turning to God, Israel and Judah turned to Mitzraim. So God used them to break Mitzraim, too, so that Israel would understand their only strength was in God.
God warned that if they would not give the land its rest voluntarily, then God would evict the people of Israel from the land so that the land could rest. God did not do this because He is vindictive but because He wants Israel to act with humility and admit their sin, repent from it and make amends.
The people of Israel lived in the land, but they did not attach themselves to it the way God instructed them. They mistreated the land and ended up polluting it with idolatry and had to be given a “time out” for the land to recover.
Shavuot is a message, not just for a select clique, but for all people. God selected Israel to proclaim His message, not to just keep it for themselves. As Ruth said to Naomi:
“Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.” (Ruth 1:16–17 NASB)
The key to the Kingdom is not in our DNA (Matt. 3:9; Luke 3:8). Ruth, Rahab, and Cornelius were not descendants of Abraham, yet they were accepted into the Kingdom.
The key to the Kingdom is to understand who God is and to live in covenant with Him.
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By Hallel FellowshipThe Bible book of Leviticus may seem like a lot of dos and don’ts for a Tabernacle service that hasn’t existed for two millennia. But what’s revealed at the end, in Torah reading בְּחֻקֹּתַי Bechukotai/Bekhuqotai (“in My statutes,” Leviticus 26–27), is that it is the gospel of hope, promises from Heaven of the new covenant, that our past can be removed, setting us up for a bright future ahead of us.
The Shabbat for the Torah reading בְּחֻקֹּתַי Bechukotai/Bekhuqotai (“in My statutes,” Leviticus 26–27) is day 42 of the 50-day counting of the Omer (the seven sevens of days plus one between the wave offering just after Passover and ending at Shavuot/Pentecost). I want to draw your attention to day 40 of the Omer, which was the day of Yeshua’s ascension into Heaven that year. Acts 1 records this, recounting His final instructions to His Apostles.
The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” (Acts 1:1–5 NASB)
If we forget and forsake Yeshua’s sacrifice, there is no other sacrifice that can bring salvation to us (Hebrews 10:26–27). There is only one Way into the Kingdom.
God broke the might of Mitzraim (Egypt) three times to teach both Israel and Mitzraim who was the real power, the real authority that builds up and breaks up empires:
* The 10th plague* Crossing of the Red Sea* Assyria and Babylon. When they invaded Israel and Judah, rather than turning to God, Israel and Judah turned to Mitzraim. So God used them to break Mitzraim, too, so that Israel would understand their only strength was in God.
God warned that if they would not give the land its rest voluntarily, then God would evict the people of Israel from the land so that the land could rest. God did not do this because He is vindictive but because He wants Israel to act with humility and admit their sin, repent from it and make amends.
The people of Israel lived in the land, but they did not attach themselves to it the way God instructed them. They mistreated the land and ended up polluting it with idolatry and had to be given a “time out” for the land to recover.
Shavuot is a message, not just for a select clique, but for all people. God selected Israel to proclaim His message, not to just keep it for themselves. As Ruth said to Naomi:
“Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.” (Ruth 1:16–17 NASB)
The key to the Kingdom is not in our DNA (Matt. 3:9; Luke 3:8). Ruth, Rahab, and Cornelius were not descendants of Abraham, yet they were accepted into the Kingdom.
The key to the Kingdom is to understand who God is and to live in covenant with Him.