Today we are reading Leviticus 15 through chapter 26. Chapter 15 is about uncleanness of issues. Issues is like blood or other open sores upon the body. If you touch anyone who is unclean or touch anything the unclean person touches, you are unclean. You must wash with water and be uncleaned until the evening, which is a new day.
The seed of copulation, is the semen that ejaculates from the body. When this happens, you are to take a shower and be unclean until the evening. So when you have sex with your wife; you are to take a shower when you're done and be unclean until the evening. And any woman who has her menstrual cycle, during those 7 days, she is unclean and anyone who touches her is unclean also.
In chapter 16 Moses told Aaron a message from God that Aaron should not come into the Most Holy place at anytime; but just once a year on the day of Atonement. In this chapter it explains the order of Atonement. Aaron must make an atonement for himself and his family, and then do so for children of Israel also.
Now this is for the sin offering. Aaron is to get two goats, kill one, which is for the sins of the people, and the other keep alive. And he and all the elders and priest shall lay hands on the head of the live goat and put all the sins on the head of the live goat. The live goat is the scapegoat, taking the blame of sin for all the people. And take the goat into a land not inhabited and to do so by the hand of a fit man.
These goats represent Jesus. The goat that died, died for the sins of the people, and the scapegoat represents Jesus raising from the dead and being taken to a land not inhabited by man, which is Heaven on the right hand of the Father, and the scapegoat had all the iniquity of the people on his head, as Jesus did. This is done on the day of Atonement to do forever, once a year.
We are reminded not to eat the blood of the animal; the life of the flesh is the blood and God has given His blood as a sacrifice for us; we shall not eat it but put ourselves under the blood spiritually. It is the blood that makes atonement for your sins; so no Israelite nor stranger shall eat blood. Cook your meat well done people.
The Lord then tells the people to keep His ordinances and judgments and avoid the ways of the people of Canaan and of the people of Egypt (two countries the Lord destroyed). The Egyptians and Canaanites must have had relationships where father slept with daughter or daughter in law, sons slept with mother and things like that, they committed adultery, sacrificed their children in fire and the Lord prohibited these things.
The act of homosexuality is called abominable where a man lay with a man as man lay with women, and women with women. This is an abomination. And women shall not lay with animals, neither shall men, for it is confusion. These things the nations before Israel did and were thrown out of the land for it. Keep the ways of the Lord.
Chapter 19 opens up with God reminding us to fear our parents and keep the Sabbaths for God is the Master (Lord), we are to listen and obey Him. We are to keep the Lord's commandments at all time. We are not even suppose to hate our brother in our minds, but to love our neighbor as ourselves; this is not just in Matthew chapter 5 with the 'Beatitudes' but here in Leviticus chapter 19.
26Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
We are reminded not the eat anything with the blood in it; neither are we to go to psychics or so-called wizards.
28Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
To me, this sounds like you're not to cut your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you, are 'print marks on you' tattoos? I sure think so.
30Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Keep the sabbaths, here it is again. The Sabbath day is a big thing to the Lord, and very important and dear to Him; so it should be to us as well.
31Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
We should avoid people who say they can speak with the dead. Those are familiar spirits, you will be defiled by them as King Saul was. We are to respect our elders and treat the strangers nice who want to live among you in the land.
Here we have some judgments against breaking the Lord's commandments; if you go after molech to serve he shall die, and if a man knows that another man is doing this and turns his eye, he also shall be put to death. In other words, servants of God cannot condone unrighteousness. Children are to honor their parents, if they curse their parents, that child shall die. A man or woman who commits adultery, they both shall die. It is pretty simple stuff that we should all feel good about keeping even today.
Priest can not go around dead bodies, unless it be his mother, father, children, brother, or sister that has not been married. Priest also can MARRY A WIFE, she just must be a virgin and must be among his own people; like an Israelite.
Leviticus 23 we get into the feast of the Lord. The sabbath day is a day of rest. The 14th day at the evening is the Passover, the 15th day is the first night of the feast of Unleavened bread. This feast is 7 days, and on the 7th day it is a Sabbath and feast at the evening.
Then seven sabbaths after the last day of the feast of unleavened bread and one day, this is the feast of weeks or what is called Penecost. It is a high Sabbath day and feast, it is a statue forever in all our dwellings. In the seventh month in the first day of the month is the Memorial of Blowing of Trumpets, it is a Sabbath day. Also, on the tenth day of the seventh month is the day of Atonement; we are to afflict ourselves or fast (food and water); and it is a Sabbath day.
Then on the 15th day of the seventh month is the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days. The first day is a Sabbath day and feast, and the Eighth day is a Sabbath and feast. We won't go into the meaning of these; but they are the feast of the Lord; not the Jews.
Leviticus 25 talks about the Jubilee where everything is free and return every man to his possession. The Jubliee is in the 50th year, and the trumpet should be blown on the 10th day of the seventh month (the day of atonement).
In chapter 26 gives the children of Israel a warning of blessings or curses if they listen or don't listen to the Lord and continue in His covenant. They could walk with the Lord and He will walk with them or they can walk contrary to the Lord, and He will walk contrary to them too. And His soul will hate them. Wow; the Lord can hate. The Lord will scatter the children of Israel among the nations if they do not keep the commandments of the Lord.
These commandments are very serious. Praise God for today's Bible food, see you tomorrow!
DD
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