Bible Food Day 13

Good morning to the is the 7th day of the week and I bid you a happy Sabbath.

Here we get the journeys of the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt the day after the passover (Numbers 33).  They removed and pitch in a lot of places, particularly because of their evil report that they couldn't defeat the people in the land.  Aaron died in the 40th year they were removed from Egypt, dying at 123 years of age.

The Lord told Moses to tell the people to destroy the people and everything they own as far as pictures, idols, etc, and divide the land.  But if they don't destroy the people, they will be thorns in their sides and the Lord will do to them as He thought to do to the people of Canaan.  I guess if you keep things around you must have liked it a bit; eventually you will take ownership of it.  God knows His creation well.

Numbers 34 starts with Moses giving commandments of the borders of the land they are taking at the command of the Lord.  Also the people should not forget to give the children of Levi cities and suburbs to deal with a total of 48 cities for the Levities.  The Lord even set up a jail system; appointing cities of refuge if a man slays or kills someone on accident can go there to live because the family will attempt to kill that person.  They had to stay there until the death of the current high priest.

In chapter 36 Moses answered the questions the people had regarding the daughters who wanted their inheritance since their father had no sons.  Their tribe men were concerned that if the women went and married another tribe that the tribe's groom will seize their inheritance.  So Moses commanded from the Lord that in this case the daughters should marry within the tribe so that it stays in the tribe of their father for ever.

We move into Deuteronomy now.

Moses addresses the people and gives recaps of what he has been teaching from the Lord since they left Egypt.  It is the 40th year since they left Egypt; and Moses is telling of the downfall that caused them to wander in the wilderness for 40 years.  Because of murmuring they were not able to go directly into the land; but wandered in the wilderness a year for every day they murmured.

As they went through Mt. Seir; the Lord let Israel know He has not given them the land belonging to Esau; but to simply pass through and pay for everything you receive from them.  The same instructions for the children of Moab, not to take their land, because the Lord gives every people their own land and inheritance and it is theirs. No one should take it.

The children of Israel, at the Lord's command, destroyed a lot of people, Bashan, Amorites, killing the men, women, and children.  In Deuteronomy chapter 3 Moses asked one more time if he can go into the land but the Lord denied him and commanded he ask not again concerning that matter.  That's like a kid who keeps bugging a parent about going to an amusement park and the parent says "no, and don't ask again."

In chapter 4 we hear that the Lord commands not to add to His words, nor subtract from His Words, but to keep it as is.  The Lord also commands the children of Israel keep the laws, commandments, and statues of the Lord because this is their wisdom in the eyes of the Lord.  So if the children of Israel do not keep the laws of the Lord; they have no wisdom in the eyes of the other nations.  Moses gives the recount of when the Lord visited the entire nation on Mt. Sinai in which the people feared greatly.

Moses keeps reminding the people that the Lord was angry with him for the people's sake; and Moses tells to keep the commandments because the Lord is a consuming fire and full of jealousy.  Moses prophesies that when the children corrupt themselves by not to keeping the commandments; the Lord will scatter them into all nations where they will serve other gods; but if you seek God, even during the tribulation in the latter days.  Yes, Moses knew about the scattering of Israel and the great tribulation and the return of Israel.

The Lord God gave a lot of vision and understanding to Moses; this was truly a great prophet.   ⁴⁰Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Prolong your days on the earth, which the Lord God gives you forever... no heaven!?  Moses even knew the kingdom of God will be on the earth.

Deuteronomy chapter 5 is about the covenant God made with the people.  This is an agreement; and God did not make this covenant with their fathers; but with the sons of Jacob.  The covenant is the Royal Law, the Ten Commandments we already read and outlined in Exodus 20.

We also see why God does not appear in fire to people today or do any appearing; it is because Israel asked God to talk to them through a mediator and not directly because they feared they would die.  Also because we are filthy with sins.

Chapter 6 tells that the Lord our God is One; that means even today we are not to serve Him in 2 different ways; and the children of Israel are to teach about the Lord to their children and to the strangers and love your brother as you love yourself and also ⁵And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.  You are to teach your children all of this that the Lord has done so they know why you serve the Lord.

Chapter 7 tells of the instructions of destroying the 7 nations of the Canaanites.  To destroy them utterly, and not to take their children as wives, because they will corrupt you.  A weak person will succumb to a wife or husband ways.  Moses reminds the people that God did not choose Israel because they were some great people; but rather to keep the covenant God made with Abraham.  If Israel keeps the covenant with God; He will keep the covenant with them.

This chapter ends with the Lord warning the people to keep His commandments and to not be as the people of the land; and the children of Israel shall live well if they do all that the Lord commanded Moses to do.  That ends day thirteen; see you tomorrow as we go further in Deuteronomy.   Praise God.

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We Are On Day Twelve in Numbers

We begin reading in Numbers chapter 22 and we will read to Numbers 32.  It is the story of Moab, their king Balak, and Balaam a priest or prophet for Moab (yes God spoke individually to other men other than Israel).  Balak was troubled by the fame of Israel and thought Israel was coming to knock them off their land and called Balaam to curse Israel.  And Balaam was told not to go by the Lord; but he went any way, and God was angry.

As Balaam was riding his donkey, an angel of the Lord stood by to kill both Balaam and the donkey; but the donkey kept avoiding the angel until it made Balaam angry and he hit his donkey.  God allowed the donkey to speak to Balaam, then opened his eyes and Balaam saw the angel and fell down scared.  And God told him to continue his journey but only to speak what the Lord has him speak.  That had to be the most bizarre thing for Balaam to see in his life.  A donkey talking, then an angel tell you if it wasn't for the donkey you'd be dead.  Haha!

Balaam proceeded to attempt to curse Israel but God only gave blessings.  Balak tried to do it again; but a blessing came out again and this is what God gave him to say:

¹⁹God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
 ²⁰Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
In chapter 25, the Lord gave a parable to Balaam even showing the vision of the last days and when Balak heard the vision he went his way and Balaam went his because they saw Israel on top, even spiritual Israel.  However, in chapter 26 the children of Israel started to whore after the Moabites serving their gods and God was very angry with Israel and sent a plague that killed up to 24,000.  Moab got them by the men whoring after their women and being seduced into their gods.  
Then Phinehas a priest was very zealous and killed a man who whore after a Midianite woman and the Lord stopped the plague.  This gave Phinehas a covenant for his sons, a covenant of "an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel."
Numbers chapter 26 just gives the number of men who were listed in the army of all the 12 tribes of Israel.  Then the daughters of Zelophehad came to ask why the inheritance of their father could not be passed to them because he had no sons?  And God set up a standard in which men follow today, when man dies his inheritance goes to his kids, that is son or daughter, if he has no kids it goes to his brothers or sisters and so on.
In chapter 28, we get a reminder of the ordinance of the burnt offerings, the passover, and high Holy Sabbath days.  In chapter 29 we get the ordinance of the day of Atonement and other High Days in the 7th month.  These are outside of the daily continual burnt offerings.  Of course we do not offer the animals today; but are to continue to observe these days as they have significant meaning when it comes to the Lord Jesus and His plan and return.
Numbers chapter 30 talks about vows and vowing to the Lord.  If you make a vow to the Lord, you shall by all means keep the vow, all of it that comes out of your mouth.  If a woman vows and either her husband (if she's married) or father (if she is not married) knows about it; if he disagree with it, he can void it; but if he allows it; they must both perform the vow.  This is why Adam had the ability to reverse what Eve's mistake was in speaking to the the serpent.
In Numbers 31, the Lord tells Moses to prepare for war against the Midianites to avenge Israel and afterwards, Moses will die.  Isn't that something, knowing after this war you will go rest your soul.  Israel took the Midianites down and took a lot of spoil, which they argued over, and they even kept a lot of women and children alive to keep for themselves.  Men will be men huh, but this made Moses very angry and he ordered them to kill any woman who was married or had known a man.  
In chapter 32, the children of Reuben and Gad asked to keep a land on the east side of Jordan, but they will go to war over the Jordan to help their brothers inherit their land before the fully settle.  So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half of the tribe of Mannessah stayed on the east side of Jordan in the land the Amorites had for possession.
One thing I've noticed is that the children of Israel were hard headed people and when you have a bad child the parent looks even stricter than He is; but it is out of love to keep the child good.  But if you have an obedient child, the parent appears more loving, nice, and caring but it is because the child obeys so there is no need to be harsh and strict.  This is for people that believe the God of the Old Testament was a mean God.  It is because He had real disobedient children.
See you tomorrow!

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Numbers 9 to Numbers 21

Good day and it is a good day because the Lord has made it.

Today we start off in Numbers 9 where the Lord reminds Moses to tell the children of Israel to keep the passover in it's appointed season, which is the 14th day of the first month.  The children of Israel had to keep it when God said so and not whenever they chose to keep the passover.  

The same still goes for today.  Then the Lord gave reasons one can take the passover if they missed it during the first month due to being unclean.  This was the rule for the stranger and Israel; one law for all.  Not one law for the Jews and one for the Christians or non-Jews!

In chapter 10 the Lord gives the children of Israel the 'fire drill' if a war was to take place.  The priest were to sound the trumpet to aware the people of possible trouble or war.  The people began to cry against the Lord and it displeased the Lord and He set a fire and burned many of them until they cried to Moses who prayed unto the Lord for them.  

Moses was even tired of the people because they complained to him all the time about every little thing and lust.  So the Lord gave the spirit (the mind) that was upon Moses to 70 other men to know about God the way Moses did.  And the Lord promised to give them enough meat that they will be sick of it.  And the Lord sent a great plague that the people who lusted after the food of meat to choke on it and die.  That is something, to want a steak so bad and when you get it you eat it and choke on it and die.

In chapter 12 Miriam and Aaron, Moses's brother and sister began to speak against Moses saying has God only spoken to Moses, plus they were upset Moses married an Ethiopian (because Israel were suppose to marry within and not to strangers)?  And God called an urgent meeting and told them that Moses is "the man," and God punished Miriam by turning her leprous, white as snow?  

I would presume she had to be dark skinned for this to be a great punishment. The meek man Moses prayed for her to stop the plague and it was gone after 7 days.  Do not talk against the servants of the Lord, the Lord may actually be listening to your conver

sation.

The children of Israel, in chapter 13, began to send spies into the land of Canaan to see about the people and the richness of the land before they ambush the people and deal with them.  They gave good report of the land; but they feared the people.  All except Caleb who told the people to go up and take the land for they can do it.

And the people complained about having to go to war and take the land.  They said it would have been better to stay in Egypt where they were serving as slaves and worshiping pagan gods.  The Lord does not like complainers, so catch yourself when you are complaining about your situation.  And the 

Lord decided to kill all the people and make a great nation after Moses, to keep His covenant with Abraham (all God needed was one male of Abraham's loins).  

Then Moses interceded for the people and the Lord heard, but He would not let the people who saw what He did in Egypt, yet did not believe, get into the land.  The people who murmured against the Lord from age 20 years and above will not get into the land; but will fall in the wilderness for 40 years.  Unbelievable punishment for murmuring against a God who delivered them from bondage; but well deserved for a complaining people.  

Numbers 15 is a reminder of burnt offering and sin offerings for sin committed.  At the end of the chapter a man was picking sticks on the Sabbath

 day, and they jailed him to find out what the Lord's judgment was for him.  And the Lord had the congregation kill the man by stoning him.  

And the Lord commanded they make fringes on their garments with the commandments written on them to remind them not to do what they wanted; but to keep the commandments.  God had a man killed for polluting the Sabbath day, thus this is a very serious commandment and even more serious crime in breaking it.

Numbers 16

A man named Korah rose up against Moses charging Moses of being above the people when they were all Israel.  And Korah and Dathan charged 

Moses of making himself the prince over the people.  This made Moses very upset and asked God not to respect their offer.  

Then Moses spoke to show who the Lord appointed and the Lord had the earth open up and consumed Korah, Dathan, and Abiram and all that they own (wives and children included), and the 250 men who challenged Moses the Lord sent a fire and burned them up.  

Look at how jealousy and envying can kill a man.  I have to say it again; do not speak against the Lord's servants, God may deal with you harshly for that.  Later on some really dumb Israelites charged Moses for killing the people of God.  

When I read it, it looked like the earth consumed them; more so, it looked like they consumed themselves for talking against Moses.  The Lord was very angry with these people and urged Moses to move aside so He can kill this congregation in one moment.  That is instantaneously.  Even with Moses' interceding and pleading for the people, still 14,700 people died because of talking against Moses, which was talking against the Lord.

Now in Numbers 17 the Lord had to show who He was with by making Aaron's rod bud and brought forth almond.  His rod was brought for a testimony to the people to show who God had made priest.  Numbers 18 had the sons of Levi given to Aaron.


  ¹⁹All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the childre

n of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

 ²⁰And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.


The sons of Levi had no inheritance in the land, they didn't have homes and businesses.  They receive a 10th from the children of Israel and they do the charge of the priest office.  This is a covenant of salt forever.  No stranger can come near the Levi's things.


In Numbers 20 Miriam died and was buried and the people charged Moses and Aaron for not providing water and a good life for them that they thought they had in Egypt.  And God instructed Moses on what to do to get them water.  


He was to speak to the rock, but instead Moses was angry with the people saying, "hear you rebels, must we give you water to drink," and he hit the rock twice. And God was upset with Moses for his anger and not sanctifying the Lord before the people.  Moses and Aaron rebelled against the Lord's word at the waters of Meribah and that is why they were not allowed into the land.

There in Meribah, did Aaron die and Eleazar his son, took over the priest office.  


In chapter 21, the people complained again and the Lord sent fiery serpents to bite the people and many died, and when they repented, Moses prayed but God did something for people to exercise their faith.  


He had Moses build a stick and make snake of brass and if the people looked  upon the snake they would be healed.  


If they did not, they would indeed die.  This is the faith we have when we go into most hospitals today that have the snake on a stick today.  Then Israel went in and knocked off the Amorites and took their land.  We learned that murmuring and complaining is not acceptable.  


In the Bible it says ask and ye shall receive.  So if these people wanted meat, they should have went to their chief to ask Moses if they can have meat in some way or they could simply prayed to the God that took them out of Egypt to provide.  But to complain and murmur, that is less than childish and disrespectful especially when so much has been done for you.  Than you for joining me today, see you tomorrow.


DD

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Day 10 of the Best Food in the World

Welcome to day 10 of reading the Bible, the Word of God.  Today we begin in the 27th chapter of Leviticus where we begin reading of vows.  It is extremely serious to speak what you know and stay to your word.  The Lord will hold you to your vows so be careful in what you utter out of your mouth.

As we dive into Numbers, we see Moses getting orders from God to form the Army for Israel; men able of twenty years and up were able to go war.  Similar to how it is done in the US where men and women must be 18 to enroll in the military.  This was done in the wilderness out on Mt. Sinai.  The total in the army was 603,550 men; that's a great army covering a great number of people.

The Lord makes it known that Aaron and his sons are the chief of the Levite tribe; and that the Levites are for Aaron to assist in running the priest office; and the Levites are all the Lords because when He killed the first born of all the Egyptians, He took all the first born of the children of Israel's for His own.  

So; if you have male children, the first born is the Lord's. However, the Lord took the Levites as His, in exchange for your first born that He redeemed by passing over your house in Egypt.

Leviticus chapter 4 notes the age you must be to do the work in the congregation.  You have to be 30 to start your ministry or to participate in the ministry.  This is why Jesus waited till He was at least 30  years of age before He began healing and teaching in Jerusalem and other coast in Israel, even waited till then to be baptized.  And if you were 50 years of age and decided to get into the ministry, you just barely made it.

I found chapter five interesting, if a man felt his wife was cheating on him with another man, and he had the 'spirit of jealousy' he can take her before the priest and have a ritual performed over her before the Lord.  You wouldn't have to run behind your wives with investigators if this was still around.  If she was found guilty it was bad news for her.

Nazarite Vow:

If you make a vow to be a Nazerite; a man or woman, they must not cut their locks, neither come near a dead body no matter who, they must not drink wine nor strong drink (no Jack Daniels or Jamaican Rum), neither eat grapes.  They must keep this up until the days of the separation and vow be finished.

Chapter seven in Leviticus recaps the twelve tribes and their offering unto the Lord for the dedication of the Altar; many offerings were brought, and when they were finished Moses went into the Tabernacle to meet with God and heard a voice coming from off the Mercy Seat from where the Ark of the Covenant lay between the cherubims and He spoke with Moses and Moses with God.  

This shows that God was clearly on the earth.  Even more it shows He was among the children of Israel dwelling among them.  

To end in chapter eight for today; we're reminded that the Levites are the Lord's in exchange for our first born (male), and that God gave the Levites to Aaron (also a Levi man) as a gift to do the service of the congregation.  The Lord has an excellent system set up all leading to Christ; it is just man has successfully turned the system around.  Thank you for reading today, I pray God speed you continue in this Word.  Amen.

DD

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Day Nine - Leviticus 15

Good morning;

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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Leviticus on Day 8

This is primarily going to show us the ministry practices of the Levites who are the tribe of Levi and what their job was.

When one sins against the Lord they are to bring an animal to sacrifice for their sin to make an atonement for them.  Although, as we learn in Hebrews, the animal sacrifice did not remove sins but was designed to slow one down from continuous sinning.  Like paying a traffic violation today will slow you down from breaking the law.

They had the practice of burnt offering, meat offering, and peace offering and no one is to eat the fat or blood of an animal that is sacrificed in all our generations.

Leviticus chapter 4 shows us the entire practice of the Law of Animal Sacrifice.  Each man that sins is to bring a bullock to the priest, and the priest is even to bring his own bullock for his sin.  When the priest kills the animal and takes the blood dipping his finger in it to sprinkle on the veil, he is to sprinkle the blood 7 times on the veil.  

Then they are to take the bullock away from the camp and burn it on wood.  This is the sin offering; the offering that represents Jesus Christ without question became the actual sin offering (shadow of good things to come).

The Lord has it that a man sins unaware, once he is aware of it he shall confess it and begin to make atonement for that sin.  The Lord accepts sin through ignorance or sin not done purposely.  If you sin willfully their has never been pardons for that.

This is also the rule that what is left of the burnt offering; Aaron and his sons shall consume.  That's a pretty good deal for the priest; but the priest have no inheritance but are the Lords.

Leviticus chapter 7 introduces the trespass offering.  It shall be eaten by all the male priest.  Again; we're reminded not to eat blood nor fat or you will be cut off from your people.

In chapter 8 Moses anoints Aaron and his sons before the entire camp, pouring the oil upon the head of Aaron.  Moses also anointed the Temple before the entire camp too; and they did all things the Lord commanded by the had of Moses.

Moses again tells Aaron to prepare the sin offering and to do it in the presence of the people on the eighth day after 7 days of consecration that the glory of the Lord will appear unto the people.  

After Aaron sacrificed the sin offering, the glory of the Lord came down in a fire and consumed the fat on the altar in the presence of the congregation.  The people shouted and were afraid as they fell to the ground on their faces.  The Lord is powerful.

In Leviticus 10 Nadab and Abihu, the oldest sons of Aaron went to sleep and let the fire that was to burn continually go out.  And instead of letting Moses and Aaron know about it; they attempted to offer strange fire before the Lord and a fire burst out and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.  

Moses then told Aaron this is what the Lord meant when He said He would be set apart of them who comes near Him.  In other words; pay attention when you are dealing with the Lord.  Moses also told Aaron and his remaining sons not to mourn nor grieve; but to let the congregation do the grieving for their death.

The Lord God is a tough being, He wouldn't allow them to grieve... ouch.  Then the Lord told Aaron not to drink wine or strong drink when they go into the congregation, I presume that is what Nadab and Abihu did to let the continuing fire go out.  So now there is no more drinking in the Tabernacle for priest who are on duty.

The dietary law is what is written in Leviticus chapter 11.  Of land based animals the animal that chews the cud AND divides the hoof, they are clean.  In the water you are to eat animals with fins AND scales, like tuna & salmon; but as for things in the water like shrimp and catfish, they are no, no's.  They of the birds, they are named out to read.  Eagles and vultures ducks and goose are not permitted among other fowls.

The Lord wants us to be holy for He is Holy and we are not to make ourselves unclean by eating abominable things.  Like the TV channel TBS coined, "very funny", this is "very serious."

Chapter 12 talks about the cleanness or uncleaness of child birth.  All women who have a new child, male or female, should read and do this chapter.  

Chapter 13 goes into clean and unclean leprosy and what to do with it.  It is the law of the leprosy.  It was some difficult reading but it is great to learn and know.  It is good to know so you don't go sacrificing animals for your sin offering because JESUS is the sin offering.

Also that you know what animals to consume and which ones to leave alone.  We will deal with  the rest of Leviticus, the way of Levi, the priest to the children of Israel, the priest to the nations tomorrow.  Good day.

DD

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Exodus Day Seven (7)

Greetings readers;

This is chapter 29 through 40 and it begins by telling the reader how to anoint the priest of God, the sons of Levi, and how to hallow things of the Lord, and also how to offer a burnt offering unto the Lord.  These offerings (of animals) are for Aaron and his sons to do and offer for the sins people and for their free will offerings and the priest also to consume.  The office of the priest work is strictly for Aaron and his sons.

One of Aaron's task was to burn incense and fire continually none stop at the altar.  Also, Aaron must make an atonement once a year for the people and himself, hence the day of Atonement.  If you are above 20 years of age; the Lord expects you to give an offering to the ministry.

One thing is for sure that the priest cannot allow the stranger (non-Israelite) to touch, eat, nor wear any Holy oil or perfume the Lord made for the priest.  Also, since the ingredients were given, no one is to try to make a copy of the perfume for themselves (for a second I was going to try to find those oils and smell like a priest).  Only the apothecary (druggist or pharmacist) can prepare these things and you guessed it; that person had to be a priest.

The Lord had a man named Bezaleel that He gave knowledge and wisdom to construct the Temple, the furniture, the cloths, and Holy Garments.  So the Lord gives knowledge and wisdom for any craft you learn.  We're reminded to keep the Sabbath Day, it is a sign between God and the children of Israel forever (7th day of the week).  The two tables of stone given to Moses from God where the Royal Law were written, were written with the finger of God.  That makes it personal and permanent if it were "written in stone."  Also, I guess these are not Moses' laws as frequently said; but Gods and they are quite serious.

While Moses was receiving these laws, statues, and commandments, the people got restless and asked Aaron to be in charge thinking Moses had forsaken them.  They charged Aaron to make them gods; and Aaron concurred with them and made a golden calf out of the gold earrings the people wore in their ears.  And God saw it and thought to kill the people; but Moses interceded and charged the Lord to have mercy.  Moses was the High Priest, so he was responsible for interceding.  

The Lord clearly knew that the children of Israel were a stiff neck, hard headed people at this point and really wanted to destroy them and start the nation over with Moses.  When Moses came off the mountain and saw the people dancing and worshiping a pagan idol, which they clearly got from the Lord not to do (the second commandment), Moses became very furious.  

Then Moses took vengeance killing at least 3,000 people who were against the Lord.  In the interceding; Moses asked to blot himself out of the book the Lord keeps; yes the Lord keeps a book on each of us.  What's in your book?

At this point the Lord sent an angel to go with them and take them into the land; the Lord no longer was going to dwell in the middle of them because He would kill them in His anger.  The Lord had Moses move the Tent away from the camp like living in the suburbs; so the Lord was the first to move to the suburbs for peace and quite.  And the Lord spoke to Moses face-to-face as a man talks to a friend.

Then Moses asked to see the Lord; and the Lord agreed to show Moses; but wouldn't allow Moses to see the Lord's face.  And the Lord came down in the sight of Moses and the power of God was too much for Moses that He fell on his face.  The Lord came down and profess the name of God!  This looks like in Genesis where there are two Gods in the God family or Godhead.

The Lord then reminds the children of Israel about the Sabbath Day, and the three times a year they are to come up for the feast to the Lord.  The Ten Commandments are the words of the covenant; that Moses wrote down during his second 40 days and 40 nights.  Moses was with the Lord so long that he began to shine as the Lord; that the children of Israel could not look upon him; thus he had to wear a veil over his face.  That happened after 40 days of being in the Lord's presence; we can see why Enoch was changed after he walked for over 300 years.

Then in dressing the Tent, the people were told to bring offerings to dress the Tent; a free will offering.  The people brought so much that they had to make an announcement to stop offering.  They begin construction of the Tent and they use plenty of gold.  They made the Mercy Seat and had cherubims round about the Seat, remember God put cherubims around the Tree of Life, it represents the Lord.

Look at the stones they used in the engraving:

¹⁰And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.

 ¹¹And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

 ¹²And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

 ¹³And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

These are some hefty expensive stones to make the Temple Tent.  When they were finished with the Tent; they had done it according as the Lord had commanded and Moses blessed them.  When the work was finished and they reared up the Tabernacle in the first month, a cloud filled the Tabernacle insomuch that Moses had to get out of there; for the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.

When the children of Israel journeyed the cloud raised up in the sky; but when they were to lodge, the cloud came down into the Tabernacle; a cloud by day, fire by night.  That is our reading today; and we completed Exodus; next we go into Leviticus.  See you tomorrow.


DD

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