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Leviticus 15-16; Hebrews 11.20-40
King James Version with Web Encyclopedia links: Leviticus 15; Leviticus 16; Hebrews 11
Leviticus 15 dealt with bodily discharges that caused uncleaness both in men (2-15); or the discharge of semen (16-18), female uncleaness caused by monthly period (9-24) or lengthy periods of hemorrhaging (25-30); a recap of these bodily discharges. Notice in all these instances the person became unclean until some prescribed action is taken such as the person bathing with water and washing the clothes or materials that the bodily discharges touch. Any person who became in contact with these bodily discharges, were also unclean, until they washed with water and were in insolation for a certain period of time.
We should mention that when Jesus was on the way to Jairus house in Mark 5.22-43, a woman with a lengthy period of hemorrhaging, with no hope for cure from medicine of that day, had FAITH, and touched Jesus. She, too, were subjected to the public health laws of Leviticus.
It was a horrible thing to be unclean in that society during the Old Testament and Jesus' days., especially if you had leprosy such as the lepers or the woman with the bleeding for an extended period of time. You were literally an outcast in that society. What about today, we have people who have the HIV-Aids virus. Are we as Christians concerned about them as Jesus is. Can you imagine, Jesus touched the leper, and the woman touched Him, he was, by the requirements of the Levitical regulations unclean. But, He is the Lord over these rules and regulations. The Pharisees went beyond the requirement of the law and made the requirements so cumbersome on the people. The intent behind this section of Leviticus is for the people to have safeguard against diseases in this type of public health system, with the priests acting as doctors. The word unclean came up a lot. We may also be unclean in a spiritual sense, we need to be cleansed by the blood of Jesus.
Leviticus 16 deals with the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kuppir (Day of Pardon) was the most holy day of the Jewish Year. This was when, the High Priest enter the Holy of Holies (Most Holy Place) to make a sacrifice for himself and the people. There is an elaborate protocol to enter and offer sacrifices. The high priest has to wash himself in water, sacrifice a bull as a burnt offering for himself and the people. Anyway, the details are in the chapter! An interesting fact was that a goat was spared in the sacrifices (v.20-22), that day, the high priest would lay his hands on the head of the goat and confess the sins of the people and put it on the goat's head. The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a solitary place, and a man shall release it in the desert. This is a description of the substitionary atonement. The sin was transferred to that goat. This is similar to Isaiah 53.12 This is where we propbably got that everyday terminology, scapegoat.
In the book of Hebrews, we see that Jesus is superior to the leaders of the Old Covenant, His sacrifical work was greater than the Aaronic priesthood. Jesus provided a better covenant, sanctuary and sacrifice, than any of these high priests ever could. If you remember, as a part of the high priest clothing, he had golden bells on his garment. Jewish tradition said that they tied a rope around a foot of the high priest before he went into the Most Holy Place. The reason being, if God struck the high priest dead because of his sin, they have to pull him out to avoid being struck by God.
The high priest were involved in thousands of sacrifices every year but he could only enter the Most Holy Place once a year. The day of Atonement was once a year symbolizing that Jesus came only once to die for us so that our sins can be forgiven. Jesus was pure and without sin but he became the sacrifice the Lamb of God. (John 1.29) Have you had your day of atonement? An encounter with a Holy God that you could walk away justified and declared holy. You can, today, put your trust in Jesus Christ. See Jesus Saves
Spurgeon Sermon-The Day of Atronement
More on the Day of Atonement
The High Priest Link
Stedman on Leviticus 15
Stedman on Leviticus 16
Deffinbaugh on Leviticus 12-15
Deffinbaugh on Leviticus 16
Leviticus 15 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Leviticus 16 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Links to Commentaries and other References - Leviticus
Hebrews 11.20-40 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Hebrews 11.20-40
The author continues with the list of the heroes of the faith starting with the phrase, by faith... He continues with Isaac, Jacob, Moses, the people, Rahab and then there were Gideon, Barak, Samuel, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets. Then there were the unnamed heroes who became martyrs through the ages. There is a great phrase in verse 38, the world was not worthy of them. God had promised them something better , that they would be made perfect.
Martyrs
Voive of the Martyrs.com
Links to Commentaries and other References - Hebrews
Bible Study Tools
Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian
This Posting is NOT a commentary of the passages read today but it is a devotional. Please send a comment if something spoke to you today from the passages, links or thoughts that I have shared with you.
Guzik on Hebrews 11
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