July 7, 2010 Lesson 16 of Leviticus 23

List the feasts and note the general character of each. What did they have in common? And what were their differences? Answer: The Passover ad Unleavened Bread; Twilight on 14th day of first month, lasts 7 days, eat bread with no yeast and present an offering made from fire, remember Israel’s deliverance. The First Fruits; bring a wave offering from your first harvest, also bring a burnt offering of a lamb, to recognize God’s bounty. Feast of Weeks, or the end of Pentecost; new grain offering, wave offering of the first fruits, burnt offering of 7 lambs, show joy thankfulness to God for His blessing. Feast of Trumpets; first day of 7th month, do no work but sound trumpets, Present Israel before God for His favor. Day of Atonement; 10th day of 7th month, do no work, deny yourself, offering made by fire, cleanse priest and people from sin. Feast of Tabernacles; 15th day of 7th month, lasts 7 days, day 1 sacred assembly, for seven days present offerings to the Lord with fire, on the 8th day hold sacred assembly and present offering made by fire, memorialize journey from Canaan and give thanks for its bounty.


What are the New Testament parallels to the three main feasts and what is the significance of each? A)The Passover. Cf. 1 Cor 5:7-8. B) the Feast of Weeks, or Pentacost. Cf. Acts 2:1-4. C) The Feast of Tabernacles, the final ingathering of the harvest. Cf. Rev 7:9-10. Answer: a) the blood of Christ serves as the Passover Lamb for all time. B) I don’t want to talk much here for two reasons; one I don’t know a lot and two so many different faiths believe different things so I can’t argue it effectively one way or the other. C) this is the final call home when Christ takes us all to heaven.

July 6, 2010 Lesson 15 of Leviticus 21 and 22

What words and expressions occur frequently, giving the reason why these instructions are imposed? List some ways in which we ought to be showing similar concern. Answer: I am the Lord, and be holy are two that first come to mind. Or a third is I am the Lord who makes them holy.

What can we learn here about the serious effects on our Christian lives of things that are apparently small, but spiritually unclean? Answer: Is it saying that even the smallest things can and many times do corrupt the whole of our lives?

July 5, 2010 Lesson 14 of Leviticus 19 and 20

What particular attribute of God receives emphasis in these chapters as a ground of obedience to his commands? Cf. 1 Peter 1:14-17. Answer: God’s sovereignty and holiness.


Which one of the Ten Commandments do these laws elaborate? What significant summary of the law of God is to be found here? Answer: As I sit and read through them thinking about what was in the text I have to say the first one to pop out at me is, well I don’t know. I see several, if not all 10, touched on here. I am not sure what he is asking.

July 4, 2010 Lesson 13 of Leviticus 18

In chapters 18-20 we pass from the worship of the people to their behavior. Chapter 18 prohibits unlawful marriage, unchastity, and Molech worship; but the last is dealt with more fully in 18:2-5


What reasons are given for Israel’s obedience to these laws and how important is this obedience? See V1-5 and 24-30. Answer: 1) it is the decree of the Lord, 2) He will drive them out if they do not. God said it, so we do it (or don’t do it as the case may be). We do it because we love God. God has given us sex and sexual desires so that we may use them the way He intended. Even today we are not to use them in just any old way. Many in the culture will tell you different.


What light is thrown by this chapter on God’s command for the extermination of the Canaanites? Answer: I see that God intends to throw them out because of their sexual sins.

July 3, 2010 Lesson 12 of Leviticus 17

There are two main instructions in this portion: first, that all domestic animals which are to be killed shall be brought to the tabernacle (v3-9); and second, that no blood must be eaten (v10-16). The former of these instructions points to a time when animals were not killed except in connection with worship of some kind.


What would this first instruction (v3-9) teach Israel about God? Where is it suggested in these verses that this instruction is directed against idolatrous worship? Answer: The first instruction is to bring the sacrifice to the place it is to be sacrificed. Don’t sacrifice your goat, ox, or bird in the field when you are commanded to do it at the Tent of Meeting or the altar. To sacrifice outside this area is the same, as I understand, as idol worship.


Why was the eating of blood so strictly forbidden? See verse 11 in particular. What is the significance of this for us? Answer: Blood is the life of the animal. It is that blood that is used to atone for sins. Eating/ drinking that blood is forbidden, just as taking the life of another. Today yesterday, and for all time Christ died to cover all sins (Heb 10:10; 9:11-28). It is for this reason that the blood of animals is no longer needed for sacrifice. It is for this reason that we can eat the meat of these animals for Christ said that it is not what enters the mouth but what comes out of it that makes him unholy (Acts 1:1-23; Mat 15:1-20; 1 Tim 4:3-5).

July 2, 2010 Lesson 11 of Leviticus 16

Sketch out the order of the ceremonies of the Day of Atonement. Answer: 1) Aaron is to get a sin (young bull) and burnt (and ram) offering. 2) Bathe and put on the sacred linen tunic. 3) take with him a sin (two male goats) and a burnt (ram) offering for the Israelites. 4) Present his own sin offering. 5) cast lots with the Lord for the scapegoat. 6) The goat that is for the Lord, he is to make it a sin offering. 6) The scapegoat is to be sent alive into the desert. 7) Take burning coals from the censer and incense to burn behind the curtain to conceal himself. 8) take the bulls blood and sprinkle it on the atonement cover. 9) do the same with the goats blood. 10) then do the same for the Tent of Meeting. 11) then the same for the altar. 12) place his hands on the scapegoat and confessing all the sins of Aaron and the people and letting it go. 13) Aaron is to bathe and change back to “street clothes” to offer the burnt offering for himself and the people. 14) the remaining pieces of the offerings are to be burned outside the camp. 15) all who touched the scapegoat and the remaining sacrifice pieces must be bathed.


What do you learn from this chapter about: a) the conditions of approach into God’s presence; b) the complete removal of sin’s guilt through substitution; c) the necessity on man’s part of submission in penitence and faith to God’s way of salvation? Answer: The first thing that comes to mind is how we would think of this kind of thing today. Many today would look at this like, “really, I have to do what?” In other words “I have to do that to atone for my sins to a God I can’t see? I don’t need that.” I wonder, how many of the Jews felt the same way? Anyway, back to the questions. A person has to be made holy and righteous in order to approach God, and even then we cannot see Him. It is through a process (in these times it is sacrifice and today a belief in Christ as the Way) that removes our sins. Either then or now submission is mandatory to the forgiveness of sins.


Note: v 8, 10, 26. ‘Scapegoat’ in Hebrew (azazel) means ‘destruction’.

July 1, 2010 Lesson 10 of Leviticus 14:33-15:33

How does this portion show that sin, wherever found and in whatever form, is defiling God’s sight, and prevents acceptance before him? Answer: I think that all of these “unclean” situations show that we are unclean before God. I see that no one is really shunned, they are quarantined to begin or go through a cleansing process.


Chapter 15 is usually taken to represent the defilement of secret sin. Notice: a) how it pollutes the whole life and all around it, and b) that this kind of defilement requires atonement just as much as other forms of sin. Cf. Pss 19:12; 51:6-9. Answer: It is interesting how everything this unclean person comes in contact with becomes unclean. People, clothing, chairs, beds and bed linens, ect all becomes unclean. Women as well are seen as unclean during their monthly period. I find it even more interesting that when a man and woman are together that they are too bathe and become unclean for a period of time.