Monday, September 14, 2020

Leviticus 6:24-30 comments: law of the sin offering

 

Leviticus 6:24 ¶  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 25  Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy. 26  The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation. 27  Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place. 28  But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water. 29  All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy. 30  And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.

 

These are rules given in addition to what is required in chapter 4, verses 1 to 35. The burnt offering is holy to the Lord, as the offering of Christ is holy. Remember the metaphor Jesus laid out comparing his body to actual flesh to eat in John, chapter 6, when He said that He was the bread of life come down from Heaven? There is a spiritual link to these sacrifices eaten by the priests here.

Christ’s physical, earthly body was broken but His spiritual body is forever and ever. This compares in our minds, for us to think about from verse 28, the difference between our body of flesh and our resurrection body.

Blood, which I noted, was forbidden to be eaten before the Law, under the Law, and after the Law might represent the temporal nature of our flesh and bone bodies. It is no accident I think that blood is not mentioned in regard to Adam and Eve before the Fall. Later, in regard to our fallen bodies and the life we live in perpetual decay it will be noted that our life is in our blood and it is only by the shedding of blood that sin is forgiven; Christ’s blood.

Leviticus 17:11   For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

 

Hebrews 9:22   And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

 

It is by Christ’s shed pure and sinless blood we enter into eternal life.

 

Acts 20:28   Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

 

Hebrews 9:12   Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

 

Hebrews 13:12   Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

 

Revelation 1:5   And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

 

If the blood of the offering was brought into the holy place then the flesh could not be eaten but was to be burnt without the camp. Our fallen bodies, which can be represented by the blood that carries biological life, cannot enter the world of the spirit and eternity. Paul will say;

1Corinthians 15:35 ¶  But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36  Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37  And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38  But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every

seed his own body. 39  All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. 40  There are also celestial

bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41  There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. 42  So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43  It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47  The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48  As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49  And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

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