1 ¶ And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Strange is a word that can mean foreign or alien in the Bible. It is something other than what was commanded.
Exodus 30:9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
A stranger is a foreigner or alien.
Genesis 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Genesis 17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
Genesis 23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
There are many other verses that underscore that to be strange is to be alien.
2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Under the Law, to the Hebrews, there was this fierceness about their relationship with God. Under grace, God does not send fire to strike us although we are often rebuked and chastised for our sins. Unfortunately, many Christian consciences are so seared they can’t understand or realize any lesson from their rebuke.
3 ¶ Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
God did not want mundane worship. An analogy today would be when carnal and worldly music is used in worship or psychology is used in Pastoral Counseling, as it has been since the 1920’s. Neither of these things are Biblical or of God. God has not called us to hip shaking flesh driven music in worship or for Freudian non-Biblical principles in counseling. We are not called to “shake our booty” and to think of fleshly things when worshipping our Lord but for praise and the glorifying of God. In counseling it is not about empowerment, self-esteem, or self-realization but obedience to Christ and to His words, the love for God, and being filled with the Holy Spirit. Christians have been offering strange fire before the Lord for over a century and although we aren’t destroyed by fire our churches have lost their spiritual power and become clubhouses for the sedated, the self-righteous, or the malcontent.
4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
Someone else is told later not to publicly mourn for a loved one because their death was a sign that the Lord wanted to manifest for the sake of people watching.
Ezekiel 24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
It is Ezekiel’s wife who God takes from him in order to show Israel what they will lose.
Ezekiel 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Here is an important principle for the Christian. Aaron and his sons were not to enter into the Lord’s presence having drunk strong drink. We Christians, as a holy and royal priesthood, are always in the presence of the Lord, as unlike the Hebrews, each of us has God’s Spirit dwelling in us. So, should we not abstain from strong drink?
1Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Now, we have established that each Christian is part of a royal priesthood and that they are always in God’s presence as their body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. We are also each, in type, the nation of Israel as a whole so that we can read the Old Testament and see our own lives written out before us in the tragedy of the nation of Israel. We will fail in our sin but God will, in the end, redeem us. This is an important point, I think.
12 ¶ And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
Here is a principle that shows that those who are in full time service for the Lord are entitled to receive wages of that work. Although this is a highly misused and abused principle it is still true. Let us not forget, though, Paul’s labor as a tentmaker.
Acts 18:3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons’ with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,
17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.
19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?
20 And when Moses heard that, he was content.
Here, Aaron reveals that the deaths of his sons have put him in fear and that he took responsibility in some form for their sin. Note the difference in his attitude with regard to the golden calf he produced for the Hebrews back in Exodus. This is proof that people can grow, learn, and change.
Exodus 32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Latest Reading
Preachers Present Arms by Ray H. Abrams, Ph.D., Round Table Press, Inc. 1933. This is an incredible look at how easily the government can and has repeatedly subverted the churches of the United States to get them to be agents of the state and cheerleaders for war. Every Christian, particularly those who think that they are Bible Believers and that they worship Jesus Christ and not the state, should read this and take account of themselves. The behavior of American Churches in time of war is apalling. How easily we fall away. World War One was not merely the Western world committing suicide and the end of the Times of the Gentiles spoken of in the Bible but it led to all of the other ills of the last hundred years. The participation of the churches of the United States in this hundred year catastrophe is all too apparent and sickening.
Leviticus, chapter nine
1 ¶ And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
It’s interesting to note that the eighth day was when a child was to be circumcised, receiving the sign of being a Hebrew.
Leviticus 12:3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.
Notice this comment on the calves here relating them to God’s future people.
Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD will appear unto you.
Notice one difference between this age of the Law and the Church age in that God appears outwardly to these people but inwardly to us. We look for God to appear to finish things once and for all.
5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
See here how the congregation is dependent upon Moses….
6 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.
…to reveal or make manifest what God has said, while we, the sons and daughters of God, can directly have God speak to our spirits through His word. What a great time to live in, to enjoy fellowship with God without a human prophet being necessary to tell you. Of course, there are still preachers who try to make you think you can not be taught or instructed by the Holy Spirit without them. The old Puritan heresy that the principal way God speaks to his people is through the weekly sermon rather than through His word is still prevalent, particularly among many fundamentalist churches associated with cult preachers like the late Jack Hyles.
1John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
All of us are to preach to the lost so that they hear God’s words.
Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
But, then the bishop or elder of your local church should direct you to read God’s words. His purpose should be to exhort you to obedience to Christ through His word.
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Always understanding that God’s word is the principal means of sanctification.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
No preacher today, no minister, has the role of Moses leading his people in the wilderness except in type. Some of them take the typology so seriously they become abusive, manipulative tyrants.
7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
8 ¶ Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:
10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.
11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.
Hebrews 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. 14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
15 And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.
16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.
17 And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.
18 He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver:
20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.
23 ¶ And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.
2Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Revelation 1:16b ……and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. 17a And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead………
It’s interesting to note that the eighth day was when a child was to be circumcised, receiving the sign of being a Hebrew.
Leviticus 12:3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.
Notice this comment on the calves here relating them to God’s future people.
Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD will appear unto you.
Notice one difference between this age of the Law and the Church age in that God appears outwardly to these people but inwardly to us. We look for God to appear to finish things once and for all.
5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
See here how the congregation is dependent upon Moses….
6 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.
…to reveal or make manifest what God has said, while we, the sons and daughters of God, can directly have God speak to our spirits through His word. What a great time to live in, to enjoy fellowship with God without a human prophet being necessary to tell you. Of course, there are still preachers who try to make you think you can not be taught or instructed by the Holy Spirit without them. The old Puritan heresy that the principal way God speaks to his people is through the weekly sermon rather than through His word is still prevalent, particularly among many fundamentalist churches associated with cult preachers like the late Jack Hyles.
1John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
All of us are to preach to the lost so that they hear God’s words.
Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
But, then the bishop or elder of your local church should direct you to read God’s words. His purpose should be to exhort you to obedience to Christ through His word.
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Always understanding that God’s word is the principal means of sanctification.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
No preacher today, no minister, has the role of Moses leading his people in the wilderness except in type. Some of them take the typology so seriously they become abusive, manipulative tyrants.
7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
8 ¶ Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:
10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.
11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.
Hebrews 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. 14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
15 And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.
16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.
17 And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.
18 He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver:
20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.
23 ¶ And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.
2Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Revelation 1:16b ……and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. 17a And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead………
Sunday, July 13, 2008
The Dark Side of Fundamentalism - Devils in the pulpit
2 Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
There is a fact presented by the above verses that leads one to understand that Satan can be represented by "men of God" who are doing his work rather than Christ's. These men "hold the truth in unrighteousness;" and will often do wrong and then justify it by doing one of three things.
First, they will say that a command is found in the Bible and yet will not quote the chapter and verse but simply say, "It's Bible". The member of the congregation who they have kept ignorant by not focusing on preaching that that member feed themselves every day on God's word can only assume they are speaking the truth. Here are two classic examples of heresy produced by some fundamentalist preachers and forced on their unsuspecting and often willfully ignorant congregation.
"The Pastor's authority over your children is greater then the parent's authority. The Pastor must answer to Jesus Christ for your children."
Nowhere does it say in the Bible, and nowhere in the letters of the New Testament that pertain to doctrine in the Church Age, the "Age of the Doctrines of Grace", does it say that the Pastor, Bishop, or Elder of the New Testament Church has authority over your children that trumps your God given authority. If you believe it does, don't hand me the malarkey of "It's Bible" but give me the verses.
This is the thinking of a cult mentality.
Another error introduced in some churches is that the widows and single women of the church have no voice in the congregation except through the Pastor. They have no voice of their own. They certainly don't have any say over their own children. This is exercised in the event that a single mother is concerned about the lack of adult supervision in a youth group or of behavior in a youth pastor that she can not, in good conscience, tolerate. She is told that either her children be placed under the authority of the youth pastor of questionable judgment or that she must leave the church, even if she has been attending the church for decades.
This wickedness is compounded by telling her that "it's Bible" that if a widow is rebellious for not disposing of her children in the way the Pastor sees fit she is to be turned out of the church.
Chapter and verse, please.
I have already explained how Numbers 27 gives a principle that women without male heads of family were entitled by God to a share of the Hebrews' inheritance. It would seem to be a sound principle to me, at least, that single mothers who are heads of their family should have a vote or some kind of say.
A second thing that these Satans in the pulpit will do is to continue to try to force their congregations back under the Law of Moses so that they can control them in spite of the fact that under the doctrines of the Church Age;
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
These same controlling abusers will then, under the same methodology, drag the New Testament Bishop or Pastor back into the Old Testament as a Prophet anointed to call down fire from heaven on those who won't obey him. And yet, here are some important verses under the doctrines of grace regarding the Pastor of the New Testament Church.
1 Timothy 5:1 ¶ Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
How do you reconcile these words to a New Testament Church Pastor with Elisha, the Old Testament prophet who calls she bears out to kill Hebrew children mocking him fulfilling Leviticus 26:22?
What about this warning to elders which is generally recognized to refer to Pastors?
1 Peter 5:1 ¶ The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: 2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Doesn't seem much like Elijah calling fire down on groups of fifty soldiers, does it?
This same gentle Shepherd will warn his brainwashed church members that if they leave his church, his authority, even if they choose their own family members which he has abused over him, that they will suffer punishment from God.
Out of which book of the Bible did they get that hateful threat?
Lastly, for my argument, but certainly not finally, as they have other ploys and tactics that Satan has given them, they will twist scriptures, wrenching them out of their context by violence to batter some weak person, usually a woman who has been abused already by men, to submission.
For instance;
Numbers 12:1 ¶ And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)4 ¶ And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.10 ¶ And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
The abusive Pastor imagines himself to be Moses under the operation of the Old Testament Law. He is not the gentle shepherd of the New Testament church but the fire breathing disciplinarian of the Sinai whom God will avenge if crossed. They'll even be quoted as saying "don't mess with the Pastor." They'll imply that if you cross them God will kill you or give you a disease like Miriam. And yet, the rule that the New Testament pastor has over his flock is clearly of a different nature.
1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.It is clearly the spiritual rule of a temperate, self-disciplined man who is faithful to his wife. Go back to the verses in 1 Peter 5:2,3.
It is probably best to attend a church for a good while before joining. But, you won't see what kind of Pastor you really have until your church faces a crisis. It is then you'll know if he is working to build faith in Christ or working to build a flock he can control for whatever purpose. Be warned. There are many good churches out there and there are bad ones.
Read your Bible, know it, study it, and memorize it. Do not be deceived.
2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
There is a fact presented by the above verses that leads one to understand that Satan can be represented by "men of God" who are doing his work rather than Christ's. These men "hold the truth in unrighteousness;" and will often do wrong and then justify it by doing one of three things.
First, they will say that a command is found in the Bible and yet will not quote the chapter and verse but simply say, "It's Bible". The member of the congregation who they have kept ignorant by not focusing on preaching that that member feed themselves every day on God's word can only assume they are speaking the truth. Here are two classic examples of heresy produced by some fundamentalist preachers and forced on their unsuspecting and often willfully ignorant congregation.
"The Pastor's authority over your children is greater then the parent's authority. The Pastor must answer to Jesus Christ for your children."
Nowhere does it say in the Bible, and nowhere in the letters of the New Testament that pertain to doctrine in the Church Age, the "Age of the Doctrines of Grace", does it say that the Pastor, Bishop, or Elder of the New Testament Church has authority over your children that trumps your God given authority. If you believe it does, don't hand me the malarkey of "It's Bible" but give me the verses.
This is the thinking of a cult mentality.
Another error introduced in some churches is that the widows and single women of the church have no voice in the congregation except through the Pastor. They have no voice of their own. They certainly don't have any say over their own children. This is exercised in the event that a single mother is concerned about the lack of adult supervision in a youth group or of behavior in a youth pastor that she can not, in good conscience, tolerate. She is told that either her children be placed under the authority of the youth pastor of questionable judgment or that she must leave the church, even if she has been attending the church for decades.
This wickedness is compounded by telling her that "it's Bible" that if a widow is rebellious for not disposing of her children in the way the Pastor sees fit she is to be turned out of the church.
Chapter and verse, please.
I have already explained how Numbers 27 gives a principle that women without male heads of family were entitled by God to a share of the Hebrews' inheritance. It would seem to be a sound principle to me, at least, that single mothers who are heads of their family should have a vote or some kind of say.
A second thing that these Satans in the pulpit will do is to continue to try to force their congregations back under the Law of Moses so that they can control them in spite of the fact that under the doctrines of the Church Age;
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
These same controlling abusers will then, under the same methodology, drag the New Testament Bishop or Pastor back into the Old Testament as a Prophet anointed to call down fire from heaven on those who won't obey him. And yet, here are some important verses under the doctrines of grace regarding the Pastor of the New Testament Church.
1 Timothy 5:1 ¶ Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
How do you reconcile these words to a New Testament Church Pastor with Elisha, the Old Testament prophet who calls she bears out to kill Hebrew children mocking him fulfilling Leviticus 26:22?
What about this warning to elders which is generally recognized to refer to Pastors?
1 Peter 5:1 ¶ The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: 2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Doesn't seem much like Elijah calling fire down on groups of fifty soldiers, does it?
This same gentle Shepherd will warn his brainwashed church members that if they leave his church, his authority, even if they choose their own family members which he has abused over him, that they will suffer punishment from God.
Out of which book of the Bible did they get that hateful threat?
Lastly, for my argument, but certainly not finally, as they have other ploys and tactics that Satan has given them, they will twist scriptures, wrenching them out of their context by violence to batter some weak person, usually a woman who has been abused already by men, to submission.
For instance;
Numbers 12:1 ¶ And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)4 ¶ And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.10 ¶ And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
The abusive Pastor imagines himself to be Moses under the operation of the Old Testament Law. He is not the gentle shepherd of the New Testament church but the fire breathing disciplinarian of the Sinai whom God will avenge if crossed. They'll even be quoted as saying "don't mess with the Pastor." They'll imply that if you cross them God will kill you or give you a disease like Miriam. And yet, the rule that the New Testament pastor has over his flock is clearly of a different nature.
1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.It is clearly the spiritual rule of a temperate, self-disciplined man who is faithful to his wife. Go back to the verses in 1 Peter 5:2,3.
It is probably best to attend a church for a good while before joining. But, you won't see what kind of Pastor you really have until your church faces a crisis. It is then you'll know if he is working to build faith in Christ or working to build a flock he can control for whatever purpose. Be warned. There are many good churches out there and there are bad ones.
Read your Bible, know it, study it, and memorize it. Do not be deceived.
2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Leviticus, chapter eight
1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
3 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Now, here is an interesting point. The congregation, the church, if you will, had to assemble together at the tabernacle to hear what God had given to Moses to tell them. Notice how fortunate we are today. We don’t assemble for that reason. We have access to what God has said and is saying to us through His words in His Bible. Every day we can permit God to speak to us, we can listen, and His words can act on our minds and hearts; our reasoning and our passion.
We are told to assemble together to exhort one another. That’s true.
Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
But, we are sanctified daily, and grow, if we read and trust God’s words.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
There are many verses in the Bible that talk about reading God’s words. It was the Puritans, according to some sources, that insisted that the principal way God speaks to His people is by the weekly sermons. This heresy has been passed down to fundamentalist churches that lose their spiritual power as a result.
We do assemble together to hear what God has told the preacher to tell us. We hear what God has to say to us each day and throughout the day as we read His words, believing them.
1John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
What the preacher can do is to help you understand the sense and meaning of what God has said, if he is spiritual and if he is mature and if he is in the word of God faithfully each day.
Nehemiah 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done.
6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Let’s compare this that Moses did with what Christ adorns the Christian with in this age.
Isaiah 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
The oil is a type of the Holy Spirit. Notice how our sanctification is accomplished and by what physical item.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
The Hebrew priesthood was sanctified by works while we are sanctified by God’s words. The results of our sanctification, the physical results are clearly stated;
First, what you don’t do.
1Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
And then belief;
2Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
And then obedience.
1Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.
12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
13 And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
14 ¶ And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.
Here, we have a type of Christ.
15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
Whose blood purifies the altar in our heart (The Christian has no other altar, certainly not the step at the front of the sanctuary upon which the pulpit stands).
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
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.
16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar.
17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
18 And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
Did you notice back in Genesis 22 that God had provided a ram for Abraham’s sacrifice in place of his son, who represented Christ?
Genesis 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
19 And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
22 And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
23 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
I don’t understand the significance of this, as yet. Perhaps someone else has an idea. One spiritual application is that God must cleanse what we hear through, what we use to touch, and what we use to walk as these are things that lead us into great trouble and sin. We listen to wickedness far too often and not enough to God’s words.
24 And he brought Aaron’s sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
27 And he put all upon Aaron’s hands, and upon his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses’ part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons’ garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
31 ¶ And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.
Obviously, seven is also a number of consecration. Seven has quite a special significance in the Bible and is worth your study.
34 As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.
This is the Lord commanding things to be done to make an atonement, for them to make peace with God. We have a more sure sacrifice, which is God Himself.
Genesis 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
At least now, Aaron and his sons are obedient.
2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
3 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Now, here is an interesting point. The congregation, the church, if you will, had to assemble together at the tabernacle to hear what God had given to Moses to tell them. Notice how fortunate we are today. We don’t assemble for that reason. We have access to what God has said and is saying to us through His words in His Bible. Every day we can permit God to speak to us, we can listen, and His words can act on our minds and hearts; our reasoning and our passion.
We are told to assemble together to exhort one another. That’s true.
Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
But, we are sanctified daily, and grow, if we read and trust God’s words.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
There are many verses in the Bible that talk about reading God’s words. It was the Puritans, according to some sources, that insisted that the principal way God speaks to His people is by the weekly sermons. This heresy has been passed down to fundamentalist churches that lose their spiritual power as a result.
We do assemble together to hear what God has told the preacher to tell us. We hear what God has to say to us each day and throughout the day as we read His words, believing them.
1John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
What the preacher can do is to help you understand the sense and meaning of what God has said, if he is spiritual and if he is mature and if he is in the word of God faithfully each day.
Nehemiah 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done.
6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Let’s compare this that Moses did with what Christ adorns the Christian with in this age.
Isaiah 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
The oil is a type of the Holy Spirit. Notice how our sanctification is accomplished and by what physical item.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
The Hebrew priesthood was sanctified by works while we are sanctified by God’s words. The results of our sanctification, the physical results are clearly stated;
First, what you don’t do.
1Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
And then belief;
2Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
And then obedience.
1Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.
12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
13 And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
14 ¶ And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.
Here, we have a type of Christ.
15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
Whose blood purifies the altar in our heart (The Christian has no other altar, certainly not the step at the front of the sanctuary upon which the pulpit stands).
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
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.
16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar.
17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
18 And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
Did you notice back in Genesis 22 that God had provided a ram for Abraham’s sacrifice in place of his son, who represented Christ?
Genesis 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
19 And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
22 And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
23 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
I don’t understand the significance of this, as yet. Perhaps someone else has an idea. One spiritual application is that God must cleanse what we hear through, what we use to touch, and what we use to walk as these are things that lead us into great trouble and sin. We listen to wickedness far too often and not enough to God’s words.
24 And he brought Aaron’s sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
27 And he put all upon Aaron’s hands, and upon his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses’ part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons’ garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
31 ¶ And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.
Obviously, seven is also a number of consecration. Seven has quite a special significance in the Bible and is worth your study.
34 As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.
This is the Lord commanding things to be done to make an atonement, for them to make peace with God. We have a more sure sacrifice, which is God Himself.
Genesis 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
At least now, Aaron and his sons are obedient.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Leviticus, Chapter Seven
1 ¶ Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
Notice how only the males would eat in the holy place of the offering. This is a characteristic of the Law but not of the dispensation of Grace in which such spiritual differences between the sexes have been eliminated.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
In fact, it appears that many fundamentalists are not only afraid of women but actually appear to hate them under the guise of male headship. I know of churches that welcome single mothers but make no provision for a woman who is the head of a family to vote. So, what they are saying is that women are welcome to attend church and to tithe and give offerings but by virtue of their gender have no say in the affairs of the church. A woman having voting rights does in no way affect or undermine a husband’s headship. These Pharisees would love to put us back under the Hebrew Law but ignore the fact that God said to them that if no husband was in place then the woman would get the inheritance.
Numbers 27:1 ¶ Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. 5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD. 6 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. 9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren. 10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren. 11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Of course, this is not about what we are discussing in these verses but just an aside that came to my mind.
7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
What is the difference between a sin and a trespass? They are synonymous according to Genesis 31:36;
And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
A sin is a trespass. Go back to chapter 6, verse 2.
8 And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.
9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.
10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
11 ¶ And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
I think it is interesting how Christ made peace for us and He is our peace offering.
Ephesians 2:14 ¶ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
A peace offering must be consumed immediately, in the same day it is offered. Nothing is to be left. It is to be finished once and for all.
Hebrews 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
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 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
1Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
A voluntary sacrifice can be finished the following day.
17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
The third day signifying Christ’s resurrection from the dead after spending time in the fires of Hell.
Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.
You weren’t to eat a polluted peace offering. If you did it had no value to you. Many today have created another Jesus, one that isn’t found in the Bible but is the product of their own imagination. This other Jesus judges nothing, condemns no one, demands little, and is basically some kind of Satanic poster child for people who want to justify sin. This other Jesus has no power and is merely a figment of peoples’ polluted imagination. To the fundamentalist, the other Jesus they create is the ultimate Judaizer, always trying to put people back under the curse of the Law of Moses, in opposition to the Jesus of the Bible. It has been said to me by a youth preacher that it is possible to know the Bible and to not know the God of the Bible apparently in an attempt to insist that his fantasy Jesus was the real one. I would say that it is, by contrast, impossible to know the God of the Bible without knowing the Bible. So many of even the most seemingly spiritual “men of God” have been taken prisoner by Satan and are filled with all manner of deception.
20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
God took this offense very seriously. You were to be killed if you committed this wrong.
21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Notice how that before Christ the soul and the body were spoken of together. The sins you committed with your flesh tainted your soul. But, under Christ’s grace God has performed an operation which circumcises the soul from the flesh so that the soul can’t be condemned for the sins of the flesh.
Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 ¶ And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
I think it can safely be said that not only does an unsaved, unregenerate person have a dead spirit but that the sins of their flesh wound their soul, as well. By the time the soul of an unsaved person gets to the Great White Throne Judgment at the end of the millennium it’s got to be a pretty ugly sight.
22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
This would exclude quite a lot of delicious recipes from around the world. I can remember when I was in high school in New Jersey, our neighbor, who was of Hungarian extraction had a tasty dish that consisted of animal fat melted and dripping on bread. Obviously, eating fat deliberately isn’t healthy for you although we all need some incidental fat in our diets which we get just from eating meat.
24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
Particularly they were not to eat of animals which had dropped dead or had been partially eaten by predators. This sheds some light on what some ancient customs may have been like and its pretty disgusting. I imagine that those living in the poorer parts of the earth today have experience eating animals killed in this way.
25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
This admonition is so serious, whether for the prevention of disease or not, that God wants the death of the transgressor. The meaning of “cut off” as “to kill” is established early on as in Genesis 9:11.
26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Eating blood is proscribed before the Law;
Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Eating blood is forbidden here under the Law and it is forbidden after the Law, in the Church Age.
Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
So, even a hyperdispensationalist should agree that we are not to willfully eat or drink blood.
27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
It’s important enough to die for if one transgresses. See “cut off” in another passage.
Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.
34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
35 ¶ This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest’s office;
36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.
God took care of the Hebrew priests through the offerings made to Him.
37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Here, we have God giving us the location again and the time when these offerings had been ordered by Him.
2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
Notice how only the males would eat in the holy place of the offering. This is a characteristic of the Law but not of the dispensation of Grace in which such spiritual differences between the sexes have been eliminated.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
In fact, it appears that many fundamentalists are not only afraid of women but actually appear to hate them under the guise of male headship. I know of churches that welcome single mothers but make no provision for a woman who is the head of a family to vote. So, what they are saying is that women are welcome to attend church and to tithe and give offerings but by virtue of their gender have no say in the affairs of the church. A woman having voting rights does in no way affect or undermine a husband’s headship. These Pharisees would love to put us back under the Hebrew Law but ignore the fact that God said to them that if no husband was in place then the woman would get the inheritance.
Numbers 27:1 ¶ Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. 5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD. 6 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. 9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren. 10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren. 11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Of course, this is not about what we are discussing in these verses but just an aside that came to my mind.
7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
What is the difference between a sin and a trespass? They are synonymous according to Genesis 31:36;
And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
A sin is a trespass. Go back to chapter 6, verse 2.
8 And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.
9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.
10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
11 ¶ And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
I think it is interesting how Christ made peace for us and He is our peace offering.
Ephesians 2:14 ¶ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
A peace offering must be consumed immediately, in the same day it is offered. Nothing is to be left. It is to be finished once and for all.
Hebrews 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
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 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
1Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
A voluntary sacrifice can be finished the following day.
17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
The third day signifying Christ’s resurrection from the dead after spending time in the fires of Hell.
Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.
You weren’t to eat a polluted peace offering. If you did it had no value to you. Many today have created another Jesus, one that isn’t found in the Bible but is the product of their own imagination. This other Jesus judges nothing, condemns no one, demands little, and is basically some kind of Satanic poster child for people who want to justify sin. This other Jesus has no power and is merely a figment of peoples’ polluted imagination. To the fundamentalist, the other Jesus they create is the ultimate Judaizer, always trying to put people back under the curse of the Law of Moses, in opposition to the Jesus of the Bible. It has been said to me by a youth preacher that it is possible to know the Bible and to not know the God of the Bible apparently in an attempt to insist that his fantasy Jesus was the real one. I would say that it is, by contrast, impossible to know the God of the Bible without knowing the Bible. So many of even the most seemingly spiritual “men of God” have been taken prisoner by Satan and are filled with all manner of deception.
20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
God took this offense very seriously. You were to be killed if you committed this wrong.
21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Notice how that before Christ the soul and the body were spoken of together. The sins you committed with your flesh tainted your soul. But, under Christ’s grace God has performed an operation which circumcises the soul from the flesh so that the soul can’t be condemned for the sins of the flesh.
Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 ¶ And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
I think it can safely be said that not only does an unsaved, unregenerate person have a dead spirit but that the sins of their flesh wound their soul, as well. By the time the soul of an unsaved person gets to the Great White Throne Judgment at the end of the millennium it’s got to be a pretty ugly sight.
22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
This would exclude quite a lot of delicious recipes from around the world. I can remember when I was in high school in New Jersey, our neighbor, who was of Hungarian extraction had a tasty dish that consisted of animal fat melted and dripping on bread. Obviously, eating fat deliberately isn’t healthy for you although we all need some incidental fat in our diets which we get just from eating meat.
24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
Particularly they were not to eat of animals which had dropped dead or had been partially eaten by predators. This sheds some light on what some ancient customs may have been like and its pretty disgusting. I imagine that those living in the poorer parts of the earth today have experience eating animals killed in this way.
25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
This admonition is so serious, whether for the prevention of disease or not, that God wants the death of the transgressor. The meaning of “cut off” as “to kill” is established early on as in Genesis 9:11.
26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Eating blood is proscribed before the Law;
Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Eating blood is forbidden here under the Law and it is forbidden after the Law, in the Church Age.
Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
So, even a hyperdispensationalist should agree that we are not to willfully eat or drink blood.
27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
It’s important enough to die for if one transgresses. See “cut off” in another passage.
Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.
34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
35 ¶ This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest’s office;
36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.
God took care of the Hebrew priests through the offerings made to Him.
37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Here, we have God giving us the location again and the time when these offerings had been ordered by Him.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Latest Reading
The Earth is not Moving, by Marshall Hall, Fair Education Foundation, 1991. What if everything we were taught in school was wrong? Wouldn't that be a hoot? Since things like eclipse predictions and navigation are all based on the assumption of a fixed, non-rotating earth, just suppose that is true. Fred Hoyle, the noted astronomer, said it didn't matter as none of our calculations for space travel are based on what revolves around what and even Einstein's phony baloney Theory of Relativity claimed all motion was relative to the observer. Now that many believe that the speed of light is not a constant, what if the gravitational force is not universal. Let's suppose that real science; that which deals with observation, experimentation, and confirmation, can't be mixed in with conjecture and fantasy. Even if you believe all that you've been told with the big yellow styrofoam sun, the pipe cleaners, and the little styrofoam planets you must certainly have questions as it all defies common sense. Oh well.
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