PlayStop Popout X Every year when the Israelite would sacrifice a lamb, the next year as they prepared to sacrifice another one, they would conclude that last year’s lamb was not sufficient to satisfy God’s demanded price for sin. “For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for…
Suggested Bible Reading: Leviticus 22-24 Devotional Thought: The first 16 verses of this chapter continue instructions to the priests. This section deals in particular with how the sanctity of the “holy things” was to be preserved. It is interesting that the term is used nine times in the book of Leviticus but only once outside…
Suggested Bible Reading: Leviticus 19-21 Devotional Thought: Leviticus 19 covers a great deal of ground, ranging from what might appear to be the mundane or trivial, such as the use of weights and measures and the care of one’s beard, through certain moral issues to the question of idols and witchcraft. There is a certain…
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Suggested Bible Reading: Leviticus 16-18 Devotional Thought: The deaths of Nadab and Abihu (Lev. 10) must have put the fear of God into Aaron and the priests so that they wondered whether it was even safe to enter the tabernacle’s precincts to do their work. God made it clear that the priests needed not be…
Suggested Bible Reading: Leviticus 11-15 Devotional Thought: The book of Leviticus is divided into two main parts. The first of these deals with the worship of God’s people to God (ch 1-10) and the second with their walk with God. (ch 11-27) Chapter 11 marks the beginning of the second main section of the book.…
Suggested Bible Reading: Leviticus 5-7 Devotional Thought: In this section, there is a sudden change in emphasis. Prior to this, in dealing with the sin offering, the emphasis has been on the people who had sinned and on the animals sacrificed. Now, the focus changes to examples of sin that the sin offering covered. Four…
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PlayStop Popout X “Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum…” (Hebrews 8:1) The word “sum” means chief point, major thrust, and principle thought. The writer is about to give the major thrust and principle thought of the High Priesthood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the great High…
Suggested Bible Reading: Exodus 36-38 Devotional Thought: These chapters contain further details of the construction of the Tabernacle. There are several additional items of information, which I am not going to address in this devotional. In chapter 39 we find the work is completed and the intention, instruction, and importance regarding the tabernacle is communicated.…