Leviticus 1:1-9:24 Offerings & Priests Consecrated
- God made a distinction between sins committed in ignorance versus those committed knowingly. He further stipulated that the guilt of a sin committed in ignorance became known once it was realized as a sin. Keep in mind that the further the Israelites were from Egypt (time wise) and from Moses' speaking directly to them about God's Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances, that they were only given the information on the High Holy Days (which is what made attending them so important). We are blessed to have access to God's Word and are expected to commune in it daily for our protection, proof, ability to stay healthy and away from temptation of the very things/peoples of this world that continually tripped up Israel. It's easy to sit in our present day and judge the Israelites' many failings not understanding that they did not have such access to read and reread for themselves daily.
- Thankfully Christ became our blood sacrifice so we no longer have to follow the rituals of the blood ordinances in our daily walk today. We simply have to repent for our sins rather than offer up sin, trespass, peace, and wave offerings. Nailed To The Cross
- The Offerings served two purposes: 1) the ability for sins to be wiped away and 2) to prove (proof) the Israelites' obedience to God. God continues and always to prove His children through their knowledge and obedience to His instructions to us.
- The "strange fire" was Nadab and Abihu (Aaron's sons/priests) bringing in and creating fire of their own making/choosing against that for which God had commanded them to do. Right out of the gate, the keepers of God's command went with what was easy as opposed to what was proof of their obedience. God is not unreasonable or unnatural. He stipulated processes in part for Israelites' (our) protection, and in part to test (prove) the Israelites' heart in following Him.
- God provides both the commands of Law (which still exist today), the blood ordinances/offerings (which changed in process (repent for sins) when Christ became our blood ordinance for all time), and in Health Ordinances/Statutes (which are not a sin against God/our soul, but against the flesh bodies He created). As God created our flesh bodies, He knows beyond what even our present day science knows/understands about how they work and what keeps them healthy (we only in recent past century discovered DNA for which was spoken of in Genesis). God will not condemn us to a spiritual death based on breaking these health laws, but rather we condemn our health in these flesh bodies by not following God's instructions of what keeps them healthy.
- Leviticus 11 outlines the Food Laws. All of God's creatures are perfectly made in their function and purpose for which they were created. Whether they are good for consumption is based upon their purpose (scavengers were created to keep the earth and seas clean and are a necessary purpose served....eating them however is unhealthy to our flesh bodies. Their very structure created for their purpose (whether or not they are eating the filthiest of earthly/sea trash or man served foods, their system is such to serve their purpose which is unhealthy for us to consume). Health Laws
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