Musings on the Tough Life Questions

Day 59,  February 28 Ex. 23:14-19  Requirements for celebrating three festivals annually Ex. 34:18-26  Regulations regarding celebrations and offerings Num. 28:1-15        Daily, Sabbath, and monthly offerings Lev. 23:4-8 / Num. 28:16-25 / Deut. 16:1-8     Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Pesach) Lev. 23:9-14 / Deut. 26:1-15      Firstfruits and tithes Lev. 27:30-33 / Deut. 14:22-29  Tithes Ex. 23:14-19  Requirements for celebrating three festivals annually God appointed 3 times for the community to meet Him. These were Israel’s, appointed times on the calendar to meet with God. To appear before the Lord, is literally to appear before His face as a community. The first was at Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread (when Barley was harvested), the second was Feast of Harvest (Pentecost, when wheat was harvested), and the third was Feast of Ingathering (The Harvest, Tabernacles, when grapes were h...

Day 58,  February 27 Lev. 11 / (Deut. 14:6-20) Clean and unclean animals Lev. 20:25-26 / Deut. 14:3-5, 21 Clean and unclean animals Deut. 12:15-25      Regulations regarding blood and meat Lev. 7:22-27  Regulations against eating fat and blood Lev. 17:10-16        Regulations against eating blood Lev. 19:23-25        Forbidden fruit Lev. 11 / (Deut. 14:6-20) Clean and unclean animals Lev 11:1-3 All animals who divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chew the cud who can eat Deut 14:6-8 You can eat Ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, antelope, mountain sheo Lev 11:4-8  Camels, Rock Badgar, the Hare - chew the cud, but no cloven hooves ← can’t eat Swine - Have cloven hooves but does not chew the cud ← can’t eat Lev 11:9/ Deut 14:9-10 All that in the water with fins and scales in the seas and rivers you can eat Lev 11:10-12  Creatures in the water that do not have fins and scales are an abomination....

Day 56,  February 25 Num. 19     The water of cleansing / Uncleanness and death Lev. 13:1-46  Regulations concerning infectious skin diseases (leprosy) Lev. 14:1-32  Cleansing from infectious skin diseases Num. 19     The water of cleansing / Uncleanness and death Num 19:1-10 This is a special sacrifice, the sacrifice of a red heifer. Unlike a lot of other sacrifices, which must be killed inside the camp at the altar, the red heifer, without blemish, must be killed outside the camp.  Then the priest takes the blood and sprinkle it 7 times in front of the tabernacle or meeting, and everything burned.   Cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet were also thrown into the fire. This sacrifice was to cleanse anyone unclean.  The priest has to take a bath, wash his clothes before coming back into the camp.  He is unclean until evening.   The ashes kept for water purification for many generations. The red heifer was very very rare, hence the...

  Day 54,  February 23 Num. 6:22-27        The priests’ benediction for the Israelites Num. 7 – 8:4  Offerings at the dedication of the tabernacle Ex. 27:20-21 / Lev. 24:1-9  The command to place oil and bread before the Lord Num. 6:22-27        The priests’ benediction for the Israelites The Father’s Blessing: “The Lord Bless you and Keep you” The Word’s Blessing: “The Lord make His Face Shine Upon you and be Gracious to You” The Spirit’s Blessing: “The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace” This is how they invoke God’s name on the people and bless them. The Lord’s Face is Christ, the Face of a Lion, Man, Ox and Eagle, the Faces of the 4 living creatures. Num. 7 – 8:4  Offerings at the dedication of the tabernacle Num 7:1-3 The leaders of each of the 12 tribes brought an offering: 6 covered carts, one for every 2 leaders, and 12 oxen, one for each. Num 7:4-9 They were distributed to the sons of Lev...

Day 53,  February 22 Lev. 8-9      The cleansing and consecration of Aaron and his sons Lev. 10        Nadab and Abihu’s sacrilege Lev. 16:1-28  Atonement for the sins of Aaron’s sons Lev. 8-9      The cleansing and consecration of Aaron and his sons Lev 8:1-3 Tabernacle completed, priests garments completed, sacrifice instructions completed.  Now to inaugurate the whole thing starting with consecrating the priests, Aaron and his sons.  They were to take a bull as a sin offering first with 2 rams and a basket of unleavened bread.   If you recall, instructions for the installation and dedication of the priests were already given in Exodus 29.  Leviticus 8 & 9 is the fulfillment of those instructions. Lev 8:4-9  Moses washed Aaron and his sons with water.  Images of Jesus washing feet come to mind.  Then he dressed Aaron with the tunic, ephod, breastplate, Urim and Thummim and yur...