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Leviticus 1-7. Rituals of Worship
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2024
- Commentary on Leviticus 1-7 and the sacrifices as rituals of worship. This is part of a larger series that will be listed at johnstevenson.net/ under Video Classes. These lectures are designed for the online class on the Pentateuch at South Florida Bible College & Theological Seminary.
I am a Pastor of a church in India and am doing a sermon series on the Book of Leviticus in our church. I stumbled upon Dr. Stevenson's lecture and found that you have put the elaborate instructions in Levicticus neatly in a nutshell and in tabular columns and charts. Thankyou very much for sharing this valuable resource.
Thank you for your encouraging words; they are appreciated.
I'm so thankful for all your teachings. So many other Pastors out on utube spend more time fighting against one pastor n the other instead of teaching the word of God. So God bless you for blessing us with your teachings.
Thank you for this 🤍🤍🤍
Thank you for these videos Dr. Stevenson and delivering the content with so much enthusiasm 😊
Thank you
You have demystified this great topic, made it so palatable that my soul devoured it in toto. Thank you for your teaching. Thank you for your enthusiasm which came out so clearly while you handled this much-shunned important topic. A hallelujah unto Yeshua, the Lamb of God, is in order here.
This is brilliant! I always struggled with this book, made tables etc. but this teaching breaks it down and makes everything so simple. Thank you so very much!
Great lecture loved the simplicity of it.
Very well explained chapters 1 to 7. Thank you for simplifying this to us. God bless
Thank you for sharing God's holy word , Amen, Bless your heart👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👐
*Excellent-charts helped tremendously.*
Thanks,
Praise the Lord 🙏
thank you so much for making this video, it has helped me a lot in theology and understanding the offerings made to the lord and why! great work!
Very interesting, thank you 🙏
I believe there is a key theological point missed in all translations of Lev 1:5. The young bull is literally "a SON of the herd" . Like Abraham and Isaac, and of course the SON of God. The Israelites were symbolically sacrificing their own son to YHWH.
While I suspect this is merely a figure of speech (the same phrase is also used in Numbers 15:9 and a similar one is used in Exodus 29:1), I nevertheless like your point. Thanks so much for sharing it.
I think its too concrete to just be a Hebrew idiom. Every sacrifice is a son. Exodus 11:7, the beast are considered sons. When YHWH smote the land's first-born he also smoted the first-born beasts as well as people. This is a type of Christ. Tjhanks for your channel and getting people thinking about neglected books of Gods Word.
@@kylec8950 I agree with you
Nice study this book is one of the most dificult for me to remember
well presented
In which verse does it say that the peace offering is a meal for everyone? Maybe I just overlooked it
It is seen in that only portions were given to the Lord. In the further instructions of Leviticus 7:15, you seen the portion that belongs to the priest and the offerer.
DrJohnStevenson thank you :)
great explaination
Isn’t scapegoating evil blaming innocents this is what narcissists do ????
💯💯💯🎯 this
Why was innocent blood needed? What does that have to do with forgiveness?
It is part of the picture. I cannot pay for your sins because I have my own sins for which to atone. Only one who is innocent and who has no sins of his own can atone for the sins of another.
@@DrJohnStevenson That's not the substantive answer I was looking for exactly. I'm familiar with "without the shedding of innocent blood" verses. Why would a God require the same blood economy of other ancient cultures? I left Christianity because of its lack of sense. Why is their a need for substitutional sacrifices at all? People don't do that. It smacks of superstitions, antiquated, uniformed theology, in my opinion. Thanks for responding, sir.
You seem to be looking for a 21st century answer to why God communicated in a certain way to an ancient culture. It is because He was speaking their language, not yours.
But to say that the idea of a personal sacrifice smacks of superstition or that it is antiquated tells me something about you. Have you ever seen an a completely selfless act of sacrifice? I don't think that really ever goes out of style.
Innocent blood was spilled is the correct answer
@@DrJohnStevenson I was looking for an answer. Blood is not magical. How would my comment suggest a 21st century context? It's any century's context. Why would God comment that some women want penises the size of donkeys and desire the male's emissions to be in the amount of horses' emissions? Cut your wife's hand off if she defends you in a fight and grabs your opponent's genitals? Magic potions and pools of water? A global flood with 8 humans with the responsibility of caring for all the species on a wooden boat? The list goes on and on. People growing five pounds of hair every year? Innocent blood is not needed to influence one to forgive another. Why blood? The "His ways are higher than our ways" approach requires humans to be absurd. The world that we observe suggests strongly that those accounts in the Bible are ridiculous and worthy of ridicule. Why would I sprinkle bird blood here and there to heal a skin condition. Why would a woman suspected of cheating be forced to drink some liquid to prove quilt or innocence? It is absurd, clearly. The economy of ongoing bloodshed or long hair for superhuman strength is, in fact absurd. Why blood? It is no different than many other relationship requirements from other so-called gods. I went on a bit, but I'm still wondering why innocent blood is needed for absolution from so-called sins. "Come, let us reason together," comes to mind. You can't reason with the isnsane instructions of the Bible. I did, and do, appreciate your response.
Isn’t sacrifice evil ?
Have you ever sacrificed something for a loved one?
The sin offering "teaches us that the only solution to sin is the death of an innocent substitute" - but then, how would you explain that a sin offering can be flour as well (Leviticus 5:11)?
The point there is that not everyone was able to afford even a couple of birds. But forgiveness was available to everyone, even the most destitute.
DrJohnStevenson That's not an answer to my question. My question is: how can you say that "the sin offering teaches us that the ONLY solution to sin is the death of an innocent substitute" - when the Bible text clearly states that it is not, since the offering can, in some cases, be flour as well?
It is a legitimate question and maybe I overstated. I like the way the writer to the Hebrews put it: "And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" (Hebrews 9:22). Perhaps the reason he includes the "almost" is because of the very thing you mentioned.
As far as I understand however, the writer of Hebrews grammatically uses the word "almost" in relation to (nearly) "all things" (meaning the tabernacle and all the vessels used in worship, Heb. 9:21). It seems to me that he doesn't use the word "almost" in relation to "without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" - as you suggest.
The latter statement sounds categorical: without shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness, period. But then: how could that be, vis-a-vis all examples in the Torah (e.g. Leviticus 5:11), the prophets (e.g. Jonah 3:10, 2 Sam. 12:13, Jeremiah 7:22-23, Ezekiel 18), the writings (e.g. Psalms 51:18-19, Psalms 32:5), and the New Testament (e.g. Matthew 6:12-15), that do not support, and partly clearly contradict, the idea that forgiveness is only possible when blood is shed?
Could it be that the writer of Hebrews is indeed speaking categorically, _but only within the limited context of Yom Kippur_: see Hebrews 9:7 "once a year", 9:25 "every year", 10:1 "year after year", 10:3 "an annual reminder"? As in: "all rituals of Yom Kippur had to be fulfilled every year, and without fulfilling all of them (especially including the bloodshedding) there is no forgiveness"?
Just my thoughts, but it sounds reasonable to me. It eliminates, too, the need to read (misunderstood) New Testament doctrine into the Old Testament, thereby (partly) ignoring what the Old Testament really says.
Jesus was the first fruit (grain) in his resurrection and he also said that he was the bread of life. Its interesting that Bethlehem was known as the house of meat in Hebrew and House of bread in Greek. Also its where the Passover lambs were kept. The story of Jesus is so beautiful and has so many connections to the old testament
Which version of Scripture are you using?
New American Standard Version, 1995 update. I use it because it tends to be quite literal and the translators make an attempt to be consistent when they are able, translating the same word the same way (there are a few places where this does not take place, but I think they do better than any other translation I have seen).
Thank you
Amen 🙏🏾
Can you still practice this tipes off fferings
Why would you want to? These sacrifices pointed to a better sacrifice that was to come. Once the reality has come, there is no need to go back to the shadow that foretold the reality.
@@DrJohnStevenson I just feel like doing it for appreciation to the creator. I know I can pray. It just comes up in mi head constantly
If the desire is to show appreciation to the Creator, then here is a better way: "Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.
And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased." (Hebrews 13:15-16).
Yes that makes sense to me .thank you
Why does something have to die - I thought sacrifice was satanism
It goes back the Genesis 2 and God's command.
I don't understand. I have read the whole Bible several times and it says many times how God likes the smell of burning animals and He has his people splash blood all over His house and He wanted multiple animals burnt for Him every day forever according to the Old Testament. And then He impregnated a very young teen and had His own child deliberately killed in front of her as a blood sacrifice to Himself!?! This is really hard for me and scary. It seems like a horror movie!!! And soon, according to Revelation with His scrolls and trumpets and bowls of wrath, most humans will be tortured, killed and then tortured permanently forever! It is terrifying!!! Why does God need death to be nice and forgive people? I can forgive pretty easy and have never needed anyone to kill anything for me to forgive anyone. I don't understand.
The scarier thing is that everyone dies. Everyone is under a sentence of death. If that were the whole story in its entirety, then that would be very scary indeed. But the Bible teaches that God has entered time and space in order to taste death on our behalf. He defeated death and now gives us a way of escape. That turns scary into comfort.
More on this at ua-cam.com/video/O8vl4u3_6ew/v-deo.html
Dr. John, thank you for your kind reply. Even if some minority of people are saved, it is still horrifying to me that soon God's plan is to massively torture, slaughter and then permanently torture most all humans. How isn't that scary and disgustingly horrific? Do you think most humans should be tortured and killed and tortured? It seems only a person who didn't care about others would think it comfortable for the majority of humans to be treated so terribly. If God defeated His own plan for everyone dying, then why does everyone still die?
What I think does not matter a lot since my own personal opinion does not carry much weight in the face of reality. I might say that I think the idea of death is horrific, but that will not make me or anyone else live one minute longer (I am actually paraphrasing Jesus when I say that).
What is more important is reality. As you have already correctly noted, everyone dies. If the Bible is true, and I believe it is, then there is a way of escape, a life after death. You have been offered that way of escape. You can either choose to accept it or you can reject it. What you cannot do is blame anyone else for your situation. There is an interesting dialogue that takes place between the Lord and the prophet Ezekiel that reflects this tension:
"Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me. When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.
"Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself." (Ezekiel 3:17-21).
Thank you for helping me understand this more. I get most of what you are saying, but God is the one who decided to kill absolutely everyone in the first place (Genesis 3:22-23). And God specifically chose to curse all people with a sinful nature, and then tortures us and kills us because of His choice. Why does anyone deserve punishment for the sinful way they are made?!? Why does anyone deserve punishment because they cannot meet a divine standard as a human being? And it is not the death part that really horrifies me the most, it is the deliberate unending torturing in God's lake of fire while Jesus and the holy angels watch. That seems particularly unjust and monstrous. As I understand it, good justice harms none and perfect justice heals all.
But I can be saved because Jesus died? That does not seem logical because the punishment you and I owe is perpetual unending eternal torturing in God's lake. That is what we each owe according to the Bible. But Jesus evidently did not pay that penalty for either of us. Is Jesus being eternally tortured? He just died like we all do and paid something we all pay. If Jesus did not pay God the real penalty for our sins that we owe, why would we think that it is paid? Confusing.
Hi Josh. if you read the context of Genesis 3:22-23, you will see that God's judgment came because mankind had rebelled against God. He had given them only a single prohibition. They could eat anything in the garden except from one single tree. There was only one possible thing they could do wrong. And they did it. That was their choice.
The Bible presents God as a righteous judge. That means He is fair. In all fairness, He judges those who do wrong. Our choice is that we have chosen to do wrong. We are judged, not merely because of our sinful nature, but because we have actually been guilty of sin.
The Bible says that "the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23).
You asked how can Jesus pay an eternal penalty. That is a good question. Perhaps it is because He is described in the Bible as being an eternal person (see John 1:1 and 14).
Amen
Dr J.S. Please be real. Leviticus was written around 500 B. C. A half millenium before Jesus is said to be born! So how can a "sacrifice" represent Jesus. I'm not as smart as you are, sorry.
It is worse than that. I would suggest that the earliest version of Leviticus was written as early at 1400 B.C. How can it point to Jesus? The same way that Micah could write in 700 B.C. about the Messiah being born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) and the same way that Isaiah could write about the Servant of the Lord dying as a sacrifice for sins. It is the same way that Zechariah could speak of the Lord being pierced and the same way that Jeremiah could speak of a New Covenant that would someday come. It is the same way that Moses was told there would be a prophet like himself and the same way that David could talk about the one who was his Lord (Psalm 110:1).
"But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.
Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you" (Acts 3:18-20).
Lev.7, the law of peace offerings is PROOF that there was 1 day ONLY in which Christ could have possibly been our Sacrifice for SIN: a Friday, NOT a Wednesday as many have been taught. He was NOT in the grave 3 DAYS and 3 NIGHTS, but THAT false teachings says He was in the tomb 3 NIGHTS and 3 DAYS, backwards. No, Christ was 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS PAYING FOR OUR SINS, being "immersed in SIN", He "became SIN for us", and was waved before God's Throne in Heaven, and ACCEPTED by the second day since making His VOLUNTARY OFFERING FOR SIN, He "made peace BY the Blood of His cross," Col.1:20. Sigh,...I wish the Truth were taught in ALL things.
12 Verses
These clarify the COMPLETE SACRIFICE and meaning of that 3DAY-3NIGHT sacrifice spoken of as the "sign of Jonah" in Matt.12:40...here are the 12 verses:
The 12 verses:
1. "From that time forth began Jesus to show unto His disciples, how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day." (Matthew 16:21)
2. "Jesus said unto them, the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of man; and they shall kill Him, and the third day He shall be raised again."(Matthew 17:22)
3. "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles, to mock and to scourge, and to crucify Him, and the third day He shall rise again." (Matthew 20:18)
4. "Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again." (Mark 8:31)
5. "For He taught His disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill Him, and after that He is killed, He shall rise the third day." (Mark 9:31) (note: the repetition emphasizes Jesus was definitely dead, in other words, "make no mistake He IS KILLED" and not isolating the sequence.)
6. "and they shall mock Him, and shall scourge Him, and shall spit upon Him, and shall kill Him, and the third day He shall rise again." (Mark 10:34)
7. "Saying, the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day." (Luke 9:22)
8. "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished, for He shall be delivered unto the Gentiles and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on, and they shall scourge Him, and put Him to death, and the third day He shall rise again." (Luke 18:31)
9. "The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of men, crucified, and the third day rise again." (Luke 24:7)
10. (The disciples were explaining unknowingly to the risen Jesus ) "And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and have crucified Him. But we trusted that it had to be He which should have redeemed Israel, and besides all this, today is the third day since these things (plural) were done." (Luke 24:20) (This verse is unique in that Jesus then replied, "O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?' " (Luke 24:25)
11. "And said unto them, thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day." (Luke 24:46)
12. "And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: Him God raised up the third day."
(Note: Look up the original Greek word for "slew" used in the New Testament. It means "Alas! woe" which are clearly suffering and included in the sequence. By our definition, "slew" means: "To kill by violent means." ~American Heritage ) (Acts 10:39)
Notice how each one gives the necessary sequence. ALL verses follow the pattern and include the "deliverance," "betrayal," or "suffering" of Jesus within the sentence describing the three-day timeframe. The only verse that comes close to omitting a mention of Christ's suffering as part of the time frame is when Paul later wrote to the Corinthians and relied heavily on what was previously written: "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures"
According to the Scriptures, in the Law of Peace Offerings (Lev.7), a voluntary offering MUST BE Waved before the LORD to be accepted before the THIRD DAY after it is offered or it will NOT be accepted and is an ABOMINATION. Crucified on the 6th day of the week, He was resurrected and offered by the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, the THIRD DAY. His VOLUNTARY offering was ACCEPTED and not considered an "abomination" because He didn't let anyone "touch" Him until He had ascended to His Father in Heaven.
Margaret Walker Jesus was in the tomb dead , he rose again the third day out of the tomb
Sprinkling blood everywhere ????? How is this Christian ?
It is a picture of the One who shed His own blood on the cross. That is what Christianity is all about.
Amen