1. Read Lev. 22:17-25. What is God prohibiting in these passages?
Read Mal. 1:6-14 for more insight. How does God view these sacrifices?
1Chron 21:18-25 gives an account of David that relates to this. Briefly summarize.
How does this principle relate to us today?
2. Read Lev.23. Fill out the chart below of the seven feasts
Feast Verses What it was celebrating Symbolism
A. John 18:28
1Cor. 5:7
B. 1Cor.5:8
1Pet. 3:8,9
C. 1Cor. 15:20
D. Acts 2:1
E. 1Cor. 15:52
F. Matt 25:31-46
Matt 13:48-50
G. Zech. 14:16-19
Ezek. 37:26,27
3. In summary the laws can be divided into 2 categories. Watch the following video.
1. What is the frst category?
What characterizes these impurities?
List 4 different laws that fall into this category
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2. What is the second category?
What characterizes these impurities?
List 4 different laws that fall into this category
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3. I would add a third category. I'd call it "National impurities".
Lev. 18:1-3 describes what these laws are - to be different than all the nations around them. List 4 different laws that would fit into this category.
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4. Read Leviticus 25. Then read Luke 12:15-21. The second passage reminds us of today's philosophy of accumulating wealth. What is God's plan on accumulating wealth as illustrated by Lev. 25?
Notes to students/teachers
As we try to make sense of the laws in Leviticus, not only as they applied to them, but if and which apply to us today, it helps to break them down into categories. First was national purity. These were given so that as a nation they would be different than all other nations. This included what they ate, how they dressed and their appearance from beards to hair to tattoos among other things. Many of these laws, as we saw in the last lesson had health issues associated with them so they wouldn't suffer from the same illnesses as the Egyptians or the Canaanites. Second was ritual purity. These had to do with emissions, discharges, menses, skin lesions, corpses and others. The common denominator in these was they all represented life leaving the body. God is" into " life and death or the like is contrary to His design. It wasn't a sin to have a baby and bleed afterward so no offering had to be made for sin. Yet the people did need to do things to symbolically get rid of the "death" so they could associate with life. Lastly was moral purity. These laws had to do with breaking the 10 commandments such as sexual immorality laws, idolatry laws, blasphemy laws, thieving laws, murder laws, and even treating God so disrespectfully as to offer Him sacrifices that won't be missed . People who did these became out of relationship with God and an appropriate recompence had to be paid.
The seven feasts were foreshadowing of great milestones in God's eternal redemptive plan. Many of these were related to the harvest season. Four of these have been fulfilled and three are pending. The fascinating thing is they were fulfilled on the exact day of the feast. Jesus was crucified as our Passover lamb on the Passover. He bore our sins in death on his sinless (unleavened) body and took them to the tomb so we could be sinless on the feast of Unleavened Bread. This feast week ended on the Feast of Firstfruits where Christ our firstfruit raised from the dead defeated death on Easter. Pentecost, 50 days later, was the harvest feast where they celebrated the peak of the harvest coming in and the Holy Spirit came to the Earth on that day, seeing a great harvest of souls. Now we are waiting for the feast of trumpets where the trumpet was blown as the harvest was basically over and people could come in from their work and celebrate. We are currently waiting for the trumpet to blow and for us to be called up and celebrate at the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. The Day of Atonement was when sin was purged from the camp and I believe this symbolizes the separation of the sheep and goats judgement after Armegeddon at the end of the Great Tribulation when we come back with Christ to reign on the Earth for 1000 years (Millenium). During that 1000 years it appears we will take pilgrimages to Jerusalem every year to see Christ ruling on His throne and worship Him. This will be during the feast of Tabernacles which the Jews celebrated to remember their time living in tents in the wilderness and God's faithfulness to them. What I take from this - look for Christ to come some year on Rosh Hashanna (mid-September) http://www.thoughtsfromtherightbrain.blogspot.com/2011/04/im-going-to-predict-day-of-rapture.html
Lastly, the whole view of Sabbath rests and years of Jubilee taught the Israelites that they were aliens or short-timers on the planet. What they "owned" wasn't theirs to keep; they were allowed to live on God's land. It taught them the whole concept of stewardship - we are managing God's wealth for Him. What a difference from today's philosophy of the accumulation of wealth. http://thoughtsfromtherightbrain.blogspot.com/2010/12/monopoly-game-american-dream.html
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