Search The Scriptures —Study 16 — Leviticus 23

Study 16 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 23

1.    List the feasts and note the general character of each. What did they have in common? And what were their differences?

2.    What are the New Testament parallels to the three main feasts and what is the significance of each? (a) The Passover. Cf.1 Cor. 5:7, 8. (b) The Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost. Cf. Acts 2:1-4. (c) The Feast of Tabernacles, the final ingathering of the harvest. Cf. Rev. 7:9, 10.

Notes

1.    Verse 11.  The sheaf of the first-fruits of the barley harvest waved on the morrow after the Sabbath points to Christ’s resurrection. Cf. 1 Cor. 15:23.

2.    Verse 16. ‘Fifty days’: hence the name ‘Pentecost’, i.e the ‘fiftieth’ (day).

3.    Verse 17. ‘Two loaves of bread to be waved’: the first-fruits of the wheat harvest, representing the church of Christi in its first beginnings.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 15 — Leviticus 21 and 22

Study 15 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 21 and 22

1.    What words and expressions occur frequently, giving the reason why these instructions are imposed?  List some ways in which we ought to be showing similar concern.

2.    What can we learn here about the serious effects on our Christian lives of things which are apparently small, but spiritually unclean?

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Search The Scriptures —Study 14 — Leviticus 19 and 20

Study 14 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 19 and 20

1.    What particular attribute of God receives emphasis in these chapters as a ground of obedience to His commands?  Cf. 1 Pet. 1:14-17.

2.    Which one of the Ten Commandments do these laws elaborated? What significant summary of the law of God is to be found here?

Note.  Molech was the national god of Ammon. Great cruelty seems to have been associated with worship of him. Children were offered in sacrifice and burned with fire.  Hence God’s implacable opposition to all such worship.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 13 — Leviticus 18

Study 13 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 18  

In Chapters 18-20 we pass from the worship of the people to their behaviour.  Chapter 18 prohibits unlawful marriage, unchastity, and Molech worship; but the last is dealt with more fully in 20:2-5.

1.    What reasons are given for Israel’s obedience to these laws and how important is this obedience? See verses 1-5 and 24-30.

2.    What light is thrown by this chapter upon God’s command for the extermination of the Canaanites?

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Search The Scriptures —Study 12 — Leviticus 17

Study 12 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 17

There are two main instructions in this portion: first, that all domestic animals which are to be killed shall be brought to the Tabernacle (verse 3-9); and second, that no blood must be eaten (verses 10-16).  The former of these instructions points to a time when animals were not killed except in connection with worship of some kind.

1.    What would this first instruction (verses 3-9) teach Israel about God? Where is it suggested in these verses that this instruction is directed against idolatrous worship?

2.    Why was the eating of blood so strictly forbidden? See verse 11 in particular.  What is the significance of this for us?

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Search The Scriptures —Study 11 — Leviticus 16

Study 11 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 16

1.    Sketch out the order of the ceremonies of the Day of Atonement.

2.    What do you learn from this chapter about (a) the conditions of approach into God’s presence; (b) the complete removal of sin’s guilt through substitution; (c) the necessity on man’s part of submission in penitence and faith to God’s way of Salvation?

Note.  Verses 8, 10, 26. ‘Azazel’ means ‘destruction’.  This goat, upon which the lot fell for destruction, is referred to in the Av as the ‘scapegoat’ a term with which we are more familiar.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 10 — Leviticus 14:33 – 15:33

Study 10 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 14:33 – 15:33

1.    How does this portion show that sin, wherever found and in whatever form, is defiling in God’s sight, and prevents acceptance before Him?

2.    Chapter 15 is usually taken to represent the defilement of secret sin.  Notice (a) how it pollutes the whole life and all around it, and (b) that this kind of defilement requires atonement just as much as other forms of sin.  Cf. Ps. 19:12; 51:6-9.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 9 — Leviticus 13:47-14:32

Study 9 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 13:47-14:32

1.    If leprosy is an illustration of sin, what is the general teaching of 13:47-59 regarding sin-contaminated habits and practices?

2.     What is the significance of the fact that the leper had to be healed before he was cleansed from the defilement of his leprosy? Cf. Jn. 3:3; Gal. 6:15.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 8 — Leviticus 12:1-13:46

Study 8 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 12:1-13:46

1.    Did the mere fact of being born a Jew give a child a place in the covenant? See 12:3. Note 1 below, and Dt. 10:15, 16; 30:6.  How do the principles illustrated here apply today?

2.    From chapter 13, trace some of the parallels that exist between the plague of leprosy and the plague of sin.

Notes

1.    12:3. Circumcision had a twofold significance, namely, identification with God’s covenant people, and purification from unfitness for such a role.

2.    12:8. Cf. Lk. 2:22-24.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 7 — Leviticus 11

Study 7 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 11

1.    What would the distinction between clean and unclean teach Israel about God and His worship? See verses 44, 45.  Consider the great changes in their habits that the coming of God to dwell among them brought about. Cf. 1 Pet. 1:14-16; Eph. 4:22-24.

2.    How did our Lord show that such distinctions are not now binding? What constitutes defilement in God’s sight? Cf. Mk. 7:14-23.

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