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Today's Bible Reading...
Bible Application - Leviticus 16-18 Feb. 7
Questions:
1. “Then ______ shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the
other lot for the scapegoat.” (16:8)
2. “The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land
and he shall release the _________ in the wilderness. (16:220
3. “For the life of the flesh is in the __ and I have given it to you upon the
altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement
for the soul.” (17:11)
4. “You shall therefore keep My __________ and _______________, which if a man
does, he shall live by them. I am the Lord.” (18:50
Chapter 16 - The Scape Goat
Chapter 17 - Blood needed for forgiveness
Chapter 18 - Unlawful marriage and lusts
What do we learn from this lesson?
1. Offerings have always needed to be made for sin. In this, the 16th chapter,
the 8 the verse, things have changed some. The scape goat must loose itself in
the wilderness, carrying the sins and iniquities of the people with him, never
to return again, but their sins had to be confessed first. Is this not the
procedure today? Recognizing our sins, confessing them to God, and let them be
thrown by God as far as the east is from the west, meaning never to come back.
2. By now, each of us are aware that for the children of Israel, blood had to be
shed for their forgiveness. The people were not allowed to eat any meat with
blood still in it. Yet we know that the blood of Christ had to be shed for our
sins. Always the shedding of blood, then and now, this is a necessary process
for the forgiving of sin whether by a priest or by the high priest on the cross.
It had to be done.
3. As the Israelites were planning to enter the new land, certain laws were
brought before the people, laws to protect them from sins upon each other and
against God. This was to keep Israel a separate and holy people from the rest of
the people in the land in which they were going. God commands us to keep these
laws, for He says, “Keep these laws and you shall live.” Keeping these laws was
the promise of God for His continual dwelling and leadership among them. Has God
departed from us for disobedience to His law, if so, there is still a second
chance for our nation.
Prayer:
Help us, God, to be mindful of Your commandments and your laws, that we may live
within the ordinances and thus become a holy nation unto Thee. Amen.
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