THE THEME OF THIS DEVOTION IS: THE ELEMENTS OF THE YOM KIPPUR SERVICE PERFORMED BY THE HIGH PRIEST (KOHEN GADOL) AND CERTAIN OF THEIR MEANINGS RELATED TO THE NEW TESTAMENT SACRIFICAL SYSTEM IN THE OFFERING OF OUR LORD ON THE CROSS. LEVITICUS 16:3, BE’ZOHT YA’VO AHARON EL-HAK’KODESH With this [the...
FI Y5 WK 28 P.ME’TZORA (THE LEPER) PURIFICATION OF THE LEPER
Leviticus 14:10-20 This is the third step in the restoration process for a leper. The first two steps involve inspection outside the camp followed by a special offering that is similar to the offering of the consecration of priests. [Leviticus 8] It is an offering of utter consecration and cleansing....
FI Y5 WK 27 P.TAZRIA (LEPROSY) ISOLATION: Rules of the Leper’s Removal from the Camp
Leviticus 13:45-46 (KJV): “And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent (1), and his head bare (2), and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip (3), and shall cry, Unclean, unclean (4). “All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he...
FI Y5 WK 26 P.SHEMINI (EIGHTH [DAY]) JESUS REFUSING “WINE” ON THE CROSS
MESSIAH’S HIGH PRIESTLY ACT OF PERFORMING HIS DUTY TO GOD IN OVERSEEING THE SACRIFICE THAT REMOVED THE SIN BURDEN OF THE WORLD OF CREATION, OF THE COSMOS AND OF HUMANITY AS WELL AS OF ALL LIFE WITHIN CREATION AS HE LIFTED FROM THE WORLD THE CURSE IMPOSED ON CREATION BECAUSE...
FI Y5 WK 25 P.TZAV (COMMAND) EATING IN A STATE OF CONTAMINATION
Leviticus 7:19-21 This passage is part of the law of the Peace Offering that begins at verse eleven and continues through verse twenty-one. In the initial verses the emphasis is on a thanksgiving offering associated with the peace offering. Unleavened wafers and cakes composed of fine flour which are mingled...
FI Y5 WK 24 P. VAYIKRA (HE CALLED) “FOOD OF THE FIRE”: CHRISTIAN CONSECRATION IN PURITY
Leviticus 3:6-11 EXPLANATION OF TEXT: This text deals with the “feast peace-offering from the flock…to HASHEM” (STONE). There are descriptions of this offering that apply in a special way to the Gospel doctrines of purity and consecration. Among those descriptions from this text our devotion today emphasizes: ACTIONS...
FI Y5 WK 23 P. PEKUDEI (RECKONINGS, that is, of the Tabernacle) THE INAUGURATION OF THE TABERNACLE
Exodus 40:1-2a VA’YIDABER YHVH EL-MOSHE LEY’MOR: BE’YOM-HA’CHODESH HA’RISHON BE’ECHAD LA’CHODESH TA’KIM ET-MISH’KAN OHEL MO’ED: VE’SAM’TAH SHAM ET ARON HA’EI’DUT…. And YHVH spoke to Moses saying: On The First Day of the New Moon, the First of the Month, you shall erect the Mishkan, the Tent of Meeting and you shall...
FI Y5 WK 22 P. VA’YAKHEL (HE ASSEMBLED) WISDOM FOR THE ASKING: THE WISE HEARTED PEOPLE WHO BUILT THE TABERNACLE
Exodus 36:4-39 Verses 4 and 8 4, “All the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary….” 8, “And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle….” The Hebrew is: v. 4, “VA’YA’VO KOL-HA’CHA’CHA’MIM HA’O’SIM ET KOL-ME’LE’CHET HA’KODESH (Then came all the...
FI Y5 WK 21 P. KI TISA (When you take) MESSIAH AS FULNESS OF TABERNACLE, OF SABBATH AND OF TORAH
Exodus 31:12-17 v. 13 ACH ET-SHEB’BE’TOH’TAI TISH’MO’RU Surely (“However”—STONE) you shall observe (keep) My Sabbaths…. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A LITTLE WORD MAKES: “ACH” (ALEPH and FINAL CHAF)! BDB says of this simple adverb, “ACH”: “1. surely 2. with a restrictive force, emphasizing what follows: a. in contrast to what precedes,...
FI Y5 WK 20 TETZAVEH (YOU SHALL COMMAND) – OUR NAMES UPON MESSIAH’S HEART BEFORE GOD OUR FATHER, FOREVER
Exodus 28:28-30 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod. And Aaron shall bear the names...