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Vayikra (Leviticus)
tsav 6:8(1*)-8:36 |
Meaning
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Day Two
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Haftara
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B'rit Hadashah
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1 Our Father, we receive Your Words and hide Your commandments with us; 2 we incline our ear unto wisdom, and apply our hearts to understanding; 3 We cry after knowledge and lift up our voices for understanding; 4 we seek it as silver; and search for it as for hidden treasures; 5 We declare that we shall understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. Declaration of Proverbs 2:1-5
Leviticus 6:24-7:18 (NASB)1
24 The LORD spoke to Moses, 25 "Tell Aaron and his sons: These are the instructions for the offering for sin. The offering for sin must be slaughtered in the LORD's presence in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. It is very holy. 26 The priest who makes the offering for sin will eat it in a holy place, in the courtyard of the tent of meeting. 27 Anything that touches its meat will be holy. If blood gets on someone's clothes, he must wash them in a holy place. 28 Any piece of pottery in which the offering for sin is cooked must be broken into pieces. Any copper kettle in which the offering for sin is cooked must be scoured and rinsed with water. 29 Any male among the priests may eat the offering for sin. It is very holy. 30 Any offering for sin must not be eaten if some of the blood was brought into the holy place in the tent of meeting to make peace with the LORD. It must be burned." 7 1 [The LORD continued,] "These are the instructions for the guilt offering. It is very holy. 2 It must be slaughtered in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. [A priest] will throw the blood against the altar on all sides. 3 He will offer all the fat, the fat from the tail, the fat covering the internal organs, 4 and the two kidneys with the fat on them. He will also remove the lobe of the liver along with the kidneys. 5 The priest will burn them on the altar. It is a guilt offering by fire to the LORD.
6 Any male among the priests may eat it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is very holy. 7 "The same instructions apply to the offering for sin and the guilt offering. Both offerings belong to the priest to make peace with the LORD. 8 The skin of the burnt offering belongs to the priest who sacrifices it. 9 Every grain offering, whether baked in an oven or prepared in a skillet or a frying pan, belongs to the priest who offers it. 10 Every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, will be shared equally by all of Aaron's sons. 11 "These are the instructions for the fellowship, (peace) offering that you must bring to the LORD. 12 If you offer it as a thank offering, you must also bring rings of unleavened bread mixed with olive oil, wafers of unleavened bread brushed with olive oil, and loaves made from flour mixed well with olive oil. 13 In addition to these rings of bread, you must bring bread with yeast along with your fellowship offering of thanksgiving. 14 From every offering you must bring one loaf to the LORD as a [special] contribution. It will belong to the priest who throws the blood of the fellowship offering. 15 "The meat from your fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered. Never leave any of it until morning. 16 "If your sacrificial offering is something you vowed or a freewill offering, it must be eaten the day you offer it or the next day. 17 However, on the third day any meat left over from the sacrifice must be burned. 18 You will not be accepted if any meat from the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day. You will not receive credit for it. It is repulsive to God. The person who eats any of it must be punished.
6 Any male among the priests may eat it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is very holy. 7 "The same instructions apply to the offering for sin and the guilt offering. Both offerings belong to the priest to make peace with the LORD. 8 The skin of the burnt offering belongs to the priest who sacrifices it. 9 Every grain offering, whether baked in an oven or prepared in a skillet or a frying pan, belongs to the priest who offers it. 10 Every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, will be shared equally by all of Aaron's sons. 11 "These are the instructions for the fellowship, (peace) offering that you must bring to the LORD. 12 If you offer it as a thank offering, you must also bring rings of unleavened bread mixed with olive oil, wafers of unleavened bread brushed with olive oil, and loaves made from flour mixed well with olive oil. 13 In addition to these rings of bread, you must bring bread with yeast along with your fellowship offering of thanksgiving. 14 From every offering you must bring one loaf to the LORD as a [special] contribution. It will belong to the priest who throws the blood of the fellowship offering. 15 "The meat from your fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered. Never leave any of it until morning. 16 "If your sacrificial offering is something you vowed or a freewill offering, it must be eaten the day you offer it or the next day. 17 However, on the third day any meat left over from the sacrifice must be burned. 18 You will not be accepted if any meat from the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day. You will not receive credit for it. It is repulsive to God. The person who eats any of it must be punished.
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength… Isaiah 26:1-4.
Here is a declaration for this week! Let us tailor the words from Isaiah: In THIS day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah, and in Canada and the United States of America; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in. 3 Yahweh will keep us in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on HIM: because we trust in HIM. 4 We will trust in the LORD forever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength…Hallelu-YAH! If that was the only thing that was transmitted for Torah Bites today it would be enough!
24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy. 26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation. Leviticus 6:24-26.
We’ll find many passages like this that apply only to the priests within the walls of the Tent of Meeting. It’s all about keeping sacred things sacred. There is very little that is sacred in this day! And who does make a big difference between “clean/unclean” other than the surgical theater? It’s a big deal there I can tell you! In the thirty-one years I was in the nursing field much has changed. So of course, our generation might ask God: “What is up with all this clean and unclean anyway?” And God might return the answer in His reply:
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6.
It could well be that this “lack of knowledge” is at the seat of our many problems today. We've gone from one extreme to the other from the time I retired from nursing in 2014 until now. While I was still working, we had a difficult time with families when one of their loved ones was isolated for something like C-Difficile. That's a gastrointestinal bug that can be highly resistant to antibiotics. Families would sneak in without wearing the appropriate personal protective gear. This was simple stuff like gowns and gloves and sometimes masks. It seemed that we almost had to station guards at the door to have them comply with just the gowns and gloves. We tried to educate with little success. Learning that C-Dif 'bacteria' can live for a time on the side rails of the bed seemed to help some families, but for the most part, it was difficult to help families understand. Thanks to 2020 and the FEAR that went viral, we've gone to the absolute opposite extreme. Even though things have settled down and a lot of truth has come out of this debacle, folks are still afraid and clinging to the masking and the six feet of “social” isolation. It might be a long while before we can come to some common sense “BALANCE” regarding infection. Remember: Knowledge overcomes fear.
1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy. 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar... 8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered. 9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it. 10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another. Leviticus 7:1-2; 8-10.
Since the decade of the sixties, our society has no idea how to discern between the sacred/holy and the unholy/perverse. We all know what's going on out there and sometimes it's rather scary and/or disgusting. We live in a world that is more concerned with feelings than critical thinking. Feelings ALWAYS change! Rational science is always the same and experiments performed always have the same outcome for as many times as they're repeated. I love the meme that I see now and again because it is SO true! “I tried to follow the science but it wasn't there. Then I followed the money and I found the science!” If The Creator was so adamant about these clean/unclean and holy/unholy issues since the beginning of time, should we not consider their importance in our own lives?
I mentioned the topic of “unclean spirits” in the past few days.
22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. 27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him. 28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. Mark 1:22-28.
If one should mention “unclean spirits” in a church meeting these days, it's considered “fringe” and “woo woo out there”. The church has no teaching about such things in the "spiritual warfare" realm even though such things are in Scripture.
This was a man who had an unclean spirit and he was “IN THEIR SYNOGOGUE”?? WHAT?! A church member with an unclean spirit? I’ve seen this happen but at the time I had no idea what it was all about and didn't realize what we had witnessed until many years after. We attended a service of Canadian preacher-healer Bill Prankard back in the decade of the early seventies. At the very front, there was a woman in a wheelchair not more than ten feet away from the preacher who suddenly began thrashing and yelling and carrying on! At that point in the meeting, Mr. Prankard instructed some of his team to remove the woman from the area, which they did promptly. The woman went kicking and screaming out into one of the lower hallways in that arena, and the meeting continued. Was an unclean spirit in this wheelchair-bound woman reacting to the Spirit of God in Mr. Prankard? After reading Mark, chapter one, I’m thinking: Probably was!
Do you think that there could have been a lot of that business in the mixt multitude who gave Moses so much trouble? Not only were they almost entirely caught up in the traditions of Egypt but they all carried their own personal baggage in as well. Do you think that there might have been a few of those folks who carried some unclean spirits in all that baggage? King Solomon, stated that “there is nothing new under the sun”. As it was in the days past, it is also in the days we live. Is there indeed a “lack of knowledge that is keeping us all from working that three-fold ministry of Messiah? And just what would be in that “baggage” that many carry into their ‘born again’ experience? Do you think that it is entirely possible that believers can be inflicted with these “unclean spirits”? Derek Prince knew much about spiritual warfare dealing with these ‘unclean’ spirits. Any of his books are a fascinating and informative read! I invite you to look him up under Yah's authority and see what you think.
I urge you to take Torah seriously. Scripture can explain Scripture. Commentaries are fantastic, and when one can see where Scripture explains itself in passages scattered throughout, that is the proverbial icing on the cake! Exegetical hermeneutics, that is: the theory and methodology of text interpretation, go a very long way to connecting both Testaments. All I can say is that when I undertook my first years of serious study of Torah, it helped me to understand much that I read in the four Gospels and the book of Acts. The Old Testament is the perfect base on which to study the New.
Here is a declaration for this week! Let us tailor the words from Isaiah: In THIS day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah, and in Canada and the United States of America; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in. 3 Yahweh will keep us in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on HIM: because we trust in HIM. 4 We will trust in the LORD forever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength…Hallelu-YAH! If that was the only thing that was transmitted for Torah Bites today it would be enough!
24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy. 26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation. Leviticus 6:24-26.
We’ll find many passages like this that apply only to the priests within the walls of the Tent of Meeting. It’s all about keeping sacred things sacred. There is very little that is sacred in this day! And who does make a big difference between “clean/unclean” other than the surgical theater? It’s a big deal there I can tell you! In the thirty-one years I was in the nursing field much has changed. So of course, our generation might ask God: “What is up with all this clean and unclean anyway?” And God might return the answer in His reply:
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6.
It could well be that this “lack of knowledge” is at the seat of our many problems today. We've gone from one extreme to the other from the time I retired from nursing in 2014 until now. While I was still working, we had a difficult time with families when one of their loved ones was isolated for something like C-Difficile. That's a gastrointestinal bug that can be highly resistant to antibiotics. Families would sneak in without wearing the appropriate personal protective gear. This was simple stuff like gowns and gloves and sometimes masks. It seemed that we almost had to station guards at the door to have them comply with just the gowns and gloves. We tried to educate with little success. Learning that C-Dif 'bacteria' can live for a time on the side rails of the bed seemed to help some families, but for the most part, it was difficult to help families understand. Thanks to 2020 and the FEAR that went viral, we've gone to the absolute opposite extreme. Even though things have settled down and a lot of truth has come out of this debacle, folks are still afraid and clinging to the masking and the six feet of “social” isolation. It might be a long while before we can come to some common sense “BALANCE” regarding infection. Remember: Knowledge overcomes fear.
1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy. 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar... 8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered. 9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it. 10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another. Leviticus 7:1-2; 8-10.
Since the decade of the sixties, our society has no idea how to discern between the sacred/holy and the unholy/perverse. We all know what's going on out there and sometimes it's rather scary and/or disgusting. We live in a world that is more concerned with feelings than critical thinking. Feelings ALWAYS change! Rational science is always the same and experiments performed always have the same outcome for as many times as they're repeated. I love the meme that I see now and again because it is SO true! “I tried to follow the science but it wasn't there. Then I followed the money and I found the science!” If The Creator was so adamant about these clean/unclean and holy/unholy issues since the beginning of time, should we not consider their importance in our own lives?
I mentioned the topic of “unclean spirits” in the past few days.
22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. 27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him. 28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. Mark 1:22-28.
If one should mention “unclean spirits” in a church meeting these days, it's considered “fringe” and “woo woo out there”. The church has no teaching about such things in the "spiritual warfare" realm even though such things are in Scripture.
This was a man who had an unclean spirit and he was “IN THEIR SYNOGOGUE”?? WHAT?! A church member with an unclean spirit? I’ve seen this happen but at the time I had no idea what it was all about and didn't realize what we had witnessed until many years after. We attended a service of Canadian preacher-healer Bill Prankard back in the decade of the early seventies. At the very front, there was a woman in a wheelchair not more than ten feet away from the preacher who suddenly began thrashing and yelling and carrying on! At that point in the meeting, Mr. Prankard instructed some of his team to remove the woman from the area, which they did promptly. The woman went kicking and screaming out into one of the lower hallways in that arena, and the meeting continued. Was an unclean spirit in this wheelchair-bound woman reacting to the Spirit of God in Mr. Prankard? After reading Mark, chapter one, I’m thinking: Probably was!
Do you think that there could have been a lot of that business in the mixt multitude who gave Moses so much trouble? Not only were they almost entirely caught up in the traditions of Egypt but they all carried their own personal baggage in as well. Do you think that there might have been a few of those folks who carried some unclean spirits in all that baggage? King Solomon, stated that “there is nothing new under the sun”. As it was in the days past, it is also in the days we live. Is there indeed a “lack of knowledge that is keeping us all from working that three-fold ministry of Messiah? And just what would be in that “baggage” that many carry into their ‘born again’ experience? Do you think that it is entirely possible that believers can be inflicted with these “unclean spirits”? Derek Prince knew much about spiritual warfare dealing with these ‘unclean’ spirits. Any of his books are a fascinating and informative read! I invite you to look him up under Yah's authority and see what you think.
I urge you to take Torah seriously. Scripture can explain Scripture. Commentaries are fantastic, and when one can see where Scripture explains itself in passages scattered throughout, that is the proverbial icing on the cake! Exegetical hermeneutics, that is: the theory and methodology of text interpretation, go a very long way to connecting both Testaments. All I can say is that when I undertook my first years of serious study of Torah, it helped me to understand much that I read in the four Gospels and the book of Acts. The Old Testament is the perfect base on which to study the New.
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. Proverbs 2:9.
1 Scripture reading from the NASB www.lockman.org and KJV unless otherwise stated.
*The Torah and Haftara chapter/verse numbering taken from the Hebrew Bible (Christian-published chapter/verse numbering indicated within parenthesis)
*The Torah and Haftara chapter/verse numbering taken from the Hebrew Bible (Christian-published chapter/verse numbering indicated within parenthesis)
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