Today’s Bible reading deals with clean/unclean restrictions God places on His people. God gives His people a wide range of food and behavior choices, but some animals and situations are considered “unclean”. Some of the reasons for the restrictions are to protect the people’s health, and others are not. For example, some of the animals…
Because God is holy, today’s Bible reading begins the bloody sacrificial system. Before Aaron and his sons are ready to serve the Lord before the people, they must be clean. For them to be clean, three animals had to be slaughtered. Once their sacrifice has been made, they had to offer another sacrifice before beginning…
As I said yesterday, the Book of Leviticus deals with the activities of the Levites in their Tabernacle responsibilities. In today’s Bible reading, Moses spells out how sin offerings are to be handled. One things that glaringly stood out as I began today’s reading was that even if you did something that you didn’t know…
Due to a major winter storm affecting our area, lost power (including to the local water treatment plant and an empty water tower), I don’t know when I’ll have electricity and/or internet. SO… I’ll publish my devotionals as timely as possible and post a link to Facebook. If you have subscribed to my email list,…
With today’s Bible reading we begin the book of Leviticus (from Greek “According to the Levites”) The work of the Levites (the Jewish Priesthood) is given in meticulous detail. Oftentimes when someone attempts to read through the Bible, they get to Leviticus and lose interest because of all of the details of the Jewish Sacrificial…
Ten times in today’s Bible reading, we see the phrase, “Just as the LORD had commanded Moses.” (Exodus 39:1, 5, 7, 21, 26, 29, 31, 32; 40:19, 32). God had given Moses the blueprint for how He wanted to be worshiped. God’s blueprint included minute details for everything in the Tabernacle from the dimensions of…
