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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Leviticus is a book about a perfect, holy God who wants to draw near to his people who are, unfortunately, completely depraved and sinful. It walks us through the very messy and detailed process of how that can be possible.
There are a lot of components involved, so set your mind to press through on the days when it's not easy. You'll be grateful you did, just like you tell your kids when you take them to piano and swim lessons. Those things are good, but your kids' ability to see that it's good just hasn't developed yet. So put on your swim cap. Here we go. First things first, who are the Levites?
They're the descendants of Levi, one of the 12 tribes of Israel slash sons of Jacob. And just yesterday, we saw that God appointed this particular tribe or line to be the priests in the tabernacle. So we'll be dealing with a lot of things pertaining to priests. They are the mediators between the holy God and the sinful people.
God is going to show them what steps are necessary to make this relationship functional. There are three primary ways of being that are laid out in this book. Unclean, clean, and holy. In general, the people are unclean. Always, God is holy. And the purpose of these rituals and laws set out in this book is to get the people from the state of being unclean to the state of being clean or even holy.
There are various ways this has to be approached. First, we'll look at a lot of offerings. While we're in these more challenging parts about sacrifices and offerings, I wanna point you to a short article that explains these five major offerings in brief. The burn offering, the grain offering, the peace offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering.
We'll link to that article in our show notes today. We open with Moses speaking with God at the tent of meeting, a phrase that now represents the tabernacle. It's very confusing that they use these same terms to refer to different things, but just know that once the tabernacle exists, that's what the phrase tent of meeting refers to.
Everything we read today was God talking to Moses at the tent of meeting. And the first thing God does is establish a lot of ritual offerings. You may wonder, first of all, why this barbaric stuff has to happen at all. Remember back in the Garden of Eden when God told Adam and Eve about the connection between sin and death?
By sparing their lives, God saves them, but something else has to die in their place. In that instance, God killed an animal to clothe them. And here we see lots of animals are going to have to die because we've got three million sinners living in the desert together for 40 years. So God sets up this sacrificial system so that animals can die instead of people to make atonement for their sins.
Atonement means to cover. So the animal's death is a temporary covering for their sin. And not to give too much away here, but God knows all along that this plan is temporary. It's just a band-aid, not a permanent fix. This is a placeholder, a foreshadowing of the real solution that will come in the form of Jesus and his death on the cross. But for now, we've got this system.
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