How Could God Have Gotten It So Wrong?

Leviticus 25:23 “The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants” (NIV). Observation: God here reiterated His ownership of everything. Knowing that a Year of Jubilee would occur on a fixed, fifty-year...

No Longer Spectators

Leviticus 23:1 “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Speak to the Israelites and say to them: “These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.”’” Observation: All of Leviticus 23 is given to...

The God Who Never Blushes

Leviticus 18:3 “You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in Canaan, where I am bringing you” (NIV). Observation: Thus begins one in a long list of chapters in which God detailed rules to live by, this...

White Hairs and Mildew

Leviticus 14:14 “The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.” Observation: Leviticus 13 and 14 are...

Burned to a Crisp

Leviticus 10:2 “So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord” (NIV). Observation: Aaron and all his sons had been ceremonially consecrated as priests before both the Lord and His people. They were in a new temple in a...