- Setting up the Story
- Last week: Leprosy – they represent us all being lepers in need of cleansing
- Leviticus 16 tells about the holiness of God
- Event: death of Aaron’s two sons
- Moses came out of the temple holding the hands of Aaron and his four sons.
- This represented Jesus holding our hands as we stand before the Father.
- They offered the first offering and fire fell from heaven and consumed the offering.
- fire consumes nada and Abihu as they bring wrong fire before the Lord.
- “I will display My holiness through those who come near Me. I will display My glory before all the people.”
- Moses came out of the temple holding the hands of Aaron and his four sons.
- Yom Kippur Lev. 16: 2
- The holiest day of the year (Holy – set apart for the divine)
- All the other feasts and Sabbaths are celebrations, but this one demands fasting and humbling themselves. Leviticus 23: 29
- Atonement is more than just forgiveness of sins.
- Purging ourselves of everything that offends the Almighty. Anything that repels the presence of God.
- It also means a blood ransom.
- Nothing we can do to purge ourselves of the things that offend God.
3. Holy Requirements.
- You shall be holy for I am holy 19: 2
- Holy set apart for the divine,
- Unholy is something common, ordinary, or mundane.
- You shall be holy is a striving daily process, not a one time thing.
- There is no limit to how far we can attain.
- Incredible commands with horrible results for disobedience.
- Honor parents 19: 3
- Leave corners for the poor.19: 9
- Don’t steal or lie Vs 11Don’t oppress neighbor Vs 13
- Justice Vs 15
- You will observe all of these Vs 37
- Only Jesus did this
- We are members of his body so we can be a part of the body and share the blessings of our head. Ephesians 5: 30, 1 Corinthians 6: 15 – 17
4. Aaron and the presence of God 16: 4
- Aaron wears a white linen. Vs 4
- Notice no bells as tradition states.
- ritual of putting blood on different items in the Holy of Holies.
- this is the ritual that Jesus did when he died and presented himself in the Holy of Holies in heaven. Hebrews8: 2 9: 11, 12
- Scapegoat Vs 8 Goat that carries the sins away
- They did not want the scape goat to come back into their flocks, and they could not kill it because it was the scare goat. So they released it over a cliff.
- Lots chosen for the scape goat Vs10
- Scarlet thread put on it to differentiate it from the sacrifice goat.
- When goat died, the thread turned white.
- They would hang a thread on the doorpost and it would turn white.
- If it didn’t, the people would get depressed.
- They hung it inside the door and told people.
- Moses did this with the fading glory on his face.
- the last 40 years before the temple was destroyed.
- 40 years before the temple was destroyed, the miracle of the cloth turning white ceased.
- Goat that was picked by lot was always the goat on the right hand of the priest. this stopped 40 years before the temple was destroyed.
- Westernmost lamp of the menorah would not stay lit.
- Door of temple would swing open on its own.
- Took twenty men to close it.
- Rabbis took this as the gates were open to the enemies of God.
- On this day, God will bring forgiveness of our sins. Vs 30
- A trial for the day of judgement that is coming upon the earth.