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<u> <font size="3"><b>LEVITICUS - OVERVIEW - T0801R</b></font></u></p>
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<u>“<font size="3"><b>FELLOWSHIP THROUGH SANCTIFICATION”</b></font></u></p>
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<font size="3"><b>1. 3:17 (1-7) THE OFFERINGS: FOR ABSOLUTION. “It
shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your
dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.” </b><span style="">Father,
you have a right as Creator to rule over all the earth, and to
establish rules and laws in Your wisdom. </span><b><i>Hallowed be
Your :name!</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>2. 9:24 (8-10) THE PRIESTHOOD: FOR INTERCESSION.
“And there came forth fire from Jehovah, and consumed upon the
altar the burnt-offering and the fat: and when all the people saw it,
they shouted and fell on their faces.” </b><span style="">When
we do your will, Father, You confirm Your word with signs following.
</span><b><i>Your :kingdom come!</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>3. 16:34 (11-16) THE PEOPLE: THEIR PURIFICATION.
“And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make
atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once
in the year. And he did as Jehovah commanded Moses.” </b><span style="">Father,
You meet the needs of Your covenant people. This is Your
establishment of Yom Kippur, the annual Day of Atonement. </span><b><i>Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth!</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>4. 17:13 (17) THE ALTAR: FOR RECONCILIATION. “And
whatever man there be of the children of Israel, or of he strangers
that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that
may be eaten: he shall pour out the blood of it, and cover it with
dust.” </b><span style="">Father, You have put
</span><u><span style="">life</span></u><span style="">
in the </span><u><span style="">blood</span></u><span style="">!
You were in Messiah reconciling the world to Yourself. </span><b><i>Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>5. 18:29-30 (18-20) REGULATIONS FOR THE PEOPLE.
“For whoever shall do <u>any</u> of these <u>abominations</u>, even
the souls that do them <u>shall be cut off</u> from among the people.
<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">30</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
</font>Therefore shall you keep my charge, that you practice not <u>any</u>
of these <u>abominable customs</u>, which were practiced before you,
and that you defile not yourselves in them: I am Jehovah your God.”
</b><span style="">Father, You who spoke these
things, are still holy to us. And - Your word to us is, “</span><u><span style="">You
be holy too</span></u><span style="">, for I am
holy! </span><b><i>And forgive us our :debts, As we also have
forgiven our :debtors.</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>6. 22:9 (21-22) REGULATIONS FOR THE PRIESTS. “They
shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die in
it, if they profane it; I am Jehovah who sanctifies them” </b><span style="">Father,
Whose Name in in Your Son, and Who are both is us: as Your spiritual
Kingdom of Priests, we walk softly before You. Your Spirit in us
enables us in Kingdom power to walk in the truths of the types and
shadows set forth in this book of Leviticus. </span><b><i>And bring
us not into temptation.</i></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>7. 26:40, 42 (23-27) REGULATIONS FOR FEASTS IN
CANAAN. “And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity
of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me,
and also that, because they walked contrary unto me. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">42</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
</font>Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my
covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I
remember, and <u>I will remember the land</u>.” </b><span style="">These
words prepared the children of Israel, and encouraged them, just
prior to their entry under Joshua into the land of Canaan. Canaan
land for Israel is a type and shadow for the Church, the One New Man,
which is made real in the Kingdom of God through the indwelling Holy
Spirit, the promise of God in Jeremiah 31. </span><b><i>But deliver
us from the evil </i><span style="font-style: normal;">one.</span></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><u><b><span style="font-style: normal;">NOTE</span></b></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">:
In Leviticus, the blood and fat around organs (not muscles) - must
be carefully dealt with according to God's commands. The blood was to
be poured out and covered with earth, for </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">the
life</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
is in the blood. The soul automatically dies as blood is completely
shed, and animals have souls, but not spirit like man. Man is made
in the image of God, who is </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">spirit</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
body-organ-fat must be burned in all 4 offerings (whole burnt, peace,
trespass and sin). </span></span></span></font>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
Book of Leviticus is a type of the priesthood of the New Testament.
Here, we </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">all</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
are a </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">Kingdom
of Priests</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.
Because the Old Testament is a type in Israel foreshadowing the
church, we in the church under the New Covenant (The One New Man of
Jew & Gentile), are not obliged to keep the Old Testament
commands to Israel. But, we are to walk in the words of Jesus through
His apostles, which give the spiritual counterpart to what Moses gave
Israel.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Let
us remember that the New Testament is in the Old contained, and the
Old Testament is by the New explained. George Muller had a heart for
Israel, but he remembered Acts 15 and the Book of Galatians, and was
not caught up in Old Testament “legalism.” </span></span></span></font>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Even
the Jews could not fulfill the above (see Romans chapter 7) - but the
Holy Spirit in the New Testament enables believers here to see Him
live out the victorious life of Christ through us. - J.A.W.</span></span></span></font></p>
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