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Torah Reading-Leviticus 1:1-5:26[1]
Torah Overview[2]- Leviticus
1:1-5:26
God Calls, “Come Near!” – Leviticus 1:1
Ascending to His Presence- Leviticus 1:14
Bringing Tribute- Leviticus 2:7
Voluntary Offering – Leviticus 3:1
Required Sacrifice – Leviticus 4:1-3
Unintended Sin – Leviticus 4:27
The Sliding Scale – Leviticus 5:11
Restitution- Leviticus 6:7 ( 5:26)
Haftarah- Isaiah 43:21 – 44:23
Yisrael Redeemed – Isaiah 44:23
Brit HaDasha-Hebrews 10:1-18
Sins Removed – Hebrews 10:18
This Week’s Torah Nuggets[3]:
Leviticus 1:1
Stone Edition Chumash
Commentary:
Vayikra - He called to
Moses – The latter chapters of
Exodus relate that the Tabernacle had been built and become a fitting resting
place for the Shechinah, God’s Presence, and for the sacrificial service. So great and awesome was the glory of God
that covered the Tabernacle that even Moses was afraid to enter. Consequently, God “Called” Moses (to
reassure him that the Tabernacle had been built to benefit him and his people,
not to exclude them (Ramban, et al)
The Sages expound that
this summons to Moses is mentioned to teach that whenever God wished to impart
a new command to him, He first summoned him lovingly, saying “Moses,
Moses”. In reply, Moses would say “I am
at Your service”. As the verse implies,
the call came exclusively to Moses.
God’s voice is powerful enough to shatter trees and be heard throughout
the world, but it was the Divine will that it be heard only by Moses. (Rashi:
Sifra)
5 Types of offerings are mentioned in this Torah Portion:
i.
Trespass against
holy things
ii.
And trespass against
God’s holy name by uttering false oaths in court
The Blood offerings:
Leviticus 4-6 main steps
to atoning offerings.
There are 6 steps in
the atoning offerings[4]
#1.
Substitute- Leviticus 4:3:
#2.
Confession- Leviticus 4:4
#3.
Identification- Leviticus 4:4
#4.
Blood Death – Leviticus 4:45-
#5
Exchange of life- Leviticus 4:20
The entire picture of
Levitius 4 can be found in Hebrews
Chapters 6-13 for an entire picture of how Yeshua’s atonement fulfilled these
sacrifices. The book of Hebrews deals
with the fact that the sacrificial system was not enough, only the blood of
Yeshua can cover sins. Hebrews is not
about Torah being obsolete, but about how the sacrificial system is now
obsolete because the blood of Yeshua was
the perfect atonement for our sins and He is now our mediator in the renewed covenant purchased with His blood. Study
these scriptures.
How did Yeshua fulfill these
steps?
#1. Substitute- 1
Peter 1:8-21
1Pe 1:18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with
corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed
down from your fathers,
1Pe 1:19 but with precious
blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Messiah;
1Pe 1:20 who was foreknown indeed before the
foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,
1Pe 1:21 who through him are believers in God, who
raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might
be in God.
#2.
Confession/Repentance – 1 John 1:9
1Jo 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the
light, we have fellowship with one another, and the
blood of Yeshua the Messiah, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
1Jo 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
#3. Identification –
Romans 6
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in
sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how
could we live in it any longer?
Rom 6:3 Or don't you know that all we who were
immersed into Messiah Yeshua were immersed into his death?
Rom 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through
immersion to death, that just like Messiah was raised from the dead through the
glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have become united with him in the
likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
Rom 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified
with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no
longer be in bondage to sin.
Rom 6:7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
Rom 6:8 But if we died with Messiah, we believe that
we will also live with him;
Rom 6:9 knowing that Messiah, being raised from the
dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
Rom 6:10 For the death that he died, he died to sin
one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
Rom 6:11 Thus also consider yourselves also to be
dead to sin, but alive to God in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
Rom 6:12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal
body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Rom 6:13 Neither present your members to sin as
instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from
the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Rom 6:14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For
you are not under law, but under grace.
Rom 6:15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not
under law, but under grace? May it never be!
Rom 6:16 Don't you know that to whom you present
yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey;
whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Rom 6:17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were
bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of
teaching whereunto you were delivered.
Rom 6:18 Being made free from sin, you became
bondservants of righteousness.
Rom 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the
weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to
uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members
as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
Rom 6:20 For when you were servants of sin, you were
free in regard to righteousness.
Rom 6:21 What fruit then did you have at that time in
the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22 But now, being made free from sin, and
having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the
result of eternal life.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free
gift of God is eternal life in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
#4. Blood Death –
Leviticus 17:11, Ephesian 1:7, Hebrews 9:26, Hebrews 8-10
Lev 17:11 For the life of
the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar
to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by
reason of the life.
Eph 1:7 in whom we have
our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of his grace,
Read Hebrews 8-10 for
further study
#5 Exchange of life –
11 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 6 (read above), Phillipians 3:8-14, Revelation
1:5-6
2Co 5:21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on
our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Phi 3:8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things
to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Messiah Yeshua, my Lord, for
whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that
I may gain Messiah
Phi 3:9 and be found in him, not having a
righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through
faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
Phi 3:10 that I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his
death;
Phi 3:11 if by any means I may attain to the
resurrection from the dead.
Phi 3:12 Not that I have already obtained, or am
already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that
for which also I was taken hold of by Messiah Yeshua.
Phi 3:13 Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet
having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind,
and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Phi 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of
the high calling of God in Messiah Yeshua.
Rev 1:5 and from Yeshua the Messiah, the faithful
witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To
him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
Rev 1:6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, Kohanim to
his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever.
Amein.
Isaiah 43:25-26
Isa 43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your
transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Isa 43:26 Put me in remembrance. Let us plead
together. Set forth your case, that you may be justified.
Faith in His blood, His blood will never lose its power to save and cleanse. We can boldly come to the throne of grace in the Name of Yeshua and receive forgiveness because of the blood of His atonement. His blood enables us to walk out the Torah and have fellowship with YHWH. His blood makes us Kodesh/holy. It is His blood and only His blood that has the power to save us, cleanse and make us acceptable In Him.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the
ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the
cleanness of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 how much more
will the blood of Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to
serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new
covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions
that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive
the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For where a last will and testament is,
there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
Heb 9:17 For a will is in force where there has been
death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
Heb 9:18 Therefore even the first covenant has not
been dedicated without blood.
Heb 9:19 For when every mitzvah had been spoken by
Moshe to all the people according to the Torah, he
took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet
wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
Heb 9:20 saying, "This
is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
Heb 9:21 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all
the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the
blood.
Heb 9:22 According to the Torah, nearly everything is
cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of
blood there is no remission.
Heb 9:23 It was necessary therefore that the copies
of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly
things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24 For Messiah hasn't entered into holy places
made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of God for us;
Heb 9:25 nor yet that he should offer himself often,
as the Kohen Gadol enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his
own,
Heb 9:26 or else he must have suffered often since
the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been
revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Heb 9:27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die
once, and after this, judgment,
Heb 9:28 so Messiah also,
having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second
time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
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Blessed are You, YHWH, our God, King of the Universe, Who gave us the Torah of truth and implanted eternal life within us. Blessed are You, YHWH, Giver of the Torah.
Shabbat Shalom B’Shem Yeshua
[1] All Scripture taken from the Hebrew Names Version of the Bible, E-Sword
[2] Overview taken from Walk Exodus Daily Messianic Devotional by Jeffrey Enoch Feinberg PHD copyright Foundation for Leadership and Messianic Education, 1999 234 Surrey Lane, Lake Forest IL 60045 www.flame-found.org
[3] To help with your Torah studies I recommend “The Stone Edition Chumash” ArtsScroll Series Published by Mesorah Publications, ltd. You can purchase it as www.amazon.com.
[4] From FFOZ Torah Club Volume 1 page 511, Dr. Luis Goldburg, originator of outline.