Pentateuch, Lect 14 Oct. 18

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Pentateuch, Lect 14Oct. 18

• Can You answer these questions?
• List the items outside and inside the tabernacle
  and give their purpose and meaning.
• What does atonement mean?
• What was the function of the High Priest on the
  day of atonement?
• What doers Yom Kippur mean?
• What significance might be seen in the location
  of the mercy seat and the the ten commandments.
• How can it be seen that Jesus is the fulfillment
  of all the shadowy furniture in the Tabernacle?
• What is the great tragedy that happened to the
  priestly worship system by the time Jesus came?

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Disrespect for Worship as God Would Have it
Idolatry Emerges. Read Exodus 32-34

• Moses was forty days in Mt. receiving Gods Word.
• Aaron bows to pressure from the people to make a
  golden calf.
• Moses returns, in anger breaks the ten
  commandments..
• LEARN WHEN GOD DECRIBES WORSHIP FOR HIMSELF, HE
  CARES HOW IT IS DONE.

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• Nadab Abihu Lev. 101-2. 1. And Nadab and
  Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his
  censer, and put fire therein, and put incense
  thereon, and offered strange fire before the
  Lord, which he commanded them not.
• 2. And there went out fire from the Lord, and
  devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
• 3. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that
  the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in
  them that come nigh me, and before all the people
  I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
• Cain, Gen. 4.
• What about us? Has this changed

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EX. 321. And when the people saw that Moses
delayed to come down out of the mount, the people
gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said
unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before
us for as for this Moses, the man that brought
us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what
is become of him. 2. And Aaron said unto them,
Break off the golden earrings, which are in the
ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your
daughters, and bring them unto me. 3. And all
the people brake off the golden earrings which
were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
4. And he received them at their hand, and
fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had
made it a molten calf and they said, These be
thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of
the land of Egypt. 5. And when Aaron saw it,
he built an altar before it and Aaron made
proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to
the Lord. 6. And they rose up early on the
morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought
peace offerings and the people sat down to eat
and to drink, and rose up to play.
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Jesus on Vain Worship

• Matt. 15 8. This people draweth nigh unto me
  with their mouth, and honoureth me with their
  lips but their heart is far from me.
• 9. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for
  doctrines the commandments of men.

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Apostle Paul on False Teaching

• Gal.16. I marvel that ye are so soon removed
  from him that called you into the grace of Christ
  unto another gospel
• 7. Which is not another but there be some that
  trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of
  Christ.
• 8. But though we, or an angel from heaven,
  preach any other gospel unto you than that which
  we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
• 9. As we said before, so say I now again, If
  any man preach any other gospel unto you than
  that ye have received, let him be accursed.

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Apostle John on False Teaching

• II John 10. If there come any unto you, and
  bring not this doctrine, receive him not into
  your house, neither bid him God speed
• 11. For he that biddeth him God speed is
  partaker of his evil deeds.

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Apostle Peter on False Teaching

• 1. But there were false prophets also among the
  people, even as there shall be false teachers
  among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
  heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them,
  and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
• 2. And many shall follow their pernicious ways
  by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil
  spoken of.
• 3. And through covetousness shall they with
  feigned words make merchandise of you whose
  judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and
  their damnation slumbereth not.

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Idolatry (perverted worship) Leads to Immorality
Rom. 123. And changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted
beasts, and creeping things. 24. Wherefore God
also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own
bodies between themselves 25. Who changed the
truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and
served the creature more than the Creator, who is
blessed for ever. Amen. 26. For this cause God
gave them up unto vile affections for even their
women did change the natural use into that which
is against nature
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27. And likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their lust
one toward another men with men working that
which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompence of their error which was meet.
28. And even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave them over to a
reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
convenient 29. Being filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness full of envy,
murder, debate, deceit, malignity whisperers,
30. Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful,
proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, 31. Without
understanding, covenant breakers, without natural
affection, implacable, unmerciful 32. Who
knowing the judgment of God, that they which
commit such things are worthy of death, not only
do the same, but have pleasure in them that do
them.
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Two Essentiql Ingredients of Acceptable Worship

• John 424. God is a Spirit and they that
  worship him must worship him in spirit and in
  truth.
• ---You cannot worship God acceptably in the
  spirit and reject the truth of his word. Jno.
  1717.
• 17. Sanctify them through thy truth thy word
  is truth. The early church used these true
  Items of worship 1) Prayer 2) Exhortation 3)
  Singing His Praise 4) Lords Supper 4) Giving
  of means.
• You cannot worship God acceptably in truth
  without the spirit (I.e. formally w/o love of
  the truth.
• e.g., Rev. 2 4 Nevertheless I have somewhat
  against thee, because thou hast left thy first
  love. 5. Remember therefore from whence thou
  art fallen, and repent, and do the first works

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The Priesthoodkohen..to draw near

• Pre-Levitical priests
• Levitical priests to 70 A.D.
• Priestly garments
• Their consecration
• Their service
• Spiritual meaning

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Pre-Levitical Priests

• Before Sinai individuals served as priests in
  their own families and tribes.
• Cain and Abel (Gen. 42-5)
• Noah (Gen. 820ff).
• Abraham (Gen. 2213-14)
• Jacob (Gen. 3154 351-8,14, 461)
• Melchizedek (Gen. 1418)
• Others (Ex. 1922)

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Levitical Priests to 70 A.D.

• At Sinai Israel was to be a kingdom of priestsa
  holy nation (Ex. 19L5-6)
• After they agreed to the covenant, they were to
  ready themselves for God (Ex. 1910-15)
• But when God planned to meet with them, they
  trembled (Ex. 1916).
• The oral law was given and they still feared,
  asking Moses to speak to them (Ex. 2019-20).
  From this time , until the written law was given
  (Ex. 311834 for 2nd set) Moses served as their
  priest.

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Aaron Levites Selected

• Atop Sinai Moses was told to select Aaron and his
  sons to be priests. (Ex. 281)
• Later the Levites were to be the intermediaries
  for sinful people and be holy and righteous in
  conduct. (Ex. 281)
• God took the Levities (Of the 3rd son of Jacob by
  Leah) in lieu of the first born (Ex. 13 who were
  to be his after the deliverance of Israel from
  Egypt (Nu. 311-13,40, 51 814)

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The priests became a revolting group. While
chosen to be pure and righteous in conduct, the
sons of Aaron polluted the worship before they
left Sinai and died for it (Lev. 10ff).
Subsequent generations further degraded the
office (I Sam. 212-17 27-29. Before Jerusalem
fell in 586, the prophets severely rebuked the
ungodliness of the priests. (Isaiah
Jeremiah) In the restoration era the priests
intermarried in violation of (Dt. 73-4 Ezra
1018). At the close of the old Testament,
Malachi denounced them harshly for their evil
(Mal. 16-8 21,2, 7,8) They were even worse in
the time of Christ becoming corrupt politicians
and turning the temple into a den of
thieves.(Mt. 2113) and finally condemning Jesus
an innocent man to death. Even Josephus makes
mention of their horrible unworthiness (Book 4,
Ch. 3, Par. 8)
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The Priestly Garments

• These are described in Ex. 28. Their making is
  noted in 391ff). The High Priests garments was
  of gold, blue, purple and scarlet and a fine
  twined linen ephod, a sort of vest with two onyx
  stones on each shoulder engraved with six tribes
  on each.
• A breastplate of judgment was made of the same
  material with four rows of three precious stones
  each according to the names of the sons of Israel
  (Jacob) (Ex. 2821). The Urim (light) and
  Thummin (perfection in truth) were in the
  breastplate. Over a girdle was a blue sleeveless
  robe with colored pomegranates on the skirt. He
  wore a turban inscribed with Holy to the Lord.
  The priests wore whiten linen breeches, girdles,
  caps and coat. (Ex. 2840ff).

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Their Consecration

• Ex. 29. Took 7 days. The ceremony is recorded in
  Lev. 8. After washing they dressed in their
  garments and were anointed by Moses with oil. A
  drop of blood from the Ram of ordination was
  placed on the tip of their right ear, right
  thumb, right big toe. They also offered burnt
  offerings of a bull, a wave offering of the
  insides of the Ram, then burning the same (Lev.
  8).

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Their Service

• Daily duties..Morning and evening they offered a
  lamb one year old with meal, oil and wine (Ex.
  2938ff). They performed their daily duties in
  the holy place keeping the light and incense
  burning. The officiated in various sin offerings.
  (Lev. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
• The high priest was in charge of the priests and
  officiated on the day of atonement (Lev. 16)
  annually entering alone into the holy of holies
  for himself and the people. He consulted the
  urim and thummin on important decisions (Nu.
  1721, I Sam. 307)

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Spiritual Application

• 1. As a minister of others who drew near to God
  he was to be godly in life.
• 2. Constantly killing the innocent animal for
  guilty man should have impressed upon him how
  much God hated sin but loved the sinner, and how
  great Gods grace was.
• 3. His consecration and the areas to which blood
  was applied should have made him understand what
  the holiness and sanctity of his life should be.
• 4. He should have understood that all he did had
  a spiritual forecast of deliverance in a person.
• Today, Christians are priests. (I Pet. 29 Rev.
  16)

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Christians as Priests

• We should avoid the sins of the old priests.
• As priests we should ask ourselves some deep
  questions Do we become tired and bored with the
  mere ritual of signing, the Lords supper,
  praying, giving of our means, time, energy and
  study?
• Do we use the repeated worship services to draw
  nearer to God and make us more like Christ?. Let
  us be careful not to let the means become the
  end. Worship, Bible Study, even this class,
  should be thought of as stepping stones to
  achieve a more Christ like personality. Only in
  doing this can we be true priests of God. Jesus
  is our H. Priest.
• I what way should priests be conscious of the
  clothing they wear?

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The Law and Jesus