Leviticus

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Leviticus
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Does God need to be appeased?

• You do not want sacrifices, or I would offer
  them you are not pleased with burnt offerings.
  My sacrifice is a humble spirit, O God you will
  not reject a humble and repentant heart (Psalms
  5116,17).
• I want your constant love, not your animal
  sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me
  than burn offerings to me (Hosea 66).
• Jesus words Go and learn what this means I
  desire mercy and not sacrifice and sacrificial
  victims (Matthew 913 Amplified).

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Why make a tent?

• The people must make a sacred Tent for me, so
  that I may live among them (Exodus 258 GN)
• For all time to come, this burnt offering is to
  be offered in my presence at the entrance of the
  Tent of my presence. That is where I will meet my
  people and speak to you. There I will meet the
  people of Israel, and the dazzling light of my
  presence will make the place holyI will live
  among the people of Israel, and I will be their
  God. They will know that I am the LORD their God
  who brought them out of Egypt so that I could
  live among them. I am the LORD their God.
  (Exodus 2942-46 - GN)
• I heard a loud voice speaking from the throne
  Now God's home is with people! He will live with
  them, and they shall be his people. (Revelation
  213 GN) --At-One-Ment--

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• Physical
• Tabernacle in the wilderness
• Solomons temple
• Ezekiels temple in vision
• Herods temple
• Spiritual
• Jesus answered, Tear down this Temple, and in
  three days I will build it again. Are you going
  to build it again in three days? they asked him.
  It has taken forty-six years to build this
  Temple! But the temple Jesus was speaking about
  was his body. So when he was raised from death,
  his disciples remembered that he had said this,
  and they believed the scripture and what Jesus
  had said. (John 219-22 - GN)

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The spiritual temple

• Come to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of
  Gods temple. He was rejected by the people, but
  he is precious to God who chose him. And now God
  is building you, as living stones, into his
  spiritual temple. (1 Peter 3)
• I will make those who are victorious pillars in
  the temple of my God, and they will never leave
  it (Revelation 312).
• You, too, are built upon the foundation laid by
  the apostles and prophets, the cornerstone being
  Christ Jesus himself. He is the one who holds the
  whole building together and makes it grow into a
  sacred temple dedicated to the Lord. In union
  with him you too are being built together with
  all the others into a place where God lives
  through his Spirit (Ephesians 220-22).

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• Surely you know that you are God's temple and
  that God's Spirit lives in you! God will destroy
  anyone who destroys God's temple. For God's
  temple is holy, and you yourselves are his
  temple (1 Corinthians 317 - GN).
• Don't you know that your body is the temple of
  the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was
  given to you by God? (1 Corinthians 619 - GN)
• For we are the temple of the living God! As God
  himself has said, I will make my home with my
  people and live among them I will be their God,
  and they shall be my people (2 Corinthians 616
  - GN).
• We are his house if we keep up our courage and
  our confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 36
  - GN).

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Cleansing of the temple

• In this way he will perform the ritual to purify
  the Most Holy Place from the uncleanness of the
  people of Israel and from all their sins. He must
  do this to the Tent, because it stands in the
  middle of the camp, which is ritually unclean.
  (Leviticus 1616 GN)

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• On that day the ritual is to be performed to
  purify them from all their sins, so that they
  will be ritually clean. (Leviticus 1630 GN)
• and perform the ritual to purify the Most Holy
  Place, the rest of the Tent of the LORD's
  presence, the altar, the priests, and all the
  people of the community. These regulations are to
  be observed for all time to come. This ritual
  must be performed once a year to purify the
  people of Israel from all their sins. (Leviticus
  1633-34)

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• Seeing that that first tabernacle was a parable
  (a visible symbol or type or picture of the
  present age). In it gifts and sacrifices are
  offered, and yet are incapable of perfecting the
  conscience or of cleansing and renewing the inner
  man of the worshiper. (Hebrews 99 Amplified)
• But, how much more will the blood of Christ make
  our consciences clean from dead human efforts, so
  that we can worship the living God! (Hebrews
  914 The Great Book)

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Symbols with meaning

• Lamb - Jesus
• High Priest Jesus
• Daily Priest Us
• The lid over the covenant box Jesus
• Shekinah glory the Godhead
• Angels woven in the curtains/veils Angels
• Oil, fire, water Holy Spirit

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Blood
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• This means that every time you eat this bread
  and drink from this cup you proclaim the Lords
  death until he comesFor if you do not recognize
  the meaning of the Lords body when you eat the
  bread and drink from the cup, you bring judgment
  on yourself as you eat and drink (1 Corinthians
  1129 - GN).

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Blood

• I can guarantee this truth If you don't eat the
  flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you
  don't have the source of life in you. Those who
  eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal
  life, and I will bring them back to life on the
  last day. My flesh is true food, and my blood is
  true drink. (John 653-55 GN)
• What gives life is God's Spirit human power is
  of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you
  bring Gods life-giving Spirit (John 663 GN)
• This is eternal life to know you (John 173
  GODS Word)
• The truth about God (his character and his
  principles) as revealed through the life and
  death of Jesus

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• Blood always cleanses never defiles
• As Moses Teachings tell us, blood was used to
  cleanse almost everything... (Hebrews 922
  GODS WORD)
• And almost all things are by the law purged with
  blood and without shedding of blood is no
  remission. (Hebrews 922 KJV)

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3 sections of the tabernacle

• Outer court
• Holy Place
• Most Holy Place
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• Brazen altar Bronze. In the outer court. The
  unconverted mind, yet willing to listen
• Golden altar Gold. In the holy place. The
  converted mind.
• The covenant box Gold, covered by the gold lid.
  In the most holy place. The sealed mind settled
  into the truth about God (his character and his
  principles).

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The outer court

• The head of the household brought in a perfect
  lamb for sin
• The lamb was examined and found to be spotless
• The same man killed the sheep and the blood was
  drained
• Blood was placed on the horns of the brazen altar
  
• The lamb was then placed by the priest on the
  brazen altar

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The brazen altar

• The mind of the unconverted, yet willing to
  listen and willing the experience healing
• Lamb Christ
• Horns of the altar
• Fire truth/Holy Spirit
• Organs inner man/old man being burned
  up/transformed in character

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The laver

• Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands
  and their feet there whenever they went into the
  Tent or to the altar, just as the LORD commanded
  (Exodus 4031 GN)
• The man who brought the sheep followed the priest
  into the Holy Place by faith
• What is done when one is converted?
• Baptism to indicate spiritual birth believer
• Jesus was baptized upon entering his ministry
• I am telling you the truth, replied Jesus,
  that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without
  being born of water and the Spirit. A person is
  born physically of human parents, but is born
  spiritually of the Spirit. (John 35,6 GN)

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The Holy Place

• Through the veil into the Holy Place
• The veils separate us from God in the Most Holy
  Place. To go through the veil is to see more
  clearly
• However, their minds became closed. In fact, to
  this day the same veil is still there when they
  read the Old Testament. It isn't removed, because
  only Christ can remove it. Yet, even today, when
  they read the books of Moses, a veil covers their
  minds. But whenever a person turns to the Lord,
  the veil is taken away. (2 Corinthians 314-16
  GODS WORD)
• 3 objects in the Holy Place represent the key
  elements in the Christian life
• Table with showbread nourishment in the word of
  God
• Lampstand a witness to the world about God
• Golden altar with incense the mind in daily
  communion with God, and a resulting change in
  character

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Table of Showbread

• Made by the Priests
• Eaten on the Sabbath day by the priests
• Represents the word of God
• The LORD was teaching you that people need more
  than food to live--they need every word that the
  LORD has spoken. (Deuteronomy 83 CEV)
• Bread assimilates throughout the entire physical
  being
• The word of God when internalized also becomes a
  part of the person and results in a change of
  character
• Just as we need daily physical food, we need
  daily spiritual food as well

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The Lampstand

• The buds, the branches, and the lampstand are to
  be a single piece of pure hammered gold. Make
  seven lamps for the lampstand and set them up so
  that they shine toward the front. Make its tongs
  and trays of pure gold. Use seventy-five pounds
  of pure gold to make the lampstand and all this
  equipment. (Exodus 2536-39)
• Jesus
• The real light, which shines on everyone, was
  coming into the world. (John 19 GODS WORD)
• Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again. I am the
  light of the world, he said. Whoever follows me
  will have the light of life and will never walk
  in darkness. (John 812 GN)

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• We also are a light to the world
• You are like light for the whole world. A city
  built on a hill cannot be hid. No one lights a
  lamp and puts it under a bowl instead it is put
  on the lampstand, where it gives light for
  everyone in the house. In the same way your light
  must shine before people, so that they will see
  the good things you do and praise your Father in
  heaven. (Matthew 514-16 - GN)
• For this is the commandment that the Lord has
  given us I have made you a light for the
  Gentiles, so that all the world may be saved.
  (Acts 1347 GN)
• Here is the secret meaning of the seven stars
  that you see in my right hand, and of the seven
  gold lampstands the seven stars are the angels
  of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands
  are the seven churches. (Revelation 120 GN)
• Tell Aaron that when he puts the seven lamps on
  the lampstand, he should place them so that the
  light shines toward the front (Numbers 82 GN)

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The Lampstand

• We represent the character of Jesus
• Ornate buds, flowers, and almonds (Exodus 37)
  the humble and gentle character of God
  represented by his people
• The fruits of the spirit
• But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace,
  patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  humility, and self-control. (Galatians 522-23
  GN)

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The lampstand

• Oil Holy Spirit
• I will ask the Father, and he will give you
  another Helper, who will stay with you forever.
  He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about
  God. (John 1416,17 - GN)
• The Helper will come---the Spirit, who reveals
  the truth about God and who comes from the
  Father. I will send him to you from the Father,
  and he will speak about me. (John 1526 - GN)
• When, however, the Spirit comes, who reveals the
  truth about God, he will lead you into all the
  truth. (John 1613 - GN)
• Even now the true worshipers are being led by
  the Spirit to worship the Father according to the
  truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking
  to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who
  worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship
  him according to the truth (John 423,24 CEV)

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Altar of incense

• Put this altar outside the curtain which hangs
  in front of the Covenant Box. That is the place
  where I will meet you. Every morning when Aaron
  comes to take care of the lamps, he is to burn
  sweet-smelling incense on it. He must do that
  same when he lights the lamps in the evening.
  This offering of incense is to continue without
  interruption for all time to come (Exodus
  306-10 GN)
• I pray to you, LORD! Please listen when I pray
  and hurry to help me. Think of my prayer as
  sweet-smelling incense, and think of my lifted
  hands as an evening sacrifice. (Psalms 1411,2
  CEV)
• Be joyful always, pray at all times, be thankful
  in all circumstances. This is what God wants from
  you in your life in union with Christ Jesus. (1
  Thessalonians 516-18 GN)

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Altar of incense

• God uses us to make the knowledge about Christ
  spread everywhere like a sweet fragrance.
• For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered
  by Christ to God, which spreads among those who
  are being saved and those who are being lost. For
  those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench
  that kills but for those who are being saved, it
  is a fragrance that brings life (2 Corinthians
  214-16 GN)

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The veil

• Did not extend to the top the glory (character)
  of God is seen, but not perfectly from the Holy
  Place
• The veil separates us from seeing God as he
  really is
• Ripped at the death of Jesus
• What happened at the cross?
• We have, then, my friends, complete freedom to
  go into the Most Holy Place by means of the death
  of Jesus. He opened for us a new way, a living
  way, through the curtain---that is, through his
  own body. (Hebrews 1019,20 GN)
• So let us come boldly to the throne of our
  gracious God. There we will receive his mercy,
  and we will find grace (Hebrews 416, NLT).

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The covenant box

• Manna
• I am telling you the truth, Jesus said. What
  Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven it
  is my Father who gives you the real bread from
  heaven. For the bread that God gives is he who
  comes down from heaven and gives life to the
  world. Sir, they asked him, give us this
  bread always. I am the bread of life, Jesus
  told them I am telling you the truth he who
  believes has eternal life. I am the bread of
  life. Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but
  they died. But the bread that comes down from
  heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it
  will not die. I am the living bread that came
  down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will
  live forever. The bread that I will give you is
  my flesh, which I give so that the world mayWhat
  gives life is God's Spirit human power is of no
  use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring
  Gods life-giving Spirit. (John 632-63 - GN)

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The covenant box

• Manna
• Pure bread of life from heaven (Jesus words,
  life and character) is internalized and
  assimilated
• What is the result?
• We, however, have the mind of Christ (1
  Corinthians 215 GN).
• Yes, may you come to know his lovealthough it
  can never be fully knownand so be completely
  filled with the very nature of God (Ephesians
  319).

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• Aarons rod with almonds and flowers
• Write each mans name on his stick and then
  write Aarons name on the stick representing
  Levi.The next day, when Moses went into the
  Tent, he saw that Aarons stick, representing the
  tribe of Levi, has sprouted. It had budded,
  blossomed, and produced ripe almonds! (Numbers
  172,3,8 GN)
• We also represent the Levites (Malachi 3)
• BEHOLD, I send My messenger, and he shall
  prepare the way before Me. And the Lord the
  Messiah, Whom you seek, will suddenly come to
  His temple the Messenger or Angel of the
  covenant, Whom you desire, behold, He shall come,
  says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the
  day of His coming? And who can stand when He
  appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like
  fullers soap He will sit as a refiner and
  purifier of silver, and He will purify the
  priests, the sons of Levi, and refine them like
  gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord
  offerings in righteousness. (Malachi 31-3 -
  Amplified)

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• The 10 Commandments
• The Lord says, The time is coming when I will
  make a new covenant with the people of Israel and
  with the people of Judah. It will not be like the
  old covenant that I made with their ancestors
  when I took them by the hand and led them out of
  Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them,
  they did not keep that covenant. The new covenant
  that I will make with the people of Israel will
  be this I will put my law within them and write
  it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they
  will be my people. None of them will have to
  teach a neighbor to know the Lord, because all
  will know me, from the least to the greatest.
  (Jeremiah 3131-34).

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The lid

• God showed that Christ is the throne of mercy
  where Gods approval is given through faith in
  Christs blood. (Romans 325 GODS WORD)
• God appointed him as a sacrifice for
  reconciliation, through faith, by the shedding of
  his blood (Romans 325 New Jerusalem Bible)
• God presented Jesus as the way and means of
  restoration, through trust established by the
  evidence of Gods character revealed when Christ
  died. (TJ)

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• Jesus High Priest
• I glorified you on earth by completing down to
  the last detail What you assigned me to doI
  spelled out your character in detail to the men
  and women you gave me. (John 174,6 The
  Message)
• Humanity Daily Priests
• It is the duty of priests to teach the true
  knowledge of God. (Malachi 27 GN)