Infrastructure: the underlying foundation or basic framework of a system or organization; the basic structure of an organization or system which is necessary for its operation. (In your house, the infrastructure is the system of beams, weight-bearing walls and the foundation that keeps it standing.)
“You shall not… nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the Lord,” (18:21).
Profane: characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious; not devoted to holy or religious purposes; unconsecrated; secular; to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt; to debase by a wrong, unworthy, or vulgar use.
God continues to command His people to live as set apart, as a kingdom representing a Holy God to all peoples; and blood would have a prominent and precisely regulated role. Continue reading
Prefigure: to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
Personify: to represent (a thing or abstraction) in the form of a person; to embody in a real person.
“Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by their defiling My tabernacle that is among them,” (15:31). Continue reading
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing…” (14:1).
As we continue through Leviticus, it can overwhelm our underdeveloped understanding of the LORD’s ceremonial laws. We must continually remember the LORD was establishing a new nation, a new people called to worship and serve Him, the One True and Perfectly Holy God. Continue reading
“As for the leper who has the infection, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover his mustache and cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ 46 He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp,” (13:45-46). Continue reading
Leviticus 12 is another chapter that leaves me with many unanswered questions. But one impression doggedly captured my thoughts; even in the midst of life’s most joyous occasions, we cannot escape the need for atonement and cleansing. Continue reading
“For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus you shall be holy, for I am holy,” (11:45). Continue reading
“By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy,
And before all the people I will be honored,” (10:3).
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