Sanctification (Leviticus 11-27) How to Walk with a Holy God

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1 Sanctification (Leviticus 11-27) How to Walk with a Holy God Prescriptions for Uncleanness (chap ) Unclean Animals (ch. 11) Uncleanness of Childbirth (ch. 12) Unclean Diseases (ch. 13) Cleansing of Diseases (ch. 14) Unclean Discharges (ch. 15) Purification of the Tabernacle from Uncleanness (ch. 16) Guidelines for Practical Holiness (chap ) Sacrifice and Food (chap. 17) Proper Sexual Behavior (chap. 18) Neighborliness (chap. 19) Capital/Grave Crimes (chap. 20)

2 The high priest would: 1) Remove the ashes from the outer altar. 2) Immerse (baptise) himself for the first time. Put on the golden vestments. 3) Slaughter the daily morning elevation (burnt) offering. 4) Receive and throw the blood of the elevation (burnt) offering. 5) Prepared the five lamps of the menorah. 6) Offered the daily incense. 7) Prepare the remaining two lamps of the menorah. 8) Burn the limbs of the daily morning elevation (burnt) offering on the outer altar. 9) Offer the daily meal offering. 10) Offer the Chavitin (sin) offering. 11) Offer the wine libation (drink offering). 12) Offer the Mussafim: The ox and the seven lambs - all elevation (burnt) offerings, along with their meal and drink offerings. 13) Immerse (baptise) himself for the second time and then don the linen vestments. 14) Do the first confession on the Kohen Gadol s (High Priest) ox offering. 15) Draw the lots to select the he-goats For HaShem and To Azazel. 16) Do the second confession on the Kohen Gadol s (High Priest) ox sin offering. 17) Slaughter his ox sin offering. 18) Perform the service of the special Yom HaKippurim incense: scoop up some coal; scoop up the incense into the ladle; burn the incense in the Holy of Holies. This was his first entry into the Holy of Holies. 19) Sprinkle the blood of his ox in the Holy of Holies. This was his second entry into the Holy of

3 20) Slaughter the he-goat For HaShem. 21) Sprinkle the he-goat s blood in the Holy of Holies. This was his third entry into the Holy of Holies. 22) Sprinkle the blood of his ox, on the curtain, of the Holy place. 23) Sprinkle the he-goat s blood, on the curtain, in the Holy place. 24) Mix the blood of his ox and the he-goat. 25) Sprinkle the mixture on the inner altar. 26) Do the confession on the he-goat To Azazel and present the he-goat, to the designated person, for dispatch to Azazel. (This was not a sacrifice.) 27) Remove the entrails of his ox and the he-goat and place them in a utensil. 28) Prepare the limbs of his ox and the he-goat for removal to the burning place. 29) Read from the Torah. 30) Immerse (baptise) himself for the third time, then don the golden vestments. 31) Perform the service of the he-goat sin offering of the Mussafim. 32) Offer his ram. 33) Offer the people s ram. 34) Burn the entrails of the ox and he-goat on the outer altar. 35) Immerse (baptise) himself for the fourth time, then don the linen vestments. 36) Remove the incense ladle and the shovel with burnt coals from the Holy of Holies. This was his fourth and final entry into the Holy of Holies. 37) Immerse (baptise) himself for the fifth time, then don the golden vestments. 38) Offer the daily afternoon elevation (burnt) offering. 39) Burn the daily afternoon incense. 40) Light the Menorah.

4 Facts When: 10th day 7th month * perpetual statute (Lev 23:31; 16:31, 34) 1. Azazel = scapegoat 2. Red sash tied to horns of Azazel 3. Washing of HP, then clothed with golden vestments 4. Once a year, man comes face-to-face with God & lives! cf Ex 33:20 5. The Day = the most solemn day of the Jewish year 6. Neilah = closing of the gates of heavens 7. Life for life: Yom Ha Kippurim = the day of covering, canceling pardon, reconciling 8. golden censor used 9. HP goes in Holy of Holies once a year 10. Once atonement was made, the people were sinless & blameless before God 11. The bodies of animals were burned outside the camp 12. Many sacrifices were offered 13. Year of Jubilee was the Day of Atonement (Lev 25:9-11) What: Humble selves (Lev 23;27, 29, 32; Num 29:7) Holy Convocation No work Death Penalty Sabbath of complete rest (Lev 23:32); solemn rest (Lev 16:31) Order of service in the temple centered around the High Priest, his bull sin offering & the 2 goats Casting lots => judgment Isaiah 1:18 Christ after His death, burial & resurrection (Rev 1:13-15,, Dan 10:5-6) 1 Cor 13:9-12 Spiritual / Future Significance RH 7 days YK Succot (2 days) (1 day) sign of the Tribes Mourn Jesus Comes Son of Man Zech 12:10-14; 13-1 Substitute accepted in place of the people Revelation 5:8 Jesus our great HP offered a once-for-all sacrifice (Heb 9:11-14) Hebrews 10:10,14 Hebrews 13:10-13 Rom 12:1 Isaiah 61:1-3; Luke 4:17-21; Year of liberty * Ultimate Jubilee at the 2nd Coming of Messiah

5 Alfred Edersheim, chapter 3 Wilful Profanity But, guard it as they might, it was impossible wholly to preserve the sanctuary from profanation. For wilful, conscious, high-handed profanity, whether in reference to the Temple or to God, the law does not appear to have provided any atonement or offering. To this the Epistle to the Hebrews alludes in the well-known passage, so often misunderstood, 'For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries' (Hebrews 10:26,27). In point of fact, these terms of threatening correspond to two kinds of Divine punishment frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. The one, often referred to in the warning 'that he die not,' is called by the Rabbis, 'death by the hand of Heaven or of God'; the other is that of being 'cut off.' It is difficult to distinguish exactly between these two. Tradition enumerates thirty-six offences to which the punishment of 'cutting off' attaches. From their graver nature, as compared with the eleven offences on which 'death by the hand of God' was to follow, we gather that 'cutting off' must have been the severer of the two punishments, and it may correspond to the term 'fiery indignation.' Some Rabbis hold that 'death by the hand of God' was a punishment which ended with this life, while 'cutting off' extended beyond it. But the best authorities maintain, that whereas death by the hand of Heaven fell upon the guilty individual alone, 'the cutting off' extended to the children also, so that the family would become extinct in Israel. Such Divine punishment is alluded to in 1 Corinthians 16:22, under the well-known Jewish expression, 'Anathema Maranatha - literally, Anathema when the Lord cometh!