King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
Bible Questions Page 69
Viewing page: 69 of 639
< Previous Discussion Page Next Discussion Page >
59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78
Do you have a Bible comment or question?
Posting comments is currently unavailable due to high demand on the server.
Please check back in an hour or more. Thank you for your patience!
Jesus prayers
His dressing code
thanks for allowing me to ask this.
Love this Bible page.
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
This chapter speaks to the sin offering for trespasses. I am wondering what the difference is between the sin offering of Chapter 4 and this one? Both the sin offering and the trespass offerings are not to be mixed with oil or incense. They are not intended to be a sweet aroma to God. This does demonstrates God's inability to be pleased with sin in any way, shape, or form because He is absolutely, infinitely, uncompromisingly pure and holy. Where there is sin there comes the penalty of death. This is a righteous judgment.
I read that the sin offering of Chapter 4 is for our general sinfulness since we possess a corrupted, sinful nature. It is who we are. And that this trespass offering is for sins we actively commit. It is what we do that is against God.
For this trespass offering, the carcass is taken out of the camp to be burned like the sin offering. It is defiled by the sins imputed upon its substance. It cannot be burned on the altar of sacrifice. Only the fat is burned on the altar within the tent of meeting. None of these two sacrifices are eaten by the priests or else they would be "consuming" sin and be defiled. God is very picky about His people avoiding that which would defile them. Are we picky also, about such avoiding every kind of evil ( 1 Thessalonians 5:22)? Or we make excuses as some things being "harmless". Do we really believe that sin is always deadly to the one who sins?
God, in His mercy, allowed for the sin of His people to be imputed upon an acceptable substitute that would bear His judgment for sin and remove the sin from the true sinner. The animals sacrificed, without spot or blemish, are a shadow of Jesus, who was without sin, but took our sin upon Himself voluntarily to bare the just punishment for our sins, thus freeing us from Gpd's wrath and making us clean instead. He triumphed over all sin by His death and resurrection. But even before He did this, He lived a perfect life in absolute submission to the Father.
We see many characteristics of the 10 commandments here in these short verses. We see loving our neighbor in verse 3 (and verse 2 surely implies an attitude of loving God in all ways as the first commandment requires). We also see how other things like vows are kept; that would be the meaning here and we must remember at least in N.T. times that we are not to communicate beyond "yea and nay" whenever purely human agreements are made. ( Matt. 5:34). Such things between God such as marriage vows; and other promises are to be kept and we can see one painful example in Judges 11:36-39. We also see in verse 4 having the fear of the Lord which of course is the beginning of wisdom and found in numerous scriptures.
Finally; we see a statement on usury (charging interest on loans). This was warned against the Jews doing this to their own people in Leviticus 25:35-38. This of course would put many banks out of business today but of course anything like this makes the poor worse off and the rich gaining more for their own selfish interests. We may not be able to help what banks do but in our own loans we can.
Luke 1 says Zechariah and Elisabeth were
righteous. How does one reconcile those 2
verses?
I'm confused about this scripture. We pray and hear from the Lord now. Does this mean we won't? Is the prince of the world referring to satan?
As with many of these inspired writings; we certainly can look at Christ as being prophetically referenced to here. We are reminded of Psalm 22; as well as the times when Christ Himself said "why have you foresaken me?" ( Matt. 27:46). There is ultimate trust in David in verse 5; which we can all cling onto. Only Christ had to have that unspeakable horror of God's mercy removed for that brief moment in time. Only Christ COULDN'T pray for salvation of His soul (unnecessary for a member of the deity). But only He could procure the punishment for our sin as an atonement; and hence WOULD not be released from being a sin offering as it was clearly part of God's plan for the redemption of man.
We also are remined in Psalm 23:5 where a table is prepared in the presence of enemies. This could certainly apply to us; in the Millennium Kingdom as well as the Lord Himself when He rules with an iron rod. Any saint of God recognizes in general that they are in enemy territory lest they become too content in the world which is about to perish as it exists now in its fallen state under Satan's control. We are reminded of Christ's admonition to us that a servant is no greater than his master ( Jn. 13:16) and can truly understand we also will have trials as the Lord Himself was the "man of sorrows" ( iSAIAH 53:3). Man is but a vapor ( Romans 8:7 and mentioned further in Psalm 62:9; etal.
Mommas little baby likes it short n sweet
This Chapter discusses the procedures for the sin offering for various groups of people:
The high priest
The whole congregation
The leader or ruler (prince or king in later times)
A common Israelite
The sacrifice is very similar to the offering for atonement in Chapter 1, but there are a few differences.
In Chapter 1, the animal was skinned, not so in Chapter 4
The animal could be cattle, sheep, goat, or birds in Chapter 1, but in chapter 4 the animal is either a young bullock (1-2 years old), or a male kid goat, or a female sheep.
In Chapter 1, the blood was sprinkled at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, in Chapter 4, the blood is sprinkled before the veil that separated the holy place and the holy of holies. The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and apply it to the horns of the altar of incense seven times or to the horns of the altar of sacrifice.
In Chapter 1 the animal sacrificed is to be burned completely on the altar until it is ashes. Like the peace offering in Chapter 3 the fat is burned on the altar of sacrifice, not the flesh and remainder of the animal in Chapter 4. Also, differing from the peace offering, in the sin offering, instead of the flesh being eaten in a fellowship meal, the whole carcass of the animal is taken by the priest outside of the camp to where the ashes from the altar of sacrifices are deposited and the animal is completely burned on wood on top of this heap of ashes.
The first three offerings were voluntary, but the sin offering was compulsory.
The first three offerings were a sweet aroma unto God. The sin offering was not.
The word atonement is used for both the burnt offering in Chapter 1 and the sin offering in Chapter 4. Makes me wonder, does this word have different meanings in these two instances?
These differences are a bit subtle and can be easily overlooked in reading through the chapters.
So my thoughts on these differences will be given in the next post....