In reading Leviticus 12-15, I confess I wondered how can I blog about this? Then I thought about these instructions through the eyes of a people camped in the wilderness, millions strong. They needed rudimentary teaching in how to prevent the spread of disease, in the need for a new mother to have time with…

I find myself wanting to understand God more and more. He is Holy. I wish I could fathom what that is. My physical mind has limitations. In Leviticus 11 God is instructing the people in what foods they can eat and what foods they cannot eat. You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean,…

Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord contrary to his command. So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord…

When I think of the continuum of humanities life on this beautiful planet of ours, I can’t help but marvel at God’s timing. Now in Leviticus 8 and 9 we come to the time when God provides for a priesthood to minister to the people. So Aaron and his sons did everything the Lord commanded…

Jesus asked that question of His disciples in Matthew 15:16 and again in Mark 8:21. Reading Leviticus 3-7 about the many sacrifices the people were to make and how they were to be given by the people and performed by the priests, I couldn’t help but think about what that would have been like. They…

How can I read Leviticus 2 and the descriptions of the Grain Offerings to God and not be aware of the overflowing offerings God gives so generously to us? Looking out my window I can watch the sun slowly lighten the sky bringing beautiful light, color and warmth; I can eat my bowl of Cheerios…

We come to the Book of Leviticus. The people are camped at the foot of Mt. Sinai where they will stay as God leads them to Him. They have been enslaved in Egypt, a land of idol worship, and will be entering in the future into the Promised Land. God is teaching them to be…

Imagine! Everything is completed for the Tabernacle. Just as the Lord commands, Moses does. The people are there watching with great expectation. Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and…

Exodus 39 describes the beautiful garments worn by Aaron, the High Priest, and his sons as they minister before the Lord at the tabernacle. Woven of gold and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, they must have been so very beautiful. On a breastpiece, four rows of precious stones, twelve in…

Reading Exodus 38, I’m struck by the phrases they built…they made…they cast. They are following the directions Moses received from God to build the tabernacle and all the things needed for them to offer sacrifices and offerings – burnt offerings, grain offerings, sin offerings, trespass offerings. Why? God is holy and we are not. We…