There are times when reading Scripture that God sounds so harsh. So we shrink away. We fear punishment. Then we think that the God of the Old Testament is somehow different from the God of the New Testament. Is He really? The people are about to enter into a land where parents kill their own…

My husband and I love to watch all things Star Trek. There is the concept of timelines and reading my Bible, I definitely get a sense of a different timeline. It was such a different world then. The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy…

Can we imagine being a people in such a unique position that the Creator God is teaching us how to live by His instructions? He was a Holy Guide to them. He loved them. Leviticus 18 is God caring for their emotional, interpersonal relations. There is nothing more personal than sex. There is nothing more…

Whenever I read a Chapter in the Bible, I try to understand how God is leading me to be closer to Him. In Leviticus 17 is the teaching about blood and sacrifice. The curious passages for me were They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols to whom they prostitute…

Leviticus 16 gives instruction in how Aaron and any High Priest succeeding him is to serve God. The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the Lord. The Lord said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he…

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…