17 Atonement and Holiness Code

Holiness

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II. God Institutes Priestly

Ordination

The Book of Leviticus

What about the atonement of sins for Christians?

1 John 1:7

7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

I. The Law of Sacrifice

(chapters 1-7)

Romans 5:11

11 .....we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

Jesus Christ is Our Atonement

1 John 2:1-2

1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. (ESV)

Matthew 26:28

When Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper, he said 28 "For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Romans 3:24-25

1 John 4:10

24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

A. Preparation for anointing (8:1-5)

B. The anointing of Aaron & his sons (8:6-13)

C. The consecration sacrifice (8:14-36)

D. Instructions concerning sin offering (9:1-7)

E. Entering of Aaron and his sons (9:8-24)

F. The fate of Nadab and Abihu (10:1-7)

G. Prohibitions concerning drunkenness of

priests (10:8-11)

H. Rules concerning the eating of consecrated

food (10:12-20)

"Propitiation means the turning away of wrath by an offering. Propitiation means placating or satisfying the wrath of God by the atoning sacrifice of Christ."

John 4:4-24

The Strange Fire of

Nadab and Abihu

God's Holy Fire

23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of meeting, and came out and blessed the people. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people, 24 and fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces. (Lev. 9:23-24)

10 Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane (unauthorized - ESV) fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. 2 So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

3 And Moses said to Aaron, “This

is what the Lord spoke, saying:

‘By those who come near Me

I must be regarded as holy;

And before all the people

I must be glorified.’”

So Aaron held his peace.

Christ Is Our High Priest

11 “And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull as the sin offering which is for himself. 12 Then he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, with his hands full of sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil. 13 And he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he die. (Lev. 16:11-13)

(Lev. 10:1-3)

Hebrews 9:11-15

19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

After the Sin of Nadab and Abihu

God's Warning

16 Now the Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered profane fire before the Lord, and died; 2 and the Lord said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat. (Lev. 16:1-2)

Ephesians 5:19-20

19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Day of Atonement

The Great Day of Atonement

27 Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. 28 And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.

(Lev. 23:27-28)

11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh.....

14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

29 “This shall be a statute forever for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether a native of your own country or a stranger who dwells among you. 30 For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

31 It is a sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. 32 And the priest, who is anointed and consecrated to minister as priest in his father’s place, shall make atonement, and put on the linen clothes, the holy garments;

33 then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tabernacle of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. 34 This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel, for all their sins, once a year.” And he did as the Lord commanded Moses. (Lev. 16:29-34)

Colossians 3:16

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Greatness of Christ’s

Sacrifice

In the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur is celebrated in the month of Tishri which is the seventh month of the religious year, usually coinciding with parts of September and October.

A. The burnt offering (1:1-17)

B. The cereal or grain offering (2:1-16)

C. The peace offering (3:1-17)

D. The sin offering, (4:1-5:13)

E. The guilt or trespass offering (5:14-19)

F. Conditions necessitating atonement (6:1-7)

G. Burnt offerings (6:8-13)

H. Cereal or grain offerings (6:14-23)

I. Sin offerings (6:24-30)

J. Regulations concerning guilt or trespass offerings (7:1-10)

K. Regulations for peace offering (7:11-21)

L. Prohibition of fat and blood (7:22-27)

M. Further regulations concerning peace offering (7:28-38)

23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us

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25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— 26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (Hebrews 9:23-28)

NEXT:

The Holiness Code

The Holiness Code is a term used to refer to Leviticus chapters 17–26, and is so called due to its highly repeated use of the word Holy. The Holiness Code also uses a noticeably different choice of vocabulary, repeating phrases such as I, The LORD, am holy, I am the LORD, and I the LORD, which sanctify..., an unusually large number of times.

IV. The Holiness Code

III. God Institutes the Clean and Unclean Regulations

"You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy" (19:2)

Circumcision of All Males

2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If a woman has conceived, and borne a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her customary impurity she shall be unclean. 3 And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. (Lev. 12:2-3)

A. Prologue: Laws about right worship and blood prohibitions (Lev. 17:1-16)

B. Commands concerning sexual unions (Lev 18:1-30)

C. Code of religious and secular laws (Lev 19:1-37)

D. Laws concerning religious offences (Lev 20:1-27)

E. Laws pertaining to the priesthood (Lev 21:1-22:9)

F. Laws concerning eating sacred food (Lev 22:10-33)

G. Laws governing the Liturgical Calendar (Lev 23:1-44)

H. Laws for the Holy Place and concerning blasphemy (Lev 24:1-23)

I. Laws concerning agriculture and land stewardship (Lev 25:1-26:2)

J. Epilogue: Covenant blessings and curses (Lev 26:3-46)

5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. (Gal. 5:1-7)

A. Clean and unclean species (11:1-47)

B. Purification after childbirth (12:1-8)

C. Laws concerning leprosy (13:1 - 14:57)

D. Purification after secretions (15:1-33)

A. The blood of sacrifice (17:1-16)

B. Religious and ethical laws (18:1 - 20:27)

C. Canons of priestly holiness (21:1 - 22:33)

D. Consecration of seasons (23:1 - 24:23)

E. Sabbatial and Jubilee years (25:1-55)

F. Promises and Warnings (26:1 - 27:34)

Israel's concept of "holiness" was based upon their moral and ethical view of God, "Yahweh".

15.. as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” (1 Pet. 1:15-26; Lev. 11:44-45)

44 For I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 45 For I am the Lord who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. (Lev. 11:44-45)