20221120 - Leviticus 16

family as well. This work for making atonement is cough fair.

It is the root word where we get young kapoor

from this word cuff fair might have the longest and most

comprehensive list of basically any word that I've really looked at

in the bible so far in bible dictionaries and stuff.

And it's translated because of these many different meanings.

It's translated at different times in the bible as atonement purge,

reconciliation, reconcile, forgive, purge away, pacify atonement,

made merciful.

Cleanse, decisional appease, put off, pardon and pitch.

That's a lot of different things

and a lot of different meanings. So what does it actually mean?

The first meaning of this word ca far that most people throw is to cover

and that comes from an Arabic word that means the same thing to cover.

Many others believe that it comes from an Aramaic word meaning to wash away.

Some scholars think that these words are kind of related and from

an even earlier meaning of the word which was to rub.

Then from that we get a lot of people that translate it to rub off or to rub on

or to wipe away something.

Another section of scholars believes it means

primarily to make a ransom for something.

They get this from the use of the word,

mainly in the low vertical system that we're going through.

So let's look at these possibilities a little bit more in depth.

So let's start with, to cover.

The reason I want to start with to cover is

because the first time that we see this word in the

bible is talking about making atonement and it's back in the

story of Noah and the ark just talk about this.

But this is where that word first shows up in the bible genesis 6 14.

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.

Make rooms in the ark and cover it inside and out with pitch.

So you might hear this verse and don't totally get where like the day

of atonement would connect with that and in a lot of ways it doesn't.

But here Cough fair. Our word is translated and cover it in that verse in Genesis six.

Also at the end where it says to pitch is a related word. It's a variation of coffee.

It's co fair.

So you

you'll see in all of these words and

different meanings even though they're kind of separate,

they have some overlap.

And this is one where we can already see a little bit of

that overlap because there's two of the words kind of in there.

So we get to see it with to cover their also this idea of

to rub their rubbing or they're smearing or covering this art with this pitch.

This co fair

let's look at another time that it's used in genesis genesis 32

says and you shall say moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.

For he thought I may appease him with the present that

goes ahead of me and afterward I shall see his face.

Perhaps he will accept me. So where it says I will appease, that's the same cafe word,

I will cut fair his face with these presents with these gifts here.

It seems to be that idea of to cover because the stories about sa being pacified,

he's being covered over,

so he doesn't see kind of Jacob and the wrongs that he's done.

He sees this covering rather in front of his face of these great presence.

Um and I want to point out that it says it covers with something and this is important.

So

both uses of the word coffee fair in the story about Noah and also here with Jacob,

it uses the word with with pitch and with the present

so called affair seems to make sense to be covering something,

especially with something covering it with something.

The next meaning to look at is the idea of kefir meaning to wipe away

this meaning seems to be affirmed right here in Leviticus 16,

that we're starting to look at

For the day of atonement.

In verse 30, it says for on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you,

you shall be clean before the Lord from all your sins.

So the cleansing of the wiping off of sins in our chapter

here today directly tells us that that's part of the mean,

this cleansing this wiping away of sins.

Lastly

we also saw the word Kafir could mean to make a ransom.

This meaning can be confirmed in the next chapter of Leviticus 17.

It says in verse 11. Next chapter. For the life of the flesh is in the blood.

And I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for

your souls for it is the blood that makes atonement by the light.

So the non form of the word caught fair is co fair.

And we can see this idea of ransoming for a life also in in Exodus 21,

if a ransom is imposed on him,

then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him.

So a co co fair or a ransom can be given in the place of a man for his life,

he might deserve to die and this can be put in place for him so he doesn't have to die.

He's given life through this ransom,

we say the same word later on in the bible in Isaiah 43 for I am the Lord,

your God and the holy One of Israel, your savior.

I give Egypt as your ransom cush and seba in exchange for you.

So we can clearly see this idea of substitution. A ransom of one life for another.

We see the co fare and coffee. There are very clearly connected in exodus 30

says when you take the census of the people of Israel,

then each shall give a ransom for his life to the Lord.

When you number them,

that there be no plague among them.

When you number them,

each one who is numbered in the sentence shall give this

half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary,

the shekel is 20 Garrett's half a shekel is an offering to the Lord.

Everyone who is numbered in the census from 20

years old and upward shall give the Lord's offering.

The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than the

half shekel when you give the Lord's offering to make atonement for your life.

So God tells moses when they take a census, they need a co fare a ransom for his life.

In verse 12 there, so that the plague will not come on the people.

Then God in verse 15 explains that the purpose of this Co

fair is to call fair to make atonement for their lives.

So understanding these words for atonement and their meanings,

it might seem a little bit dull,

but really getting where all these words come

from will ultimately help in our understanding,

as we keep progressing of what this day of atonement is talking about.

It helps to shed a little bit more light on being able to really know christ better.

We're gonna stop here for today,

we've added four new different light bulbs and

they might not seem like much for today,

but they're slowly shining more light on the cross and when we

combine it all together next week or weeks in the future,

I believe it's gonna really help us spot,

put the spotlight on jesus and knowing who he is and like I said,

I know this is not really a satisfying ending for today.

I'm leaving you hanging on all these different

things, but like I said,

I didn't want to just skim over this because I

think all of them as we put it all together,

are really important.

Knowing these names, knowing what the words actually mean,

knowing what the separation is and how God is bringing us back to him.

All the things that we've talked about today,

it's kind of like, like I said, when you started dating or courting your wife,

you don't start off one flesh.

You don't know right away all the details about her. You don't know.

Well maybe I didn't know right away that Julia doesn't write red and yellow flowers.

She probably said that the first day,

but you don't start off knowing everything.

You go out to have coffee, you go out and have conversations with you with each other.

You might go on a few different fun dates.

You see her in the setting of all your friends and

how they interact with others and you learn more about them

on a million different issues.

But then someday it all pays off when you

know the answers to ken's game that you played,

okay, that's not true, that's an added bonus.

But it pays off when you get married.

When you become one flesh, you become one, you become,

you get to be fruitful and multiply

so even though I'm letting us hang a little bit and

not answer all the questions and put it all together,

we're learning more and more about who God is.

We're learning more about this day of atonement

hopefully and what it's really showing us.

We'll see him clearly and and when we know and understand who he truly is,

we figure out what he delights him.

It'll help us to know him even more. Even if it's red and yellow carnations.

The last verse today, Jeremiah 9 23 and 24.

Thus says the Lord, let not the wise man boast in his wisdom.

Let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,

but let him who boasts boast in this

that he understands and knows me,

that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love justice and

righteousness in the earth for in these things I delight,

declares the Lord

spread

dearly Father. We thank you for your word. We thank you for

um the day of atonement. We thank you for the light that it was shedding on your son.

That was to come later on. That would be the true atonement for all of our sins.

Lord thank you Lord for creating a pathway back to

you that we can draw near to you that we

can be called by you and answer that call and have a way to come into your throne room.

Through your son, jesus christ and his shed blood.

We thank you Lord for your word. We pray Lord that we will learn what it says.

Help us to have understanding of it.

Help us to know you and know what you delight in Lord so we can

be honoring and serve you in the ways that you want to be served.

Lord help us to bring red and yellow carnations.

If that's what you like Lord,

we just pray that we will be humble servants that are

here to serve you and your delights in your name.

Amen.

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