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Leviticus 9
Aaron’s first day on the job. Starting a new job can be tough. Especially when you have to fast for a week before you start and if you do things wrong, it could kill you. If this chapter feels familiar it’s because we’ve read the description of what would happen twice already- in Exodus 29…
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Leviticus 7-8
I had a copy of the book “Eat This, Not That” (Fast Food Edition) in my glovebox for several years. You could turn to the chapter on whatever fast food place you were headed to and get info on the better-for-you menu options. They included all the stats like sodium, fat, saturated fat, calories, grams…
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Leviticus 6
🥳 🎶 Happy birthday to me… This post is dropping on my birthday. Consider it a party favor. 🎉 (Note to self: when you use the word “party” to describe a blog post on a chapter of Leviticus… your social life might need work.) This chapter is like a set of appendixes to the instructions…
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Leviticus 4-5
The Sin Offering. This sacrifice is for sins committed in ignorance. Unintentionally. God is the one making the distinction between willful sin and unintentional sin. We’ll unpack that more in a minute. There are 5 variations of this offering for 5 categories of people: priest, congregation, ruler, commoner, and poor commoner. Here we go… 🔪…
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Leviticus 2-3
Hmm. Make Leviticus interesting… (Cracks neck. Cracks knuckles.) Challenge accepted. 🤨 Maybe it would help if we take most of what we think we know about Old Testament offerings and box them up for temporary storage. It’s easy to get a Sunday School coloring page idea of robed people bringing sheep. And then think that’s…
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Exodus 40 – Leviticus 1
Let’s take a final tour together of the Tabernacle of Moses, shall we? On the first anniversary of the Passover, Moses takes that big pile of finished pieces and sets up the tabernacle. It’s kinda like setting up a campsite crossed with putting together the world’s most expensive LEGO set. Before we go through the…
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Exodus 39
Could we just stop for a sec and appreciate the crazy-level skill of Bezalel? He MADE gold thread by hammering pieces of gold to thread thinness, then cut it into thread-sized strands. I couldn’t fathom how you’d embroider with gold without breaking it. Then I found a video about it by my favorite YouTube channel…
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Exodus 37-38
The Ark of the Covenant. That mysterious face-melting golden box. There are a few interesting theories about its whereabouts. We may get into those in the future. For the present we should know that: The Furniture in the Holy Place This room is lined floor to ceiling in solid gold. The furniture is solid gold.…
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Exodus 36
$100,000,000.00 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵 That’s my (probably low) ballpark estimate of what it would cost to build the tabernacle of Moses today. It was entirely crowdfunded by a group of people who were only about 4 months out of 400 years of slavery. Ummm. That’s a miracle. This is why the Lord told Moses: “And I will…
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Exodus 34-35
🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋 Moses Mountain Climbing Meter: 7️⃣ Hang in there, Moses. This is the last one til Nebo. Chapter 34 seems to be the bookend for chapter 24. In both, God calls Moses up alone for 40 days. In both he ends up with a set of stone tablets. But this time Moses has asked to…
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Exodus 33
🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋 This… is a long one. But oh so good. We start by following Moses down the mountain (for the 6th time). And he has bad news: God is leaving. They’ve been assigned to “an angel” (not “THE Angel of the Lord Who IS in fact Yahweh’s avatar). “Go up to a land flowing with…
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Exodus 31-32
I enjoy watching a skilled worker doing a job. I once watched a professional painter paint a line straight down a wall in a wide angle corner without painters tape- and it was perfect. It was baffling and wondrous to behold. I’ve watched incredibly skilled musicians play and I’m just frozen with awe. Once, in…
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