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Day 051 (Leviticus 22-23) - Year 7

2025/2/20
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@Tara-Leigh Cobble : 我们今天继续学习摩西传达给以色列人的上帝律法。然而,我们阅读的重点并非律法本身,而是律法背后所指向的——上帝。在阅读经文时,我们应该始终寻求上帝。有些日子,这会比其他日子更难。也许今天就是其中之一。 这没关系。你对经文的感受不会降低它在你生命中的价值。将你的目光放在这些篇章上,无论你现在是否有所感受,都在为你的生命增添价值。那么,我们从上帝和他所制定的律法中看到了什么?今天我们读到的大部分内容背后,其中一点是上帝希望他的子民洁净,并且他不断提醒他们,是他使他们洁净的。我是耶和华使你成圣的。在这些经文中,我们反复被提醒上帝的圣洁和他的拯救。 在第23章中,我们看到了很多关于节期的内容。由于我没有时间深入探讨,我们会在节目说明中加入一篇简短的文章来解释这七个节期的意义。一如既往,当我们包含某个资源时,我们无法保证该网站上的所有内容。我们只是包含那个特定的资源。尽管总的来说,我们确实会谨慎对待我们发送给你的内容。所以回到节期。首先,上帝再次提醒他们关于每周的安息日。 然后是这里提到的六个年度节期,你应该从我们之前的阅读中认出其中几个。不过,这可能会让人非常困惑,因为许多节期都有多个名称。你可能认识逾越节,它也叫作无酵饼节。你可能也认识初熟节,尽管当我们在出埃及记34章中读到它时,它被称为收割节。在同一天,我们读到收成节,在这里被称为住棚节。 然后是我们最近在利未记16章中读到的赎罪日。你很高兴没有关于这方面的测验吧?我也是。我只是告诉你所有这些,因为我过去一直以为有大约30个节期,这基于我读到的名称。事实证明,它们只是相同的六个节期,只是有不同的昵称。关于赎罪日的一个奇怪之处是,它被称为节期,但他们在这一天禁食。当你看到短语“他们苦待自己”时,这就是其中一部分含义。指的是禁食。 这是唯一一个需要禁食的节期,因为这是全年最神圣、最庄严的一天。他们不吃东西,而是将食物献给上帝。在所有其他节期,他们不允许做任何日常工作,但他们可以做献祭和准备饭菜的工作。然而,赎罪日则要求不做任何工作。 他们不吃任何食物,祭司负责所有的祭祀。这仍然是供应的庆祝,但它是一种非常不同类型的庆祝,也是一种非常不同类型的供应。在本节中,只有两个节期是我们之前没有谈论过的,所以我简要地谈谈它们。 首先是七七节,你可能知道它是五旬节,尽管直到很久以后它才有了这个名字。这里有一些圣经琐事供你参考。五旬节这个词的意思是第50个,这个节期在逾越节后的第50天举行。所以那是七个星期加一天。它是在逾越节后七个星期,这就是它被称为七七节的原因。在这个节期,发生了一些独特的事情。这是唯一一个允许出现发酵饼的节期。 在这六个节期中有一些丰富的象征意义。无酵饼代表以色列人,而发酵饼预示着外邦人,即非犹太人,将来会进入他的家族的那一天。当我们进入新约的使徒行传时,我们会更多地谈到这一点,但要知道,如果你不是犹太人,你仍然出现在这些篇章中,预示着基督的供应。 吹角节现在被称为犹太新年,但在那时,它预示着赎罪日前的十天通知。以色列人称这段时间为十天悔改期,或敬畏的日子。这让我们回到了不久前我们学到的东西。敬畏上帝,主要由喜乐和敬畏组成,使我们更靠近他,并产生公义。他们的悔改和敬畏的日子一直持续到赎罪日,在那一天,他们得到了洁净。 说到这里,我可以告诉你一些关于今天阅读的内容,特别是第22章,过去曾经让我非常困扰的事情吗?让我困扰的是,上帝只接受最好的祭物。这感觉不爱。也许是因为我看到这个想法以上帝的名义被用来虐待他人。我听到牧师告诉那些穿着不体面的人,他们应该为他们穿什么衣服去教堂而感到羞愧,因为他们需要把最好的献给上帝。我看到教会成员因为没有志愿奉献更多的时间而感到羞愧,因为他们已经过度服务了,因为他们应该把最好的献给上帝。 我必须提醒自己,首先,那不是上帝的错。那是堕落的人类挪用他的话语。但是,如果我更深入地挖掘自己的内心,我认为这些经文让我困扰的真正原因是我内心深处知道我不是一个好的祭物。我满是瑕疵、盲目、溃烂和破碎,感觉上帝会拒绝我。上帝在这里为祭祀的要求确立了一些东西。这是真的。他确实只接受完美的祭物。 这就是我的上帝之箭发挥作用的地方。因为即使是我最好的版本仍然无法被上帝接受,所以有一种诱惑会让我把目光集中在自己身上。如果我这样做,我就会太沉迷于自己的失败,而没有注意到他已经为我预备了完美的祭物,因为他仍然想靠近我,即使我不完美。所有这些完美的要求都应该是重要的。 律法应该提醒我们所有这一切是多么不可能。这就是律法的目的,让我们看到上帝的完美以及我们与之的差距。罗马书5:20说:“律法本是为叫人知罪的,但罪既多,恩典就更丰盛。”为了我的每一个罪,恩典都更加丰盛。为了我的每一个不完美,恩典都更加丰盛。 罗马书5:21,下一节经文继续说:“……叫罪的工效在我们的身上显出来,好叫律法显为圣洁,公义,良善。”感谢上帝提供了完美的祭物。我们的主耶稣基督。喜乐就在他那里。

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Hey, Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. This is another day that unexpectedly brought me to tears, and I can't wait to tell you why. Today we continue with God's laws for the people delivered to Moses, but remember that the point of what we're reading isn't the laws. It's what's underneath the laws. What do they point to? I always want to be encouraging us to look for God when we read. Some days it'll be harder than others. Maybe today was one of those days.

That's okay. The way you feel about the text doesn't decrease its value in your life. It's adding value to your life to fix your eyes on these pages, whether you feel it right now or not. So what do we see about God and the laws He's setting out? One of the things underneath much of what we read today was that God wants His people to be clean, and He keeps reminding them that He is the one who makes them clean. I am the Lord who sanctifies you. We get repeated reminders of both God's holiness and His rescue in these passages.

In chapter 23, we see a lot about feasts. Since I don't have time to go into this in depth, we'll include a short article in the show notes that explains these seven feasts and their significance. As always, when we include a resource, we can't vouch for everything on that site. We're just including that one particular resource. Though in general, we do try to be careful about what we're sending you. So back to the feasts. First, God reminds them again about a weekly feast called the Sabbath.

Then there are six annual feasts covered here, and you should recognize a few of them from our reading so far. It can get really confusing, though, since a lot of these feasts have multiple names. You probably recognize Passover, which is also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You may also recognize the Feast of Firstfruits, although when we read about it in Exodus 34, it was called the Feast of Harvest. And on that same day, we read about the Feast of Endgathering, which is called the Feast of Booths here.

And then there's the one we read about most recently in Leviticus 16, the Day of Atonement. Aren't you glad there isn't a quiz on this? Me too. I'm just telling you all of this because I used to be under the impression that there were like 30 feasts based on the names I'd read. Turns out they're just the same six feasts with nicknames. One weird thing about the Day of Atonement, it's called a feast, but they're fasting on this day. That's part of what it means when you see the phrase, they afflicted themselves. That refers to fasting.

This is the only feast day where they're fasting, because this is the holiest and most solemn day of the year. Instead of eating, they offer their food to God. On all the other feast days, they're not allowed to do any regular work, but they're allowed to do the work of offering sacrifices and preparing meals. The Day of Atonement, however, calls for no work.

They eat no food, and the priest does all the sacrificing. This is still a celebration of provision, but it's a very different kind of celebration and a very different kind of provision. There are only two feasts in this section that we haven't talked about before, so let me touch on those briefly.

First, there's the Feast of Weeks, which you probably know of as Pentecost, although it didn't take on that name until much later. Here's some Bible trivia for you. The word Pentecost means 50th, and this feast occurs on the 50th day after Passover. So that's seven weeks and a day. The fact that it's a week of weeks, seven weeks after Passover, is why it's called the Feast of Weeks. At this feast, something unique happens. This is the only feast where leavened bread makes an appearance.

There's some rich symbolism here throughout the six feasts. The unleavened loaf represents the Israelites, and the leavened loaf is foreshadowing of the day when the Gentiles, non-Jews, will be brought into his family. We'll touch on this more when we get to the book of Acts in the New Testament, but just know that if you're not of Jewish heritage, you still show up on these pages, foreshadowing Christ's provision.

The Feast of Trumpets is what's now known as Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, but at this time it signaled 10 days' notice for the Day of Atonement. The Israelites called that period of time 10 days of repentance, or the Days of Awe. This points us back to what we learned not long ago. The fear of God, which is comprised primarily of delight and awe, draws us nearer to Him and serves to produce righteousness in us. Their days of repentance and awe led up to the Day of Atonement, where they were purified.

Speaking of which, can I tell you something about today's reading, specifically chapter 22, that used to really bother me? It bothered me that God only accepted the best sacrifice. It felt unloving. Maybe because I've seen this idea used in God's name to treat people poorly. I've heard pastors tell people who aren't dressed nicely that they should be ashamed of what they wore to church because they needed to bring God their best. I've seen church members shamed for not volunteering more of their time when they're already overextended in serving because they should give God their best.

I have to remind myself that first of all, that's not on God. That's on fallen humanity misappropriating His words. But if I dig a little deeper into my own heart, I think the real reason these passages bothered me is because I knew deep down that I'm not a good sacrifice. I'm blemished and blind and scabbed and crushed, and it felt like God would reject me. God is establishing something here in His requirements for sacrifices. It's true. He does only accept a perfect sacrifice.

And that's where my God shot comes in. Since even the best version of me is still unacceptable to God, there's a temptation to fix my eyes on myself. If I do that, I'm too buried in my own failings to notice that He has provided the perfect sacrifice in my place because He still wants to be near me even though I'm imperfect. All these requirements of perfection are supposed to be weighty.

The law is supposed to remind us how impossible all this is. That's the point of the law, to show us God's perfection and how far we are from it. Romans 5.20 says, The law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more. For every one of my sins, grace abounds. For every one of my imperfections, grace abounds.

Romans 5.21, the very next verse, continues saying, "...so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Praise God for providing the perfect sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord. He's where the joy is.

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