Leviticus

The Backstory of Jesus—Old Testament tabernacle, sacrifices, and festivals—foundation for understanding the rest of the Bible

2023-03-08 by bible805

Every sport, hobby, or special interest has insider terms and history and the more you know the back story of them the more you’ll understand and enjoy the activity. —

The Bible is no different—the more you understand the foundational items in the first 5 books of the Bible, what we call the Pentateuch, the more the rest of the Bible will make sense. This is especially true in what you’ll see about what it will tell you about the foreshadowing of Jesus’ life and completion of our salvation in the Old Testament.

We’ll talk about some of them in this lesson today that is longer and more complex than some, but I trust worth it in your understanding of the Bible. Below is a PDF of the handouts, plus links to the podcast and video on the lesson.

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God’s Expectations for His People, Then and Now illustrated in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers

2019-03-03 by Yvon Prehn

How can we find out what God expects of us?

After someone decides to follow Jesus, do they need to live any differently than they did before?

Those are the questions we’ll answer in our lesson today.

After the Children of Israel were miraculously brought out of Egypt, God didn’t turn them loose in the desert to do whatever they wanted and it’s the same for us today. Once we become a believer in Jesus, we can’t simply live however we want to

Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers help us figure this out.

They aren’t simply outdated collections of ancient rituals and odd laws.

If we study them, we’ll understand more clearly God’s expectations of how he wants his people to live, not only then, how we ought to live today. Below you can listen to the podcast or on iTunes any one of your favorite podcast sources and below it is a PDF of the notes. All the verses and quotes are on the handout.

Click the following link to download the notes for this class: Notes on God’s Expectations for His People, Then and Now as illustrated in Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers

What do the Old Testament Laws & Odd Regulations have to do with us today?

2019-02-17 by Yvon Prehn

Genesis and the first part of Exodus were interesting to read, but now it’s getting a bit strange…..

What do all these laws about what to eat, sacrifices, and how to build the Tabernacle have to do with us today?

Why should we bother reading them?

The answer is SO much more interesting and helpful than you can imagine! Not in that we should follow the laws and regulations in the same way the Children of Israel did, but in what these things foreshadowed in what was coming.

The study of this foreshadowing of what was coming is called “Typology.” The podcast not only discusses this topic but gives you reasons and encouragements why you should read these books that most people skip. From the middle of Exodus through Leviticus and Numbers, it can be hard to read and even harder to understand, but God put this material in our Bibles for a reason and this podcast will help you understand how much it will help you grow in your faith even if it doesn’t seem like it when you start.

Below the podcast are the notes from the podcast and a link I promised I’d give that has an excellent article on typology.

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