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Leviticus 1-27
God’s Holiness means he cannot look upon sin; out of love he seeks a way for it to be forgiven which is achieved through the substitution of sacrifice.
The ultimate Sacrifice being Christ
Scene 1/ Prior Preparation Prevents Pretty Poor Performance.
Running in the Olympic finals is something that an athlete may do once or twice in their career.
To even make it onto the team requires years of preparation.
You don’t just turn up on the day and have a go.
You train & train & train and then train some more.
In the months leading up to the event the athlete seeks to reach peak performance.
The week of competition is planned to the last detail.
Nothing is left to chance it is simply to important to just turn up and have a go.
Prior preparation in our relationship with God provides great benefit.
Yes we can just turn up, but; and this is a very big but, if you want to grow you need to work at it.
God has given us everything we need to live a godly life.
We need to make the effort to grow.
Without the effort we forget what godliness is.
Sin is waiting to claim us back again.
When a person falls away from godliness it is because they have failed to prepare for the attacks that will come.
When a person fails to demonstrate fruitfulness as a Christian it is because there is no spiritual growth.
Spiritual growth is lacking because there is no spiritual preparation for growth.
You actually have to practice what you say you believe.
Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance
The same principle applied in the Old Testament
For the High Priest of Israel, prior preparation prevented death!
Scene 2/ Prior Preparation was important because of the significance of the Day of Atonement
Leviticus 16:30 & 34 tells us that The Day of Atonement was the one day of the year when sacrifice was made for all the sins of all the people.
So significant was this day, that it was the only day of the year that the High Priest was permitted to enter the Most Holy Place.
The place behind the curtain where God’s presence dwelt.
Listen to the warning given to Moses, a warning for the first High Priest Aaron.
Leviticus 16:1-2 “The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons, who died after they entered the Lord’s presence and burned the wrong kind of fire before him.
2 The Lord said to Moses, “Warn your brother, Aaron, not to enter the Most Holy Place behind the inner curtain whenever he chooses; if he does, he will die.
For the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—is there, and I myself am present in the cloud above the atonement cover.”
Now if that isn’t enough to make sure that Aaron prepared properly then there was also the fact that the entire ceremony was carried out alone.
He wasn’t just alone when he entered into the Most Holy Place.
On this day he entered the entire Tabernacle alone.
For a significant part of the ceremony there was no one else; just him and the animals that were to be sacrificed.
It was a journey into the unknown.
Listen to these words from Leviticus 16:17 “No one else is allowed inside the Tabernacle when Aaron enters it for the purification ceremony in the Most Holy Place.
No one may enter until he comes out again after purifying himself, his family, and all the congregation of Israel, making them right with the Lord.
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The Tabernacle was normally a place of near constant activity.
There were daily sacrifices as well as the individual sacrifices required of people for different events in their lives.
It was a busy place.
But not for this one special ceremony!
Aaron knew the Holiness of God could not tolerate sin.
Two of his sons had disobeyed specific commands; they had not prepared properly so they didn’t do the job properly.
They died.
You see God takes sin seriously.
It has to be dealt with properly.
You can’t just brush it off.
You have to face it & deal with it or it will eat away at you.
And that is the path that leads to destruction.
The whole idea of the Tabernacle and the Old Testament Law was to remind people of their need for God.
Every rite of passage required a sacrifice of some sort.
These sacrifices were an offering.
Giving something to God to buy back the thing that was his.
Beyond these offerings were the sacrifices for sin.
Every sin required forgiveness.
The need for God and his forgiveness was constantly kept before the people.
And the Day of Atonement was the one day when the sins of all the people, the entire nation were dealt with.
Scene 2/ So what was the preparation
Firstly there was the preparation of the people.
This was centred on a special Sabbath.
Everyone was too fast, everyone was to cease all work, and it was a day of total rest, a special Sabbath.
Now I am not sure that we get what that really means.
From sundown one day to sundown the next, absolutely nothing happened.
We don’t see anything like that in our culture.
A time of complete national stillness!
Not even Anzac Day is like that, Christmas day certainly isn’t.
And on Boxing Day most people are recovering from Christmas Day’s gluttony by going for a second round with the relatives they missed the day before.
Leviticus 16:29-31 tells us that every person wether native born or a foreigner was to follow this rule and Numbers 29:7 fills in the details about the fasting for us.
We are also told that anyone who does not follow this command is to be cut off from the nation.
Now if you are in a desert camp being cut off meant to be thrown out of the community into the wilderness alone.
This wasn’t a bunch of people kicking back in their hammocks under the palm trees, being served drinks by the locals.
This was the locals, and they all gathered in solemn anticipation of the sacrifice.
They could not participate.
They simply waited in anticipation.
Always with that concern in the back of their mind.
What happens if Aaron doesn’t make it?
They knew what happened to his sons; they knew God was serious about this!
Scene 3/ After the preparation of the people the actual ceremony could begin.
When we read Leviticus 16 it is very repetitive, which in the Old Testament means that the detail is important.
So let me try to put it in order for you from the Teacher’s Bible Commentary.
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On this day, and only on this day, Aaron was to enter the “holy place within the veil” (vv.
2–3, 30).
He was to wear the simple garments of an ordinary priest rather than the colorful and ornate garb of the high priest (v.
4; for a full description see Ex. 28).
His entrance into the holy of holies was to be as a humble priest rather than in the magnificence of his authority.
In preparation, he was to select the animals for the sacrifices (vv.
3, 5).
Further, he was to make himself ceremonially clean (v.
4).
When all was ready, he was to make his sin offering (vv.
6, 11).
Then he was to separate the two goats by lot (vv.
6–10).
Next he entered the holy place “within the veil” with burning incense (vv.
12–13), which served two purposes.
It was symbolic of the prayers of himself and the nation but it also served to cover with a cloud of smoke the manifestation of God upon the mercy seat.
It is implied that he then went out for the blood of his sin offering, entering a second time into the holy place, where he placed it upon and near the mercy seat (v.
14).
Again he left the holy place, this time to sacrifice the goat which had been designated by lot as a sin offering for the people.
This done, he returned a third time to the mercy seat, where he sprinkled the blood in atonement for the sins of the people (vv.
15–16).
During the performance of this part of the ritual, no one else was to be in the “tabernacle of the congregation” (v.
17).
When he left the holy place, he went out to cleanse the altar and the tabernacle itself (vv.
18–20).
At this point he took the other goat, placed his hands upon it and confessed the sins of the people, thus symbolically transferring to it their sins.
Then a man who had been prepared led the goat into the wilderness (vv.
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