February 6, 2024
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Reading along with us in Leviticus? Here’s today’s reading:
Leviticus 20 (NIV)
Punishments for Sin
1 The Lord said to Moses, 2“Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him. 3 I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.……Continue Reading
Leviticus 20
This chapter dealt with the penalties for the different sins He had already instructed his people to avoid. Many times the penalty is death as we already know the wages for sin is death but these punishment were an actual death. God makes it very clear here how seriously He takes our sin and while we may not be putting people to death for many of these sins anymore we all know the destructive path for our lives that occurs when we have idols, sexual sin, and many of these other sins present in our life.
Leviticus 20
Hard to believe at any time period sacrificing a child. That’s the most horrible act I’ve read in scripture. All these laws were given by God so man would not self destruct
Leviticus chapters 23,24
Although God is a God of mercy and grace, He is also serious about sin. He knows better than us how it will impact the individual and the community, and that is why many of these punishments are so severe and speak of ridding the community and the land of the evil they represent. There is a natural order in the spiritual realm and the sexual one, and those that follow abhorrent practices in both receive harsh judgement. It is intended to be a lesson for everyone to avoid such things, mark them for what they are and run away from them.
Leviticus 20
Leviticus 20. God is very clear on the punishment for sin. We don’t have those punishments today but sin still leads to destruction and it separates us from God.
Many of these practices are, let’s be honest. Satanism. How much of this is tolerated in our society in the name of “freedom of religion”? There is a point at which the practices of some are clearly not moral or ethical or righteous, they are just declared “religious” or righteous to attempt to deceive.