August 22, 2024
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Reading along with us in selections from Leviticus and Galatians? Here’s today’s reading:
Leviticus 3 (NIV)
The Fellowship Offering
1“ ‘If your offering is a fellowship offering, and you offer an animal from the herd, whether male or female, you are to present before the Lord an animal without defect. 2 You are to lay your hand on the head of your offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall splash the blood against the sides of the altar.……Continue Reading
Leviticus 3
”‘This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”“
Leviticus 3:17 NKJV
I remember that it is forbidden to eat the blood, but I didn’t remember the fat….not that I would want to eat the fat.
How can the Jewish nation read these chapters and then read Hebrews chapter 9 and not put this together?
Leviticus 3
Steve and Camy
Leviticus 3 and 4
Leviticus 3
Leviticus 3
The note in my study Bible mentions that the Jews were prohibited from eating the fat because it was the best part of the animal, and therefore it was always to be offered to the Lord…hence all the pleasing aromas!!
The blood was prohibited because of its use in atoning for the lives of the Israelites.
So thankful for our the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who once and for all has made atonement for our sins and allowed us to enter into fellowship with our Father, through His Son!
The fellowship offering could be a male or female but also without defect. It is interesting that God identifies something as a pleasing aroma to Him that is also a pleasing aroma to us. Since it is interesting to consider whether God can smell. at all, we can imagine this being an anthropopathism, where God uses a human experience to describe His own so we can understand Him better. But in all with the intent to say that He is pleased by the offering and the faith and obedience of the Israelites in bringing them.
When I read the graphic nature of chapters like these and how involved these offerings were it is hard not to think about each part of Jesus’ long road to His death. It was not simply hung on a cross but all the things He endured on His way there.