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Book messages «Life-Study of Leviticus»

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Life-Study of Leviticus

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An introductory word _{Message 1}

I. An advancement of the divine revelation
A. In Genesis — God’s creation and man’s fall
B. In Exodus — God’s salvation and the building of His habitation
C. In Leviticus — the redeemed’s worship and living
II. A comparison
A. God speaking on Mount Sinai and God speaking in the tabernacle
B. The flaming fire in Exodus and the infinite grace in leviticus
C. The flaming fire making God fearful and Christ’s redemption making God approachable
III. The general sketch
IV. The central thought
V. The sections

A general definition of the offerings _{Message 2}

I. The offerings in relation to the tabernacle
A. The tabernacle built and set up, and the offerings with the priesthood ordained
B. Christ as the tabernacle bringing God to man, and Christ as the offerings bringing man to God
C. The tabernacle being good for us to experience, to join to, God, and the offerings being good for us to enjoy and mingle with God
D. The tabernacle being for God to dwell in, and the offerings being for God to enjoy through our appreciation and presentation
E. The offerings being not sacrifices but presents to God by the appreciators of Christ
F. The ordinances of the offerings being a recipe of the divine cooking
II. The categories of the offerings
A. The burnt offering
B. The meal offering
C. The peace offering
D. The sin offering
E. The trespass offering
F. The burnt offering being the qualification for the sin offering
G. The meal offering being the qualification for the trespass offering
H. The peace offering being the issue of all the other four offerings

The burnt offering Christ for God’s satisfaction (1) _{Message 3}

I. Signifying Christ not mainly for redeeming man’s sin but for living for God’s satisfaction
II. With a young bull of the herd, a sheep or a goat of the flock, or a turtledove or a young pigeon of the birds
A. According to the offerer’s appreciation and ability to offer
B. Lives able to move and act in their will
C. Lives good for shedding of blood
D. Strong and young
E. Without blemish
III. Offered at the entrance of the tent of meeting
A. In the outer court of the tabernacle
B. Accepted before Jehovah
IV. The offerer
A. Laying His hand on the offering
1. Signifying identification, not substitution
2. For a propitiation
B. Slaughtering the offering before Jehovah
C. Skinning the offering and cutting it into pieces
1. Skinning the offering
2. Cutting the offering into pieces

The burnt offering Christ for God’s satisfaction (2) _{Message 4}

Laboring on Christ that we may have something of Christ to bring to God
Slaughtering the burnt offering
The skinning of the burnt offering
Cutting the burnt offering into pieces
Washing the burnt offering
A Satisfying fragrance to Jehovah

The burnt offering Christ for God’s satisfaction (3) _{Message 5}

V. The way to offer
A. By the priest
B. The offerings differing not only in size but also in the way they are offered

The burnt offering Christ for God’s satisfaction (4) _{Message 6}

VI. The water, the fire, the burning, and the ashes
A. The water
B. The fire
1. Signifying the holy God
2. With the burnt offering, the fire being the accepting fire for God’s satisfaction
3. With the sin offering, the fire being the judging fire for man’s redemption
4. The burnt offering fire shall never go out
C. The burning
1. As the burning of the sweet incense
2. Different from the burning of the sin offering and the trespass offering
3. The burning of the burnt offering shall not cease all night until the morning
D. The ashes
1. A sign of God’s acceptance of the offering — turning to ashes
2. Put to the east side of the altar
3. Carried forth to a clean place outside the camp
VII. The skin
A. A portion to the offering priest
B. Signifying Christ’s outward expression of beauty ascribed to the serving one

The burnt offering Christ for God’s satisfaction (5) _{Message 7}

Experiencing Christ in His experiences and offering the Christ we have experienced, and offering Him to God as our burnt offering according to our experiences of Him (1)
I. Christ in His experiences as the burnt offering to God
A. Being brought to the slaughter
B. Being slaughtered
C. Being skinned (stripped)
D. Being cut into pieces
E. His experience in wisdom (head)
F. His experience in God’s delight (fat)
G. His experience in His inwards
H. His experience in His walk (legs)
I. Kept by the Holy Spirit from defilement

The burnt offering Christ for God’s satisfaction (6) _{Message 8}

Experiencing Christ in His experiences and offering the Christ we have experienced, and offering Him to God as our burnt offering according to our experiences of Him (2)
II. Our experiences of Christ in His experiences
A. In His being brought to the slaughter
B. In His being slaughtered
C. In His being skinned
D. In His being cut into pieces

The burnt offering Christ for God’s satisfaction (7) _{Message 9}

Experiencing Christ in His experiences and offering the Christ we have experienced, and offering Him to God as our burnt offering according to our experiences of Him (3)
E. In His wisdom
F. In His being a delight to God
G. In His inwards
H. In His walk
I. In His being kept by the Holy Spirit from defilement
III. Offering the Christ we have experienced
IV. Offering Christ to God as our burnt offering according to our experiences of Him

The burnt offering Christ for God’s satisfaction (8) _{Message 10}

Experiencing Christ in His experiences and offering the Christ we have experienced, and offering Him to God as our burnt offering according to our experiences of Him (4)
Two schools of thought concerning the experience of Christ
Imitating Christ merely in an outward way
Living Christ
Living Christ in our daily life

The meal offering Christ for the satisfaction of God’s people enjoyed together with God (1) _{Message 11}

I. The relationship of the meal offering to the burnt offering
A. The burnt offering emphasizing Christ’s living for God and the meal offering emphasizing Christ’s human living and daily walk
B. The burnt offering emphasizing that Christ is the righteousness of God and the meal offering emphasizing that Christ is righteous before God
II. Fine flour
A. The main element of the meal offering
B. Produced out of wheat which has passed through many processes
C. Being perfect in fineness, evenness, tenderness, and gentleness and fully balanced, with no excess and no deficiency
III. Oil
A. Signifying the Spirit of God
B. Poured upon the fine flour
IV. Frankincense
A. Signifying the fragrance of Christ in His resurrection
B. Put upon the fine flour

The meal offering Christ for the satisfaction of God’s people enjoyed together with God (2) _{Message 12}

V. All the frankincense with part of the fine flour and part of the oil burned on the altar
A. As a memorial
B. As a satisfying fragrance
VI. The remainder of the meal offering being for Aaron and his sons
VII. Through fire
A. All meal offerings being through fire on the altar
B. The burning fire signifying the consuming God, not for judgment but for acceptance
VIII. Mingled with oil

The meal offering Christ for the satisfaction of God’s people enjoyed together with God (3) _{Message 13}
The practical experience and enjoyment of Christ as the offerings _{Message 14}

Christ — the unique offering
Christ as food to satisfy God and His serving ones
Experiencing and enjoying Christ as He is revealed in Leviticus
The Spirit of reality — Christ being the reality of the offerings to us
Releasing our spirit through the word
Ministering Christ to others

The elements of the meal offering for the Christian life and the church life _{Message 15}

The Spirit of reality being the reality of the offerings to us in our experience
The five basic offerings
Fine flour
The oil
Frankincense
Salt
No leaven or honey in the meal offering
The portrait in the four Gospels of Christ’s human living on earth
The Spirit in Christ’s human living
A faultless humanity — a human life with no leaven
Denying the natural life — a human life with no honey
A life that is always salted
A life in resurrection
The Christian life — a duplication of Christ’s life
Two forms of the meal offering

The meal offering church life _{Message 16}

A life with the highest humanity
Christ — the man given to us by God
The Spirit of God
Christ in resurrection
Remaining in the state in which we were called
The cross of Christ
Dealing with leaven — the sinful and negative things
Dealing with honey — the natural life
One bread

The peace offering Christ as the peace between God and God’s people for their co-enjoyment in fellowship _{Message 17}

I. Illustrated by the fatted calf as a peaceful enjoyment between the receiving God and the returned prodigal in Luke 15:23-24
II. The relationship of the peace offering to the burnt offering and the meal offering
A. The peace offering is based upon God’s satisfaction in the burnt offering
B. The peace offering is an issue of the enjoyment of God and man in the meal offering
III. Different kinds of peace offering
A. Not due to Christ but due to the different conditions of the offerers’ enjoyment of Christ
B. From the herd, male or female
1. Male
2. Female
C. From the flock, a sheep or a goat
1. Sheep
2. Goat
IV. Without blemish
V. Laying hands on the head of the offering
VI. Slaughtered at the door of the tent of meeting
VII. The blood dashed on the altar all around
VIII. All the fat that covers the inwards, the two kidneys and the fat on them, the appendage on the liver, and the entire fat tail to be burned on the altar
IX. As food of the offering by fire
X. The breast and the right thigh of the offering for the priests
XI. The fat and the blood of the offering not to be eaten by the priests

The sin offering Christ for the sin of God’s people (1) _{Message 18}

The sequence of the arrangement of the offerings
Sin and sins
A picture of the sequence in 1 John
The flesh and the cross
Sin, the flesh, Satan, and the world
Three denotations of flesh in the Bible
The word becoming flesh
The Lamb of God, the brass serpent, and the grain of wheat
Sin in the flesh, the old man, Satan, and the world dealt with through the death of Christ on the cross

The sin offering Christ for the sin of God’s people (2) _{Message 19}

I. The significance of the sin offering
A. For the sin of ignorance
B. God sending His Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemning sin in the flesh on the cross of Christ
II. The efficacy of the sin offering
III. Different kinds of cattle for the sin offering
A. A young bull, a buck of the goats, a ewe of the goats, or a female lamb
B. Without blemish
IV. Laying hands on the head of the offering
V. The offering slaughtered before Jehovah
VI. The blood of the sin offering
A. Some of the blood brought into the tent of meeting and sprinkled seven times toward the veil of the Holy of Holies
B. Some of the blood put upon the horns of the incense altar
C. Some of the blood put upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering
D. All the rest of the blood poured out at the base of the altar of burnt offering

The sin offering Christ for the sin of God’s people (3) _{Message 20}

VII. All the fat that covers the inwards and that is on the inwards, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the appendage on the liver being burned on the altar of burnt offering
VIII. The whole offering, including its hide, all its flesh, with its head. legs, inwards, and dung, to be burned outside the camp
A. At a clean place
B. At the place where the ashes are poured out
1. The ashes of the burnt offering
2. For the offerers’ assurance and peace
IX. When all the congregation of Israel sinned ignorantly, the elders were to represent the assembly to offer the sin offering
X. The sin offering being slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered
XI. For the priests’ service, the sin offering being followed by the burnt offering

The trespass offering Christ for the sins of God’s people (1) _{Message 21}

I. The significance of the trespass offering
A. The difference between the sin offering and the trespass offering
B. The trespass offering eventually becoming the sin offering
II. A female from the flock, a sheep or a goat, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, or the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for the trespass offering
III. Two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, forming a trespass offering
IV. The blood of the trespass offering
A. Some of the blood sprinkled on the wall of the altar
B. The remainder of the blood squeezed (drained) out at the base of the altar
V. No oil or frankincense put upon the fine flour as a sin offering for the trespass offering

The trespass offering Christ for the sins of God’s people (2) _{Message 22}

VI. A handful of fine flour burned on the altar, as an offering of Jehovah by fire
VII. The remainder of the fine flour for the trespass offering being the priest’s, like the meal offering
VIII. A person sinning against the holy things of Jehovah, against Jehovah, and lying to, extorting from, or swearing falsely to his fellow man
IX. The one sinning against the holy things of God and the one sinning against man needing to make restitution
X. The trespass offering being slaughtered where the burnt offering is slaughtered

The law of the burnt offering _{Message 23}

I. The burnt offering being upon the hearth (firewood) on the altar all night until the morning
A. Signifying that anything offered as a burnt offering must be put on the place of burning to be burned
B. What is offered should remain at the burning place through the dark night until morning
II. The fire on the altar being kept burning continually and not going out
A. Signifying that God as the burning fire in the universe is ready to receive (burn) what is offered to Him as food
B. Signifying that God’s desire to accept what is offered to Him never ceases
III. The priest burning wood on the altar every morning
IV. The priest putting on his linen garment and linen breeches over his flesh in taking up the ashes of the burnt offering
V. The priest putting on other garments to carry the ashes outside the camp
VI. The priest arranging the burnt offering on the altar and burning the fat portions of the peace offering on it
A. Signifying that we should have the burning of our burnt offering laid as a foundation for our sweet fellowship with God
B. Signifying that on the foundation of the burnt offering our peace offering should be burned for a fragrance to God

The law of the meal offering _{Message 24}

I. The meal offering to be offered before Jehovah in front of the altar
II. The portion of the meal offering to Aaron and his sons to be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting
A. Signifying that we enjoy Christ as our meal offering (life supply for our service) without sin
B. Signifying that we enjoy Christ in a separated, sanctified realm
C. Signifying that we enjoy Christ in the sphere of the church
III. Not baking the meal offering with leaven
IV. Considering the meal offering most holy. like the sin offering and the trespass offering
A. Signifying that to enjoy Christ as the life supply we need to deal with sin in our fallen nature
B. Signifying that to enjoy Christ as the life supply we also need to deal with the sins in our conduct
V. Every male among the sons of Aaron eating of the meal offering
A. Signifying that the partakers of Christ as the life supply should be strong in life
B. Signifying that the partakers of Christ should be God’s serving ones — priests
VI. The meal offering of Aaron and his sons on the day when aaron is anointed
A. The tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a continual meal offering
B. Half of the meal offering in the morning and half in the evening to keep it a continual offering
C. The meal offering being entirely burned and not eaten by the priest

The law of the sin offering _{Message 25}

I. The sin offering being slaughtered before Jehovah where the burnt offering is slaughtered
II. The sin offering being most holy
III. The priest offering the offering for sin, eating it in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting
A. Signifying that he who serves sinners with Christ as their sin offering shares the enjoyment of Christ as the sin offering
B. Signifying that he enjoys Christ as the sin offering in a separated, sanctified realm, in the sphere of the church
IV. Whoever touches the flesh of the sin offering being holy
V. The garment on which the blood of the sin offering was spattered being washed in a holy place
VI. The earthen vessel, in which the sin offering is boiled, being broken
VII. A bronze vessel, in which the sin offering is boiled. being scoured and rinsed with water
VIII. Every male of the priests eating of the sin offering, which is most holy
IX. The sin offering, the blood of which is brought into the tent of meeting to make propitiation in the holy place, in the Holy of Holies, not being eaten but burned with fire

The law of the trespass offering _{Message 26}

I. The trespass offering being most holy
II. The trespass offering being slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered
III. Every male of the priests eating of the trespass offering in a holy place
IV. As the sin offering, so is the trespass offering — one law for both
V. The priest who makes propitiation with the trespass offering having it
VI. The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering having the hide of the burnt offering
VII. Every meal offering baked in the oven or prepared in a pan or on a griddle being for the priest who offers it
VIII. Every meal offering mingled with oil or dry being for all the priests

The law of the peace offering _{Message 27}

I. The peace offering for thanksgiving being offered with the meal offering of unleavened cakes mingled with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes of fine flour saturated. mingled with oil
II. With the peace offering for thanksgiving, cakes of leavened bread being offered
III. From the meal offering the offerer offering one piece from each offering as a heave offering to Jehovah, and it being for the priest who offers the peace offering
IV. The flesh of the thanksgiving sacrifice of the peace offering being eaten on the offering day and no part of it being laid aside until morning
V. The sacrifice of the offering, as a vow or a freewill offering, being eaten on the offering day and the remainder on the next day
VI. The flesh of this offering eaten on the third day not being accepted but being an abhorrent thing, and the eater being condemned
VII. The flesh of this offering touching anything unclean not being eaten but burned with fire
VIII. The flesh of the peace offering which has not touched anything unclean being eaten by the person who is clean
IX. An unclean person who eats the flesh of the peace offerings that belong to Jehovah being cut off from his people
X. The sons of Israel not eating any fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat
XI. The fat of cattle which died of themselves or were torn by beasts not eaten by the sons of Israel but put to other uses
XII. Whoever eats the fat of an offering by fire offered to Jehovah being cut off from his people
XIII. The blood, whether of bird or of beast, not eaten by the sons of Israel
XIV. Any person who eats any blood being cut off from his people
XV. The offerer of the peace offering bringing parts of his offering for the offerings of Jehovah by fire, the fat burned to god by fire on the altar with the breast as a wave offering before Jehovah for Aaron and his sons
XVI. The right thigh of the peace offering given to the priest as a heave offering
XVII. Jehovah having taken the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering out of the peace offerings and having given them to the priests as their perpetual due
XVIII. This being the portion of the anointing of Aaron and his sons from the offerings of Jehovah by fire in the day when they were brought to serve Jehovah as priests
XIX. This being the law for the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and the sacrifice of peace offerings

The consecration of Aaron and his sons (1) _{Message 28}

I. At the entrance of the tent of meeting
II. Moses bringing Aaron and his sons near and washing them with water
III. Moses clothing Aaron with the high priest’s garments
IV. Moses clothing the sons of Aaron with the priestly garments
V. Moses anointing the tabernacle, the altar, and the laver with all their utensils to sanctify them
VI. Moses anointing Aaron to sanctify him
VII. A bull as the sin offering for the consecration of the priesthood
VIII. A ram as the burnt offering for the consecration of the priesthood

The consecration of Aaron and his sons (2) _{Message 29}

IX. The second ram as the consecration offering for the consecration of the priesthood
A. Some of the blood put on Aaron’s and his sons’ right ear, thumb of their right hand, and big toe of their right foot
B. Moses dashing the blood on the altar all around
C. One unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer placed upon the portions of the fat and upon the right thigh, all these put on the palms of Aaron and of his sons, waved as a wave offering before Jehovah, taken from their palms and offered up in smoke upon the altar upon the burnt offering for a consecration offering by fire to Jehovah for a satisfying fragrance
D. The breast waved as a wave offering before Jehovah for Moses’ portion

The consecration of Aaron and his sons (3) _{Message 30}

E. Moses sprinkling Aaron and his sons and their garments with the anointing oil and some of the blood to sanctify them
F. The flesh with the bread of the consecration offering eaten by the priests at the entrance of the tent of meeting
G. The remains of the flesh and of the bread burned with fire
X. The consecrating priests remaining at the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days for their propitiation

The initiation of the priestly service of Aaron and his sons _{Message 31}

I. On the eighth day
II. Aaron preparing his sin offering and his burnt offering and making propitiation for himself and for the people
A. Signifying that Aaron as a sinful person needed to take Christ as his sin offering and burnt offering for him to be a priest to serve God
B. Signifying that Aaron typified Christ offering Himself as a sin offering for the redemption of God’s people and as a burnt offering for God’s people to be God’s satisfaction
C. Signifying that whatever Christ as our high priest did, he did for us, that we might be redeemed from sin and made God’s satisfaction
III. Aaron offering for the people the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the meal offering
IV. Aaron offering for the people the peace offering

The issue of the priestly service _{Message 32}

I. The appearing of God to us
II. The appearing of God’s glory to us
III. Aaron blessing the people
IV. Moses and Aaron entering into the tent of meeting and coming out to bless the people
V. Fire coming out from God and consuming the burnt offering

The lesson and the regulations for the priests (1) _{Message 33}

I. The lesson of Nadab and Abihu
A. Nadab and Abihu offering strange fire before Jehovah
B. Fire coming out from before Jehovah and consuming them to death before Jehovah
C. The corpses of Nadab and Abihu being carried away from the front of the holy place outside the camp
D. The priests not disheveling their hair nor tearing their garments over God’s death-judgment upon their relatives, that they may not die and that God may not be angry with all the congregation
E. The whole house of Israel bewailing the burning which Jehovah has kindled
F. The priests not going out from the entrance of the tent of meeting so that they may not die, for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon them
G. The priests not drinking any wine when they come into the tent of meeting that they may not die, and that they may make a distinction between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean, and that they may teach the people all the statutes of Jehovah

The lesson and the regulations for the priests (2) _{Message 34}

II. The regulations for the priests
A. Aaron and his sons eating the remainder of the meal offering, of the offerings of Jehovah by fire, without leaven in a holy place beside the altar, as their portion
B. The breast of the people’s peace offerings as the wave offering and the thigh as the heave offering offered to Jehovah with the offerings by fire of the portions of fat being eaten by the priests in a clean place
C. The sin offering which is most holy and the blood of which was not brought into the Holy of Holies, being eaten by the priests in the holy place that they might bear away the iniquity of the congregation to make propitiation for them before Jehovah
D. Due to the weakness concerning God’s death-judgment upon Nadab and Abihu, Aaron and his sons being not fit to eat the sin offering

A concluding word on the offerings and the priesthood _{Message 35}

The all-inclusive Christ as He is revealed in Hebrews
The Creator, the Upholder, and the Heir
The effulgence of God’s glory and the express image of His substance
The one who has destroyed the Devil
The Apostle and the High Priest
The Forerunner
The surety of a better covenant
The high priest who is able to save us to the uttermost
The Minister in the heavens
The one who entered into the Holy of Holies in the heavens and obtained an eternal redemption
The one appearing before God for us
The replacement of the Old Testament offerings
Christ, our perpetual due
Christ, the gift we have received from God
The central thought of Leviticus
The inexhaustible Christ being the life-giving Spirit dwelling in us

Discernment in diet _{Message 36}

I. The significance of eating
A. To contact the things outside of us that could affect us inside
B. To receive things from the outside that can be digested inside to become our constituent expressed in our living
II. The categories of living creatures that are clean with respect to diet
A. Beasts that divide the hoof and chew the cud
B. Aquatic animals having fins and scales
C. Birds that have wings for flying and that eat seeds of life as their food supply
D. Insects having wings and having jointed legs above their feet for leaping on the ground
III. The categories of living creatures that are not clean with respect to diet
A. Beasts that do not divide the hoof and beasts that go on their paws
B. Aquatic animals that do not have fins and scales
C. Birds that eat flesh and carcasses as their food supply
D. Insects that have four feet for creeping about
E. Creatures that creep on the earth or go on their belly or on four feet, or have many feet of all the creeping things that creep on the earth

Abstaining from death _{Message 37}

I. All dead things being unclean, and death being more defiling and abominable than sin
A. Through a trespass offering any sin shall be forgiven immediately
B. A person touching the carcass of any animal shall be unclean until the evening, and a person touching the carcass of any man shall be unclean seven days
II. A person defiled by the carcass of any animal shall wash his clothes
III. Anything upon which the carcass of any animal falls is unclean, and anything thus defiled shall be washed in water
IV. The carcass of any animal falling into an earthen vessel or upon an oven or a stove makes it unclean, and it shall be broken
V. Any food in the earthen vessel upon which water comes and any drink in the vessel shall be made unclean by the fallen carcass
VI. A spring or a cistern holding water shall remain clean
VII. If any part of the carcass of an animal falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean
VIII. The conclusion
A. Christ is the reality of cleanness
B. Only Christ and all that is out of Christ are clean for our food supply
C. In terms of typology:
1. Christ divides the hoof and chews the cud
2. Christ has fins and scales
3. Christ has jointed legs above the feet and leaps on the ground
4. Christ is a spring or a cistern that holds living water
5. Christ is a seed for sowing
D. Christ is the supply in our daily life in every aspect
E. Only Christ is able to keep us holy, as God is holy

Uncleanness in human birth _{Message 38}

I. A woman’s relationship to human birth
A. In figure, woman representing all mankind
1. In God’s economy all mankind being female
2. The uncleanness within the woman signifying the uncleanness within all mankind
B. The human birth coming out of the woman being unclean, signifying that:
1. The source of all mankind is unclean
2. The uncleanness of mankind is from within
II. The uncleanness of the male’s birth being for seven days, and that of the female’s being for fourteen days
III. After the birth of a male, the woman remaining in the uncleanness of the blood for thirty-three days, and after the birth of a female, for sixty-six days
IV. During the test of the uncleanness, the woman not being allowed to touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary
V. On the eighth day after the birth the male being circumcised
VI. After the completion of the test of the uncleanness, a burnt offering and a sin offering needing to be offered

Uncleanness issuing from within man (1) _{Message 39}

I. Leprosy signifying the serious sin issuing from within man
II. A swelling (rising), an eruption, or a bright spot on the skin of one’s flesh
III. Being brought to the priest, being examined by him, and being shut up (isolated) for seven days
IV. The appearance of leprosy
A. The hair turning white
B. The disease being deeper than the skin of the flesh
C. The bright spot in the skin of the flesh becoming white, not appearing to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it having not turned white
D. The diseased spot having faded and the disease having not spread in the skin
E. If the skin has a white swelling (rising) and it has turned the hair white, and there is an emergence of raw flesh in the swelling, it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of the flesh
F. If the leprosy breaks out farther in the skin and covers all the skin from head to foot, and all the skin has turned white, the one with leprosy is clean
G. When raw flesh appears on the skin, it is leprosy
H. If the raw flesh again turns white, the leprosy is cleansed
I. A white swelling (rising) or a reddish-white bright spot in the skin of the flesh where a boil was is leprosy
J. When the flesh has in its skin a burn by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white or white, it is leprosy

Uncleanness issuing from within man (2) _{Message 40}

V. A disease on the head and on the beard
A. A disease on the head
B. A disease on the beard
C. Yellow thin hair
D. The disease not appearing to be deeper than the skin and there being no black hair in it
E. Shaving the beard but not the hair
F. Washing the clothes
G. Black hair growing in the scall
H. White bright spots on the skin of the flesh
I. A dull (darkish) white in the skin of the flesh
J. The head being bald
K. The forehead being bald
VI. The leper’s open confession of his leprosy to others
A. Wearing torn clothes
B. Having the hair disheveled
C. Covering the upper lip
D. Crying, “Unclean, unclean”
E. Dwelling alone outside the camp

Uncleanness issuing from within man (3) _{Message 41}

VII. Leprosy in a garment
A. Three kinds of garments
1. Woolen garments
2. Linen garments
3. Leather garments
B. Warp and woof in the garments
1. Warp in the garments signifying one’s outward conduct toward God
2. Woof in the garments signifying man’s outward conduct toward men
C. The greenish or reddish appearance in the garment
D. The greenish or reddish disease spreading in the garment, becoming a malignant (fretting) leprosy
E. Burning the garment in fire
F. Washing the garment, the disease of which has not spread
G. A rotting, a deeper fretting leprosy
H. The diseased spot that has faded after the washing of the garment to be torn out of the garment
I. After the diseased spot being torn out of the garment, the disease breaking out again in the garment
J. After the disease has departed through washing, the washed garments to be washed a second time

The cleansing of the leper (1) _{Message 42}

I. The leper being brought to the priest
II. The priest going outside the camp to examine the leper
III. The leper who was to be healed needing to seek for cleansing before God
A. With two live clean birds
1. Birds
2. Live birds
3. Clean birds
4. Two birds
B. With cedar wood
C. With hyssop
D. With scarlet
E. With an earthenware vessel filled with living water, over which one bird was to be killed
F. The other bird, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop being dipped in the blood of the killed bird that it might be sprinkled seven times on the leper who was to be cleansed
G. Letting the live bird go free over the open field
H. The leper who was to be cleansed washing his clothes, shaving off all his hair, and bathing himself in water
1. The hair of the head
2. The beard
3. The eyebrows
4. All the hair of the body
5. Bathing oneself in water
I. The leper who was to be cleansed remaining outside his tent for seven days
J. On the seventh day the leper who was to be cleansed shaving off all the hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows — even all his hair — washing his clothes, and bathing his flesh in water

The cleansing of the leper (2) _{Message 43}

IV. The leper who was to be cleansed needing to solve the problem of his sin and sins before God
A. Presenting the offerings before God on the eighth day
1. Offering one of the male lambs for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, both of which were waved for a wave offering before Jehovah
2. The male lamb as the trespass offering to be slaughtered in the holy place where the sin offering and the burnt offering were slaughtered
3. The trespass offering belonging to the priest and being most holy
4. The blood of the trespass offering to be put on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot
5. Some of the oil to be poured into the palm of the priest’s left hand and to be sprinkled with his right finger seven times before Jehovah
6. Some of the rest of the oil to be put on the tip of the right ear of the one who was to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of the right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering
7. The remainder of the oil in the priest’s palm to be put on the head of him who was to be cleansed
8. The sin offering to be offered to make propitiation for him who was to be cleansed from his uncleanness
9. The burnt offering to be offered with the meal offering
10. The poor who were not able to afford so much were to offer one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil
B. Christ as our food and as our sin offering, trespass offering, burnt offering, and meal offering

The leprosy in a house _{Message 44}

I. The leprosy in a house signifying sins and evils in a church
A. God putting a leprous disease in a house of the land of Israel’s possession
B. The owner of the house coming and telling the priest that something like a leprous disease has appeared in his house
C. To empty the house so that all that is in the house should not become unclean
D. The priest going in to examine the house
E. If the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish depressions and appears to be beneath the surface of the wall, the priest shall shut up the house for seven days
F. After the examination of seven days, if the disease has spread in the walls of the house, the stones in which the disease is shall be removed and thrown into an unclean place outside the city
G. Scraping the house all around inside and pouring out the mortar which was scraped off into an unclean place outside the city
H. Taking other stones and putting them in the place of the removed stones
I. Taking other mortar and plastering the house
J. If the disease breaks out again in the house after the removal of the stones, the scraping of the house, and the new plastering, it is a malignant leprosy in the house and it is unclean; the house should be broken down
K. During the shutting up of the house, he who goes into the house shall be unclean until the evening
L. He who lies down in the diseased house and he who eats in it shall wash their clothes
M. If the disease has not spread in the house after the new plastering, the house is clean, and the disease has been healed
II. The cleansing of the leprosy in a house
A. In the same way as the cleansing of leprosy in a man
B. The purging of the house with the blood of the bird and the living water
C. Letting the live bird go free over the open field
D. The house being clean

The cleansing of the discharges from man’s and woman’s body _{Message 45}

I. The discharge from man’s body
A. A man being unclean because of his discharge
B. Whether his discharge runs or has stopped, it is his uncleanness
C. Everything and anyone touched by or touching man’s discharge being unclean
D. The uncleanness being until the evening
E. Washing the clothes and bathing in water
F. Rinsing the hands in water
G. The earthenware vessel touched by the discharging one being broken and every wooden vessel being rinsed in water
H. The cleansing of man’s discharge
1. Counting seven days for cleansing, then washing the clothes and bathing the body in fresh water
2. On the eighth day taking two turtledoves or two young pigeons and coming before Jehovah, and giving them to the priest that he may offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering
II. All other discharges of man and woman to be dealt with in the same way
III. Separating the sons of Israel from their uncleanness that they may not die by defiling God’s tabernacle

The propitiation (1) _{Message 46}

I. Aaron being forbidden to enter at all times into the holy of holies within the veil, in front of the propitiatory cover on the ark, lest he die
II. For Aaron to enter into the holy of holies, he should bring a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering
III. Aaron putting on a holy linen tunic, wearing linen breeches over his flesh, girding himself with a linen sash, and being attired with a linen turban in order to enter into the holy of holies
IV. Aaron bathing his flesh in water and putting the holy garments on
V. Aaron taking from the congregation of the sons of Israel two bucks of the goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering
VI. Aaron offering the bull as a sin offering for himself and for his household
VII. Aaron taking the two goats from the congregation, setting them before Jehovah, casting lots for them, one for Jehovah and the other for Azazel, and offering the goat for Jehovah as a sin offering, but presenting the goat for Azazel alive before Jehovah and sending it away into the wilderness to Azazel
VIII. Aaron taking a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar and both his hands full of finely ground incense of spices, bringing them inside the veil, and putting the incense on the fire that the cloud of incense may cover the propitiatory cover upon the ark, so that he would not die
IX. Aaron taking some of the blood of the bull, sprinkling it with his finger on the front of the propitiatory cover, and sprinkling the blood before the propitiatory cover seven times
X. Aaron slaughtering the goat of the sin offering for the people, bringing its blood inside the veil, and sprinkling its blood on and before the propitiatory cover
XI. Because of the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions, even all their sins, the holy of holies and the tent of meeting also needing propitiation

The propitiation (2) _{Message 47}

XII. When aaron went in to make propitiation in the holy of holies, no man should have been in the tent of meeting
XIII. After making propitiation for himself, for his whole household, and for the whole household of Israel, Aaron coming out to the altar and making propitiation for it
A. Putting the blood of the bull and the blood of the goat on the horns of the altar all around
B. With his fingers aaron sprinkling some of the blood on the altar seven times
C. Cleansing the altar and sanctifying it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel
XIV. Aaron finishing making propitiation for the holy of holies, the tent of meeting, and the altar
XV. Aaron going back into the tent of meeting, taking off the linen garments, leaving them there, bathing his flesh in water in a holy place, and putting on his garments, then coming out and offering his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and making propitiation for himself and for the people
XVI. The fat of the sin offering being offered in smoke on the altar
XVII. The one who let the goat go to Azazel washing his clothes, bathing his flesh in water, and after that coming into the camp
XVIII. The bull and the goat of the sin offering being taken outside the camp, and their hides, flesh, and dung being burned with fire
XIX. The one who burned the bull and the goat of the sin offering washing his clothes, bathing his flesh in water, and after that coming into the camp
XX. Afflicting their souls
XXI. Not doing any work
XXII. A propitiation being made for the people of the assemble for all their sins once a year

Taking care of the sacrifices and of the blood _{Message 48}

I. Taking care of the sacrifices
A. Sacrifices to be offered to God only at the entrance of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, and their blood to be shed on the altar
B. A sacrifice as a peace offering to Jehovah
1. Dashing the blood on the altar
2. Offering up the fat in smoke for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah
3. No longer offering sacrifices to the goat demons, to which they prostituted themselves
C. A sacrifice as a burnt offering
1. Offering at the entrance of the tent of meeting
2. The one not offering the burnt offering at the entrance of the tent of meeting to be cut off from the people
II. Taking care of the blood
A. The blood, in which is the life of the flesh, being given by God to make propitiation on the altar for the souls of God’s people
B. The blood of a hunted animal or bird to be covered with earth
C. The blood of that which dies of itself or which is torn by beasts not being good for eating
1. The blood of that which dies of itself
2. The blood of that which is torn by beasts
D. The one who ate that which died of itself or was torn by beasts being unclean until the evening
1. The one who ate that which died or was torn by beasts washing his clothes and bathing in water, and if he did not do this, bearing his iniquity
2. This aspect of the type being crucial

The holy living of the holy people — putting off the old life and putting on the new _{Message 49}

I. The sons of Israel putting off the former Egyptian conduct
II. Not walking in the customs of the Canaanites, into whose land they would come
III. Having God’s holy living
IV. Being holy, because God is holy
V. Offering a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah that it may be accepted
A. The sacrifice was to be eaten on the day of the offering or on the next day, but what remained until the third day was to be burned with fire
B. If the sacrifice was eaten at all on the third day, it was an abhorrent thing not acceptable to God
C. The one who ate the stale sacrifice bearing his iniquity, having profaned the holy thing of Jehovah, and being cut off from his people
VI. No mixture being allowed
A. Breeding cattle without mixture
B. Sowing seed without mixture
C. Making garment material without mixture
VII. The good land vomiting out the defiled and unholy people

The holy living for the priesthood and the disqualifications from the priesthood _{Message 50}

I. The holy living for the priesthood
A. The priests not being allowed to defile and profane themselves for a dead person among their people, except for their relatives
B. Not making any baldness on the head, nor shaving off the corners of the beard, nor making any cuttings in the flesh
C. Being holy to God and not profaning the name of God, for they offer the offerings by fire as the food of God
D. Being pure in marriage
E. Having the anointing oil for the priesthood
F. Wearing the garments of consecration of the priesthood
G. Not disheveling the head
H. Not tearing their garments
I. The high priest not defiling himself even by the death of his father or his mother, because of the sanctuary and the consecration of the anointing oil
J. Being pure in the matter of marriage, even concerning the high priest’s offspring
II. The disqualifications from the priesthood
A. The priest with a blemish (defect) not being allowed to come near to offer the food of his God
B. The blemishes (defects) that disqualify a person from the priesthood
1. Blindness
2. Lameness
3. A flat nose
4. Having one limb longer than the other
5. A broken foot or hand
6. Being a hunchback
7. Being a dwarf
8. A defective sight
9. Eczema
10. Scabs
11. Damaged testicles
C. The blemished ones being permitted to eat the food of God, both the most holy and the holy, but not to come in unto the veil or approach the altar, that they may not profane the sanctuaries of Jehovah, who sanctifies them

The holiness in enjoying the holy things and the acceptable way for the offering of a vow and a freewill offering _{Message 51}

I. The holiness in enjoying the holy things
A. The holy things sanctified to Jehovah by the sons of Israel
B. An unclean person being forbidden to eat the holy things, unless he has bathed his flesh in water, that he may not sin and die
C. An outsider, a sojourner of a priest, or a hired servant being forbidden to eat the holy things
D. A purchased slave of a priest and those who were born in a priest’s house being permitted to eat the holy things
E. The priest’s daughter who married an outsider was forbidden to eat the heave offering of the holy things, but if she became a widow or was divorced, and had no child and returned to her father’s house, she was permitted to eat her father’s food
F. A man who ate a holy thing through ignorance adding one-fifth more to it and giving it to the priest
II. The acceptable way for the offering of a vow and a freewill offering
A. An offering for a vow, for a freewill offering, or as a peace offering that was offered to Jehovah for a burnt offering needing to be a male without blemish, of the herd, of the sheep, or of the goats, that it might be accepted
B. Anything blind, or broken, or maimed, or that had sores, or an eczema, or scabs was not to be offered as food to Jehovah by fire
C. An ox or a sheep that had a member too long or too short being allowed to be offered for a freewill offering but not being accepted for a vow
D. Anything with its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut not being allowed to be offered to Jehovah
E. Anything obtained from the hand of foreigners that was offered to God as his food, having ruin and a blemish in it, not being accepted by him
F. A newborn bull, sheep, or goat needing to remain with its mother until the eighth day, and thereafter being accepted for an offering by fire to Jehovah as his food
G. An ox or a sheep not being allowed to be slaughtered with its young on the same day
H. A sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah needing to be sacrificed so that it may be accepted, by eating it on the day it is sacrificed, not leaving any of it until morning

The festivals (1) _{Message 52}

I. The seasons appointed by Jehovah as holy convocations
A. The weekly season — the sabbath
1. Being the principal denotation of all the annual seasons (feasts) for God’s redeemed people to rest with God and with one another
2. A solemn rest
3. A holy convocation
4. Not doing any work
5. A sabbath to Jehovah
B. The annual seasons (feasts)
1. The feast of the Passover
a. In the first month of the year
b. In the denotation of a passing over
2. The feast of unleavened bread
a. Eating unleavened bread for seven days
b. On the first day having a holy convocation and not doing any laborious work
c. For seven days offering an offering by fire to God
d. On the seventh day having a holy convocation and not doing any laborious work
3. The feast of the firstfruits
a. The sheaf (not one single stalk of wheat) of the firstfruits of the harvest being brought to God
b. The sheaf of the offering to be waved before Jehovah on the day after the sabbath (the eighth day) that God’s people might be accepted
c. On the day of the wave offering a male lamb a year old, without blemish, to be offered as a burnt offering to Jehovah
d. The waved sheaf’s meal offering of fine flour mingled with oil as an offering by fire to Jehovah for a satisfying fragrance
e. With the drink offering of wine
f. No bread of wheat nor roasted grain nor fresh ears to be eaten until the sheaf of the firstfruits of the harvest was brought to God

The festivals (2) _{Message 53}

4. The feast of pentecost (the feast of the fiftieth day, counting from the day after the sabbath, the day on which the sheaf of the wave offering was brought to God, to the day after the seventh sabbath)
a. Offering a new meal offering to Jehovah of two loaves of bread baked with leaven as firstfruits to Jehovah
b. Offering with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, one young bull, and two rams as a burnt offering to Jehovah, with their meal offerings and drink offerings, as an offering by fire of a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah
c. Offering one male goat for a sin offering and two male lambs a year old for peace offerings, waved with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Jehovah
d. Proclaiming and having a holy convocation and not doing any laborious work
e. In reaping the harvest of the land, not reaping completely the corners of the field, neither gathering the gleanings of the harvest but leaving them for the poor and for the aliens

The festivals (3) _{Message 54}

5. The feast of the blowing of trumpets
a. On the first day of the seventh month, the beginning of the second half of the year
b. To have a solemn rest
c. As a memorial proclaimed by the blowing of trumpets
d. To have a holy convocation
e. Not doing any laborious work but bringing an offering by fire to Jehovah
6. The feast of propitiation
a. Having a holy convocation
b. Afflicting their souls and bringing an offering by fire unto Jehovah
c. Not doing any work but having a sabbath of rest
d. On the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening to evening God’s returned people keeping the sabbath
7. The feast of tabernacles
a. For seven days
b. On the first day having a holy convocation, not doing any laborious work
c. For seven days bringing an offering by fire to Jehovah
d. On the eighth day having a holy convocation, a sacred assembly, to bring an offering by fire to Jehovah, and not doing any laborious work
e. Bringing an offering by fire to Jehovah — a burnt offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and a drink offering, each on its own day
f. Having gathered the produce of the land
g. Taking the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and rejoicing before God for seven days
h. God’s redeemed people to dwell in booths for seven days
II. The dispensational fulfillment of the seven festivals as types
A. The feast of the Passover
B. The feast of unleavened bread
C. The feast of the firstfruits
D. The feast of Pentecost
E. The feast of the blowing of trumpets
F. The feast of propitiation
G. The feast of tabernacles

The arrangement of the lampstand and the showbread table and the death-judgment of the blaspheming of the holy name _{Message 55}

I. The arrangement of the lampstand and the showbread table
A. The arrangement of the lampstand
1. The pure beaten olive oil for the light
2. The light of the lampstand shining continually from evening until morning
3. Aaron the high priest arranging the lamps before Jehovah continually
B. The arrangement of the showbread
1. Twelve cakes made with fine flour, each of two-tenths of an ephah
2. Placing the twelve cakes in two rows, six in each row, on the pure gold table before Jehovah
3. Putting pure frankincense with each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread as an offering by fire to Jehovah
4. Sabbath by sabbath Aaron setting the bread in order before Jehovah continually
5. Aaron and his sons eating the bread in a holy place as a most holy portion of the food offered to God
II. The death-judgment of the blaspheming of the holy name
A. The story of the blaspheming of the holy name being recorded after the record concerning the arranging of the showbread table
B. The story of the son of an Israelite woman who had married an Egyptian

The sabbath year and the jubilee (1) _{Message 56}

I. The sabbath year
A. The land keeping a sabbath to Jehovah
B. Not sowing the field, nor pruning the vineyard, nor reaping the harvest, nor gathering the grapes of the untrimmed vine
C. The sabbath produce of the land to be food for all kinds of people and for the cattle and the animals
D. God commanding his blessing in the sixth year so that the land would yield a crop sufficient for three years
II. The jubilee — the pentecostal year
A. The fifty years that consummated in the jubilee comprising eight sabbath years, being sabbath upon sabbath, to be an eightfold sabbath
B. The blast of the trumpet going forth on the tenth day of the seventh month of the jubilee, on the day of propitiation
C. Sanctifying the fiftieth year and proclaiming freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants, that year being a jubilee to the people
D. Each one returning to his possession, and each one returning to his family
E. Israel in the present age and in the coming millennium
F. Neither sowing, nor reaping, nor gathering the grapes of the untrimmed vines, but eating the produce directly from the field
G. In buying or selling the land, the price was to be calculated according to the number of years after the jubilee

The sabbath year and the jubilee (2) _{Message 57}

H. The land possessed by the children of Israel belonged to God and was not to be sold into permanent ownership
I. Concerning the redemption of the land that had been sold
1. Regaining our enjoyment of the divine possession
2. The children of Israel regaining what they have lost
3. When an Israelite became poor and sold some of his possession, his nearest relative was to come as his redeemer and redeem what he had sold
4. If an Israelite had no one to redeem his possession for him but had acquired the means for its redemption, he could redeem it by himself
5. If a man did not have sufficient means to redeem his possession, it remained until the year of jubilee, in which it was released to him
J. Concerning the redemption of the house that had been sold
1. If an Israelite sold a house in a walled city, the right would be given to him to redeem it within one year, but after one year the right would be ended and the house would not be released to him, even in the jubilee
2. The houses of the villages that had no walls around them were considered as the fields of the country and could be redeemed and were to be released in the jubilee
3. A permanent right of redemption was given to the Levites for the houses in the cities of their possession
4. The fields of the pasture lands of the Levites were their permanent possession and were not to be sold

The sabbath year and the jubilee (3) _{Message 58}

K. The way to sustain a brother who had become poor
1. A brother of the Israelites becoming poor and unable to support himself
2. Sustaining the poor brother that he may live with you, not taking interest from him in money nor gain in food
L. Concerning a brother who had sold himself to another brother
1. An Israelite brother who became poor and sold himself to another brother was not to be made a slave but a hired servant until the year of jubilee
2. At the jubilee he and his sons going back to his own family and returning to the possession of his fathers
3. Not ruling over a sold brother with harshness
4. Purchasing male and female slaves from the nations and from the sojourners and considering them as possessions, but not taking slaves from the Israelites
5. An Israelite brother who sold himself to an alien or to a sojourner was to be redeemed by his brother, his uncle, or any of his blood relatives, or by himself if he acquired sufficient means
6. The selling price and the amount of the refund for redemption to be calculated according to the number of years relative to the jubilee
7. The sold one who was not redeemed by these means was to be released in the year of jubilee

The word of warning (1) _{Message 59}

I. Not having idols, not making them or bowing down to them
II. Keeping God’s sabbath
III. Reverencing God’s sanctuary
IV. The obeying ones to be blessed
A. Rains given in their season
B. The land yielding its rich produce that the people may eat the new food always and dwell securely in the land
C. Peace being given in the land without threats, savage beasts, and the sword
D. Chasing the enemies, five chasing a hundred and a hundred chasing ten thousand
E. Fruitfulness in multiplication
F. God’s dwelling being among the people
V. The disobeying ones to be chastised that they may repent
A. On the first level — the appointing of sudden terror
1. A consuming disease and a fever causing the eyesight to fail and the life to waste away, and the enemy eating what they have sown in vain
2. Being struck down before the ruling enemies and fleeing when no one pursues
B. On the second level — being disciplined sevenfold
1. The heavens being made like iron, giving no rain
2. The earth being made like brass, yielding no produce

The word of warning (2) _{Message 60}

The basis for our obedience
The processed Triune God as our unique goal
The work God has accomplished for our rest
The result of God’s work
Honoring the processed Triune God
The vision of the processed Triune God with His work and the result of His work constituting us into obedient ones
Receiving God’s blessing

The word of warning (3) _{Message 61}

C. On the third level — bringing plagues sevenfold
1. Plagues
2. Beasts bereaving people of their children and destroying their cattle, reducing the number of people and making their roads desolate
D. On the fourth level — striking sevenfold
1. Bringing a sword
2. Sending the pestilence
3. Delivering the people into the hand of the enemy
4. Cutting off the supply of bread so that it will be delivered by weight and people will not be satisfied
E. On the fifth level — being disciplined sevenfold again
1. Eating the flesh of their children
2. Their carcasses being cast upon the carcasses of their idols
3. Their cities being laid waste and their sanctuaries being desolated, with no smell of a satisfying fragrance to God
4. The land being desolated and inhabited by their enemies
5. Being scattered among the nations and chased by the unsheathed sword
6. The land enjoying its sabbath during their captivity
7. In the enemies’ lands faintness being sent into the hearts, the people being driven and fleeing as though fleeing from the sword, stumbling over one another, perishing among the nations being consumed and rotting in the land of their enemies
VI. The repentance of the people in captivity and the remembrance of God
A. Confessing their iniquity, humbling their uncircumcised heart, and accepting the punishment of their iniquity
B. God remembering His covenants and the land
C. In spite of His chastisement God not rejecting the people, neither destroying them utterly nor breaking His covenant with them

Devotions for a vow (1) _{Message 62}

I. Four kinds of devotions for a vow
A. The devotion of a person to God
1. The valuation of the person
a. By God — in the eyes of God
b. According to the shekel of the sanctuary
2. Different kinds of valuations
a. Of a male from twenty to sixty years old, fifty shekels of silver
b. Of a female from twenty to sixty years old, thirty shekels
c. Of a male from five to twenty years old, twenty shekels
d. Of a female from five to twenty years old, ten shekels
e. Of a male from one month to five years old, five shekels
f. Of a female from one month to five years old, three shekels
g. Of a male from sixty years old and upward, fifteen shekels
h. Of a female from sixty years old and upward, ten shekels
3. The person who was poorer than the valuation to be valued by the priest according to his means
B. The devotion of cattle to God
1. To be holy
2. Not to be replaced or exchanged
3. If an exchange were made, both the devoted animal and that for which it was exchanged would be holy
4. If an unclean animal, which should not have been offered to Jehovah, was devoted, it was to be valued by the priest
5. If the devoting one intended to redeem it, he had to add one-fifth of its value to the valuation
C. The devotion of a house
1. A house sanctified to Jehovah to be valued by the priest
2. If the devoting one intended to redeem his house, he had to add one-fifth of the valuation that it might be his

Devotions for a vow (2) _{Message 63}

D. The devotion of a field
1. A part of a field sanctified to Jehovah to be valued according to the seed required
2. The valuation to be also according to the number of years from the jubilee
3. The sanctifying one who redeemed the field was to add one-fifth of the valuation
4. If the sanctifying one did not redeem the land or had sold it to others, it could not be redeemed anymore
5. In the jubilee the devoted field purchased by another would be holy to Jehovah and would belong to the priest; but if it had been purchased as the purchaser’s possession, it would return to the original devoter and seller, and the purchaser was to give its valuation as a holy thing to Jehovah
II. The regulations for devotion
A. The firstborn among the beasts, which belonged to Jehovah, no one was permitted to sanctify
B. The devoted beast that was unclean was to be ransomed, with one-fifth of the valuation added to it, or sold according to the priest’s valuation
C. No devoted thing devoted to Jehovah being sold or redeemed but being most holy to Jehovah
D. No One who should certainly have been put to death and who had been devoted to God could be ransomed
E. The tithe of everything was holy to God; it was not to be devoted, but it could be redeemed with an addition of one-fifth of its value, and it was not to be exchanged; otherwise, both it and that for which it was exchanged would be holy to God
The prophecies implied in Leviticus
A. In the types
B. In the warning

A concluding word _{Message 64}

Our situation
Christ’s redemption
The enjoyment of the riches of the processed and consummated Triune God
The jubilee
Three crucial items
God as our unique goal
Respecting God’s completed work
Obeying God
Making a vow

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