“It’s my body so it’s my choice! Who do you think you are to tell me how I should experience or express my sexuality?” This is the battle-cry of much of the modern world, and such a desire for autonomy explains a great deal of the unbelieving culture’s growing opposition…

The big idea of the Day of Atonement is clear enough – we need the blood of Christ to be shed for us to atone for our sins. But so many parts of this ceremony seem strange until we remember that Aaron the High Priest is representing Jesus’ person and…

Why was God so concerned with His people’s diet? On Saturday, we looked at how God prohibited His people from eating fat and blood. But most of Leviticus 11 is made up of a long, long list of animals which were not to be consumed – indeed, even touching one…

Okay, so the ancient Israelites weren’t supposed to eat blood or fat. What can we possibly learn from that fact? Well, in ancient times, fat was considered the best part of an animal (and fans of bacon and pork rinds would continue to agree!). And God made it clear that…

God is with us. Maybe loneliness or grief or pain has made that hard for you to believe today. And God’s Old Testament people weren’t much different – Moses was only gone up on Mt. Sinai for 40 days (Exodus 24:18), and before he came back, they had lost all…

Yesterday, we saw how important it is to confess our sin and to repent of it, turning away from anyone and anything that might be standing between us and God. But confession and repentance alone are useless unless Christ stands between us and the Father, pleading the blood of His…

Sin takes various forms, but its roots are always the same – putting something else in the place of God. When Moses went up on Mt. Sinai, into a cloud like looked like a devouring fire, and when he had been gone for 40 days (Exodus 24:17), the people simply…

Preoccupied as we are these days with preventing the transmission of contagious disease, we might think that’s the reason that the priests washed their hands and feet every time they went to the bronze altar or into the Tabernacle. But remember: the priests were the only ones who went into…

How can I draw close to God? Well, we know that the Ark of the Covenant symbolized the presence of God with His people, and that the mercy-seat on top of the Ark was where God said He would meet with Moses. But a veil separated the ark even from…

So, if the Ark in the Tabernacle represented the presence of the Father and the Table and the Lampstand and the Bronze Altar pointed to Christ, the light of the world and the bread of Heaven, who were the priests supposed to symbolize? Well, let’s take a look at what…