by Jacob D. Gerber | Apr 23, 2018 | Bible Meditations, Leviticus
Bible Readings for April 23rd Leviticus 27 | Psalm 34 | Ecclesiastes 10 | Titus 2 In context, the final chapter of Leviticus is a bit of a puzzle. Leviticus 26, yesterday’s reading, seems like a perfectly fitting close to a single book, with an overarching summary of...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Apr 22, 2018 | Bible Meditations, Leviticus
Bible Readings for April 22nd Leviticus 26 | Psalm 33 | Ecclesiastes 9 | Titus 1 The promises of the old covenant were a two-edged sword. On the one hand, Yahweh promised to establish paradise on earth for Israel if they obeyed all his statutes and commandments, but...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Apr 21, 2018 | Bible Meditations, Leviticus
Bible Readings for April 21st Leviticus 25 | Psalm 32 | Ecclesiastes 8 | 2 Timothy 4 Leviticus 25 introduces us to one of the more intriguing events that Yahweh mandated for his people: the Year of Jubilee. In part, the Year of Jubilee is fascinating as an economic...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Apr 20, 2018 | Bible Meditations, Leviticus
Bible Readings for April 20th Leviticus 24 | Psalm 31 | Ecclesiastes 7 | 2 Timothy 3 In all of Leviticus, only two stories break up the statutes and legislation that otherwise fill up the book:1 one story comes in Leviticus 10, narrating how Nadab and Abihu, the sons...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Apr 19, 2018 | Bible Meditations, Leviticus
Bible Readings for April 19th Leviticus 23 | Psalm 30 | Ecclesiastes 6 | 2 Timothy 2 In Leviticus 23, Yahweh lays out the regular calendar of festivals for Israel. A large part of Israel’s worship was bound up in special feasts that Yahweh had commanded to commemorate...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Apr 18, 2018 | Bible Meditations, Leviticus
Bible Readings for April 18th Leviticus 22 | Psalms 28–29 | Ecclesiastes 5 | 2 Timothy 1 Leviticus 22 continues the theme from Leviticus 21, which is that the priests were held to a higher standard of holiness because of the fact that they served in the tabernacle,...
