Stained By The Blood

Prayer for Illumination and Opening Remarks

All right, it's hilarious watching Eric and Dwayne. Eric is in the middle of a hot summer in Australia and The North Dakota, Minnesota. At least these parts shut down because of all the blowing snow. We have a ground blizzard going on which is always so fun and Yeah, Eric Eric come up here this time of year and I'm sure Dwayne can take you ice fishing.

Oh Man, all right. Let me turn that back on. There we go. Hang on a second here. No, let's see here. There we go.

All right, let's pray and we will get into our lesson today. We pray speak. O Lord your servant listens. Let your word to me be near. Newborn life and spirit give me. Let each promise still my fears. Death's dread power its inward strife wars against your words of life.

So fill me Lord with love's strong fervor so that I might cling to you forever in the name of Jesus. Amen. All right, so I should throw this open here. Since we're kind of a blended sir, you know a blended group is that one of the things we do at a manual is We open it up for comments or questions related to things in current events.

You know before we we dive into the Sunday school lesson proper. So I feel like since we have folks from a manual joining us today I should offer that up as you know. If anyone wanted to you know Make a comment along those lines and if I don't see any then we'll dive into the the text itself we've been at Kongsvinger working our way through the book of Leviticus and We are up to Leviticus chapter 8.

The Levitical Priesthood as a Type and Shadow of Christ

Leviticus chapter 8 and last week We did a little excursion because over and again we net we note that in the Old Testament We're dealing with types and we're dealing with shadows. We're dealing with Concepts that point to their ultimate fulfillment which are found in Christ in the.

In the New Testament they are the realities are in the new the types and shadows are in the old and so we noted then That the priestly vestments the priestly vestments of the Levitical priesthood Are a type and shadow of our vestments since since Scripture is very clear that as as Christians we are a kingdom of priests and so our Vestments then are the good works that we put on love for neighbor and things like that.

So these these are our priestly vestments. That's I think it's a good way to to look at that so then we're we'll continue then in Leviticus 8 as we consider then the the ordination service and sacrifices of the Levitical priesthood so Moses brought the bowl of the sin offering.

And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bowl of the sin offering there they're imparting their what if you imputing their sin to the sin sacrifice if you would and Then Moses killed it.

Moses took the blood with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it purified the altar poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it and he took all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the Silver and the of the liver silver of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat and Moses burned them on the altar but the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned up with fire outside the camp as Yahweh commanded Moses so then he presented the ram of the burnt offering.

Aaron and his sons lay their hands on the head of the ram and he Killed it and Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar. He cut the ram into pieces and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat and he washed the entrails and the legs With water and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar.

It was a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma of food offering for Yahweh as Yahweh Commanded Moses and then he presented the other ram and the ram the ram of ordination. So again, we talked about an ordination service.

They're being properly installed into their office. Moses Prophet is installing them into their proper office. And then we recognize then especially as Lutherans that in order for somebody to be a pastor the the Qualifications are what we call a retail who caught who's that's kind of the.

It's a the Latin phrase, but you have to be rightly called rightly installed rightly ordained. That's the idea. So the presented the other ram the ram of ordination and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

And he killed it. Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and On the big toe of his right foot. Okay, and so a little bit of a note here.

And you know when we talked about this we we talked about the blood that's on Christ's head his hands and his feet. That's a good way to look at it. But you could also then consider then the person being ordained in this sense that the blood.

You know you.

Through their ears. They hear the Word of God through their hands. They do their good works and they're in the feet then you can talk about the you know the beautiful feet of those who bring the good news who You know of the gospel and things like that so you can talk in those terms if you want to connect him to things.

So then he presented Aaron's sons and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of the right ears and on the thumbs of the right hands and on the big toes of the right feet and Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar and Then he took the fat And the fat tail and all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver the two kidneys with their Fat and the right thigh and just thinking man.

This is a lot of blood and and literally guts. They go along with these sin sacrifices. That's really the point. This is a messy bloody gory Affair, you know, and that's the point is that this is the consequence of our sin.

Sin is not a small thing atoning for sin is a bloody Gory.

Messy.

Affair so and then out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord He took one unleavened loaf one loaf of bread with oil. One wafer place them on the pieces of fat and on the right thigh and he put all These in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them as a way of offering before the Lord now a little bit of a note here in the book of Numbers middle portion of the book of Numbers God adds another command.

Regarding all sin offerings that are offered once the children of Israel Make they arrive in the promised land and every single sin offering every single peace offering every single free will offering You they are required to be offered with bread and wine.

A Grain offering and a wine offering a drink offering are required for all Offerings. And so here we see the unleavened bread kind of making its appearance as it is a grain offering. But once you get into the book of Numbers and this is why when you pay attention to all of this one of the things we've been making a point of is that just a single read of a small portion of the book of Leviticus isn't going to give you all of the theology and requirements necessary to understand how the Sacrifices worked God builds off of them and it requires that you read his entire book all of the commands consider the implications in the cross references and.

And I think you know, that's you know, it's funny enough. This is one of the ways in which you learn how to cross reference other portions of Scripture God. If you're gonna if you're gonna follow all of the requirements of the Mosaic Covenants Sacrificial system you're not gonna get them in just one handy place.

You've got to read the whole thing go back and reread it make sure that you've got all of the relevant portions working together and. And then you can see that. Let me see if I could find that really quick, by the way.

I.

Wonder if I had it still open. That's Deuteronomy. Okay. Hang on a second here. I may be able to find it from.

Mm-hmm.

There's that looks like right numbers.

Let me see here. I'm kind of hoping I can hunt this down very quick. Numbers, ah, let me try that. Yeah, let me show you this. Okay. So yep. This is the chapter. Here we go. Yep, here it is numbers chapter 15.

So watch this cross-reference.

Okay.

So Yahweh spoke to Moses saying speak to the people of Israel say to them when you come into the land you are to inhabit which I am giving to you. And you offer to Yahweh from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feast to Make a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

So basically all of the different offerings.

Okay.

Then he who brings his offering shall offer to Yahweh a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hint of oil and you shall offer with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice a Quarter of a hint of wine for a drink offering for each lamb.

No joke. Every single offering is to be brought you to bring with it a grain offering and a wine offering. Bread and wine. Yeah, bread and wine are Part then of the sacrifices and you sit there and go what's that all about?

It's making it. I would just say God is trying to make this painfully clear. This has everything to do with What will be the fulfillment if you were of the the hard part, you know. This is type and shadow in the Old Testament fulfillment's gonna be in the new and so here you have with the scent with all these sacrifices bread and wine, you know grain and wine and.

You know, you sit there and go well when we have the Lord's Supper. Bread and wine you see the connection is is unmistakable when it's just fascinating. So you have to consider numbers 15 as a big cross reference to all that we've been reading in the book of Leviticus so.

So where's the bread and wine and referenced in numbers? It's the grain offering and the wine offering that's required in numbers 15 for all sacrifices, Bruce. So you're gonna note then that you know God adds, you know an additional requirement and that additional requirement is is that there are then you know.

You got bread you got grain and wine. Now as part of all of the sacrifices of the Mosaic Covenant once they get into the land. That the Lord their God has given them so fascinating now you're gonna why.

Why then wouldn't God not require that while they're in the wilderness answer? God's feeding the manna from heaven so Things will change once they're able to actually grow crops. Your nose there. They're not farmers during their wilderness wanderings.

They are literally wanderers and they're miraculously being fed manna but once they get into the promised land the requirement will be that with all of the sacrifices then will be a grain offering and a drink offering of wine.

So it's all part of it. All right coming back then to Leviticus 8. All right, so we've been talking about the gorgeous Moses took them from their hands burned them on the altar with the burnt Offering so these are their ordination offerings.

This was an ordination offering with a pleasing aroma a food offering to Yahweh. Moses took the breast waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses's portion of the ram or of ordination as Yahweh has commanded.

Moses said Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments and Also on his sons and his son's garments now a little bit of a note here.

Remember this anointing oil anything that touches it is Holy and so now you have the mixing together of oil and the blood of the sacrifice and. Then that gets sprinkled on to the garments of Aaron and his sons now, let me see if I could find this real quick here I'm losing my mind.

All right, so there's a there's a spray. I just bought a bottle of something and the name of the product product is called wine away. All right. No, no, it's now you can't use it on your grandchildren or your children when they're whining you spray it on them.

And they go away. That's not what I'm talking about. But wine away is you it's a it's a formula for when you give communion and. And you're using a chalice and. And so when you have a chalice you have a you usually have a white cloth that goes with it.

Where you you wipe or what, you know, you wipe each time somebody uses a chalice, but then what happens is is you get? That what happens is you get wine onto this white under this white handkerchief and the question is how do you get it out answer?

Wine away right now. My wife will tell you that. You know, there's certain stains that you know, if they get into certain colors. They're pretty tough to get out and so you'll note then that this is does something very fascinating to the ephods and the in the vestments of the Levitical priesthood and that is is that the blood of the the the ordination Sacrifices for their sins gets mixed with oil and blood and then it's actually sprinkled on to the garments.

That they are going to wear which of course they don't have modern-day laundry. They don't have wine away. They don't have any of these things. So the question is that I have is would this end up making it so that their ephods always kind of have like a permanent Blood stains on them, you know, it's kind of a fascinating thing.

Yeah as a visual reminder. This was the blood that was that was shed so that your sins could be forgiven and placed into your office. It's kind of a fascinating thing. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments.

They're now holy his sons and his son's garments with him. Blood and or and anointing oil together so Moses said to Aaron and his sons boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination of Ordination offerings as I commanded saying Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

So again, we note then the sin sacrifices get consumed. Hmm. I know of another sin sacrifice that gets consumed the body and blood of Christ, right? So in what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn up with fire and you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days.

Until the days of your ordination are completed for it will take seven days to ordain you. It's a long time. It's a long time. So you're gonna note then they they get sequestered so They cannot leave.

For.

Seven days. They're sequestered during their ordination time. It's gonna take seven days to do this. You're sequestered in the tent of meeting and as has been done today Yahweh has commanded to be done to make atonement for you at the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain Day and night for seven days Performing what Yahweh has charged so that you do not die.

For so I have commanded and Aaron and his sons did all these things that Yahweh commanded by Moses. Could you imagine if like modern-day? Pastoral ordination services took seven days and required the pastor to like live inside the church For seven days and seven nights.

That's kind of what we're talking about here.

Oh.

And if the pastor left before the seven days were over left the church went outside or something that God would kill him, you know I'm glad to ordination services in our day are not quite this involved and do not involve the threat of death if you don't follow All of the statutes, right?

The Eighth Day and the Glory of the Lord

So Leviticus 9 so on the eighth day Moses called Aaron. So this is day 8. Okay, pay attention to the numbers here. Six days God created the heavens and the earth. Seventh day he rested. Eighth day is the day of the resurrection.

Eighth day is like symbolically, you know type and shadow picture of the new creation. And so you note here that after eight on the eighth day. Now these guys are ready to take over and to do their work.

Moses has installed them ordained them. All of these sacrifices have been sacrificed oil and blood has been mixed. It's been sprinkled onto their garments. And again, I you just have to wonder does that stay on there forever?

You know, it's it's tough to get these kinds of stains out. So on the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel and he said to Aaron take for yourself a Bowl calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering both without blemish and offer them before Yahweh so Moses was doing all the work now in Leviticus 9 they have been properly ordained installed into the office and now they are Ready to begin to do their work.

So say to the people of Israel take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and a lamb both a year old without blemish for a burnt offering and An ox and a ram for a peace offering to sacrifice before Yahweh and a grain offering mixed with oil.

For today Yahweh will appear to you and so they brought what Moses commanded in front of the tent of meeting and all the Congregation grew near and stood before Yahweh and Moses said this is the thing that Yahweh Commanded you to do that.

The glory of Yahweh may appear to you. So then Moses said to Aaron draw near to the altar offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people and bring the offering to of the people and make atonement for them as Yahweh has commanded.

So Aaron drew near to the altar killed the calf of the sin offering so it's not Moses doing it anymore. Now, it's Aaron and The sin offering which was for himself and the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him.

He dipped his finger in the blood put it on the horns of the altar poured out the blood at the base of the altar but the fat and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver. From the sin offering he burned on the altar as Yahweh commanded Moses the flesh and the skin.

He burned up with fire outside the camp. Then he killed the burnt offering and Aaron's sons Handed him the blood and he threw it against the sides of the altar and they handed the burnt offering to him piece by piece and the head and he burned them on the altar and he washed the entrails and the legs and Burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.

Then he presented the people's Offering and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people and killed it and offered it as a sin offering Like the first one and he presented the burnt offering it offered it According to the rule and he presented the grain offering took a handful of it Burned it on the altar besides the burnt offering of the morning and then he killed the ox and the ram The sacrifice of the peace offerings for the people and Aaron's sons handed him the blood and he threw it against the sides of the altar but the fat pieces of the ox and of the ram and the fat tail that and that which covers the entrails and the kidney and The long lobe of the liver they put the fat the pieces of on the breasts.

He burned the fat pieces on the altar but the breasts and the right thigh. Aaron waved for a wave offering before Yahweh as Moses commanded and Aaron lifted up his hands towards the people and he blessed them and he came down From offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offering and Moses and Aaron Went into the tent of meeting and when they came out they blessed the people and the glory of the Lord appeared To all the people now a little bit of a note.

We saw the glory of the Lord appearing with the completion and the consecration of the the tabernacle the tent of meeting and Here now with the Levitical priests the first ones being put into office we see the glory of the Lord appearing to all the people and a little bit of a note here and this is this is something we need to pay attention to is that The glory of the Lord does not appear every single day at the tabernacle.

The glory of the Lord does not appear every single time a Levitical priest is Is ordained and installed into his into his office. The glory of the Lord did not continue to appear day after day after day After Solomon's temple was built.

So you're gonna note there's a little bit of a pattern here that I think is worth noting then The Lord glory of the Lord shows up at the tabernacle at his consecration. Glory of the Lord shows up at the consecration of The of Solomon's temple.

The glory of the Lord shows up with the ordination of the first Levitical priest and here's the fun part the glory of the Lord in a very real way shows up when Jesus is baptized and Jesus receives the Holy Spirit and hears from God the Father.

You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased now we in our baptisms are united with Christ and his death and his resurrection we and our baptisms receive the Holy Spirit and Because Christ we're united with Christ and his death and his resurrection.

We go from the dominion of darkness into the kingdom of light we go from being dead and trespasses and sins and Children of the devil to being the adopted children of God and so you'll note then that we can say with each Christian baptism moving forward That that same thing happens.

We the void the father says to us Because of Christ's merits you are my beloved son. You are my beloved beloved daughter in whom I am well pleased and the Holy Spirit Descends and remains on you in the same way it descended and remained it remained on Christ not visibly.

We know these things by faith and so you'll note then that there's a pattern that when the first thing occurs if you would. That you know that that reality is the same but it's not necessary for God to redo the fireworks.

Does that make sense? And so I'm with that group of people that you know, sit there and go. What was with the fact that Jesus was baptized right? He had no sin and and he's baptized by John the Baptist.

Multiple things going on there. But in this particular context, I'm with the scholars who say that Jesus's baptism is really the first Christian baptism first one and so because the same elements that happen to us that we are promised in our baptism are the things that show up with the baptism of Christ and that is as the voice of God saying you are my beloved son and.

And the Holy Spirit descending and remaining on us. So we receive the Holy Spirit in our water baptism because scripture says that so, you know. That's kind of the idea as you so you can see kind of these private this first time ever stuff when God shows up.

In ways that he doesn't show up other times the the reality remains the same so In the ancient world when they would copy manuscripts. This is the days before the Gutenberg press and typesetting and things like that so when you would copy a text you would have you would have a manuscript which was called an exemplar and You'd then copy from the exemplar.

So this is an example of kind of like an exemplar event that that the rest follow. So that's kind of the idea.

All right.

Sort of smelly, okay.

Okay.

All right coming back then so the fire came out from before the Lord Consumed the burnt offering the pieces of fat on the altar when all the people saw it they shouted and they fell on their faces. So here the glory of the Lord shows up with the ordination fire comes out from before consumes the burnt offering and everyone goes.

And they fall on their face. All right, and God doesn't do that from then on out. But still the reality is the same. Okay. Now this next section of scripture very important. I'm watching my time here and make sure I have enough time to do this justice.

Unauthorized Fire and Presumptuous Worship

I think I can do this in the amount of time that's left. Leviticus chapter 10. This is the this is the unauthorized fire or strange fire portion of The book of Leviticus and here's the idea we sinners presume that we can worship God any old way we want to.

This is a presumption on our part and it is flat-out false. It is so wrong. It's not even funny. And so you're gonna note here that we're gonna read an account where two of the sons of Aaron are going to act presumptuously but their motivation is.

Good.

They're not desiring it. They don't they want to do something evil. They want to do something good. But they are basically not following what God has said. He has prescribed the divine service of the of the Mosaic Covenant and there are specific ways in which it is to be done certain, you know offerings that are to be offered and adding to it is not permitted.

Or taken away not permitted and so you have to think of it in those terms. Leviticus 10 1. Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron each took his censer and Put fire in it and laid incense on it and they offered Unauthorized fire before the Lord which he had not commanded them and he said what's wrong with that?

It's a it's an offering to the Lord. It's a it's a praise and Thanksgiving thing. They were acting according, you know, they they were all of this stuff but they were feeling holy and all this kind of and they were off this was worship and So fire came out from before Yahweh and consumed them and they died before Yahweh.

Yikes yikes.

So Moses said to Aaron This is what Yahweh has said among those who are near me I will be sanctified and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace and so you're gonna note then that the answer that the Lord gives that they his words tell us the issue.

God dictates worship of him. We do not dictate it and by Nadab and Abihu doing what they did. The emphasis was on Nadab and Abihu. Not on the Lord. That's the issue and so you'll note here by acting presumptuously.

They were drawing attention and glory to themselves. Rather than to God I Will be sanctified and before all the people I will be glorified. God said Nadab and Abihu by their unauthorized offering unauthorized fire.

They were the ones being glorified not God. You see it so by going above and beyond and offering to God something he hasn't asked for it wasn't received as as Anything by God instead. It was rebuked and punished by death by God.

Because what it did is it put the focus and the glory on the worshiper rather than God. God will be worshipped in the way. He has said he will be worshipped and when you Reverse things around and the focus becomes on the worshipper God isn't glorified the worshipper is glorified and that's what Nadab and Abihu did and God had none of that had none of it you know and Which is one of the reasons why I think in this particular place you could probably You know take a look.

It's like some Evangelical Practices now when I was an evangelical and when I was in the charismatic movement, you know. One of the things I can honestly say is that there were certain practices that really drew a lot of attention on Particular people and so let me let me explain.

So if you've never been to that type of worship service. Everybody stands up for a really long worship set and it's really tough to call it Congregational singing because the band oftentimes is so loud.

You can't really participate but while everyone's standing up what ends up happening is is that some people they put their hands in the air? Okay, and this is their their sacrifice of praise kind of thing.

But what happens is is that you look around and go well if their hands are up in the air. Do I have to put my hands up in the air? And then if they're putting their hands up in the air, you know. Some people have their hands like way up high and so they're there.

They're praising like this and then other people you know. They're praising with their hands way up high and they're swaying and all this kind of stuff and you're thinking well that person's really really Holy over there and I you know, if I really want to look like I'm holy.

Maybe I need to get my hands a little higher and stuff. And and so I'm not joking when I was in these churches I was I was really self-conscious as to how high do I put my hands at what point? So that other people would know that I'm really really with the spirit today and The problem here is is that all of that the focus is on me and it creates some kind of weird Competition where I want every I want everybody to know I'm as holy as that guy over there or that lady over there.

But there were some people who were just really good at it. I mean On cue, you know their hands would go up their eyes would close and they would do this and they kind of get lost in the moment and it's like Man, I got to get the figure out how to get lost in the moment and look it was nuts.

And and the issue is is that it would that practice? All of the focus is on the worshiper not on the Lord and I can say via confession of my own sin my Participation in this and what I would do was never based upon I'm gonna raise my hands up high because I want you know, cuz I'm worshiping God I was gonna raise my hands up high so that I can compete with the Joneses in this in this holiness competition and That's that's not at all.

Not at all glorifying to God again. There's a whole lot of glory going around but it ain't on God. So that's that's you know, I would say that's kind of an example of what's going on here. So God punishes them because he says before all the people I will be glorified and by Nadab and Abihu offering strange fire.

You know something that God has not authorized. The emphasis was on them. Not on God the glory was on them not on God and God was having none of it and he he Cut them down but now we've got a problem and now we got a problem because as part of Aaron's service as the high priest He's not allowed to leave the tent of meeting yet.

He's not done with all of his duties and His two oldest sons are now.

Dead.

They are crispy critters and He cannot Come into the presence of their corpses otherwise, he's gonna become unclean and so this is this is a this is a tough passage in the sense because. You know if somebody had told me, you know, Chris your your children just died.

I mean, I would go into emergency mode and you know. No one would fault me for saying I need. I'm gonna need some time off work, you know. It's gonna be a while before I preach again. Yeah, no, so so in this particular case.

You know it when it comes to Levitical priesthood and the law office. Trump's even the death of your own children and this is kind of fascinating how this then plays it pays out. So Aaron he held his peace is What it says here.

So the most is called Mishael El Zephan. The sons of Uziel the uncle of Aaron and said to them come near carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary and out of the camp and so they came near carried them in their coats out of the camp and Most as Moses has said and Moses said to Aaron and see Eliezer and itham are his sons.

Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose. No, no mourning. You do not get to do anything to yourself that you know on your body or whatever to exemplify that you're in mourning because you're in your duties right now and That that trumps everything.

So don't let the hair of your head sing loose. Do not tear your clothes lest you die because you're wearing these holy ephods and the wrath come upon all of the congregation. But let your brothers and the whole house of Israel be well.

The burning that Yahweh has kindled and do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting lest you die. For the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you and so they did according to the word of Moses.

Yikes, okay, very very serious stuff going on here. So Yahweh spoke to Aaron saying drink no wine or a strong drink. You or your sons with you when you go into the tent of meeting lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

You are to distinguish between the holy and the common between the unclean and the clean and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses so now here this is gonna get interesting and This is kind of the first point where we're gonna see this showing up.

Is that God now very shortly in the in the chapters ahead is going to give particular Commandments, especially we're gonna get into the commandments regarding clean and unclean foods clean and unclean animals and things of this nature and God is using clean and unclean animals and foods and stuff like that as an object lesson to learn how to make a distinction between what is common and what is holy.

What is yeah, and these are these are important distinctions and so he's gonna start to make that Distinction so but he says you're gonna teach the people then this so then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eliezer and Ithemar his surviving sons.

Take the grain offering that is left of Yahweh's food offerings eat it unleavened beside the altar for it is most holy. You shall eat it in a holy place because it is your do and your sons do from Yahweh's food offerings for so I am I Commanded but the breast that is waived the thigh that is contributed.

You shall eat in a clean place you and your sons and your daughters. So this you find a clean place for this and then your family gets to participate so they get to you know this is how the the priests are Fed from their work and in a similar way then we recognize that scripture teaches that those Who preach the gospel are to make their living from the gospel in the same way that?

The children of Israel. You know the Levites, you know, they earn their living through their Levitical work. Our cross-reference then is going to be first Corinthians 9 on this and This this then forms the basis for how we understand Financial contributions and giving in the New Covenant and Gonna note that in the New Covenant tithing.