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#986 - Exodus 29 – Consecration of the Priests · The Bible Study Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine eighty six. Today,
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  Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Exodus with chapter twenty nine. Welcome to the Bible
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  Speaker 1: Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. Chapter twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: has to do with the consecration of the priests. But
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  Speaker 1: first a word from this sponsor. Chapter twenty nine. Consecration
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  Speaker 1: of the priests. And when we say consecration, that means
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  Speaker 1: to dedicate something or someone to God. And it goes
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  Speaker 1: like this, this is what you are to do to
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  Speaker 1: consecrate them so that they may serve me as priests.
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  Speaker 1: Take a young bowl in two rams without defect, and
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  Speaker 1: from the finest wheat flour, make round loaves without yeast,
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  Speaker 1: thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in,
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  Speaker 1: and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil.
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  Speaker 1: Put them in a basket and present them along with
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  Speaker 1: a bull and the two rams. Then bring Arin and
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  Speaker 1: his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting
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  Speaker 1: and wash them with water. Take the garments and dress
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  Speaker 1: erin with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the
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  Speaker 1: ephod itself, and the breastpiece fasten the epod on him
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  Speaker 1: by its skillful woven wasistband. Put the turbine on his
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  Speaker 1: head and attach the sacred emblem to the turbine. Take
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  Speaker 1: the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on
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  Speaker 1: his head. Bring his sons and dress them in tunics
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  Speaker 1: and fasten caps on them. Then tie sashes on Erin
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  Speaker 1: and his sons. The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to dress them in the clothes that
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  Speaker 1: we talked about last week, preparing them, especially the erin
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  Speaker 1: the high priest garment with the ephod and the breastpiece
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  Speaker 1: and the orm and the thunum and the turban and
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  Speaker 1: all of those things. We're going to anoint them with oil,
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  Speaker 1: which used for priests and also for kings. It was
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  Speaker 1: a very traditional thing when we anoint people with oil
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  Speaker 1: during their baptism. It's going back to that sort of anointing.
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  Speaker 1: And then we're to bring sacrifices, both sacrifices of bread
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  Speaker 1: then this is flat bread, so it's bread made without yeast,
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  Speaker 1: as well as two sacrifices, a young bull and two rams.
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  Speaker 1: Then you shall ordain Aaron and his sons. Bring the
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  Speaker 1: bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron and his son shall lay their hands on its head,
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  Speaker 1: slaughter it in the lord's presence at the entrance to
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  Speaker 1: the tent of meeting. Take some of the bull's blood
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  Speaker 1: and put it on the horns of the altar with
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  Speaker 1: your finger, and pour out the rest of it at
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  Speaker 1: the base of the altar. Then take all the fat
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  Speaker 1: on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver,
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  Speaker 1: and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn
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  Speaker 1: them on the altar. But burn the bull's flesh and
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  Speaker 1: its hide in its intestines outside the camp. It is
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  Speaker 1: a sin offering. Take one of the rams, and Aaron
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  Speaker 1: and his sons shall lay their hands on its head slaughtered,
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  Speaker 1: and take the blood and splash it against the sides
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  Speaker 1: of the altar. Cut the ram into pieces, and wash
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  Speaker 1: the internal organs and the legs, putting them with the
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  Speaker 1: head and the other pieces. Then burn the entire ram
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  Speaker 1: on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: a pleasing aroma of food offering presented to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Take the other ram, and Erin and his son shall
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  Speaker 1: lay their hands on its head slaughtered, and take some
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  Speaker 1: of its blood and put it on the lobes of
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  Speaker 1: the right ears of Erin and his sons, on the
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  Speaker 1: thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes
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  Speaker 1: of their right feet. Then splash blood against the sides
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  Speaker 1: of the altar, and take some blood from the altar
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  Speaker 1: and some from the anointing oil and sprinkle it on
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  Speaker 1: Aarin in his garments and on his sons and their garments.
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  Speaker 1: Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got some sacrifices going on, and there are
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  Speaker 1: different types of sacrifices. We're actually going to get into
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  Speaker 1: this later on when we get into the Book of Leviticus.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go through in details what the different
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  Speaker 1: sacrifices are. But in this case they're bringing the bull,
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  Speaker 1: and the bull is going to be a sin offering,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's going to be to cleanse them from sin.
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  Speaker 1: And in the Bible in general, this idea of the
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  Speaker 1: wages of sin or death and the way that sin
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  Speaker 1: needs sacrifice, at first this imperfect sacrifice of the blood
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  Speaker 1: of bulls and of lambs, and then later on in
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  Speaker 1: the New Testament, the perfect sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.
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  Speaker 1: This whole thing of being covered in blood is still
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  Speaker 1: a phrase that we use in church, except that we
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  Speaker 1: talk about being covered by the blood of Christ so
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  Speaker 1: that it covers over our sin. This is a foreshadowing
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  Speaker 1: of that that the blood of the bulls would cover
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  Speaker 1: over their sins as they come before. And then we
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  Speaker 1: also are sacrificing these two rams very specific instructions what
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  Speaker 1: to do with all the organs and what you do
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  Speaker 1: with the liver and the kidney and the fat on them,
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  Speaker 1: and you're burning them. And I don't know why we're
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  Speaker 1: putting blood on just the thumb and the big toe
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  Speaker 1: and such, but it's the way they were instructed to
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  Speaker 1: do it. That's really all we can say for this.
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  Speaker 1: Why that particular big toe and why your particular thumbs,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot tell you, And why we're putting it on
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  Speaker 1: the right ear. At least we're not like covering them
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  Speaker 1: in blood, but we're still doing this symbolic nature of
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  Speaker 1: this blood of the sacrifice is somehow cleansing them. And
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  Speaker 1: then also this anointing oil and we're sprinking in it
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  Speaker 1: not only on them but on their garments, which is
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can see some of you are worried
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  Speaker 1: about how you're going to get that out in the laundry.
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  Speaker 1: But this whole part of this consecrating, the setting them
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  Speaker 1: aside for this special role of priest, and the role
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  Speaker 1: of priest here, especially here in the Old Testament, is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the one who is interceding on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of the people now, especially as someone who is coming
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  Speaker 1: from a priesthood of all believers. Understanding that the New
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  Speaker 1: Testament talks about the New Testament really talks about only
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  Speaker 1: one priest, and that is Jesus. That we don't need
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  Speaker 1: anybody else to come between us and God anymore. As
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus sacrifice. You won't see anyone else in the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament who is Christian, not talking about the Jewish
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  Speaker 1: high priest, but you won't see anybody else in the
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  Speaker 1: church called a priest. You'll see pastors and elders and
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  Speaker 1: deacons and even bishops, but you won't see someone called
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  Speaker 1: a priest. There isn't that role of someone who has
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  Speaker 1: to come between us and God. That someone is now Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a very important role here. These people
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  Speaker 1: who are going to be the only ones who will
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  Speaker 1: be doing this sacrifice for the people. The high priest
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  Speaker 1: the only one who will go into the holiest of holies,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're getting them ready for that. Take from
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  Speaker 1: this rama the fat tail, the fat on the internal organs,
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  Speaker 1: the long lobe of delivered both kidneys and the fat
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  Speaker 1: on them, and the right thigh. This is the ram
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  Speaker 1: for ordination. From the basket of bread made without yeast,
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  Speaker 1: which is before the Lord. Take one round loaf, one
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  Speaker 1: thick loaf with olive oil mixed in, and one thin loaf.
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  Speaker 1: Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his
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  Speaker 1: sons and have them wave them before the Lord as
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  Speaker 1: a wave offering. Then take them from their hands and
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  Speaker 1: burn them on the altar, along with the burnt offering
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  Speaker 1: for a pleasing aroma to the Lord, a food offering
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  Speaker 1: presented to the Lord. After you take the bread of
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  Speaker 1: the ram for Aaron's ordination, wave it before the Lord
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  Speaker 1: as a wave offering. It will be your share, your share,
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  Speaker 1: meaning that this is something that the priests would eat.
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  Speaker 1: The priest would actually eat some of the offerings that
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  Speaker 1: are brought as part of their I want to say
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  Speaker 1: payment for service. I don't know if that's the right
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  Speaker 1: term here. Consecrate those parts of the ordination Ram that
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  Speaker 1: belong to Erin and his sons, the beast, the breast
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  Speaker 1: that was waved, and the thigh that was presented. This
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  Speaker 1: is to be the perpetual share from the Israelites for
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  Speaker 1: Aaron and his sons. It is the contribution the Israelites
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  Speaker 1: are to make to the Lord from their fellowship offerings.
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  Speaker 1: Erin's sacred garments will belong to his descendants, so that
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  Speaker 1: they can be anointed and ordained in them. The son
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  Speaker 1: who succeeds him as priest and comes to the Tent
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  Speaker 1: of Meaning to minister in the holy places, to wear
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  Speaker 1: them seven days, take the ram for the ordination and
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  Speaker 1: cook the meat in a sacred place at the entrance
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  Speaker 1: to the tent of meeting. Erin and his sons are
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  Speaker 1: to eat the meat of the ram and the bread
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  Speaker 1: that is in the basket. They are to eat these
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  Speaker 1: offerings by which atonement was made for their orders, nation
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  Speaker 1: and consecration. But no one else may eat them because
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  Speaker 1: they are sacred. And if any of the meat of
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  Speaker 1: the ordination ram or any bread is left over till
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  Speaker 1: morning burn it up, must not be eaten because it
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  Speaker 1: is sacred, so consecrated. They're set aside ordained. They are
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  Speaker 1: affirmed by the people of God to be in this role.
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  Speaker 1: Similar while we would ordains pastors these days, or priests
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  Speaker 1: if you're coming from an Orthodox or Catholic tradition, and
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  Speaker 1: then atonement. Atonement is that price that we pay for
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  Speaker 1: scent to make things right again. And so if I
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  Speaker 1: do something that is to harm you, an atonement would
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  Speaker 1: be to make it right again. If I stole from you,
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  Speaker 1: to pay what I sole plus more would be atonement.
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  Speaker 1: So to make it right again, do for Aaron and
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  Speaker 1: his sons everything I have commanded. You take seven days
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  Speaker 1: to ordain them. Sacrifice a bull each day as a
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  Speaker 1: offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement
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  Speaker 1: for it and anoint it to consecrate it. For seven days,
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  Speaker 1: make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the
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  Speaker 1: altar will be most holy. In whatever touches it will
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  Speaker 1: be holy. And when we say holy, it means set
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  Speaker 1: apart for God's use. We sometimes think holy means somebody
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  Speaker 1: who is perfect, for instance, and that would be odd.
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  Speaker 1: Then why would an altar be holy? But an altar
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  Speaker 1: is something that is dedicated to God's use. And when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about us being called to be a holy people,
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  Speaker 1: we are also saying that we are to be set
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  Speaker 1: aside for God's use. This is what you were to
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  Speaker 1: offer on the altar regularly each day to lambs a
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  Speaker 1: year old offer, one in the morning and the other
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  Speaker 1: at twilight. With the first lamb offer a tenth of
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  Speaker 1: any thought of the finest flower, with a mix of
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  Speaker 1: hin of oil from pressed olives and a quarter of
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  Speaker 1: a hin of wine as a drink offering prific the
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  Speaker 1: other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and
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  Speaker 1: its drink offering as in the morning, a pleasing aroma
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  Speaker 1: of food offering presented to the Lord for the generations
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  Speaker 1: to come. This burnt offering is to be made regularly
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  Speaker 1: at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: There I will meet you and speak to you. And
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  Speaker 1: there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the
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  Speaker 1: place will be consecrated by my glory. So I will
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  Speaker 1: consecrate the tent of Meeting, and the altar will consecrate
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  Speaker 1: Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests. Then
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  Speaker 1: I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
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  Speaker 1: They will know that I am the Lord their God,
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  Speaker 1: who brought them out of Egypt so that I might
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  Speaker 1: dwell among them. I am the Lord their God. So
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  Speaker 1: this is the beginning of this role of priesthood that
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  Speaker 1: continues on for many generations. If you're Jewish, this role
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  Speaker 1: of priesthood really stops with the second destruction of the Temple,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't really see priests after that point, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't really see the same sort of regular sacrificing
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  Speaker 1: of animals that happened until that point. If you're Christian,
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  Speaker 1: it ends with the Cross. It ends with that perfect
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice of Jesus, who is both high priest and sacrificial lamb,
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  Speaker 1: and that nothing else at that point is needed beyond
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  Speaker 1: that one perfect sacrifice. And with that we're going to
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