THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND GOATS – PART TWO
Tuesday – February 6, 2018
Welcome back to this wonderful Bible Study ongoing from the Book of Hebrews. Let’s review our primary Scriptural text and then delve right back into our wonderful Bible Study.
Hebrews 10:1-4 (KJV)
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
As you will recall we saw in our text that this annual sacrifice taken by the High Priest into the Most Holy Place is a depiction of the Feast of the Lord known as The Day of Atonement. By way of refreshment and to bring our study into proper focus and context I have taken a little detour into a discussion of the Feasts of the Lord. Our text also reminds us that the Old Covenant although necessary was only “a shadow of good things to come”, not the real thing for those animals could not pay the price of sin. There was an ever-present consciousness of sin under the Old Covenant with the prescribed sacrifices and those required when sin was discovered (sin on purpose or in ignorance – both required a sacrifice apart from Passover and The Day of Atonement). This consciousness was heightened by the required sacrifices twice per year, first at Passover in the spring and then in the fall at The Day of Atonement, not to mention the prescribed sin offerings in between to atone for individual sins. To make it worse these bulls and goats did not really take away the sin, only covered them over, awaiting the redeeming Blood of the Lamb of God, Christ Jesus.
Yesterday I started a discussion of The Feasts of the Lord starting with the first of the four spring feasts known as Passover. Passover was then a prophetic picture of our coming salvation by the Blood of the Lamb of God and now a commemoration of the same. We commemorate this in part with the Eucharist or Communion. The other three of four spring Feasts of the Lord are The Feast of Unleavened Bread, The Feast of Firstfruits, and The Feast of Pentecost (also known as the Feast of Weeks). Nisan is the first month on the Hebrew Calendar which generally occurs in March/April on the Gregorian Calendar (see the featured picture). Passover is observed on the fourteenth of Nisan, Unleavened Bread is traditionally observed on the fifteenth through twenty-first of Nisan however if you study the Passover text (Exodus twelve) it is part and parcel of Passover.
Exodus 12:15 (KJV)
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Leviticus 23:6 (KJV)
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
It appears that all leaven (type of sin) was removed from the house on the fourteenth and they ate unleavened bread for seven (spiritual perfection) days starting on the fifteenth of Nisan. Jesus is our unleavened Bread, the sinless Bread, the Bread of life, the shewbread in the Holy Place of the Tabernacle. Just as He was without sin so are we to be without sin. Yes, it is possible, sin is a choice, it is not inevitable. The price is paid and the Helper is here. Let us consider the following Scriptures.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8 (KJV)
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Hebrews 4:15 (KJV)
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Jesus said that the things He did we shall do also, not just give it the college try (John 14:12). We have been taught of all places in Church that sin in our lives is inevitable so get used to it and repent. Yes repent, by no means get used to it, and certainly do not expect to sin, expect and declare that like Jesus you do not sin. However, if we should sin we have an advocate with the Father and He will be faithful and just to forgive us when we confess the sin changing our mind to agree with Him.
John 6:33 (KJV)
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
I will conclude for today right here but we will pickup here tomorrow, the Lord willing.
Until our next publication, I speak blessing into your life right now, receive it in the name of Jesus, confess it, and walk it out with thanksgiving.
Numbers 6:24-26 (KJV)
24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
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