Torah Portion 29 & 30 – Acharei Mot & Kedoshim Leviticus 16-20 (24/25)
16)
16:1-7 – Entering the most holy (once per year) – Verses
16:10 – Scapegoat = Azazel (most modern translations say scapegoat) – Strongs
16:15-19 – End times sacrifice at his return – Verses
16 End – Barabbas (means: son of the father) – Verses
16:20 – End times Day of atonement (afflict for the death)
Enoch and the scapegoat (Azazel) Enoch 10:1-8
- Enoch 12:5-6 (no forgiveness) – One goat was sacrificed for sin, and one sent wandering
- Enoch 13:1-2
- Enoch 15:4-7
- How about us who know better now? – Verses
- How about us who know better now? – Verses
End of 16: Septuagint (Lev 23:32) (evening to evening) – Verses
Day of atonement: evening to evening perspective – Link
Morning to morning perspective: – Link
17)
17:1-9 – Jerusalem now – Verses
17:11 – He’s given us the blood – Verses
The world loves blood food!
18)
18:3-4 – Are we keeping his ordinances or Egypt’s? – Verses
18:9 – Abraham and Sarah: Jasher 9:1-3
18:19 – No marriage bed while the women is in her time
18:20 – Adultery
18:21 – Pass through the fire to molek (trans)
18:22 – Homosexuality is becoming rampant (why is the church so concerned with this but so lax on other parts of the Torah?)
18:25-28 – Why Jerusalem must be cleansed before the Kingdom arrives
Political state of Israel & Lgbt – Link
19) (Amazing chapter/ powerhouse!)
19:1-2 – Being Holy (Repeated by Peter) – Verses
19:3-4 – Parents mentioned first (for children) – Sirach – Verses
- More calls to holiness – Verses
19:9-10 – You don’t have to have large fields to share the gleanings today
- Gleanings should be a precept that expounds on many facets of life (caring about others)
- Caring for the poor verses
19:11 – Dealing falsely – Sirach – Verses
19:12 – Mainstream example: “I swear to God”
- Also: taking his name in vain (giving him a bad reputation)
19:14 – We should do the opposite! 2 Esdras 2 – Verses
19:15
19:16 – Gossip – Verses
19:17 – You shall rebuke your neighbor – Absalom is an example of what happens when you leave an issue unresolved) – Verses
19:18 – the 2nd greatest commandment – Verses
- Forgiveness – Gad 6
19:19 – No mixing linen and wool (seems obvious, but so did much of Leviticus 18)
19:23-25 – Trees and fruit – Time and maturity – Verses
19:26 “observer of times” (different than moed) – Strongs
- Think mainstream media… Disney, H.Potter, it’s everywhere
19:27 – The words used here implies destruction and/or violence – Strongs
19:30 – Keep/guard/shamar the shabbat. – Strongs
19:31 – No need to learn from, nor consult the world (news, media, etc) – Verses
19:32 – Honor the elderly – Verses
19:33-34 – Honoring the stranger – Jasher 22:11-13
19:36-37 – Fair business practices (to all – not like the Talmud states)
20)
20:2-5 – The Israelites ended up doing so – Verses
- Were they convinced they were doing well?
- Shouldn’t this be alarming to mainstream Christianity?
20:7 – sanctify – verses
