Day 50 – Love Your Neighbour as Yourself
Love Your Neighbour as Yourself Leviticus 19 is one of the most surprising chapters in the entire Bible not because its content is strange, but because of where it appears. We expect this kind of teaching from the Sermon on the Mount. We expect it from the letters of Paul. We do not expect it […]
Day 49 – The Scapegoat and the Most Holy Place
The Scapegoat and the Most Holy Place Once a year. One day. One man. One room. This is the rhythm of the most sacred moment in Israel’s calendar Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Everything in Leviticus has been building toward this. All the daily offerings, the weekly Sabbaths, the monthly new moons they were […]
Day 48 – The Ceremony of the Two Birds
The Ceremony of the Two Birds Someone has been healed of leprosy. They have been outside the camp, separated from family and worship and community, wearing torn clothes and calling out “unclean, unclean” whenever someone came near. And now the disease is gone. The skin is clear. They are ready to come home. But they […]
Day 47 – Clean, Unclean, and What It Costs to Be Holy
Clean, Unclean, and What It Costs to Be Holy Three chapters today that feel worlds away from Moses parting the sea or Jacob wrestling an angel. Lists of animals. Instructions about skin conditions. Rules about what you can eat and what you cannot. And it is tempting to skim these chapters as if they belong […]
Day 46 – Strange Fire
Strange FIRE The Tabernacle is built. The offerings are established. And now the priests are consecrated. For seven days, Aaron and his sons remain at the entrance of the tent of meeting without leaving. Seven days of preparation, washing, anointing, and sacrifice before a single official act of ministry. The whole week belongs to God […]
Day 45 – The Offering You Didn’t Know You Needed
The Offering You Didn’t Know You Needed Leviticus 5 begins with a list of situations that make a person guilty and some of them are things that happen without any deliberate intention. You touch something unclean without knowing it. You make a careless oath without realising the weight of the words. You fail to testify […]
Day 44 – The language of the Altar
The Language of the Altar Most people slow down when they reach Leviticus. The laws, the offerings, the measurements, the rituals it can feel like stepping from a river into sand. But if you read Leviticus knowing what it is, it becomes one of the most tender books in the Bible. The Language of the […]
Day 43 – The Glory Filled the House
The Glory Filled the House Everything is finished. The last clasp is fastened. The last golden bell is hung on the hem of Aaron’s robe. The last cubit of linen is stretched and the last peg is driven. Nine months of work since the instructions were given on the mountain. Bezalel and Oholiab and every […]
Day 42- More than Enough
More than Enough Something extraordinary happens in Exodus 36 before a single beam is raised or a curtain is hung. Moses sends a message through the camp: no one man or woman is to make anything more as an offering for the sanctuary. Because the people were bringing more than enough for all the work […]
Day 41 – Show Me Your Glory
Show me your Glory The golden calf has been destroyed. The ringleaders have been executed. The covenant is in pieces on the ground c literally. Moses smashed the tablets when he came down the mountain and saw what the people had done. And now God says to Moses: go up to the land I swore […]
