April 8 Readings

Try the Three Years in the Bible: Year 1 Law and History; Year 2 Poetry and Prophecy and Year 3 New Testament. You can start with any of the three years and finsh the Bible at a slower pace in three years

Reading Schedules of the Three Years Bible

King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links:Leviticus 8; Leviticus 9

Today's Reading Leviticus 8-9

Offerings from Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology

Stedman - The Need for a Priest, Lev 8:1-9
Stedman - The Work of a Priest, Lev 8:10-36

Aaron and his sons were chosen as priests in Leviticus 8. Considering the incident that occurred in Exodus 32, where Aaron buckled under pressure and made the golden calf, built an altar for the golden calf, and encouraged the people to worship it. This is the same Aaron who is now the first High Priest of the Old Testament under Mosaic traditions. Notice in chapter 8, Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water, clothed them with the priestly robes (which was mentioned in Exodus 39), offered a sin offering for them, then a burnt offering for consecration, a grain offering, then finally a wave offering. It is GRACE and God's mercy that Aaron and his sons were chosen despite this awful sin of idolatry. How much so, we who are sinners, come to the Lord (1John 1.9) are forgiven of our sins and we can serve the Lord. Peter, in 1Per 1.9-10 stated we are a chosen people, a royal priesthood and a holy nation.



High Priest Page

Leviticus 9:1-6

In Leviticus 9, Aaron was inaugurated as Israel's first high priest. He began the ceremony by offering the sin offering and burnt offering for himself and the people. Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh of the ox and the ram before the Lord as a wave offering. For the meaning behind these offerings click here. Today these offerings are obsolete but are fulfilled instead by Jesus' death on the cross. We too, can approach God as boldly as Aaron did, because of faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to His Word, our sins can be forgiven, we can consecrate ourselves and have fellowship with God and with fellow believers.

'Fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed the burnt offerings and the fat portions on the altar.'-Leviticus 9.24





Stedman - The Present Glory, Lev. 9

Leviticus 8 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Leviticus 9 with Commentaries, verse by verse

Bob Deffinbaugh Teaching on the Sin Offering
Bob Deffinbaugh Teaching on the Guilt Offering
Ray Stedman Teaching on Sin and Guilt Offerings


Links to Commentaries and other References - Leviticus
Here is a Jewish Point of View of Guilt Offering, this is another point of view.

Links to Commentaries and other References - Leviticus

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This Posting is NOT a commentary of the passages read today but it is a devotional. Please send a comment if something spoke to you today from the passages, links or thoughts that I have shared with you.