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Now all the Israelis moved their camp again, this time to the Zin Desert. Moses’ sister Miriam died and was buried there.

Once again they ran out of water, and the people rebelled against Moses. “Why didn’t you murder us along with Korah and the others?” They shouted insolently. “You might as well have done that as to kill us now with thirst.”

Then Moses and Aaron went to the Tabernacle and threw themselves flat on the ground before the Lord, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

Then the Lord told them to take Aarons stick from the Tabernacle and as all the people watched, to stand before a certain rock God pointed out to them, “Speak to the rock,” God told Moses, “and water will gush out before their eyes.”

So Moses took the stick from its place in the Tabernacle and summoned the people. But instead of just speaking to the rock as the Lord had told him to, he yelled angrily at the people. “Listen, you rebels, must we get water for you from the rock?” Then he struck the rock twice, though God had not even mentioned striking it. He had only said to speak to it.

Suddenly water began flowing from the rock and all the people and their cattle drank and drank until they had enough.

But God said to Moses, “You didn’t believe Me, did you? You didn’t think it was enough just to speak to the rock as I told you to. So you struck it twice. The people would have respected Me more if the water had started flowing from the rock when you only spoke a word. Your punishment is that you may not lead My people into the Promise Land.”

How sad that Moses did wrong and had to be punished! How he had looked forward to going into the Promised Land! But now he would never get there.

Moses and the people of Israel next arrived at Edom, the country where Jacob’s brother Esau had lived four hundred years before. Esau’s people were still living there; it was their land. And now the people of Israel, who were the descendants of Esau’s brother Jacob, wanted to pass through the land of Esau, now known as Moab, on their journey to Canaan. So Moses asked permission of the King of the land. He sent him this message:

“You know our history, about our ancestor Jacob and his sons and their families. They went to Egypt 400 years ago, and we have lived there ever since. But the Egyptians treated us very cruelly. then we cried to the Lord, and He listened to us and He has brought us our of our slavery in Egypt. Now please let us pass through your fields, or tread down your grain, or drink water from your wells. We will stay on the regular roads.”

But the king of Edom said no, the people of Israel must not pass through; and he came with his army to keep them out. So the Israelis turned back and went around by a different, longer route.

When they arrived at Mount Hor, almost forty years had gone by since they left Egypt. Still they were wandering around and camping in the desert. For God had said that all of the people who had refused to enter the Promised Land because the spies said it was too dangerous, all these people must did before Israel could go in. Only their children, who had now grown to be men and women, could go and live in the Promised Land. At Mount Hor the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and told them that the time had come for
Aaron to die. “You and Aaron and Aaron’s son Eleazar are to go up to the top of Mount Hor,” the Lord told them. When you arrive, take the High Priests garments off Aaron and put them on his son Eleazar. Aaron will die while you are up there, and Eleazar will be the new High Priest.”

Moses did as the Lord commanded. While all the people watched, he and Aaron and Eleazar went up to the mountain. When they got to the top, Moses took the High Priest’s clothes from Aaron and put them on Aaron’s son Eleazar. Then Aaron died on the top of the mountain. So Eleazar became the High Priest in place of his father.

When Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain and told the people that Aaron was dead, they had a time of mourning for him that lasted thirty days. This was to show their respect and sorrow for him because he was dead.

The Israelis were very tired of travelling, and again they sinned by rebelling against God and against Moses. “We have no bread and no water, and how we hate this manna,” they complained.

The Lord was angry and sent serpents into the camp to bite the people, causing many of them to die.

They ran to Moses, screaming, “We have sinned, for we have complained against the Lord and against you; please pray that the serpents will go away.”

So Moses prayed for them. The Lord told Moses to make a bronze snake that would look like the poisonous snakes that were biting the peope.

“Put the bronze snake on a pole God said.” Whenever anyone is bitten, if he just looks at the snake on the pole, he will get wellagain.”

So Moses mad the bronze snake and put it on the top of a pole. Many people looked at it and lived instead of dying from their snake bits.

But it wasn’t the bronze snake that made them well. It was the Lord who did it. The bronze snake on the pole reminds us of the Savior. (Jesus Christ). He was lifted up on a wooded cross to die for our sins. If we look up to the Savior on the cross, and realize that He died to take away our sins, God will give us eternal life just as He gave life to the people in Moses’ time who did as God said, and looked up at the bronze snake.

Questions:

What did God tell Moses to do to get water for the people?

What did Moses do instead?

What was his punishment?

Pretend that you are Moses talking to the King of Edom. Ask him to let your people go through his land.

I would say: Father God, please let the king of Edom let us go through his land so we have it easier getting to the Promise Land. I thank You, I love You, I praise You and give You all the glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

Where did Aaron die?

Wo became the new High Priest?

How could the people be saved from the serpents?

In what way was the bronze snake like the Savior (Jesus Christ)?

Numbers 14:1-16:35 & 17:2-3

The Sabbath was the seventh day of each week; the Israelites were commanded not to work on Sabbaths.

One Sabbath day a man was noticed at work gathering sticks. Since this was against God’s law, he was put in jail until the people could find out how God wanted to punish him for his sin.

The Lord told Moses to sentence the man to death. “Tell the people to take him out of the camp and throw heavy stones upon until he was dead,” The Lord said.

So they did.

After this, three men named Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and 250 other Israelis, started a protest movement against Moses and Aaron. They said Aaron had no right to be the High Priest and that they didn’t want Moses as their leader.

Korah was one of the Levites. He helped the priests in the Tabernacle, but he was not satisfied with doing this. He wanted to be a priest. That was why he had urged these 250 men to come with him to speak against Aaron.

Moses heard what they had to say and told them to return the next day, each with an incense cup and some incense. Then the Lord would show them whether or not He had chosen Aaron alone as His High Priest.

So they all returned the next day with their incense cups, put fire in them, and sprinkled incense on the fire just as the priests did at the Tabernacle. All the rest of the people of Israel came out to watch and to encourage and support the rebels against Moses and Aaron. But the Lord was very displeased with them for coming. He commanded them to get back away from Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. So the people drew back.

Then Moses announced what God’s proof would be that God had chosen Moses and Aaron; the ground would open up under Korah, Dathan, and Abiram and swallow them alive.

Moses had hardly finished speaking before the ground opened up and swallowed them, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, with their tents and families, screaming as they went down alive into the ground, and the earth closed over them again.

All the people standing near them ran for their lives, fearing that the earth would swallow them too. And the Lord sent fire from the sky that killed the 250 other rebels.

But the next day all the people murmured against Moses and Aaron again. “You murdered Korah, Dathan, and Abiram and those 250 other good men,” they said.

Then the Lord was very angry. He said to Moses and Aaron. “Get away from these people, for I am going to destroy them.” But Moses and Aaron lay flat on their faces before the Lord and prayed for all the Israelis. The Lord refused to listen, for even while they were praying God sent a terrible plague among the people and many of them died.

When Moses realized what was happening, he said to Aaron, “Quick! Take an incense cup and put fire in it from the altar of burnt offering. Sprinkle incense on the fire, and run out among the people, and offer up the incense to the Lord.

Aaron did as Moses said. He ran out among the people and stood with the burning incense between those who had died and those still living, and the Lord stopped the plague. But 14,700 people had already died.

The Lord said for the people of Israel to give a dead stick to Moses, and for Aaron to give one to him too. Then Moses took the two dead sticks into the Tabernacle and left them in front of the Ark all night.

The next day Aaron’s dead stick had blossoms and almond nuts growing on it!

Moses brought out the sticks and showed them to the people. God used this miracle to show everyone that He had chosen Aaron as the High Priest and hadn’t chosen anyone else.

God told Moses to take Aarons stick back into the Tabernacle again and to keep it there as a reminder that God had chosen Aaron alone as His High Priest. And when Aaron and his sons were dead, then their sons would be the Priests. All the men in Aaron’s family in all the years to come would be priests, but no one else could be.

Then God reminded the people again that the men of the tribe of Levi would be helpers to Aaron and his sons and would do the work at the Tabernacle.

The Lord said that all the other tribes of Israel must give the priests and Levites part of their grain and fruit and cattle. The priests and Levites wouldn’t have farms in the Promise Land as the other tribes would, for their work was to care for the Tabernacle and to help the people worship. That is why the other tribes were commanded to give a tenth of their grain, fruit, and cattle, and of everything they earned to the priests and Levites.

Questions:

What happened to the man who worked on the Sabbath?

Why?

What happen to Korah, Dathan, and Abiram?

Why?

What happened to Aarons stick?

What did this prove to the people?

The people of Israel had almost reached the Promise Land of Canaan now. Moses told them to go in and conquer it, for the Lord had told them to. But the people begged Moses to send spies first, to go through the land and come back and tell them what it was like.

So Moses sent twelve men, one from each tribe. He told them to look at the land to see whether it was good or bad, what sort of people lived there, how many there were, and whether they lived in tents or in cities with walls around them.

Moses told the spies not to be afraid, and to bring back samples of the fruit that grew in the Promised Land. So the spies walked through the Land from one end to the other, and the Lord kept the people who lived there from hurting them. At a place called Eschol, they cut a branch of grapes with a single cluster so large that it took two men to carry it! They hung the cluster on a pole with a man at each end, carrying it between them! They also brought back to Moses some samples of the wonderful pomegranates and figs that grew in the Promised Land.

They were away for forty days before returning with their report and with the samples of fruit they had found. They said the grain and grapevines grew tall and strong and that there was there plenty to eat and drink. But there was one problem; there were walls around the cities, and the people were fierce and strong. The spires were afraid and didn’t think the Israelis would be able to conquer people like that.

But two of the spies, Caleb and Joshua, remembered God’s promise that He would give the land to the Israelis. They knew He would keep His promise, for they had faith in Him. Caleb begged the people to enter the land at once; they were well able to capture it, he told them.

But the other spies persuaded the people not to go; there were giants there, the spies said, so large that ordinary people seemed about the size of grasshoppers in comparison!

So the Israelis refused to enter the Promised Land.

Then they began to cry and murmur against Moses and Aaron. “Why did God bring us here to kill us in the wilderness?” they complained fearfully. “We should never have left the land of Egypt. Now what is going to happen to our wives and to our children? They will all be killed.”

Suddenly they decided, “Lets go back to Egypt. Down with Moses! We’ll elect someone else to lead us.”

Moses and Aaron felt terrible about this; so did Joshua and Caleb, the two good spies. Once more they told the people what a wonderful country the Promised Land was. They begged the Israelis not to be afraid of the people living there, for the Lord would help His people. But the people were angry at Caleb and Joshua for saying this, and wanted to kill them.

Then God was very angry with the people of Israel. He told Moses that He would send a terrible plague to destroy them; they could no longer be His people, He said. Instead He would give many children to Moses, and they would become a greater nation than the people of Israel were.

But Moses begged the Lord not to kill them. Moses said that if God destroyed His people and didn’t bring them to safely into the Promise Land, all the heathen nations would say it was because God wasn’t able to do it!

The Lord listened to Moses’ prayer and promised not to kill the people after all. But because the people had disobeyed God so often and wouldn’t believe His promises even though they had seen Him do such wonderful things for them. God said they couldn’t enter the Promised Land for forty years. They must wander around in the wilderness all that time until all of them were dead. At the end of the forty years, God said He would bring their children into the land. And He promised that the two good spies, Caleb and Joshua, would live and enter Canaan with them.

Then the people of Israel were sorry for what they had done. They got up early the next morning and told Moses that now they were willing to go into the Promise Land after all. But Moses told them no, it was too late, now the Lord wouldn’t help them, and if they went they would be killed by their enemies. But they went away, and the people living in the land came and and fought against them and chased them as bees chase those who come too close to their hives.

The Israelis returned to their camp and stayed there several days. Then the Lord led them back into the wilderness.

Questions:

Tell about the spies’ trip to Canaan?

In what way were Caleb and Joshua good?

Why were the people afraid to enter the Promised Land?

How did God punish the people for not trusting Him?

Numbers Chapter 13 & 14

Numbers Chapters 10 & 11 & 12

Now it was time for the Israelis to leave Mount Sinai for the Lord told them they had been there long enough. They should move on toward Canaan, He said. So the cloud rose from the Tabernacle and moved on before them, and they followed it for three days until they came to the wilderness of Paran. There it stopped and there they camped.

We would suppose that when the people saw the cloud going along in front of them they would be very thankful to God. We would expect them to be satisfied with whatever He chose to give them until they reached that good land to which He was leading them. But no, they complained that there was no meat for them to eat. “We remember the fish we had in Egypt,” they said, “and the cucumbers, the melons, and the onions, but now we have nothing at all beside this manna.” So they complained and cried, standing at the doors of their tents.

The Lord was very angry with them, and Moses was discouraged. Then he complained to the Lord, too. He asked the Lord why he had been given the care of all these wicked people. It was to much for him, he said, and if the Lord was going to send him such a burden as this to carry, he wanted to die and end it all.

Moses’ sinned when he talked to God like that, for God had always helped him when he was in trouble, and He was willing to help him again now. Moses should not have complained, he should of trusted God.

God told Moses to tell the people that He would give them meat, for He had heard their complaining. They would have meat not only for that day or five days, but for a whole month until they couldn’t stand the taste or the sight of it.

Moses could hardly believe it. He said, “Here are 600,000 families, and yet You say You will give them meat to eat for the whole month? Must we kill all the flocks and herds that we brought out of Egypt? Or shall all the fish of the sea be caught to give them enough?

The Lord answered, “Have I grown weak? Is that why you think I can’t do it? Wait, and you will see whether My words come true or not.”

So Moses told the people what the Lord had said.

Then the Lord sent a wind that brought quail from the sea, and they flew down all around the camp. There were so many that the ground was covered with them. The people went out and gathered them all that day, all that night and all the next day. But as soon as they put their meat in their mouths to eat it, the Lord sent a great plague among them, and many of them died for their sin and were buried there in the wilderness.

Then the cloud lifted again, and the people followed it until it stopped at a place called Hazeroth; there they stopped and made their camp.

Moses was their leader because the Lord had chosen him. Yet the bible tells us he was more meek and humble than any man alive. But Miriam, his sister, and Aaron, his brother, found fault with him for marrying a woman who was not and Israeli. They said God had chosen them also, and that they too, should be rulers over the people.

The Lord heard what Aaron and Miriam said, and He was angry. He told them to go with Moses to the Tabernacle. While they were there, the pillar of cloud came down and stood by the door. Then the Lord called to Aaron and Miriam from the cloud and they came and stood before Him. The Lord told them He had chosen Moses, and He asked them why they were not afraid to speak against Moses as they had been doing. When the pillar of cloud rose again, Miriam was covered with Leprosy ; her skin was as white as snow. God had sent the disease upon her as punishment for their wickedness.

When Aaron saw it, he was terribly frightened and said to Moses, “We have sinned.” He begged that Miriam might be healed.

Then Moses prayed earnestly to the Lord for her, saying, “Heal her now, O God, I ask. “And the Lord listened to his prayer and healed her from her Leprosy.

Then the people travelled from Hazeroth back again to the wilderness of Paran.

Questions:

What did the people complain about?

How did God provide meat for all the people?

How did God show Aaron and Miriam that He had chosen Moses to be in charge?

More than a year had passed since the people of Israel left Egypt, but they had gone no farther than Mount Sinai.

They had stayed there forty days and forty nights while Moses was on the mountain getting the Two Tablets of stone from God, with the Ten Commandments written on them. But Moses had angrily thrown down the two tablets and broken them because the people were worshipping the gold calf.

Then they had waited forty more days and nights while Moses went back up the mountain with two new tablets and the Lord again wrote His Ten Commandments on them.

Afterward they had waited forty more days and nights while Moses’ went back up the mountain with two new tablets and the Lord again wrote His Ten Commandments on them.

Afterward they waited while the Tabernacle was built and while God spoke to Moses’ inside the Tabernacle, giving him many new laws for the people of Israel to obey.

But at last the time had come to leave Mount Sinai and to continue the journey to the Promise Land of Canaan.

The Israelis were divided into twelve large groups, called tribes. Each group was descended from one of the sons of Jacob. One of the groups was the tribe of Joseph, for instance, and another was the tribe of Benjamin.

The Lord told Moses’ and Aaron to count all the men of Israel who were able to be soliders. There were 603,550 of them.

The men of the tribe of Levi were not counted along with the others, because the Lord didn’t want them to go to war. He chose them to stay near the Tabernacle to take care of it. Whenever God told the Israelis to move to a new location, the men of this tribe took down the Tabernacle and carried the different parts, and whenever the people of Israel stopped and made camp, these men set the Tabernacle up again.

The Tabernacle and all the things in it were Holy, and no one except the priests and Levites could enter it. If anyone else did, he was killed.

There was much work for these men of the tribe of Levi to do. Besides sacrificing the two lambs every day, the people brought many other offerings. Wood was cut to burn these. Water was brought for washing.

The ashes were taken away from the altar, and the yard where the offerings were killed was cleaned.

Aaron and his sons could not do all these things by themselves, so God chose the Levite tribe to help them. Moses’ and A men Aaron counted 8,580 men of the Levite tribe. These men began to help the priests by working at the Tabernacle.

The twelve leaders of the tribes now brought presents for the Tabernacle in six wagons pulled by twelve oxen. Moses gave the wagons and the oxen to the Levites to carry the different parts of the Tabernacle when the people of Israel were travelling.

Two wagons were used to carry the heavy curtains; four other wagons carried the boards covered with gold for the sides of the Tabernacle, and the brass pillars that stood around the court. But there was no wagon to carry the ark, the gold lampstand, the gold altar, and the bronze altar; for God said never to carry these in wagons. They had to be carried on the shoulders of the men of the tribe of Levi.

All this time the pillar of cloud stood over the Tabernacle. During the day it was the color of a cloud, but every night it became a pillar of fire. It came there on the very first day when Moses put up the Tabernacle, and there it remained above the roof of the inner room, called the most holy place. It stayed there except when the Lord wanted the people of Israel to move. Then it lifted and waited for the people to get ready to follow, and as the cloud moved forward, the people walked behind it.

As long as it was moving, everyone followed, but whenever it stopped, everyone stopped and set up the camp. If the cloud stayed over the Tabernacle only one day, they stayed only one day. If it stayed two days, they stayed two days; or if it stayed a whole year, they stayed a year. But when ever the cloud lifted, whether by day or by night, they travelled. It was the Lord who made it stay or go, and He was guided the people through the wilderness.

The Lord commanded Moses to make two silver trumpets for the priests to blow when Moses wanted to call the people together, or when they were about to start travelling.

While travelling, the people of Israel carried the banners and flags and marched like an army. Each tribe kept in its own place, and each one had a captain in charge of it.

The Levites carrying the different parts of the Tabernacle were surrounded by the other tribes. Wherever the cloud stopped, and the Levites set up the Tabernacle again.

The Levites put up their family tents next to the Tabernacle, and the other tribes put their tents all around them, farther away from the Tabernacle than the Levites.

Questions:

Why did the Israelis stay so long at Mount Sinai?

What work did the Lord have for the tribe of Levi?

How was the Tabernacle carried when the people moved to a new place?

Tell about the cloud.

Numbers Chapters 1&2&3

Have a wonderful day full of blessings, joy and peace. See you later.

{The Year of Jubilee in Leviticus 25 is one of the most radical ideas in the Bible. Every 50 years, every Israelite was supposed to return to their original piece of allotted land. The jubilee would have effectively prevented cycles of intergenerational poverty and create a social and economic parity that would make Israel unique among all nations.}

God said that when the Israelis came into the land of Canaan, they could plant their crops for six years; but every seventh year they must not plant any seed at all, but just let the land alone. If any grain grew without being planted, they must not cut it, and the grapes on the vines must not be picked; for this seventh year was to be a Sabbath year; a year of rest for the land! Yet there would be enough to eat that seventh year because the Lord would give them enough extra crops the previous year to last for two years.

Every fifty years was the Year of Jubilee. This was a glad and happy year. This was a glad and happy year. The day it began, trumpets were blown all through the land. No one planted crops or harvested them that year, for God promised to give large crops the year before, enough to last through the entire Year of Jubilee. If anyone had been so poor that he had had to sell the field his father had given him, he got it back free when the Year of Jubilee came! For the Lord said that the person who brought it had to give it back at that time. Or if anyone had sold himself as a slave, he became free when the Year of Jubilee began. What a wonderful year!

God told the people that if they would obey His commandments, He would send them rain so that all their crops would grow well, there would be luscious fruit trees on their trees, they would have plenty of bread to eat, and no one would hurt them. The Lord would destroy or drive away the dangerous wild animals. He Himself would take care of His people and make all of their enemies afraid of them.

But if they didn’t obey His commandments, God said they would have sickness and trouble. When they sowed their grain, it wouldn’t come up, or if it did, their enemies would come and harvest time and steal it from them. Wild animals would carry off their children and kill their cattle. Only a few people would be left in all the land. The Lord would send disease and famine upon them. Their enemies would make war on them, and the people of Israel would be taken away to other country’s where the people would hate them; and many of them would die there.

But if those who were left would confess that they had been wicked and that it was God who had punished them, then He wouldn’t punish them anymore. He would be kind to them and bring them back again to the land He had promised to give to the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Questions:

What was a Sabbath Year?

Why was the Year of Jubilee such a wonderful year?

How often did it come?

What did God tell the people would happen if they obeyed Him?

What if they disobeyed Him?

Leviticus 23:1-44

The Lord commanded the people of Israel to have three religious holidays each year.

The first was called the Passover. This celebration was to remind everyone about the night they came out of Egypt, for it was a great victory over the Egyptians. On the night each year when this event was celebrated, the people ate a lamb during the night, just as they had done that first time. Then for seven days afterward they ate bread made without yeast. God wanted the people to have this celebration each year so that they would always remember how God had punished Pharaoh until he finally set the people of Israel free, even though he was determined not to let them go.

Seven weeks after the Passover, there was the Harvest Festival. This lasted only one day and came after the grain had been gathered into the barns. It was like our Thanksgiving Day. The people thanked God for sending the rain and the sunshine that made their crops grow out in the fields and for giving them food enough for another year. The Lord told them to be glad and to rejoice on this special day.

At the end of the year, there was the Tabernacle Festival. This celebration lasted seven days. During those seven days all the people of Israel moved out of their homes and lived in huts made from branches of trees because the Israelis lived like that for forty years while they were traveling through the deserts. The Lord wanted them to remember this when they arrived in Canaan and were living in houses again.

At each of these three celebrations every man of Israel was to come to the Tabernacle and bring a offering to the Lord.

One kind of gift God told Moses to tell the people to bring was olive oil for the lamps in the Tabernacle. Olives are a fruit that grow in Canaan. When the olives are pressed, a very pure vegetable oil runs out of them. It was this oil that the people were to bring to burn in the seven lamps that were in the gold lampstand. The Lord told Aaron and his sons to clean the lamps every day so that the lights could burn all night in the Tabernacle. Only the priests were allowed to trim them.

God told Moses to take finely ground flour and to bake twelve loaves of bread with it. These were to be placed on the gold table which stood in the Tabernacle near the gold candlestick. He was to put them there on the Sabbath Day and leave them a whole week until the next Sabbath. Then a priest took them away and put fresh loaves in their place. Aaron and his sons could eat the bread after it was taken away, but they must eat it in the Tabernacle because it was Holy bread; they could not take it home, for it had been set on the gold table before the Lord.

There was a man in the camp whose father was an Egyptian, but his mother was and Israeli. He quarreled with another Israeli, and in anger blasphemed God’s name; that is, he spoke evil of God.

The people brought him to Moses and put him in jail until the Lord told Moses what his punishment should be. The Lord told Moses to command the people to take him out of the camp and stone him. The Lord said that whoever blasphemed God’s name, whether it was an Israeli or a foreigner living there with them, must stone him until he was dead. So they took the man out of the camp and killed him, as the Lord had commanded.

Questions:

What were the names of the three National Holidays of the Israelis?

What very wrong thing did the man in this story do?

What happen to him?

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Do you remember that there was an inner room in the Tabernacle where Moses put the Ark and where God came in a cloud above the mercy seat? That room was the most holy part of the Tabernacle; it was called the Holy of Holies. The Lord told Moses that no one but Aaron, the High Priest, could ever go there only once every year, very carefully.

Before going he bathed thoroughly, He took off his splendid High Priest’s robe and put on plainer clothing of pure white linen, for he must go in Humbly before the Lord. Before going in, he offered up sacrifices for his own sins and for the sins of all the people. He took the blood of those sacrifices with him into this most holy place and sprinkled it with his finger on the mercy seat and in front of it; there Aaron prayed that the Lord would forgive him and all the people.

What did it mean when the High Priest did these things? He was showing what the Savior{Jesus} would do for all who trust in Him. For the High Priest went into the most holy place on earth to pray for the people; the Savior [Jesus] after He was crucified, went up to Heaven to pray for us. The High Priest asked God to forgive the people because animals had been sacrificed for them. The Savior asks God to forgive us because he died for us. Aaron is dead and cannot ask God to forgive us, but the Savior is alive in Heaven and is there every day asking God to forgive us.

On the day when Aaron went into the most holy place the people were not allowed to work, but spent the time thinking about their sins and being very, very sorry for them. Anyone who did not do this was punished; for that day was the most solemn day of all the year. It was called the day of Atonement.

God said that when the people of Israel arrived in the Promise Land and went out into their fields to cut their grain and bring it into their barns, they must never bring quite all of it, but must leave a little. And when the grapes became ripe, they must not pick every grape, but must leave some for the poor who had no fields or vineyards of their own. The poor could come and gather what was left.

The Lord told the people of Israel never to steal or lie to each other. And when a man had been working for them, they should not tell him to wait a while to be paid; they should pay him right away.

If a person is deaf, people must not talk against him just because he couldn’t hear them; if he was blind, they must not put things in his way to make him stumble and fall. If anyone knew something bad about someone else, he must not go and tell everyone about it; he must not be a gossip.

And the Israelis were not to hate each other, but to love each other. If one of them saw another doing wrong, he must tell him or her kindly not to do it anymore. Then he might repent of his or her sin.

When people from other country’s came to live among them, the Israelis were not to treat them unjustly nor steal their things. They must be as kind to them and love them as much as though they had always lived with them and were their own people.

The nations living in the Promised Land of Canaan where the Israelis were going worshipped a huge idol named Molech.

This idol with the face of a calf, was made of bronze and was hollow, so that a fire could be lighted inside of it like a furnace. After it was heated very hot, those wicked people would put their little children into the idols arms and there the babies burned to death; the people beat drums while the babies were burning, to keep from hearing their screams. They burned their children in this way because they thought it pleased the idol; they called it giving their children to Molech.

God told Moses to kill any of the Israelis who gave their children to Molech. If the people refused to kill a man who did that, pretending not to know what he had done, God said that He Himself would punish the people for not punishing that man.

Question:

How often could Aaron go to the most Holy place? Once a year

What was this place called? Mercy seat the most Holy of Holies, the Ark in it! The inner room of the Tabernacle.
What was this day called? Day of Atonement

Tell some ways the Aaron was like our Savior Jesus Christ? He prayed to forgive the sins of the people.

Tell some ways the Israelis were told to be kind to each other? Don’t gossip. If someone sinned tell them kindly with honesty. Love each other. If someone was deaf or blind don’t make in front of them or place anything in their way.

Who was Molech? A Idol they worshiped and burned their babies and children to death.

Leviticus Chapters 10 & 11

Aaron’s four sons were in charge of worshipping God at the Tabernacle; they saw to it that everything was done properly, in just the way God wanted it done.

God commanded incense to be burned on the gold altar. This incense was placed in a kind of cup, called a censer, probably made of bronze. The priest carried coals of fire in the cup into the Tabernacle and set it on the gold altar; he sprinkled the incense on the coals so that it would burn and send up its sweet smoke. The fire in the censer was taken from the burnt offering altar, from the fire God sent down from Heaven.

But two of Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, put other fire in their incense cups because they didn’t want to obey God. God was angry at their sin and sent down fire from Heaven that burnt them to death. Their dead bodies were carried away from the Tabernacle, out of the camp. God told Aaron and his other two sons not to show any kind of grief for them, for they had been put to death because of their sin against God.

The Lord told Moses what animals and birds and fish the Israelis could eat, for they were not to eat every kind. They could eat oxen, deer, sheep, and goats, but not camels, rabbits or pigs. They could eat fish that had fins and scales, but not those with smooth skins. They could eat doves and pigeons and quail, but they were forbidden to eat eagles, ravens, owls and swans.

Do you remember about the Leprosy that came suddenly upon Moses’ hand, making it white as snow until he put it back in his coat again? God sent it upon Moses so that he could show this miracle to the people of Israel in Egypt. Leprosy was a very dreadful disease that sometimes spread over peoples entire bodies, for no one knew how to cure it. After awhile the leprosy would eat away the persons fingers and toes.

God told Moses ands Aaron that when a man had a spot or sore on his skin that seemed like the beginning of leprosy, he must go to the priest. The priest could look at it and say whether or not it really was leprosy. If it was, the man had to go away from his family and from all the rest of the people and live in some place alone.

If God made him well, the priest would look at him again and decide whether he was well. If he was, he could come back again and live in the camp.

But he must bring three lambs, or, if he was poor and could not bring so many, he could bring one lamb and two doves or young pigeons to the Tabernacle as offerings to the Lord who had healed him.

Questions:

Why was God angry with Nadab and Abihu?

How did God punish them?

Name the two kinds of animal which the Israelis were allowed to eat. Name two which they were forbidden to eat.

Who could decide whether a man had leprosy?

Where must he live until he recovered from the disease?

I am not writing to tell you anything new, but because you know the truth and the difference between truth and falsehood.

Who is the greatest liar?

He is the one who says that Jesus Christ is not Christ. He is the “anti-Christ” who does not believe in God the Father and His Son.

For a person who doesn’t believe in Christ, God’s Son, can’t have God the Father either. But he who has Christ, God’s Son, has God the Father too.

So keep on believing what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, then you will always be in close fellowship with both God the Father and His Son.

1 John 2:21-24

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Father God, thank You for this new day and learning. Staying on track with You is learning that ways of doing right is Your path for our lives and perfection is Yours. I thank You, Praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen!