Leviticus (Chapters 8-9)

Leviticus 8–9 records the consecration of Aaron and his sons and the beginning of their priestly ministry before the Lord. Through sacrifices, priestly service, and obedience to God’s commands, Israel learns how to approach a holy God according to His instruction. These chapters reveal God’s holiness, His provision for worship, and His desire to dwell among His covenant people as His glory appears before all Israel.

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Welcome And Where We Are

Phil Porter 0:00

You're listening to Teach Me the Bible podcast. Our mission is to help the people of God understand the Word of God. Join us each Monday and Thursday for new episode releases. Listen to our full library of content at teachmethebible.com or by downloading the Teach Me the Bible app from any app store. You're listening to Teach Me the Bible Podcast. Well, welcome everybody, Teach Me the Bible Podcast. My name is Phil Porter, alongside Dr. David Klingler, and we uh have been going through the book of Exodus. Uh we've gone through actually quite a bit so far. Um, and today um we are gonna land ourselves in chapter eight, and then uh I think we're gonna do eight and nine, but you know, yeah, of Leviticus, yeah. So we'll see. Yeah, we've we've been through Exodus and uh and now we're continuing on into Leviticus. Oh, yeah. Did I say Exodus? Oh, okay. Yeah, well, that it refers so much back to it, probably.

Dr. David Klingler 0:58

Well, absolutely, it absolutely does. Actually, uh our passage today, which is eight and nine, you know, it's the it's the con consecration, ordination, however you want to say it, of of Aaron and his sons. This actually goes back uh to Exodus chapter 27, chapter 27, chapter 28. Uh, and so this is, remember, it kind of starts back in chapter Exodus chapter 24, uh, and this is where the Lord confirms uh the covenant with uh with Israel. Uh, and then uh in chapter 25, they begin to take up the offering to build the tabernacle, and it goes down through the Ark of the Covenant, it goes through the you know, the showbread, it goes through the uh the lampstand, all of it's spelled out, all of the building, the the outer structure, the curtains, all of that instruction. And and then right there in the middle of it, uh in chapter 20, uh, I guess this would be 28, uh is the instruction on um Aaron uh and the garments, uh the the you know his uh I want to say his uh the words coming to me is costume. That's yeah, that's not that's not it. You know, his uh robe, his robe, his yeah, but all of it, you know. He's got the breastplate, he's got the turban, he's got the crown, he's got it's all of it. And and it's quite uh it's quite the sight. Uh uh and and there's instruction given on how this all is to be initiated, how you know the consecration of the priest, and then um, and then you know what food is for them and all this. So, so this happens um uh a couple times um in um at the end of chapter uh of the book of Exodus, uh all of this is introduced. Um, and and then at the end of the book of Exodus, the tabernacle is built. Uh, and then in the book of Leviticus, excuse me, the way that Leviticus begins then is okay, here's the offerings. Now, the question is, why do we need, or why did Israel need, uh, this tabernacle? Uh, and one of the things that I'm always seems like I'm saying this more and more and more. Particularly, you know, one of the things that that I do at the seminary uh is we um uh I I facilitate head up our PhD Bible program, uh, and our PhD students get in the weeds a lot. I mean, that's part of you know the PhD program. You you go you go really deep into the details. Um you know, I guess you know we always use this analogy, so I'll use it here. Uh, it's like a movie. Uh you're going into the you know, to every little detail in every little scene uh and and uh and frame in the in the in the

Why The Tabernacle Exists

Dr. David Klingler 3:50

scene in the movie. Um but you cannot lose sight of the movie as a whole, as the plot as a whole. And um, and so this all has to tie back. If we're reading this correctly, and I'm convinced that we are, because uh this is how all of the Bible authors refer to things, we call it intertextually. They one author refers to what an all another author says, it is in reference to uh the the big picture, the the grand narrative, the plot, however you want to say that, right? The the main problem. It's it's creation, uh, it's putting man in the garden, and it's expulsion from the garden. Uh, and that expose that removal from the presence of the Lord, that removal from the garden, uh is um is the problem um that continues throughout the story, right? How does man, how does man regain X access back to the garden, uh back to the presence of the Lord? And this was the whole uh the Lord dwelling with his people. Um, you know, and and so Israel uh in chapter 19 and chapter 20, I mean from the of Exodus, from the time they come out of the Exodus, they're they're rebelling against the Lord, they want to go back, um, and um and the Lord threatens them several times. Moses intercedes. Um, and so how does a holy God dwell in the midst of an evil people, of a sinful people? And the answer is uh the tabernacle. And so this is so the setting up, if we think about the setting up of this structure, and we we haven't talked about this a lot, but in the there, there's you know, this the tabernacle is kind of three parts, and it's going to this is kind of the the traveling temple until the temple is built in Jerusalem, and that's you know going to be during Solomon's reign uh much later. Uh and so uh but it's gonna be the same structure. There's the holy of holies, uh, there's the holy, you know, the holy place, and then there's the outer court. And in the holy of holies, this is where the presence of the Lord dwells, is the Ark of the Covenant. Um and you you know, you don't go in there, right? And so the thing that separates the Holy of Holies, which contains the uh uh the Ark of the Covenant, uh, from the holy place, you know, is the veil, right? And this is, you know, the the veil that was torn when Christ, you know, so so what so that you know it's it's it's access back to the holy place has been um made accessible through Christ's sacrifice. Uh in the uh in the holy place, there's the menorah, that's the uh this is where the uh the candles, you know, the the seven uh you know pronged candle. Uh there's the altar of incense, where uh it was to be constantly there would be incense uh to the Lord, and there was the table of showbread. And the table of showbread, um, you know, that's you know, that's uh there as well. Uh and then outside of that, uh so this is the outer court. This is right where the entrance is, right? So so think about it as you, you know, when you when when an Israelite comes to the outer court, they come to the the doorway, they come to the the doorway of the tent of meeting. Um they've got to bring their their offering, their sacrifice, uh their guilt offering, their sin offering, whatever it is. Um and uh and that's how they have any kind of access to the Lord. They had to do this. And and then the instruction, right? So there were the priests there, uh, Aaron and his sons there, and their job was to facilitate, you know, they they played the role of um of mediation, of the Israelite came to the Lord, um, but you know, they had to have someone who you know administered the sacrifices and all that. Um and um uh and the you know so this section is okay, uh we what makes them, these priests qualified, what makes them holy? Um and so we're gonna go through a litany of of examples. What uh what makes a person unclean? What makes a person, you know, and so leprosy makes them, you know, there's all of these lists of things that are going to make someone unclean unacceptable, that the stuff uh that is the result, let me think if I can frame it this way, the stuff of the result of sin and banishment from the garden stays outside the garden. It also stays outside of the tabernacle, right? Uh

The Tabernacle Layout And Access

Dr. David Klingler 8:45

death, sin, sickness, sorrow, suffering, you know, deceit, evil, leprosy, unclean, all of the penalty of sin, sickness, sorrow, death, it all stays outside. Uh and so how uh and that makes one unclean or unholy, how does one become holy? Uh, they've got to offer the sacrifices, right? Uh, so that they can regain access not only to the presence of the Lord, but to the covenant community. And so this is this is what we're gonna be talking about over and over and over. And so uh when you're reading this or or um, I would recommend that you find a you know an illustration of the you know, of the tabernacle structure, and just keep it in front of you as you read uh read the book of Leviticus, as you read the end of Exodus, or you come to these passages. Uh this was so familiar uh to the people, but we skip it because we're like, eh, who cares? You know, yeah. It's nothing that we deal with. You know, this isn't how the church is set up or anything like that. Uh, but this was their access uh and uh you know their acceptable access to the Lord through the ministry of the pre of the uh priests.

Phil Porter 9:55

Yeah, and it reveals a lot about I mean, all along the way in the Torah, you can see God's character through it and you know how he is holy and we are not. And these are yeah, I I think it's wonderful examples. Again, we've said many times on the podcast, yes, that's we're not Israelites, you know, uh, but he did write this and give this to Israel for a specific purpose.

Dr. David Klingler 10:17

Yeah, Israel was to be a kingdom of priests, you know. So excuse me, they were to be the uh the holy, you know, what does a priest do? Well, a priest sits in between the the Lord and uh the people, right? Well, this was to be a kingdom of priests, a whole nation that was to sat in between, to sit in between the Lord, represent uh the the Lord to the nations, and represent the nations to the Lord, right? Um a mediator, uh they were to, you know, to to represent both sides. Um the problem that comes in Israel is that Israel needs priests to them, right? Yeah. And so you have priests to priests. Uh they were to be the servant that we tie this in. They were to serve the Lord and representing him to the nations. Um, but they need servants to represent them to the Lord, you know, and so the suffering servant. I mean, all this language is going to be developed as we go through the story and as the Old Testament uh story develops. And so uh and so what's going on in uh in uh Leviticus uh chapter uh chapters eight and nine are are just the the the what was said back in the book of Exodus. Here's your instruction. Uh now this is what Israel does. This is what Moses does. Moses, the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Take Eric and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull and the of the sin offering and the two rams, and and do what I told you to do. That's essentially what we're doing here. Assemble all the congregation at the doorway of the tent of meetings. So Moses did just as the Lord commanded, and when the congregation was assembled at the doorway of the tent of meetings, so this is at the outer part of it. Moses said to the congregation, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded us to do. Then Moses and Aaron and his sons came near and washed, uh he washed them with water, and he put the tunic on them. This is the tunic that was uh commanded to be created, and girded him uh with the sash, clothed him with the robe, put the epid on him, girded him with the artistic band of the epid, uh, and he tied it on him, then he placed the breastplace, uh the breast piece on him, um, and he put the the uh urim and the thumen uh on it. The these uh words, um

Priests And The Clean Unclean Problem

Dr. David Klingler 12:50

urim, uh we it's kind of a mist mysterious thing. We kind of think about um you know um you know, like some mystery, you know. I uh I've heard all kinds of different stuff, like these two, these two stones and they magically light up or something like that. Oh, okay. Um no, that's not uh I don't think that's what's going on. Um the word uh urim comes from the Hebrew word arar, which is to curse. Uh and uh thumim comes from tamim, which is which is to be blameless. So is it you know uh uh uh how do you evaluate what's right and wrong, good and evil, um blameless uh and cursed. Well, the law, what's good and right in the eyes of the Lord, and uh and so um, you know, so so this was the the representation of um of what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord and what was not. Um and he placed the turban on his head, uh, and he placed the golden plate, the golden crown, uh, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it and consecrated them. So this is like the first time setup. This is the establishment of the of the tabernacle. He spring uh sprinkled some on the altar seven times uh and anointed the altar and all of its utensils, its basin and all of its stand, he consecrated them. He poured uh some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and and anointed him to consecrate him. And so we've got to set this whole thing apart, consecrate, to make holy, set apart this whole thing. Um, and then we've got to set apart and consecrate, make holy uh the representatives who are going to receive the sacrifices to make uh to make Israel holy. He brought the uh the um, so verse 14, then he brought the uh bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. Next, Moses slaughtered it and took the blood with its fingers, and he put it all around the horns of the altar and purified the altar, and he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it. This is just inside the doorway. This is the uh the uh the altar, uh, the the altar of burnt offering. It's the it's the first thing that you see when you walk in uh the the uh the the doorway of the the tent of meeting. And so he's uh set this apart. He's uh he's uh he's consecrated it, he's uh he's made uh made it holy. Um and uh you know, and so actually it's the he um let's make up a word here. He holyfied it. Holy fied. I like that. Yeah. He consecrated it, he he set it apart, he uh to make atonement for it, to make a uh uh a covering for it, right? So so this is uh it is now clean. He also took the fat which is on it in the all of the fat portions, and um and he offered them up in smoke. Remember, this goes back to Genesis chapter 4 and the fat portion, and the fat is holy unto the Lord, and it's a placeholder for the coming Christ. And and um the bull and its height, its flesh, its refuge, all of this was to be taken outside of the camp and was uh to be burned, just as Moses had commanded. Then he presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Moses and Aaron and all his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, and Moses slaughtered it and sprinkled its blood on the altar. And when he had cut all the uh ram into pieces, he offered the head and its pieces and sew it in smoke. And he washed the entrails and his legs with water, and Moses offered

Leviticus 8 Ordination Walkthrough

Dr. David Klingler 16:40

the whole ram uh in smoke on the altar. It was a burnt offering, a soothing aroma. It was an offering by fire to the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. So, this um soothing aroma, burnt offering, uh, you know, this was the you know, the the first time we see this uh uh offering was back in the Noah story. Uh the that Noah offered a uh a burnt offering to the Lord. It was a soothing aroma to the Lord, it was a an offering uh that brought Noah rest to the wrath of the Lord. And so, you know, there's this picture that's being developed of the Lord, holy, set apart. Um it's all it's you know, it's almost like worlds apart. He's he's in his holy place. Um and uh right there on the edge at the doorway of the tent of meeting, no sin comes in here, and then there's this burnt offering, this constant aroma, this this thing that was going up all the time, uh, that was a um reminder to the Lord not to wipe him out. A reminder to the people, don't get wiped out. You know, and and so uh the the the Lord was never immediately accessible to his people. The only person uh once a year that could uh enter into the Holy of Holies was the high priest, and it was only once a year, and he had to bring offering for himself, right? Uh and so how you know this uh continues to represent the problem of banishment from the garden. You know, think of the you know, uh think of the holy place as or the holy of holies as the you know, as is the garden as you get closer to it, uh there's no access to it. But but this was the significance of the veil and Christ's sacrifice. So so all all of this is uh is is being uh you know exactly how it was commanded to be done in uh in the book of Exodus. Moses is doing it.

Phil Porter 18:59

And one other thing I could just want to ask a question. There's so Moses, what's interesting is you know, we're reading chapter A, but one through seven, God just continually speaks to Moses. Yep. Moses, Moses, Moses. Yep. But Moses is the one that is now doing the process with the priests so that they can do it for the nation.

Dr. David Klingler 19:21

Yeah, he's like how in Yeah, he's kind of the facilitator. Yeah, like he's not the doer of it. Moses isn't setting himself up.

SPEAKER_01 19:29

Uh-uh.

Dr. David Klingler 19:30

Uh what's interesting about uh this um, you know, I don't want to say too much here, but you know, kind of uh give a little bit of my my thoughts uh on that because you raise a good point. Moses is not doing the sacrifices. Aaron is, Aaron and his sons are setting up the the priesthood, right? And Aaron and his sons are going to set up the priesthood, but Moses is kind of presented and referred to even as the king. You know, that there's uh you know, there's the Melek language that's attached to Moses. And so you've got even here, this early, uh, the physical representation of the priesthood and uh and the king. And and it's not exactly right, but you're you're looking for this this king, this promised one who's going to come and rule out of the tribe uh of Judah. Uh and Moses certainly isn't isn't from the tribe of Judah.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 20:36

Uh but you're setting up this group of people, the Levites, the and the Aaronic priesthood, uh, and they were to basically ensure uh they weren't doing uh the they were controlling access. They were they were do you know administering the process by which Israel could draw near to the Lord. Um you're gonna have other officers in Israel, and we're gonna get to that when we get to uh to the book of Deuteronomy. Um, you know, judges, um, elders, judges, priests, kings, prophets, all of these positions in the book of uh, you know, in Deuteronomy and in Israel's history. Uh the elders and the judges, they they kind of um had the same function. They were to judge Israel, they were to judge according to the law, to um hear a case, right? And so Moses isn't remember this as back in Exodus chapter 18. Moses, uh Jethro gives him this advice, his father in law gives him this advice. He says, Look, um, what you need to do is stop you know judging the people by yourself. You're gonna wear yourself out. Um, teach faithful men uh who are not fond of sordid gain, teach them the law and let them judge the people, right? Uh and and you know, and so this was where the beginning. This is kind of where elders begins, this whole discussion of elders. And many of the qualifications for church elders come right out of Exodus chapter 18. I mean, you can just, it's a one-for-one. And um, and they were to judge the people. Uh, they were to judge the people according to the word of the Lord. If you don't know the word of the Lord, you can't judge the people. It's just pretty straightforward. Uh the the judge um in the book of Judges takes on uh some additional um roles as deliverer, right? Um so the Lord would judge the people uh because of their sin. And then um when Israel uh would repent, the Lord would raise up um a leader, uh, and they would deliver Israel and they would judge Israel, they would, you know, until their death. And then Israel would return right back to sinning against the Lord and and the whole cycle would start over. So so there there were judges, uh, there were priests, the the you know, and there's so there's an instruction in Deuteronomy, this is chapter 16 through 18. Uh, you know, you're to go to the judge or the priest who's in office in those days, and and the priest certainly had to know the law, uh, as did the judge. Um, but um, you know, but they were to judge with righteous judgment, as was the king, the king in chapter 17 of uh of the book of Deuteronomy, he was to make a copy of the law, and he he was to rule according to it all of his days, and the prophet, he was to uh to declare the word of the Lord, right? And of course, there's false prophets. Now, all of these uh four, or I guess five, if

Moses As Facilitator And Offices

Dr. David Klingler 23:40

you want to you know, throw elder and judge together, um they're not exactly, I think, the same, at least um, but but maybe they are. I'd have to think about that a little bit more. But then the the priest and the king and the and the prophet, those four for sure. Um uh and the the sacrifice all start together. Man was created to rule, right? This is why we've always got to go back to the to the main part of the story. Uh rule on behalf of the Lord to rule over the birds, ear, the fish, see the beast in the field. Um he's he doesn't do it. Uh he's banished from the garden. You're looking for one who will come and restore access. And until then, you have all of these officers who are just kind of dealing with the present problem, right? The king who's supposed to do it, uh to rule according to the word of the Lord, but he's he's not going to do it correctly, nor can he do it eternally uh or perfectly. Um you've got the priest who's all offering sacrifices, but you're looking for a time when you don't need a priest. When when you you know, uh when you only need a priest when there's sin, right? Then when there's a separation between the Lord and the people, you need a mediator, you need a intermediate, uh, you know, a facilitator, someone to play the middle role, represent the Lord to the people, represent the people to the Lord. Um, you know, judge, to judge the nations, uh, to judge Israel, to judge correctly, um, and to proclaim the word. You're looking for all of these things to come together in what man was supposed to do. They were supposed to operate according to the word of the Lord. Um, they were supposed to rule, uh, they weren't supposed to need a sacrifice or a sacrificial system uh if they did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord. Uh and so going out from the the garden, going out from being banished from the garden, you're looking for this one who's going to come who will do what's good and right in the eyes of the Lord, Isaiah chapter 11. He will rule the nations uh correctly according to the word of the Lord. So he's the greater prophet. Um, he he has the words of the Lord in his mouth, he judges righteously, uh, he rules over creation righteously, he judges the nations, and he is the sacrifice, right? Now, this isn't something that you put together at the end of the Old Testament. This is put together at the very beginning of it, right? It's the plot that's developed going out from the garden. And so we're watching these partials, and this is exactly what the writer of Hebrews is going to call them. Uh, this is uh uh, you know, the the so so important. The main point of what I'm saying is this this is Hebrews chapter 8. We have a high priest who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of majesty in heaven, a minister in the sanctuary, in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not men. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. So it is necessary for this high priest also to have something to offer. And the writer says, Now, if Christ were on earth right now, he would be no priest at all, uh, since there are those who offer gifts according to the law. There's the the uh who serve as a copy and a shadow. That's the word, a copy and a shadow of heavenly things, just as Moses warned, uh was warned by God uh when he was about to erect the tabernacle. See, he says, that you make it according to all of the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain. Now he has obtained a more excellent ministry by as much as he is also a mediator of a better covenant, right? These priests were mediating the old covenant, the you know, the sacrificial system, then they can only uh gain access through uh through the sacrificial system. But uh he was looking forward to a I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, with the house of Judah, and he's the minister of all. And so back to the point that I was making earlier. We've got to keep the plot of the whole story in our mind. Otherwise, we'll get lost in the details and we'll try to make significance of, you know, the first Ram, the second Ram, you know, you start to make these, you know, I don't know. You I'll give you this pastors can be really creative, you know, they can make stuff up, and you know, just as the Lord's house is, you know, sanctified your house,

Shadows Fulfilled In Christ

Dr. David Klingler 28:20

you know, whatever they're doing. And because we're missing the point. All of this is leading to, you know, why do we even need this tabernacle in Israel? Because there's sin, uh, there's sin in the camp. Well, how widespread is sin in the camp? That's all there is. Uh well, what's in the holy of holies? There's no sin here, right? Uh, and and the people who were to be a kingdom of priests to represent God to the nations, how are they made clean, made right, purified, covered? There's, you know, acceptable to the Lord of Lords, the God of gods. It's a sacrificial system, which was a placeholder, a shadow, a copy of what was coming in Christ. He is the fulfillment of all of it. Not because the New Testament authors say so. They're not saying they're not creatively putting together the Old Testament. They're they're just tracking the plot and say, He, this is what the whole Old Testament story was looking for. It doesn't have to be pieced together in some after-the-fact piecemeal way. It is the plot that was established from the beginning. He is the pass, he is the acceptable lamb that was slain. The the lamb of Genesis 3, of Genesis 4, of Genesis 22, the blood of bulls and goats, as the writer of Hebrews is going to say, could never take away sin. It never regained access into the Holy of Holies, right? Christ does. Uh, and uh and um and will eternally, right? So uh so you know, access back to the tree of life and all this is is the plot. It's the it's the the story of the the uh the whole plot. And so and so what's happening, we'll just finish this up because we're running a bit long here with uh with chapter eight, uh, is um uh is exactly what was said, the instruction it was given to build the tabernacle and to consecrate, um um to set Aaron and his sons apart is exactly what is taking place. In chapter nine, uh so it says, thus Aaron did uh all of these things just as the Lord commanded, and through Moses. So so they uh they kept the commands, and in chapter nine, uh it came about in the eighth day. So for seven days, uh this is the instruction was given, uh, ordination was seven days, excuse me, and and um and so for seven days Aaron did it. And now on the eighth day, the Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel, and he said, Take for yourselves uh the case. So now the seven days is about Aaron and his sons. Okay, now they're consecrated, now they're they're dressed appropriately, they know their role, they know their responsibility. It was all given back in the book of Exodus. They're now ready to do their job, right? Um, consecration of them wasn't the job. They were, we had to do this so that we could do their job, and now it's their job. Now Aaron is going to uh offer the sacrifices for himself, he's going to offer sacrifices for the nation. And they took uh what Moses had commanded uh uh to the front of the tent of meeting. The whole congregation came near and stood before the Lord. This is in verse uh chapter uh chapter nine, verse five. And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you. Then Moses uh and Moses then said to Aaron, Come near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, that you may make atonement for yourself and for the people. Uh then make the offering for the people, so that you may make atonement for them just as the Lord has commanded. And so Moses

Leviticus 9 Glory Fire And Warning

Dr. David Klingler 32:30

came near, and he slaughtered the calf, and he did it. This is, you know, so this is the rest of chapter nine is um uh is he did it exactly as was uh instructed. Uh jump down to chapter nine, verse twenty-two. Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings, and Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and they came out and blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. Then fire came down uh from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the portions on the fat alpha, uh fat of the on the altar. Uh, and when all the people saw this, they shouted and fell on their faces. Right. And so now we've got it set up. Right? Now, how long does it take to mess it up? Well, that's next week, chapter 10, right? The very next verse. I mean, you know, and and we'll we'll we'll mention this next uh next time. Um in uh in our new my new American Standard Translation says, now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, uh it's like okay, now then then this happened. No, no, no. That that's not how it's structured in the Hebrew. It's like we we talk about preterites and uh and a preterite is just a continuation of the story. There's there's not even an interruption.

Phil Porter 33:57

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 33:57

It's like, and all the people fell on their faces, and Nahab and Abahu to the sons of they took uh foreign strange fire and the Lord wiped them out. Yeah, it's like, what? Slow down. What happened again? I mean, it is so fast. And it's just Israel's problem all the way through. And so what we're going to chronicle as we work work through this story, where this is very slow-paced. You know, we're gonna, in the rest of Leviticus, we're gonna say, okay, how does Israel become what what what are the definitions of clean, unclean sin and all this stuff? We're gonna spell all this out because no one unclean or unholy or sinful can enter in, have access to, they have to have the sacrificial system. Um and so Israel is sinful, that's gonna become abundantly clear. But the problem is going to be that it's not just that Israel, it's that the kings and priests and prophets and judges, they're all evil too. They all do what's good and right in their own eyes, not what's good and right in the eyes of the Lord. And so now there is no access to the Lord because the people are all sinful. And so what's going to happen? Judgment. We're gonna get to that in Leviticus chapter 26. Um, if Israel is not acceptable to the Lord, then they're going to be banished among the nations, they're going to be kicked out of the land and scattered among the nations, and that's where this story's headed. And so we'll get to all of this. It's such a great story, but we'll get to all this as we continue through the book of Leviticus,

Next Week Nadab Abihu And Closing

Dr. David Klingler 35:40

and we'll keep reminding ourselves of this bigger plot story.

Phil Porter 35:44

Great. That sounds wonderful. Well, that means next time we will start here in chapter 10. Thanks for joining us. For more resources, visit teachmethebible.com or download our app from any app store. You can partner with Teach Me the Bible in helping the people of God understand the Word of God by subscribing and sharing with others. Thank you for listening to Teach Me the Bible podcast.