Leviticus 1, Accepted for him to make atonement for him

Leviticus 1

TITLE, Moses.

Leviticus = because thought to be pertaining to the Levites.

Levities = Hebrew word = vayyikra, being the first word = "And He called". Leviticus, therefore, is the Book relating to worship: for only those whom God thus calls does He seek to worship Him.

John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Psalms 65:4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

"Blessed is the man whom Thou choosest, and causest to approach unto Thee, that he may dwell in Thy courts."

All its types relate to worship, as those of Exodus relate to Redemption.

The Holy Spirit is not once named, though referred to in all the other books of the Pentateuch, because all here relates to Christ; and it is the Spirit's work to glorify Christ.

John 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

The whole of Leviticus, and Numbers 1:1-10 and Numbers10, come between the first day of the first month and the twentieth day of the second month, on the hypothesis that Israel would forth with advance and enter the land.

Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Always asking God to forgive our sin, asking in Jesus Name
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
When you pray, Pray to the Father, and ask your needs in Jesus name
Your sins are forgiven = nailing your sins to His cross

Leviticus 1:1 And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

THE OFFERINGS AND THEIR LAWS
Leviticus = The Hebrew name = vayyikra, being the first word = "And He called".
AND = This connects Leviticus very closely with Exodus, as Exodus is linked with Genesis.
The LORD = Hebrew = God
Whose glory filled the tabernacle, Ex 40:35.
No other book contains so many words of God:
"God spake", thirty-six times "I am God"
Twenty-one times = "I am God your God"
Twenty-one times = "I (God) am"
Three times; "I"
God, do = Twice
Called = The last letter of this word (in Hebrew) is minuscular = smaller than the others.
This calling is in contrast with the thunders from Sinai.
Spake = This formula denotes another communication made at a different time, and gives a further development of the laws of the trespass offering.
Note that in this book God "spake" at thirty-five "sundry times", and in ten "divers manners"
Out of the tabernacle of the congregation = Hebrew out of the tent of assembly
There are four such calls:
(1) from the burning bush = Ex 3:4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
(2) and = Ex 19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel);
(3) from Sinai = Ex 19:20 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. = and here.

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.

Offering = Hebrew word korban = admittance, entrance, or access offering.
All the offerings were what God had first given to man; only such can be accepted by Him.

3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord.

God begins with the burnt offering and ends with the sin offering: we, in our approach, begin with the sin offering and end with the burnt offering.
Male = A female permitted in some other offerings, but not here, because of the type.
Christ not the sin bearer here, as in Lev 4.
Without blemish = Hebrew. tamim = said of all sacrifices, and the same of Noah.
Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
His own voluntary will = Not the same as a freewill offering.
This not a freewill offering = Hebrew here = "to be accepted for him", in his stead.
There was a double transfer = the unworthiness of the offerer was transferred to the victim; and the acceptableness of the offering was transferred to the offerer.
This is confined to the burnt offerings and peace offerings; never with the sin offerings.

4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Put = Hebrew word = lean, place, or press
This was all that the sinner could do.
It was for God to accept.
Make atonement = Hebrew word = kaphar, to cover the sinner and his sin, so that neither is seen.
No such thing as progress in justification.
Atonement = to cover, gives the essential meaning
Genesis 6:14, where it is rendered "pitch (it)".
Hence used of the mercy-seat = Exodus 25:17 = propitiatory cover (Hebrew. kapporeth = cover).
Cover put for the propitiation made through the blood sprinkled thereon.
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Hence the meaning, God's "propitiatory gift"
The English "at-one-ment" = has no connection whatever with the Hebrew word kaphar.

5 And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

He = The sacrificer himself killed: the priest received the blood.
The priests, Aaron's sons = Hebrew word = the sons of Aaron, the priests.
Sprinkle = dash = Hebrew word = throw or jerk.
Door = entrance

6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.

Flay = have it flayed
Skin == not offered with burnt offering, only with the sin offering.
Cut it . . . pieces = To show that all was without blemish

7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:

8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

PRIESTHOOD

9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.

11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.

12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the Lord be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.

15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:

The priest = To make up for the humble offering, the priest did this instead of the offerer.

16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:

17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

� Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

� The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

� (Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

� Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25