00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:11 Listener Question: Tabernacle Flooring and Priest Footwear

03:27 Discussion on Strange Fire and Aaron's Sons

04:41 Reflections on Mourning and God's Justice

06:28 Aaron's Failure and Theological Implications

09:32 Leviticus Chapter 11: Clean and Unclean Foods

12:47 Leviticus Chapter 12: Purification After Childbirth

14:16 Matthew Chapter 26: The Plot Against Jesus and The Anointing at Bethany

16:58 Judas' Betrayal and The Last Supper Preparations

17:57 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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We are gonna get into some more

interesting territory today.

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We're dealing with the sons of Aaron

here, naab and Abba, who and some others.

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But we also have a question that was

written in that's a unique question.

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I don't know that I've ever

thought about it before.

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Pastor out, have you thought

about this question before?

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I have.

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Have you?

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Yeah.

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Do you have firm convictions

and, and answers on it?

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Of course not.

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No.

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Okay.

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The question is this

written in by Matt Morgan.

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He's one of our podcast editors,

and so he asked the question did the

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Tabernacle have a rug or flooring?

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Also, did the priest wear shoes

when ministering in the tabernacle?

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Seems like we have a fairly exhaustive

catalog of tabernacle, furnishings,

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and a priestly clothing, yet I

don't recall any flooring or shoes.

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Were they barefoot on the desert

floor in the Holy of Holies?

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I mean, I'll, I'll answer the

last part first, I imagine.

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Yes, that they were barefoot when they

entered the Holy of Holies because of what

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we see with Moses before the burning bush.

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I, I have to imagine that that

was carried over, even if not

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explicitly commanded by God.

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I imagine that Moses probably told them,

Hey, there was this one time I was in the

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desert and I saw this thing and, and I

was told, Hey, take your shoes off for the

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ground on what you're standing as holy.

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So I would venture a guess

is to say yes when it came to

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ministering the Holy of Holies.

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Outside of that, I, I don't know, we

often think of them wearing their sandals.

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There are no specific in instructions for

flooring or any sort of floor coverings.

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And I think that makes sense because

the tabernacle was heavy as it was.

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If you consider all of the, the things

that they had to transport all these

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silver bases, the frames and everything

else, to have to transport some sort

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of temporal, movable flooring on top

of that would've been quite the burden

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for the people to do it, whether, if it

would've even been possible at the time.

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So my guess is that it was.

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Probably a bare floor just a dirt floor.

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And then when the priest went into

the Holy Holies, he probably would've

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taken his shoes off at that point.

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Yeah, the only thing I would agree

that that's probably, that's where

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my mind would go, bare floor, bare

feet, probably what God intends.

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The only thing that gives me slight pause

is and in as Isaiah chapter six, when he

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encounters the glory of God the seraphim.

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Are flying with two wings and with

two, they're covering their face and

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with two they're covering their feet.

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Mm-hmm.

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Now there's a chance that feet is

a euphemism for something else.

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Yep.

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But if it is feet, if it, if it is

what it looks like, then I could

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say, okay, maybe there's something

about not exposing yourself to

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the Lord in an unnecessary way.

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So that would be the only thing that would

make me say, maybe there was something,

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some kind of footwear that Moses is like,

Hey, just put, put on these booties.

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They're, they're blue and they're cute.

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Put these on now.

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But otherwise, I, I'm, I'm

totally fine with saying probably

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barefoot, probably bare floor.

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And that was communicative.

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Man, man, man himself was from the dust.

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And so I think there could be a

connection there about what that

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teaches the man and, and what it has

to do with their relationship to God.

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So I think there's something

there that could work.

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But there's nothing in the text that

tells us for sure this is what they were.

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You know, it's interesting as well that.

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When the priestly garments are

described, there are no shoes.

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And yet when we get in, not, again,

not a one for one correlation, but when

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we get in the New Testament and you've

got the armor of God, there are shoes

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that are part of the armor of God.

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That's right.

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And so there, there's no

specific instructions.

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I saw something else that said that

the priests part of the, the role

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when they went into war to wash

both their hands and their feet when

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they're there, which would might.

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To support the idea that they had taken

off their sandals at some point in time

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when they entered into to serve there.

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So that's a good point.

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Yeah.

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But, but good observation.

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Good question.

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Good thoughtful thinking here.

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Alright, let's get into verses

10 or chapter 10, 11 and 12.

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Nate, Evan, and Bahoo.

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So this is.

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Strange fire.

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And if you remember a while back

probably what, 10, 15 years maybe?

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MacArthur did the Strange Fire Conference

and he compared that to a lot of

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what was going on in the, the extreme

charismatic movement at the time.

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And it comes from here and there's

debate about what the Strange Fire was.

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Even what it, what it meant,

what it was made up of.

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It may have not been anything that

was unique chemically, but it could

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have simply been that they came in at

a time that they were not prescribed

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to enter into the Holy of Holies and

tried to make an offering there when

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they were not permitted to be in there.

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And then the result, though we do

know, is that fire comes out from

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before the Lord and consumes them,

and they die there before the Lord.

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And then there is the

statement that's made.

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Moses said to Aaron, this

is what the Lord has said.

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Among those who are near

me, I will be sanctified.

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And before all people I will be glorified.

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And it says there that

Aaron held his peace.

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Some of the instructions after

this are, are going to be even

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more significant where God is

gonna prohibit Aaron from mourning.

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For his sons lest you die and the

wrath come upon the congregation.

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And so this is serious.

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God takes his holiness serious.

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God takes how we worship serious in,

in the way we go about it seriously.

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And he's going to condemn these two,

forgo it about it in the wrong way.

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I wondered if maybe there was a

connection between the fact that

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God says, do not mourn for these.

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Offenders and the question that we got

maybe weeks ago at this point where

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someone was asking, what about in the new

heavens and the new Earth when I notice

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or sense that I'm missing relatives

or that you know so and so that I knew

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they're not where they're supposed to be.

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I wonder if this speaks to that.

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This is not one-to-one, this is not,

this is not the New Testament, obviously.

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But I do think I might be noticing a

principle where God says, when I affect

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my justice, there are times when it does

not warrant your soft hearted response.

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And that's hard because this, as you me

may mention here, these are Aaron's sons.

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Yeah.

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These are not just strangers.

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These are not even as

close pals as priests.

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These are his sons.

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And yet God forbids it.

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Now if this is what it is in the Old

Testament, when there's still sin and,

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and Aaron is still in the bondage of

his flesh, I wonder if that's playing

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a role or under the, in the new heavens

and the new Earth, we have a new body.

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If that will in some way change

the way that we experience.

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Some of what we see here,

mourning, loss maybe sadness.

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Again, there's no sadness

in the new heavens.

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Revelation 21 says, so, there's

no crying, there's no mourning.

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So here, there's mourning.

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And God forbids it because

it's right and it's good.

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And in the future, maybe

that speaks to this.

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Hmm.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That, yeah.

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That is an interesting thought.

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It would help reconcile how we're

gonna feel about our loved ones in

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eternity as they're not maybe with us.

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For sure.

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I hadn't made the, the connection there.

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End of the chapter, not

that I look forward to that.

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No.

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No, and and nobody does.

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Right?

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Like you talked about, eternal conscious

torment isn't something that we all say,

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yes, this is a, a doctrine that we love.

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Yeah, I would say the same about

about that as well, that concept.

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What about the end of

the chapter here though?

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Because Aaron.

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Fails again here, right on the

heels of the death of his sons.

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He fails to obey the Lord

because he doesn't eat what he

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should have eaten from this sin

offering that's offered this goat.

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In fact, it was taken

out and it was burned up.

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And so Moses confronts him and Aaron

said to Moses in verse 19, today

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they've offered the sin offering and

the burnt offering before the Lord.

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And yet such things of

these have happened to me.

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If I had eaten of the SIN offering,

would the Lord have have approved?

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It's an interesting.

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Situation because it says after that

then Moses heard that he approved.

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Yep.

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And so why is there a distinction

between Aaron here and naab and Abba?

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Who, do you have any thoughts

on what's going on there?

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I a couple thoughts.

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First, I think there's, and this is

what makes this so interesting for me.

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'cause again, this is, this is

just like the women who serve at

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the tent of meeting or the, the,

the entrance of the tabernacle.

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Who are they?

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Why are they there?

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Yeah.

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Scripture said nothing about them

and yet, boom, they're there.

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And they're mentioned almost in passing

without any explanation or reference here.

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I think we have a similar situation where.

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Aaron is making a case to Moses that I

would say, wow, that makes sense to me.

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You should have still

obeyed the Lord, right?

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You should.

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This is what the Lord said.

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You gotta do this, right?

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And yet what Aaron says in Moses'

mind is theologically compelling,

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where he says, okay, that makes sense.

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The Lord would accept that.

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I, that tells me then that my

reading of Leviticus has probably

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skewed the wrong direction.

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I'm reading it with a sterile

A plus B equal C mentality.

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Mm-hmm.

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When in fact what's happening here is

God who is in relationship, covenant

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relationship with Israel does have these

strict and and explicit rules that he

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wants him to follow, but they're not meant

to be understood as mere and, and that's

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an important word, merely black and white.

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Regulations.

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They are living in the life of Israel

and I think we're gonna get to it at

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some point soon, where the bread of the

tabernacle, the bread of the presence.

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I was thinking about this

recently 'cause David eats it.

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Yeah.

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And then Jesus uses that to defend

his actions and I think, well wait a

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minute, he's not supposed to eat it.

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Right.

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There's far more that than that's

going on than what meets the eye.

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And I think stuff like this, when when

it strikes you like that, I think it's

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meant to cause us to pause and say, let

me just make sure I'm understanding this.

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Yeah.

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That I'm understanding God rightly,

I don't want to mischaracterize God.

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And this is one of those places

that caused me to scratch my

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head and say, ah, I gotta.

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Carefully.

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I don't wanna assume things

I don't wanna presume.

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Read carefully.

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Yeah.

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The only commentary that I saw that

that was helpful on this suggested

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that what Aaron was appealing to

may have been the state of his

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heart at the time that he was still

wrestling with what got it done with.

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Nate, Abba, who, or at least frustrated

or or missing his sons and his heart

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was not in the right place to be able

to obey what God had called him to obey.

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And that's why he's asking Moses,

would God have been pleased with me?

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Had I eaten if I had eaten with an

improper posture before the Lord?

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Yeah.

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I read too that it could be that

he has a, a fear of God, that

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which is better than carelessness.

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Yeah.

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It is a fear that provoked him to

say, I can't do this right now.

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I'm afraid if I do this the wrong way,

I, I misstep, I, I I do the wrong thing.

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God will strike me.

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Yeah.

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I read that.

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I thought, oh, may maybe.

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That's a possibility.

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I think that one makes sense too.

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Short answer is that I don't know

for sure which, which to rely on.

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Right.

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Except to say, Hmm, this is a tough one.

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Right.

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Alright, let's get to chapter 11.

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Chapter 11 is another one of those

chapters in Leviticus that should make you

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thankful for the New Covenant because this

is the, the list, not exhaustive, but this

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is a big list of all the things that can

make one clean or unclean before the Lord.

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And, and a lot of it has to do with

the dietary restrictions, what they

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could eat and what they couldn't eat.

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And so I just wrote out in the

margin there, with each one clean.

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Clean, clean unclean, and, and

you can go all the way down there.

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And these are all things that were

things that, that God were, were

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calling his people to have abstain from.

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Some of this is because this

is what the nations that he

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was driving now indulged in.

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And so God is saying, I want

you to be different from them

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others, because God had his.

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Parameters, and he was saying, I'm,

I'm calling you to be separate.

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I'm calling you out.

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You are my people.

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You are not to be like everyone else.

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And so what I'm going to instruct

you is going to be different.

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And that's really the culmination

of chapter 11, which is in verse

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44, 4, I am the Lord your God.

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Consecrate yourselves,

therefore, and be holy.

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For I am holy.

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And that's the refrain that will

sound over and over again throughout

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scripture, be holy for I am holy.

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That's why God is laying out

all these rules and regulations

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for the people of Israel.

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He's calling them out to be

different, to be distinct.

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Yeah.

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And that's.

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Part of what explains these, these

strange lines that we see here.

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One author, a commentator makes four

observations about what these things could

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be, and the separateness is part of that.

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Yeah.

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The first one is arbitrary.

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God just said, I want you

to do this, and not that.

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Yeah.

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And, and God's making decisions for his

people and that's what he wants to do.

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The second one is cultic, and this gets

closer to what we were just talking

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about, the ritual and liturgical

purity that God wants for his people.

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This is meant to be connected

to their religious experience.

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Obviously it's within

the Book of Leviticus.

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That one makes sense.

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Another one.

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Is hygienic.

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Some people have seen that like, oh, pork,

you know, it has all these properties and

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it's not necessarily good for your health.

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Maybe.

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The fourth one is symbolic.

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The, the idea that you have wholeness

and you have un wholeness or

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incompleteness, and God's trying to give

them a picture in an image by these.

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These restrictions to say, I want, I want

you to do the, the one that's whole and

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pure and closer to the ideal and the norm.

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All of these have their

pluses and the minuses.

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I'm not entirely sure I'm convinced

of any necessary one being this

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is the rightest one, right?

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They all seem to have some kind of.

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Potential explanatory power.

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But which one?

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I'm not sure.

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Do you have a strong opinion either way?

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Man, I don't, it, it's, it's hard when

you, like, you get into every animal

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that parts the hoof and then you get

into the animals that walk on their paws.

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And so it's hard when we get into the

detail levels, they're trying to figure

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out, okay, where, which one of those four.

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Options fits best with Right.

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Something like that.

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Right.

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So I, I don't specifically have a, a dog

in the fight on that one, so to speak.

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Yeah.

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And the, at the end of the

day, it doesn't matter.

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It just is what God said.

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J Jay Gordon Winham this is the guy I

referred to quite a bit for this book.

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So he, I don't know what

his commentary's called.

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Do you know which one it is?

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Off the top of your head?

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I know you know this one.

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I know the author.

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I don't know.

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This is, hold on.

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You know what?

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You do your thing.

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Okay.

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And I will bring it up in a second here.

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We'll transition over to, to chapter 12.

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We can come back and, and hit

that, that book, N-I-C-O-T, Nikko.

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Oh N-I-C-O-T.

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J Gordon.

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J Winham.

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Yeah.

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He's, it's, that's, it's a thick book.

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Yeah.

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Don't be too discouraged by that.

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But it's one of my favorites.

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Gordon Winham does great

work on the Leviticus.

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On Leviticus.

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I think numbers too.

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Yeah.

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Deals with Hebrew.

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In it, in the text, you're gonna

come across some Hebrew words,

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but yeah, maybe there's an easier

one I can find for you guys.

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But anyway, that's one

that I've been using.

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Yeah.

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Well, chapter 12, we get into the loss

for purification after a, a woman gives

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birth to a child and there are different

rules for a male child and a female child.

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The male child's purification came

out to about 40 days before she was

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going to be able to be clean again.

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And the, for a female child, it comes

out to about 74 days if I'm reading

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things right there before she was

gonna be able to be clean again.

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This doesn't have anything to

do with the superiority of males

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over females or anything else.

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No one's exactly sure why one was

longer than the other, other than

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the, what we know is at the end, the,

the sacrifices for atonement to make

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her clean were the same, regardless.

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And so it wasn't as though one

required more than the other one.

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But these are just, again, some of

God's law, some of God's regulations

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and rules as to why he wanted his people

to, to behave the way that they did.

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So the male children, 40 days of

purification, female child, 70 foot.

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Four days of purification, but for

both, they came and they offered their

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sacrifice to bring them back and make

them right before the Lord at the end.

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Yeah.

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So it's actually, it does

speak to the equality.

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Both require a sacrifice.

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Yeah.

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Both require atonement and I

think that's, that's a big thing.

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Yeah.

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We read with 2026 eyes and we can

see like, oh man, this is different.

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There's more days for this

person versus that person.

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And yet this does highlight

the value of the ladies.

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It may, it may not seem that way to you

because again, we're looking at it from

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our vantage point versus that culture.

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Ladies, were not as well

esteemed as they are today.

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Mm-hmm.

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And here God is showing no.

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Both require both require

some kind of atoning work.

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Purification rather.

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Yeah.

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Let's look.

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Flip over to the New Testament as we

are beginning to wind Matthew down.

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We are, are getting towards the end here.

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Remember, I know it's, it's

separate from where we're at now.

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It's been a while ago, but this is all

passion week stuff that's taken place.

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This is all after the triumphal entry.

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And so this is nearing the end.

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In fact, in chapter 26, the first part

of it, this is gonna take us in our

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reading today, all the way up to where

Jesus sits down in the upper room with

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his disciples to have that Passover.

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But the, the.

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The heat has been turned up.

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We've seen, again, Jesus against

the religious leaders and it's

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been ratcheting up higher and

higher and higher and higher.

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And finally, they, they agree it's,

it's time now is when we have to take

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him out, but Jesus has been predicting

that this is gonna take place.

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We see another crucifixion

prediction right as Chapter 26 opens.

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Meanwhile, the people at that time

are gathering in the, the court of

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Caiaphas, the Palace of Caiaphas.

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There.

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Plotting how they can take him by

stealth and kill him by stealth.

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Why?

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Because they were afraid

of the people they knew.

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If they went to the Temple Mountain

and tried to arrest him, they

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may have a ride on their hands.

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So they need to figure

out how can they do this?

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How can they go by stealth and get him?

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We'll talk about Judas

in just a second here.

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Interject this scene back in Bethany.

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This is the scene at, at the

house of Simon, the leper.

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And here you have the anointing

of Jesus, most likely.

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Again, Mary Magdalene is

the one that's doing this.

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She's taking this very expensive ointment

that would've cost a year's salary.

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She's anointing probably not only his

head, but also from other testimony his.

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Feet as well with this, which

there would've been enough

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ointment in the jar to do both.

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So, because John emphasizes one and the

other gospel writers emphasized the other,

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we don't need to be panicked about that.

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And this is where, again, I think you've

made the comment in the past about

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doing something beautiful for Christ.

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And we see that again here with

this offering of the, the ointment.

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Yeah.

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Don't get this confused

with another story.

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This is Luke chapter seven, where.

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There is a woman of the city

who was a sinner and she wipes

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Jesus' feet with her hair.

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She cleans him.

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And that's what Simon, the Pharisee Right.

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It's a different story.

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So that's, it's really unfortunate.

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This is how God worked

this out with both Simons.

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I know, that's, I

understand the confusion.

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Yeah.

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There's something beautiful there.

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I like that I verse eight.

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Someone says, why this waste?

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And notice here, it doesn't

say Judas in specific here.

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It says the disciples saw

it, they were indignant.

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So this isn't just Judas, this is all

of them, perhaps with Judas at the lead.

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But they say, why this waste?

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There is no such thing as

waste for Jesus, right?

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You never give him too much.

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And I know that sometimes it's frowned

upon because you wanna be prudent and

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wise and stewardly with your funds.

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And I get that.

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But it's impossible to, to

waste anything for Jesus.

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Whenever you give yourself for

him and you give, whether it's

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your life, your resources, your

time, you're never wasting.

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It's always going to be rewarded and

returned to you and multiplied measure.

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Yeah.

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Right on the heels of this.

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This may have been the, the straw

that broke the camel's back for Judas.

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'cause Judas goes out from here and

goes to agree to betray Jesus and,

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and this is really the aposty of

Jesus, of Judas that we're witnessing.

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Lemme get that right.

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The aposty of Judas that we're

witnessing firsthand here in verses 14

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through 16 when he agrees toray Jesus.

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And we just read this back in Exodus.

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So note here, Exodus 2132 is where

we find out that the price of a

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slave was 30 pieces of silver.

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And that's what.

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Is agreed upon between the Pharisees and

Judas when he agrees to turn Jesus over.

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Meanwhile Jesus goes on to the

upper room to organize the Passover.

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He sends his disciples ahead of him and

he prophesies and says there's gonna

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be somebody there when you meet them.

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Then tell them this, and this is

how it all is going to work out.

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So it says.

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Here in verse 19, worth noting.

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'cause it's a key time marker

that they prepared the Passover.

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We can talk about this more probably

in the next episode or two, but this is

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the Passover meal and so that tells us,

that gives us a time marker for when

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it is that Jesus is gonna be killed.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so that's point

important for us to, to note.

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Well, let's wrap up this episode

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, thanks for your word and

for our, our time in it today.

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We thank you for just being able

to see examples of of how much you

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care about our holiness be, be it

Leviticus, chapter 11 or Chapter 10,

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with Nadab and Abba, who help us to

be careful about how we approach you,

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how we worship you, and we want to

be those that worship you in, in full

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integrity and with great intentionality

and offer you what you're due.

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Thank you for Christ, that we don't have

to worry about animals making us clean

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or unclean anymore, but that we are clean

in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

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So we pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Hey, keep reading those Bibles.

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You're doing a great job.

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We are trucking along through

the year, and we'll be back with

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you again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you then.

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