Book Report-Leviticus

Leviticus is not my most favorite book in the Bible, but I did hear about a doctor who became a believer after reading Leviticus. It was so accurate medically that he realized that God had to have been the one to tell Moses these things.

Notes taken from The Wesley Bible.

"The content of Leviticus covers a time period of a month and a half between the erection of the tabernacle (finished on the first day of the first month in the second year, Ex. 40:17) and the departure from Sinai (on the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, Num. 10:11). We must therefore assume that Moses wrote Leviticus during this time, or shortly after."

Leviticus addresses two issues.
#1-God's people must worship the right way inside the tabernacle.
#2-God's people must live the right way outside the place of worship.
(Sounds familiar)

"Leviticus moves us from sacrifice, to ceremonial cleansing, to ethical holiness."

"...Leviticus is addressed to the concerns and needs of a community of believers. If there is sin in their lives, it must be acknowledged. If there is impurity, it must be removed. If there are spiritual defects, they must be purged. Israel must act in these ways not in order to earn holiness, but because she belongs to God and seeks to obey Him."

"..Of course, the summons to be holy is based on the fact that God is holy. God does not ask His people to be something He is not. The difference between God's holiness and our holiness is that His is intrinsic, while we are made holy through fellowship with Him and obedience to His commands. His holiness is His essential character: purity, love, truth. We cannot become God in His essence, but we can, and are expected to, share His character. "You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy."

My favorite verse in Leviticus-19:32- "You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD. "