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Hey, this is a year in the Bible with daily grace. I'm Shelby and I'm here with CJ and today we're in Leviticus 16, 18. And I feel like we just keep circling back to Aaron's sons who died in the tabernacle. We see that here again. Cj, what's going on?
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Yeah, it's pretty bleak. We have to always return to these dead guys. That's the way it is. So if, remember in Leviticus 8, 10, Nadav and Avihu, they rushed into God's presence at the wrong time. Probably just they were just being silly about it, and they weren't giving God the respect he deserved, and he struck them down. So then in Leviticus 16, we hear about them again, because Leviticus 16 is actually going to show the proper way to enter into God's presence, the holy of holies, once per year. And Leviticus 16 is going to give us the. What I call the master reset. And that's something that we can talk about here in a second.
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I would love to talk about that more. Okay, what is a master reset? And what do you mean? You see that here in Leviticus, okay.
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So we've been learning about sin and impurity and how these purification offerings are to scrub that white sheet clean so that God can dwell in the tabernacle. But if you remember, Even in Leviticus 3, there were some mentions of some minor moral offenses or moral infractions that the sin offering and the purification offering deal with. But the problem is, of course, you're going to forget about some and maybe you're going to do others, and eventually those things are going to build up on that white sheet. So Leviticus 16 is the master reset, meaning the tabernacle itself. And God's holy presence is going to be completely scrubbed because. Because there's going to be one goat that's slaughtered, and the high priest is going to bring the blood into the most holy place where God's presence dwells, and then he's slowly going to work outward and some of that blood is going to cleanse the rest of that tabernacle. So it's like taking that sheet to the laundromat or something like that. It's a really deep scrub, I guess, to continue the metaphor. But then the second part of the master reset is something that we're probably more familiar with. We've heard of the scapegoat. And the scapegoat is where the high priest is going to put his hand symbolically on the scapegoat's. Head and is going to transfer all the sins and transgressions and rebellion against God onto that scapegoat, and he's going to send it out into the wilderness, far away from the tabernacle and far away from the Israelite camp. So the sins are being removed far, far, far away. And that's what I mean by a master reset.
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Yeah, I mean, that's definitely a total master reset. So in hearing you describe these things, I'm hearing a lot of things that sound like they're foreshadowing Christ. Am I right in that?
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Yes, of course. So this is sort of the climax of Leviticus. Well, not sort of. This is the climax of Leviticus, and I think we see Christ here perfectly. Christ ends up being both goats. So Hebrews 9, 13, 14 describes Jesus as the goat that cleanses us of our sin. His blood cleanses us of our sin. And also he's the goat who bears our iniquity. Think of the scapegoat. The sins are put on Jesus, not on us. And even more than that, Jesus is also the high priest. So he does all of the functions of the tabernacle. He just says, I'm just going to do it all myself because you guys can't.
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Yeah. So we see Jesus all over the place in this. I think what's so encouraging about these chapters and kind of this master reset that you've described is along the way, we've seen offerings, we've seen sacrifices, we have talked about clean and unclean. And here, like you said, we just see God, like, taking it all to the wandermat and just purifying wholly and completely. And thinking about God's holiness, which we've also seen all throughout the book of Leviticus, it's amazing that he offers to do this for his people. It's really incredible because like you said, these moral sins, like, they're continually committing these, yet God is resetting things, and ultimately he's done that in Christ. So such a helpful picture to help us even understand what Christ has done for us. Thanks for walking us through these chapters, C.J. we just have a couple more episodes left in Leviticus. Yeah, we sure are. So we'll be back tomorrow to talk through more.