Redeemed by the Blood
Leviticus 23:26-32 - New International Version (NIV)
26 The
Lord said to Moses, 27 “The tenth day of
this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny
yourselves, and present a food offering to the Lord. 28 Do not do any work
on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you
before the Lord your God. 29 Those who do not
deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people. 30 I will destroy from
among their people anyone who does any work on that day. 31 You shall do no work at all. This is
to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. 32 It is a day of
sabbath rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the
ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your
sabbath.”
Who did the
Lord speak to (verse 26)?
What is to
happen on the “tenth day of this seventh month” (verse 27)?
Who is
atonement made for (verse 28)?
What will
happen to “those who do not deny themselves” (verse 29)?
Who will be
destroyed (verse 30)?
How much work
can the Israelites do on this day (verse 31)?
When is the
sabbath to be observed (verse 32)?
Leviticus
16:6-22 - New International Version (NIV)
6 “Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make
atonement for himself and his household. 7 Then he is to
take the two goats and present them before the Lord
at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 8 He is to cast
lots for the two goats—one lot for the Lord
and the other for the scapegoat. 9 Aaron shall bring the
goat whose lot falls to the Lord
and sacrifice it for a sin offering. 10 But the goat
chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to be used for making atonement by
sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat.
11 “Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make
atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for
his own sin offering. 12 He is to take a censer full of
burning coals from the altar before the Lord
and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the
curtain. 13 He is to put the incense on the fire before
the Lord, and the smoke of the
incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law,
so that he will not die. 14 He is to take some of the
bull’s blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement
cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the
atonement cover.
15 “He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the
people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the
bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it. 16 In
this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the
uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He
is to do the same for the tent of meeting, which is among them in the midst of
their uncleanness. 17 No one is to be in the tent of
meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place
until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the
whole community of Israel.
18 “Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He shall
take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all
the horns of the altar. 19 He shall sprinkle some of the
blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to consecrate it from
the uncleanness of the Israelites.
20 “When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place,
the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat. 21 He
is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the
wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the
goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of
someone appointed for the task. 22 The goat will carry
on itself all their sins to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the
wilderness.
What is Aaron
offering the bull for (verse 6)?
Where are the
two goats to be presented (verse 7)?
What happens
to the goat whose lot falls to the Lord (verse 9)?
What is the
goat whose lot falls to the scapegoat used for (verse 10)?
Why is Aaron
to slaughter the bull (verse 11)?
Why is Aaron
to “take a censer full of burning coals from the alter before the Lord and
two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the
curtain. He is to put the incense on the
fire before the Lord, and the smoke from the incense will conceal the atonement
cover” (verses 12 & 13)?
Where is the
bull’s blood sprinkled (verse 14)?
Who is the
goat a sin offering for (verse 15)?
Why is Aaron
to make an atonement “for the Most Holy Place” (verse 16)?
Who is Aaron
making atonement for (verse 17)?
How does Aaron
make atonement for the alter that is before the Lord (verses 18 and 19)?
What does
Aaron do with the live goat (verse 21)?
Where does the
goat carry the sins (verse 22)?
In your opinion, how does the purposes of the
sacrifices revealed by Leviticus 16:6-22 help explain why Leviticus 23:26-32 says
that people who don’t deny themselves on the Day of Atonement are to be cut off
from their people?
12 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was
customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do
you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city,
and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Say
to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room,
where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15 He
will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for
us there.”
16 The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as
Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
17 When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. 18 While
they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you
will betray me—one who is eating with me.”
19 They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, “Surely you
don’t mean me?”
20 “It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips bread into
the bowl with me. 21 The Son of Man will go just as it
is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would
be better for him if he had not been born.”
22 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given
thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my
body.”
23 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them,
and they all drank from it.
24 “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out
for many,” he said to them. 25 “Truly I tell you, I will
not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new
in the kingdom of God.”
26 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
When did Jesus disciples ask Him “where do
you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover” (verse
12)?
Who were the disciples
to meet (verse 13)?
Where were the disciples to make the preparation (verse 15)?
When did Jesus arrive with the twelve (verse 17)?
In your opinion, how is the one who Jesus says will betray
Him in verse 18 like the person who works during the Day of Atonement in
Leviticus 23:26-32?
What did the disciples say (verse 19)?
Who will betray Jesus (verse 20)?
What must “the Son of Man” do (verse 21)?
What did Jesus say to the disciples after He had taken the
bread, broken it and given it to His disciples (verse 22)?
Who drank from the cup (verse 23)?
In your opinion, what did Jesus mean by “this is my blood
of the covenant, which is poured out for many” (verse 24)?
When will Jesus drink “again from the fruit of the vine” (verse
25)?
Where did they go (verse 26)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how does Jesus link the Day of Atonement
that the Israelites are commanded to observe in Leviticus 23:26-32 to the
Passover in Mark 14:12-26?
In your
opinion, what parts of the atonement process that Aaron was to complete in
Leviticus 16:6-22 does the celebration of the Passover in Mark 14:12-26
indicate that Jesus will fulfill?
Hebrews
9:11-22 –
New International Version (NIV)
11 But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are
now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that
is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. 12 He
did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most
Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal
redemption. 13 The blood of goats and bulls and the
ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them
so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then,
will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so
that we may serve the living God!
15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those
who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has
died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first
covenant.
16 In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the
one who made it, 17 because a will is in force only when
somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living. 18 This
is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. 19 When
Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the people, he took the
blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and
sprinkled the scroll and all the people. 20 He said,
“This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.” 21 In
the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything
used in its ceremonies. 22 In fact, the law requires
that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of
blood there is no forgiveness.
Where did Christ,
the “high priest of the good things that are now already here”, go
through (verse 11)?
How did Jesus
enter “the Most Holy Place once for all” (verse 12)?
In your
opinion, what does it mean that the “blood of goats and bulls and the ashes
of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so
that they are outwardly clean” (verse 13)?
In your
opinion, what does it mean that the blood of Christ will “cleanse our
consciences from acts that lead to death” (verse 14)?
Why has Christ
died (verse 15)?
What is
necessary “in the case of a will” (verse 16)?
When does a
will never take effect (verse 17)?
What did Moses
do when he “had proclaimed every command of the law to all the people”
(verse 19)?
What did Moses
say (verse 20)?
What did Moses
sprinkle with blood (verse 21)?
What can there
not be without blood (verse 22)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your
opinion, what ceremonial step that is commanded in Leviticus 23:26-32 does Paul
say in Hebrews 9:11-22 that Jesus completed perfectly?
In your
opinion, how do the words of Jesus in Mark 14:12-26 demonstrate that He
understood that He would do the things just as Paul later proclaimecd
He did in Hebrews 9:11-22?
In your
opinion, what do these passages from Leviticus, Mark and Hebrews teach us about
the sacrifice Jesus made so that sinful people would have the opportunity for
eternal life?
In your
opinion, how should our lives proclaim what Jesus did for us when He entered
the heavenly Most Holy Place once for all?
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