15/02/2015

PM February 16th Leviticus 26

February 16th Leviticus 26

Blessings for Obedience

1: Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. 2: Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. 3: If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4: Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5: And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6: And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7: And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8: And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9: For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 10: And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. 11: And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. 12: And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. 13: I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

Punishment for Disobedience

14: But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15: And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17: And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. 18: And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19: And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20: And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. 21: And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. 22: I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. 23: And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; 24: Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 25: And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26: And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27: And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 28: Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29: And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30: And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. 31: And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32: And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33: And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34: Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. 35: As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36: And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37: And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38: And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39: And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. 40: If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; 41: And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: 42: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. 43: The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. 44: And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God. 45: But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD. 46: These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Leviticus 27 F. Dedication and devotion Rules for Dedication

1: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation. 3: And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4: And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. 5: And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 6: And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver. 7: And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 8: But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him. 9: And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. 10: He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy. 11: And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest: 12: And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be. 13: But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation. 14: And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. 15: And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his. 16: And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17: If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand. 18: But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation. 19: And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him. 20: And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. 21: But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's. 22: And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession; 23: Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD. 24: In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong. 25: And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. 26: Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD's firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD's. 27: And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation. 28: Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD. 29: None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death. 30: And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD. 31: And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof. 32: And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD. 33: He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. 34: These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

In Chapter 26 the LORD spells out the blessings on Israel for Obedience and the punishment for Disobedience. The Mosaic Law was a covenant of law and God promised to bless them if they kept the Law and cursed them if they broke it. When Israel broke the Mosaic Law judgment followed but there was always an opportunity for Israel to come and offer a sin offering. If Israel kept short accounts with the Lord and offered animals for their sins then the judgments of God could be avoided. How different christians are in their relationship with the Lord. When a person hears and believes the Gospel and trusts God to bless them completely on the basis of grace then no sin is ever held against them. And God never brings up questions regarding their sin ever again. They are completely forgiven. Israel’s sins were only covered and their was a continual remembrance of their sin but the believer in Christ finds that he has total forgiveness of all his sins. So the believer is not punished for his sins. He is in a state in which he is ‘just as if I’d - never sinned’ – he is justified. But let’s look at the covenant Israel was in. Immediately we see that the covenant was two sided. God had a part and Israel had a part. God said ‘IF’ you live according to my laws and keep the commandment ‘THEN’ I will give you rain, the land will bear fruit, the fruit trees will have fruit, there will be so much harvest that the threshing time will last until it time to gather grapes, The gathering of grapes will last so long that when you have finished it will be time to sow your grain. You will eat your bread until you are completely full, you will live in safety from any enemy, The Lord will give peace in the land and you will sleep with undisturbed nights, there will be no evil beasts in the land, no army will pass through the land, you will chase your enemies and you will destroy they in battle, five men will chase a hundred and a hundred will put a thousand to flight, I the Lord will respect you and make you fruitful and multiply you and establish my covenant with you. You will have so much that you will never finish eating your stored food. I will set my tabernacle in the middle of you and I will not find you abhorrent, I will live among you and l will be your God and you will be my people. If that were all that the Lord had to say then that would have been wonderful but God does not end there. He says… IF you will not listen and obey me THEN…you will be terrorised, you will be consumed and a burning will burn your eyes and you will have sorrow of heart. You will sow but your enemies will eat it. I will be against you and your enemies will kill you, those that hate you will reign over you. You will be afraid of your own shadow. If you refuse to hear me then I will punish you seven times harder than anyone else. The Lord said he would make the heaven like iron (He will not hear their prayers) the earth will be like brass (it will be barren, dry and burnt) All your strength will be spent for no return. The fields will not bear crops, the trees will have no fruit, there will be wild beasts among you that will eat your children, your population will be cut down. The enemy will wage war against you. Ten women will share an oven, you will not have enough to eat. If you still will not hear me then l will cause you to eat your children for famine. Even your enemies will be astonished by your destruction. I will scatter you among the heathen. Those that are left behind will be skittish. But if you confess your sins l will remember the covenant. This is both wonderful in its blessings and fearful in its warnings. It is not the covenant that Christians are in. Next the Lord gives the regulations regarding the dedications. A man from 20 -60 must pay 50 shekels of silver and a woman 30. A 5-20 year old boy was 20 and for a girl 10. 60 years and above male – 15 and a woman 10. However if a man was poor then the priest would estimate the value appropriate. When animals were valued by the priest no exchange of animals was allowed. And the rules of valuation go on and on. In all of these valuations we see that the Lord placed an appropriate value on the offerings made to the Lord.


  • What does the Lord promise Israel if they keep the Law?
  • What does the Lord warn Israel if they don't keep the Law?
  • What were the basic rules for dedication to the Lord?

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