VAYIKRA and [יהוהI] called…Leviticus 1:1-6:7

VAYIKRA and [יהוה] called…Leviticus 1:1-6:7

Leviticus: > Latin – about Levites – misleading – it’s about those CALLED – VAYIKRA – AND HE CALLED. 

A book about holiness and sacrifice, for purity in life and separation and distinction from the world – purity of life, of action, thought befitting a priestly nation as Matt 5:18 and Rev 2. 

The divine call of Lev 11:44 embedded in the midst of the dietary laws and the Sabbath: Be holy for I am holy, echoed in 1st Peter 2:13. This book has the fragrance of Kedusha>holiness.

Rom 12: You’re to be a living sacrifice.

Chapter 1. And YHWH called… 

Tittle of Moses – small Aleph – pictograph of the oxe = strength. Meaning,  when YHWH calls somebody, that person’s strength must be made small – humble. 

If we’re not called by YHWH to life – if we haven’t been humbled by recognizing our sin condition…if our strength hasn’t been made small and if we don’t approach this book – YHWH’s teaching and instruction humbly, but in pride – our own strength….we’ll take issue with almost all the commandments and instructions written here. 

1. He’s our eternal sacrifice
2. He’s transferred us into an eternal priesthood 
3. and constructed a new temple! 

Reconciliation to יהוה were accomplished by these 3 things! 

These were the objects of atonement for sin, fulfilled and thus transferred to a higher order by Yahusha. 

Keeping Shabbat, observing purity, the Feasts and keeping the dietary requirements and so on, had nothing to do with atonement for sin. 

He did NOT end these commandments!

And YHWH called…to Moshe, and spoke to him out of the Tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 2 Speak to the children of Yisrael, and say to them, If any man of you bring an offering to יהוה…

Any man, even a heathen, a mans faith isn’t the accident of his birth, it’s not of  genealogies, not of bloodlines. 

you shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock…

3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation before YHWH. 4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make keporah for him. 5 And he shall kill the bull before YHWH: and the Kohanim, Aharon’s sons, shall bring the dahm, and sprinkle the dahm all around upon the altar that is by the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation. 6 And he shall skin the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces…

7 And the sons of Aharon the kohen shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire: 8 And the Kohanim, Aharon’s sons, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire that is upon the altar:

Chapter 1. The Burnt Offering/Olah – ascend: a voluntary sacrifice, distinct from a obligatory sacrifice, for a worshipper to draw close and fellowship, whenever a mans consciousness prompted him. If he was feeling estranged from his Elohim. Open to all men, even the believing heathen from a foreign countries – wild branches – the YAH fearer.

Chapter 2. Grain Offering/Minchah –Nacha-to lead – bloodless:

And when any will offer a grain offering to YHWH, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense on it: 2 And he shall bring it to Aharon’s sons the Kohanim: and he shall take from it his handful of the flour of it, and of the oil of it, with all the frankincense of it; and the kohen shall burn the remembrance portion of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet fragrance to YHWH: 

Grain Offering/Minchah –Nacha-to lead – bloodless: Cain brought forth a Minchah, but Abel brought a Minchah and an Olah. For the very poor, a dove is the offering of the very poor, a dove doesn’t have the strength to fight back. YHWH views this sacrifice as if he had offered his very soul.

Chapter 3. Shalom Offering/Shalamin: a celebratory meal taken from the altar back home. 

And if his offering is a sacrifice of a shalom offering, if he offer it from the herd; whether it be a male, or female, he shall offer it without blemish before YHWH. 2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation: and Aharon’s sons the Kohanim shall sprinkle the dahm upon the altar all around. 

Shalom Offering/Shalamin: a celebrational meal taken from the altar back home. His peace is brought through your gates to your family. What’s on His table (altar) goes on yours – what’s on yours had better match what He puts on His. When you eat prepare your table as unto YHWH.

Chapter 4. The Sin Offering/Hata – to remove from life 

And YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2 Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, If a being shall sin through ignorance against any of the mitzvoth of YHWH concerning things which should not be done, and shall do any of them: 3 If the anointed kohen commits sin, like the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to YHWH for a sin offering. 

The Sin Offering/Hata – to remove from life: for breach of trust and unintentional sin. This sacrifice proceeds the Burnt/Olah.

Chapter 5. Guilt/Trespass/Asham – ignorant self-destruction, for breach of trust. 

And if a being sins, and hears the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he has seen, or known of it; if he does not reveal it, then he shall bear his iniquity. 

Ivrim 13:10 We have an altar, 4 from which they have no right to eat, who serve the earthly Tent of Meeting. 11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose dahm is brought into the Kadosh-Place by the Kohen HaGadol for sin, are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore gauvh also, that He might set-apart the people of Yisrael with His own dahm, suffered outside the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

An example, the Shalamin Offering could be eaten from the temple altar, The Mikhpad altar on which Yahushawas crucified you have no right to eat from…because everything is burnt to ash, that’s the purpose of that altar. You have no right to eat from.

Chapter 5. Guilt/Trespass/Asham – ignorant self-destruction, for breach of trust.

Background on the qualifications of a High Priest and the trespass offering and how it affects Yahusha’s qualification:

Lev 5:1 And if a being sins, and hears the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he has seen, or known of it; if he does not reveal it, then he shall bear his iniquity. 

If someone swears this oath and you hear them, are a witness of it and know truth but don’t reveal it then you’re in sin and will bear the iniquity.

Lev 10:6 And Moshe said to Aharon, and to El-Azar and to Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, 2 neither tear your clothes; lest you die.

You rip your priestly garments and you annul your position, you’re disqualified and you’ll die.

 YHWH has a provision: Ex 28:32 And there shall be a hole in the top of it(the priestly garment) in the midst of it: it shall have a binding of woven work all around the hole of it, as it were the hole of strong armor that it be not torn.

Prophets have to have a divine message.

Kingdoms have to have a king.

Lets see how Yahusha fulfilled all these roles in perfect sequencing to be able to provide our redemption according to our Torah portion.

Matt 1 and 2 establish what?

That Yahushais King. – Malki.

The mantle of priesthood is always handed down thru Micva.

The Jordan river is a geographic point of change…remember principalities  study your geneology and operate geographically.

Fundamental Torah principle: You have to be a priest before you can offer a sacrifice.

Matt 3:13 Then Yahusha came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be immersed by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying, ‘I need to be immersed by You, and you are coming to me? But Yahusha answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. 

Immersed as a King – Malki 

rose as…Righteousness – a king who fulfills all righteousness is a 

Malki-Tzedik! The Transference.

(Yochannan the legitimate High Priest)

Malki – Tzedik

Matt 26:57 And they that had laid hold on Yahushaled Him away to Qayapha the Kohen HaGadol, where the Sophrim and the zechanim were assembled. 

58 But Kepha followed Him from far off to the Kohen HaGadol’s palace, and went in, and sat with the avadim, to see the result. 59 Now the main Kohanim, and zechanim, and all the Sanhedrin, sought false witness against Yeshua, to put Him to death; 60 But found none: yes, though many false witnesses came, yet they found none. At the end came two false witnesses, 61 And said, This Fellow said, I am able to destroy the Beit HaMikdash of Eloah, and to build it in three days. 62 And the Kohen HaGadol stood, and said to Him, Don’t You respond? What is all this that these witness against You? 63 But Yahushakept His silence. And the Kohen HaGadol answered and said to Him, I put You under oath before the living Eloah, that You tell us whether You are The Moshiach, the Son of the Almighty. (Caiaphas invoked the first law of the trespass offering-Lev 5:1- Yahushahad to answer him or He would have been in sin, a sinner, defiled and disqualified to represent us) 64 Yahushasaid to him, You have said it: nevertheless I say to you, (Yahushahad to say, not Caiaphas!) After this you shall see the Ben Adam sitting as the right hand of YHWH, and coming in the clouds of the shamayim. 65 Then the Kohen HaGadol tore his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy (He should die-Lev 10:6 – Oh, Oh – he just nullified his priesthood! Who’s going to officiate over the morning sacrifice, who’s going to officiate over the Passover sacrifice?); what further need do we have for witnesses? See, now you have heard His blasphemy. 66 What do you think? They answered and said, He is guilty of death. 67 Then they did spit in His face, and beat Him; and others slapped Him with the palms of their hands, 68 Saying, Prophesy to us, Oh You Moshiach, Who is he that smote You?

Ivrim 7:20 And inasmuch as He (Yahusha– the Malki-Tzedik) was not made priest without an oath 21 (for they have become priests without an oath, but he with an oath by Him…)

The oath of the trespass offering! The ultimate test of qualification for the priesthood.

John 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had impaled Yeshua, took His garments, and made four parts, 6 to every soldier a part; and also His coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see whose it should be: that the Katuv might be fulfilled, which said, They parted My clothes among them, and for My robe they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

“Let us not tear it”, because it’s the High Priests tunic and it can’t be torn otherwise Yeshua’s priesthood is nullified and He hasn’t sat down yet!

Ivrim 10:9 Then He said, Behold, I come to do Your will, O vuvh. He takes away the first sacrificial system, that He may establish the second. 10 By that desire we are now kadosh through the offering of the body of gauvh ha Moshiach once for all. 11 And every kohen stands daily serving and offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of Elohim…

The High Priest can only sit down once the sacrifice is fully consumed. As High Priest he has to stand until the sacrifice is completed. Yahusha can’t sit down until ‘it is finished.’