English translation: Blessed art Thou,
YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe,
who has made us set apart through His commandments and commanded us to actively
study Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our
mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May we and our offspring,
and the offspring of Your people, the House of Israel, may we all, together,
know Your Name and study Your Torah for the sake of fulfilling Your desire.
Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Blessed are You,
YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, Who chose us from all the nations and
gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah. Lev 6:8
And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 6:9 “Command Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This
is the Torah of the burnt offering: This is the burnt offering, because it is
burned on the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar is kept
burning on it.
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ב צַו אֶת-אַהֲרֹן
וְאֶת-בָּנָיו לֵאמֹר, זֹאת תּוֹרַת הָעֹלָה: הִוא הָעֹלָה עַל מוֹקְדָה עַל-הַמִּזְבֵּחַ
כָּל-הַלַּיְלָה, עַד-הַבֹּקֶר, וְאֵשׁ הַמִּזְבֵּחַ, תּוּקַד בּוֹ.
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2 Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is
the law of the burnt-offering: it is that which goeth up on its firewood upon
the altar all night unto the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept
burning thereby.
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Or this is the ascent offering on account of its glow
(mokdah) on the altar all night until morning, the fire of the altar shall be
kept glowing (tukad) upon it.
The words “mokdah” and “tukad”
come from the root word “yakad” which means to kindle. The “mokdah” was
possibly the burning coals that came from the logs (much like our charcoal used
when we barbeque) It was from this “mokdah” that coals were taken for the
golden altar of incense (this is also possibly why Aharons two sons were killed
because they did not take coals from the brazen altar but rather took fire from
elsewhere - strange fire) This word
“mokdah” is written in the Torah scroll with a diminished “mem”
“Mem” is the Hebrew letter
that speaks of water or life. We believe that it is the Ruach of YHVH that
brings and gives us life.
Luk 3:16
Yoḥanan answered, saying
to them all, “I indeed immerse you in water, but One mightier than I is coming,
whose sandal straps I am not worthy to loosen. He shall immerse you in the
Set-apart Spirit and fire - וחנן המטביל
The outpouring of the Ruach on
the day of Shavuot (translated as Pentecost from the Greek but Torah calls it
Shavuot in Hebrew) is compared to fire.
Act 2:3
And there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and settled on
each one of them.
The messengers of YHVH are
also compared with fire - Heb
1:7 And of the messengers indeed He says, “… who is making His
messengers spirits and His servants a flame of fire.” Psa_104:4.
Heb 12:29 for indeed,
our Elohim is a consuming fire. Deu_4:24.
The
dimished “mem” could refer to mere human vessels that YHVH chooses to fill with
the ‘’burning fire’’ of His Ruach. This flame is continually kindled by the
study and obedience to Torah.
The
diminished “mem” could also refer to someone who allows these burning coals to
continually purify them of all unclean things – because only when we are
cleansed can we live in relationships that bring life. One of the most important issues of offerings
was to restore fractured relationships.
Isa 6:6
And one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which
he had taken with the tongs from the altar.
Isa 6:7
And he touched my mouth with it, and said, “See, this has touched your
lips; your crookedness is taken away, and your sin is covered.”
Even
though the temple has been destroyed Yahshua came to kindle a flame amongst
those who would follow him. The Messiah will rebuild the temple and only those
who have the same “mokdah” as Messiah will rule and reign with him.
Luk 12:49
“I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
Luk 12:50
“But I have an immersion to be immersed with, and how distressed I am
until it is accomplished!
Luk 12:51
“Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? I say to you, no, but
rather division.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of יהוה shall come
as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great
noise, and the elements shall melt with intense heat, and the earth and the
works that are in it shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing all
these are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be in
set-apart behaviour and reverence,
2Pe 3:12 looking for and
hastening the coming of the day of Elohim, through which the heavens shall be
destroyed, being set on fire, and the elements melt with intense heat!
2Pe 3:13 But according
to His promise we wait for a renewed heavens and a renewed earth Isa_65:17,
Isa_66:22 in which righteousness dwells.
1Co 3:13 each one’s work
shall be revealed, for the day shall show it up, because it is revealed by
fire. And the fire shall prove the work of each one, what sort it is.
1Co 3:14 If anyone’s
work remains, which he has built on, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 If anyone’s
work is burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, but so as
through fire.
The Prophet Joel declared that the ‘’day of YHVH’’ would
be like a consuming fire – Joel 2:3
Joe
2:30 “And I shall give signs
in the heavens and upon the earth: blood and fire and columns of smoke,
Joe 2:31 the sun is
turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great
and awesome day of יהוה.
The offering system is a
pattern of how we are to live our lives in Messiah – Rom 12.
Lev 6:10 ‘And the priest shall put on his linen
garment, and put his linen trousers on his body, and shall take up the ashes of
the burnt offering which the fire has consumed on the altar, and shall put them
beside the altar.
Lev 6:11 ‘And he shall take off his garments, and put
on other garments, and shall bring the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
(Num 19 – Ashes of the red heifer- like Messiah, his contamination brings
cleansing for those outside the camp – see also Heb 13:)
Heb 13:10 We have a
slaughter-place from which those serving the Tent have no authority to
eat.
Heb 13:11 For the bodies
of those beasts whose blood is brought into the Set-apart Place by the high
priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
Heb 13:12 And so יהושע also
suffered outside the gate, to set apart the people with His own blood.
Heb 13:13 Let us, then,
go to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
Heb 13:14 For we have no
lasting city here, but we seek the one coming.
Heb 13:15 Through Him
then, let us continually offer up a slaughter offering of praise to
Elohim, that is, the fruit[c] of our lips, giving thanks to His Name. Footnote:
cOr “bulls of our lips” – See Hos_14:2.
Heb 13:16 And do not
forget to do good and to share, for with such slaughter offerings Elohim
is well pleased.
Lev 6:12 ‘And the fire on the altar is kept burning on
it, it is not put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and
arrange the burnt offering on it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace
offerings –
Lev 6:13 fire is continually kept burning on the
altar, it is not put out.
Shaul possibly is referring to
this burnt offering when in Romans 12.
Rom 12:1 I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through
the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart,
well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship.
Rom 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind, so that you prove what is
that good and well-pleasing and perfect desire of Elohim.
Rom 12:3
For I say, through the favour which has been given to me, to everyone
who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he should think,
but to think soberly, as Elohim has given to each a measure of belief.
Lev 6:14 ‘And this is the Torah of the grain offering:
The sons of Aharon shall bring it near before יהוה, in front of
the altar,
Lev 6:15 and shall take from it with his hand from the
fine flour of the grain offering, and from its oil, and all the frankincense
which is on the grain offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet
fragrance, as its remembrance portion to יהוה.
Lev 6:16 ‘Then Aharon and his sons eat the rest of it.
It is eaten with unleavened bread, in the set-apart place. They eat it in the
courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 6:17 ‘It is not baked with leaven. I have given it
to them as their portion of My offerings made by fire, it is most set-apart,
like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Lev 6:18 ‘All the males among the children of Aharon
eat it – a law forever in your generations concerning the offerings made by fire
to יהוה. All that touches them is to be
set-apart.’”
Lev 6:19 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 6:20 “This is the offering of Aharon and his sons,
which they bring near to יהוה, beginning on
the day when he is anointed: one-tenth of an ĕphah of fine flour as a daily
grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it at night.
Lev 6:21 “It is made on a griddle with oil. Bring it
in mixed, bring the baked portions of the grain offering near, a sweet
fragrance to יהוה.
Lev 6:22 “And the anointed priest from among his sons,
who is in his place, prepares it – a law forever to יהוה. All of it has to be burned,
Lev 6:23 and every grain offering for the priest is
completely burned, it is not eaten.”
Lev 6:24 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 6:25 “Speak to Aharon and to his sons, saying,
‘This is the Torah of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering
is slaughtered, the sin offering is slaughtered before יהוה, it is most set-apart.
Lev 6:26 ‘The priest who is making atonement eats it,
in the set-apart place it is eaten, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 6:27 ‘All that touches its flesh is to be
set-apart. And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you wash that on
which it was sprinkled, in a set-apart place.
Lev 6:28 ‘But the earthen vessel in which it is cooked
is to be broken. And if it is cooked in a bronze pot, then it is scoured and
rinsed in water.
Lev 6:29 ‘Every male among the priests eats it, it is
most set-apart.
Lev 6:30 ‘And no sin offering from which any of the
blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting, to make atonement in the set-apart
place, is eaten, it is burned with fire.
Lev 7:1 ‘And this is the Torah of the guilt offering
– it is most set-apart.
Lev 7:2
‘The guilt offering is slaughtered in the place where they slaughter the
burnt offering, and its blood is sprinkled on the altar all around.
Lev 7:3
‘Then he brings from it all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that
covers the entrails,
Lev 7:4
and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the
appendage on the liver, which he removes with the kidneys.
Lev 7:5
‘And the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire
to יהוה. It is a guilt
offering.
Lev 7:6 ‘Every male among the priests eats it. It is
eaten in the set-apart place, it is most set-apart.
Lev 7:7 ‘The guilt offering is like the sin offering,
there is one Torah for them both: the priest who makes atonement with it, it is
his.
Lev 7:8 ‘And the priest who brings anyone’s burnt offering,
the skin of the burnt offering which he has brought is the priest’s, it is his.
Lev 7:9 ‘And every grain offering that is baked in
the oven and all that is prepared in the stewing-pot, or on a griddle, is the
priest’s who brings it, it is his.
Lev 7:10 ‘And every grain offering mixed with oil, or
dry, is for all the sons of Aharon, for all alike.
Why
are the sin and guilt offering called most set apart of the fire offerings?
(Lev 2:3 tells us that the grain offering is the most set apart of all the fire
offerings)
The
sin and guilt offering (also the burnt offering) were offered on the northern
side of the altar (mizbeach). “North in Hebrew is “tzaphon” and speaks of that
which is hidden or a mystery.
Lev 7:11 ‘And this is the Torah of the slaughtering of
peace offerings which is brought to יהוה:
Lev 7:12 ‘If he brings it for a thanksgiving, then he
shall bring with the slaughtering of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with
oil, and unleavened thin cakes anointed with oil, or cakes of finely blended
flour mixed with oil.
Lev 7:13 ‘Besides the cakes, he brings as his offering
leavened bread together with the slaughtering of thanksgiving of his peace
offering.
Lev 7:14 ‘And from it he shall bring one cake from
each offering as a contribution to יהוה: to the priest
who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering, it is his.
Lev 7:15 ‘As for the flesh of the slaughtering of his
peace offering for thanksgiving, it is eaten the same day it is offered, he
does not leave any of it until morning.
Lev 7:16 ‘And if the offering he brings is a vow or a
voluntary offering, it is eaten the same day that he brings his slaughtering,
and what is left of it is eaten the next day,
Lev 7:17 but whatever is left of the flesh of the
slaughtering on the third day is burned with fire.
Lev 7:18 ‘However, if any of the flesh of his peace
offering is eaten at all on the third day, it is not accepted. It is not
reckoned to him who brings it, it is unclean to him, and the being who eats of
it bears his crookedness.
Lev 7:19 ‘And the flesh that touches that which is
unclean is not eaten, it is burned with fire. And as for the clean flesh, all
who are clean eat of it.
Lev 7:20 ‘But the being who eats the flesh of the
peace offering that belongs to יהוה, while he is
unclean, that being shall be cut off from his people.
In essence, tum’ah, “spiritual impurity,” is definable as the
“absence of set apartness”
This is one the reasons we submit to a mikvah (immersion) to
acknowledge our impurity and receive cleansing from YHVH.
Lev 7:21 ‘And when a being who touches that which is
unclean, of the uncleanness of man, or of the uncleanness of beast, or of any
unclean swarming creature, and shall eat the flesh of the peace offering that
belongs to יהוה, that being
shall be cut off from his people.’
That is why Shaul advises us before we take the
Passover to examine ourselves that we are discerning the body of Messiah in the
proper way. Remember the times of our ignorance He has winked at, in these coming
days we will no longer get away with our ignorance and disobedience. (1 Cor
11:23-32;Acts 17:30)
Lev 7:22 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 7:23 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying,
‘Do not eat any fat, of bull or sheep or goat.
Lev 7:24 ‘And the fat of a dead body, and the fat of
what is torn, is used for any purpose, but you do not eat it at all.
Lev 7:25 ‘For whoever eats the fat of the beast of
which men bring as an offering made by fire to יהוה, even the
being who eats it shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 7:26 ‘And do not eat any blood in any of your
dwellings, of bird or of beast.
Lev 7:27 ‘Any being who eats any blood, even that
being shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
Lev 7:28 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 7:29 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying,
‘He who brings his peace offering to יהוה brings his
offering to יהוה from the
slaughtering of his peace offering.
Lev 7:30 ‘With his own hands he bring the offerings
made by fire to יהוה. He brings the
fat with the breast, to be waved as a wave offering before יהוה.
Lev 7:31 ‘And the priest shall burn the fat on the
altar, but the breast shall be Aharon’s and his sons.’
Lev 7:32 ‘And the right thigh you give to the priest
as a contribution from your peace offerings.
Lev 7:33 ‘He among the sons of Aharon, who brings the
blood of the peace offering, and the fat, the right thigh is his for a portion.
Lev 7:34 ‘For the breast of the wave offering and the
thigh of the contribution I have taken from the children of Yisra’ĕl, from
their peace offerings, and I give them to Aharon the priest and to his sons, as
a law forever, from the children of Yisra’ĕl.’ ”
Lev 7:35 This is the anointed portion for Aharon and
the anointed portion for his sons, from the offerings made by fire to יהוה, on the day when Mosheh presented them to
serve as priests to יהוה,
Lev 7:36 which יהוה commanded to
be given to them by the children of Yisra’ĕl, on the day that He anointed them,
a law forever throughout their generations.
Lev 7:37 This is the Torah of the burnt offering, of
the grain offering, and of the sin offering, and of the guilt offering, and of
the ordinations, and of the peace offering,
Lev 7:38 which יהוה commanded
Mosheh on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Yisra’ĕl to
bring their offerings to יהוה, in the
Wilderness of Sinai.
The hidden mystery of the
offerings becomes clear when we see offerings in the light of the restoration
of all things – ‘’tikkun olam’’
1Pe 1:2 chosen according
to the foreknowledge of Elohim the Father, set apart by the Spirit unto
obedience[a] and
sprinkling of the blood of יהושע Messiah: Favour and peace be increased to
you.
1Pe 1:3 Blessed be the
Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, who according to His great
compassion has caused us to be born again to a living expectation through the
resurrection of יהושע Messiah from the dead,
1Pe 1:4 to an
inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, having been kept in the
heavens for you,
1Pe 1:5 who are
protected by the power of Elohim through belief, for a deliverance ready to be
revealed in the last time,
1Pe 1:6 in which you
exult, even though for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by
manifold trials,
1Pe 1:7 in order that
the proving of your belief – much more precious than gold that perishes, and
proven by fire – might be found to result in praise and respect and esteem at
the revelation of יהושע Messiah,
Act 3:19 “Repent
therefore and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, in order that times
of refreshing might come from the presence of the Master,
Act 3:20 and that He
sends יהושע Messiah,
pre-appointed for you,
Act 3:21 whom heaven
needs to receive until the times of restoration of all matters, of which
Elohim spoke through the mouth of all His set-apart prophets since of
old.
Even though there is
no offerings or temple service on earth there is still a temple and an altar
that is operating in the presence of YHVH.
Mat 20:23 And He
said to them, “You shall indeed drink My cup, and you shall be immersed with
the immersion that I am immersed with.
(Blessed are
you YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have given us your Torah of
truth, and have planted everlasting life within our midst. Blessed are you,
YHVH giver of the Torah – Amein.)
