Week 8 (Days 050-056): How do we know which laws in Leviticus apply today?

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Jerusalem Council, Leviticus, Emma Dotter, Kirsten McCloskey
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Leviticus, Passover, Holy Spirit, Pentecost
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Leviticus, Passover, Colossians
4. 15:00 – 20:00: Leviticus
5. 20:00 – 25:00: Yahweh, Leviticus, Numbers
6. 25:00 – 30:00: Numbers
7. 30:00 – 30:57: Colossians

Notable quotes from "Week 8 (Days 050-056): How do we know which laws in Leviticus apply today?"

• Hey Bible Readers, welcome to TBR Deep Dive. I'm Emma Dotter. I'm Kirsten McCloskey. And we are so excited to explore some very good questions from Leviticus and Numbers. The…

  about Leviticus · at 0:07

• A theocracy? For those who don't know good is a theocracy is when God is the ruler and because they were their own nation. And this was a very specific unique thing. That's…

  about Yahweh · at 2:22

• Laws are reaffirmed in the New Testament in places like Romans 1:26 and 27 and 1 Corinthians 6. And they help us see what God's heart is what he loves and what he hates. Yeah.…

  about Jerusalem Council · at 3:12

• We're seeing in kind of the way that the church has processed through this is that it was not arbitrary. There was not just one person who got to decide. It was a group effort.…

  about Holy Spirit · at 5:53

• And so we've got Passover and unleavened bread, first fruits, the feast of weeks or Pentecost, the feast of trumpets, the day of atonement, and the feast of booths. Together…

  about Passover · at 7:57

• But understanding them does seem to deepen our grasp of the gospel. And they're like road signs pointing to Jesus. Exactly. Which is sweet. And then should we celebrate them?…

  about Colossians · at 12:00

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  Hey Bible Readers, welcome to TBR Deep Dive. I'm Emma Dotter. I'm Kirsten McCloskey. And we are so excited to explore some very good questions from Leviticus and Numbers. The…
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• Leviticus — Book · 12 mentions · first at 0:14
• Numbers — Book · 3 mentions · first at 0:14
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• Pentecost — Event · 2 mentions · first at 7:57
  And so we've got Passover and unleavened bread, first fruits, the feast of weeks or Pentecost, the feast of trumpets, the day of atonement, and the feast of booths. Together…

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0:07 Hey Bible Readers, welcome to TBR Deep Dive. I'm Emma Dotter. I'm Kirsten McCloskey. And we are so excited to explore some very good questions from Leviticus and Numbers. The first question comes from Day 50. It's really more of a general question, not from a specific verse, but the question reads, "I know a lot of people who eat pork and get tattoos, but they still want to uphold other Old Testament laws. How do we know which laws in Leviticus still apply? Where does the line get drawn and how?" Mhm. Yeah. This, I think, is a really helpful topic to explore because as we keep going through the Old Testament and specifically reading these laws in Leviticus, it's super normal to feel kind of confused about this and feel like who made the who made up what we still do and and how did we get there and is it kind of just arbitrary? Um, and I think we sometimes just want it to be a little bit black and white. We do. um like either we throw out

1:08 everything and we don't interact with the Old Testament anymore or specifically the law or we keep everything like it's hard to kind of see how we got to maybe more of this middle ground. So I think that this is a really good wrestle that we can help some people with today. So totally. So maybe to approach this conversation with a little more clarity, I could walk us through a quick reminder about the three types of laws. Would that be helpful? So, we talked about this in day 50 of TBR, but it's worth doing a quick little recap. So, we've got three types. The ceremonial laws, the civil laws, and the moral laws. The ceremonial laws included things like sacrifices, food restrictions, moral moral purity, or really, I should say, ritual purity to be more specific. Ceremonial laws pointed forward to Jesus because Christ fulfilled these through his perfect sacrifice. So, we no longer keep them in the same way. That's one of the reasons why

2:03 Christians could eat pork for example to call back to the to call back to the question. The second category of laws are the civil laws. So these were punishments uh land rules how Israel as a nation was governed. Yes. And specifically because Israel was a theocracy. They were under God. And what's a theocracy? For those who don't know good is a theocracy is when God is the ruler and because they were their own nation. And this was a very specific unique thing. That's right. So the civil laws applied to Israel as a nation with Yahweh as their leader. And since God's people are no longer one nation state but a global church, these laws aren't binding today in the same way. And then the third category are the moral laws. So these are things like prohibitions against lying, adultery, same-sex relationships. And the moral laws reflect God's unchanging character and design for people.

3:00 And we see that in obviously in the way that Jesus upholds the ten commandments in the New Testament and we see him still uh reference these. Exactly. Right. So these are reaffirmed. The moral laws are reaffirmed in the New Testament in places like Romans 1:26 and 27 and 1 Corinthians 6. And they help us see what God's heart is like, what he loves and what he hates. Yeah. And I think let's go to the New Testament. You mentioned a few places. Let's talk about the Jerusalem Council because I think this is also a helpful place to kind of see where some of these distinctions um came from. Y and so, okay, the Jerusalem Council, this happened in 50 AD and we read about it in Acts 15. And one of the main questions brought to this meeting was, do Gentiles have to become Jewish in the traditional religious and civil sense in order to be Christians?

3:58 So basically these three different categories of laws that you just talked about, the question was, do they have to follow our religious laws, the ceremonial ones? Yep. Do they have to follow the ceremonial laws? And do Gentiles have to follow the civil laws? Is that what it means now to be a Christian? And this came out in the Jerusalem Council more around the question of circumcision. That was kind of the the highest question that they had. Um and what what the leaders of the church decided was the answer was no. That that was not the requirement for becoming a Christian if you were a gentile follower of Christ. And so I think that this is helpful because it gives us a precedence for how the early church navigated the law and they were way closer to it than we were. So it was how are they navigating this? How are they thinking about it? For Jewish believers, many of them initially kept following all of the laws. Sure. Yep. The civil, the ceremonial,

4:59 and the moral laws. But the Gentiles were only required to follow the moral laws. And so this helps us carry it forward to today. Sure. Uh I I think you're exactly right because what you just modeled is how do we know which laws to follow? We look at the New Testament. The New Testament gives us the lens. So what did believers in that period of history do? And if Jesus or the apostles reaffirmed a command as binding, we continue to follow it. So what they taught us in in principle is that we don't need to practice the civil or the ceremonial laws in the same way.

5:34 There's definitely principles behind them and the principle behind the law still matters. So even when the ceremonial details aren't binding, they still teach us about God's holiness. They they show us our need for Christ and how to love him and other people. Yep. Yep. And I think what we're seeing in kind of the way that the church has processed through this is that it was not arbitrary. There was not just one person who got to decide. It was a group effort. And it was really by listening to the Holy Spirit as he led them. Um and by understanding really what was being said in God's word. Um, and so I think for us today, we've come to this place where we recognize, okay, the moral laws of the Old Testament are still something that we are following. But we're those ceremonial laws and those civil laws, what we've seen as the church has grown, we've seen through church history, we've seen through the power of the Holy Spirit,

6:36 we've seen through people understanding God's word, that is no longer what we need to follow. Mhm. Yeah. So, we don't have to feel like we're picking and choosing. Yeah, when it comes to the Old Testament law, we don't have to. Christians read Leviticus through the cross. We read Leviticus through the cross. The ceremonial and the civil laws were for Israel's time and Israel's context. But the moral law reflects God's eternal will, God's heart and God's character. And this line isn't drawn by people picking and choosing. It's drawn by Jesus. What he fulfills, we don't have to repeat. what he upholds we continue to obey. Amen. That's good. All right. Should we move on to our next question? Let's do it. Okay. Next question comes from day 51 Leviticus 23. So the question is, is it important for me to understand the feasts even though we don't celebrate them anymore? And then kind of second question or should we be celebrating them? Yes.

7:38 Love that. Double take. Double take. Should we be celebrating them? Okay. And so in Leviticus 23, we are just seeing Israel's annual calendar of their sacred feast days. So weekly Sabbath, plus the seven major feasts that God appoints as a rhythm of rest, worship, and remembrance. And so we've got Passover and unleavened bread, first fruits, the feast of weeks or Pentecost, the feast of trumpets, the day of atonement, and the feast of booths. Together, these festivals retell God's salvation story. They invite his people into joyful dependence and they mark out their identity as a holy nation. Well said. So what do we need to know about them? Is it important to understand? The most important thing we should understand about these feasts in Leviticus 23 is that they were God's way of teaching Israel to remember his saving work and live in rhythm with him. That's what God wanted Israel to know about these feasts or through these feasts.

8:40 There's seven of them as you said and they all point forward to Jesus. That's what's significant for us. We can learn from Israel and we can see how they point to Jesus. So highle overview of how each one points to Jesus. First we have the Passover. Christ is our Passover lamb. He died. He was the sacrifice but he's the better sacrifice because he rose again defeating death and he only had to die one time. Mhm. Unleavened bread points to Christ as the bread of life. The feast of first fruits points to the resurrection and new life. The feast of Pentecost points to Pentecost in Acts 2, the coming of the spirit. The day of atonement, again, similar to Passover, points to Jesus's once and for all sacrifice. The feast of trumpets, I think this is a fun one, uh was a declaration of God's command for his people to rest. And during this time, all regular work was prohibited. And we find rest ultimately in Christ. That's right. Yeah. The feast of tabernacles lastly

9:47 was celebrating God dwelling with his people as they traveled through the wilderness and it's ultimately fulfilled in Christ as he dwelt with us and now has sent his spirit to dwell in Yeah. believers. That's awesome. And well, yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Well, and I just think I think it is important to know and understand these because like we said in a past episode on Leviticus, it this is God's word. And so we really we really do want to cherish it and we want to understand what he was communicating to his people at that time and we want to understand how it still applies for us. And I think this is something I've been thinking about a lot in the last couple of years, but the reality of me identifying myself with God's people and his story throughout all time.

10:31 And so it's not just like, oh, that happened in Israel and you know, yada yada. It's like, no, we are those are that's my great great great great, you know, whatever grandparent in the faith. like we are a part of God's people and this is our story as well. And so to see that yeah to see that I think is really important. Yeah. I was just thinking as you were as you were talking that anytime we ask does this really matter to me? Do I need to care about this part? We're kind of taking on the attitude of like the middle school kid who doesn't like school. He's like do I do we have to do this bonus question or do we can we skip this part? Is this reading optional? Dad, does math really matter? Yeah. Do I need I know it matters. Dad to do math. Y same. Uh but when it comes to the scriptures, if if God has cared enough to preserve this for us, it does matter.

11:25 It does matter. There's nothing that we can look at our Bible and say, "Yeah, you don't really need to know that part. You don't need that. It's all story. It's one story." And it makes it richer and it reminds us that in these feasts and these in these daily rhythms, these yearly rhythms, God was reminding Israel of his provision. He was pointing them forward. It gave them opportunities to worship him and it again pointed to something much greater. Yes. So should believers today keep the feasts of the Old Testament, right? Christians are not commanded to keep these feasts, but understanding them does seem to deepen our grasp of the gospel. And they're like road signs pointing to Jesus. Exactly. Which is sweet. And then should we celebrate them? Well, it's not required. Uh Paul makes that clear in Colossians 2:16-1 17 that no one should judge regarding food, festivals, or Sabbaths because there is shadow pointing to Christ. Christ is the substance.

12:26 But some Christians choose to study the feasts at a really deep level or even remember them, maybe having a a dinner on that occasion uh as as a way of celebrating how Christ fulfills them. We don't have to celebrate them in the same way, but we could celebrate them in a way that really expresses our worship and gratitude for who Jesus is and what he has done. Yeah. And I think uh I've I've had a couple opportunities to celebrate Passover um in a Christian context over the years with with my church and then also with friends. And man, taking the time to consider these two key redemption stories for us was really meaningful and significant. And just it I think part of it is the slowing down, the pausing, the doing something a little bit out of the ordinary to think back over look at what God did in redeeming an entire nation out of Egypt. Look at what Jesus did in saving us all from our sins, inviting us into eternal life with his death and

13:30 resurrection. That's right. Thank you, God, for redemption. Thank you for saving me. you know, so I think it just there can be I think some really unique, special, meaningful moments that can come from pausing and looking back on these things and commemorating what God has done. So, I would say if you've never celebrated a Passover or you don't really know anything about these feasts, like that could be a fun thing to explore. Um, it's only going to enrich your experience. I think that's what I would say. Yes, that's great. M you ready for the next one? Yeah. This question comes from day 52. It's a general Leviticus question and the question reads teriy mentioned that Leviticus was written in seven sections and some of the sections have seven interior sections. Can you explain this more? Yes, this is so cool to see. And I think especially in a book like Leviticus that we've already mentioned, you know, can be a little hard to read um or hard to get through,

14:30 God pays such close attention to the details of his word and he even makes sure that books are structured in certain ways which I think is really cool. So these sevens are emphasizing and highlighting God's holiness and his perfect completion that he was calling his people to embody and is calling us to embody. Totally. Okay. So when scholars look at this these groupings of seven, each movement is dealing with holiness in a different sphere of life. So in Leviticus 1 through7 we see holiness as it pertains to sacrifices. In Leviticus 8 through10, priests, laws about purity, Leviticus 11-15. Now I'm not giving groups of seven, but we see sevens within some of these categories. Okay. The day of atonement is the center of the book in Leviticus 16. the holiness codes in Leviticus 17-20, priests and sacred things, and as we move to the end of the book, feasts and vows. And so this sevenfold structure kind of culminating in that chapter 16

15:30 in the middle of the book is almost certainly pointing to the idea of completeness as God is making his people holy with a wholy. Holy with just an H. I had to do that in my head. It's confusing. If you had to do that in your head, we get it. If you had to do it in your head. Yes. Holy with a W. Holy. Fully completely fully completely holy. Love that. Love that. Yeah. And I think if the sevens are, you know, feels like whoa, I I didn't see that. um the most important kind of centerpiece of having that day of atonement in the middle, I think, is really what um is helpful to think about because this was this was the day when all of the sins of Israel were dealt with for that year. And so that is really being highlighted by the way that the author put this together, by the way orchestrated this book. And so that is really that key message of Leviticus. And then we see these other cool things that are also emphasizing that per perfection and

16:36 completion. Yes. So I walked through the seven primary groupings, but within those seven, you see some subgroups of seven. So for example, in Leviticus 23, the feasts, we get descriptions of seven annual feasts. Or Leviticus 4 and 5 outlines seven kinds of sin or guilt offerings. So even the language of seven days, seven months, seven years repeats throughout all of these descriptions, which also highlights God's design of rest and holiness being embedded into Israel's calendar and ultimately their worship. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's just so cool to me to see that in the midst of what can be a challenging book, that God is in the details. And he's in the details of the words that he uses, the way that he is working alongside these human authors to write his books, and he's in the details of the specific structures of the books of the Bible. And I just think that that is so cool because he is covering all the bases. Absolutely. The structure is teaching us that

17:39 his holiness isn't random. It it's ordered and it's complete. Yep. So, every detail is pointing to the perfection of God and anticipates Christ who fulfills the law perfectly. Matthew 5:17. The sevens remind us of creation and it helps point out that God's goal is new creation ultimately and restored fellowship with his people. Yeah, that's awesome. Very cool. All right, let's go on to our next question. This is also a general question from Leviticus, specifically from day 52. The question is, TLC said that the Israelites are still getting to know God, that they've only known him for about a year. I must have missed that they didn't know him while they were in Egypt. Like, what? That's in the question. No wonder they're still trying to worship idols. I had no idea. It's great question. I love it. So, while they were in Egypt, the Israelites knew about God. They knew about him. They still carried the stories of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, but they'd been

18:45 enslaved for over 400 years. And when I say they still carried, I mean through oral tradition, they would have known about their ancestors, right? But during this time, they were surrounded by Egyptian idolatry. And many of the Israelites started to absorb these practices. Joshua 24:14 even says that their ancestors worshiped other gods in Egypt. Yeah. So the scriptures later on tell us that things got off track in Egypt. Well, and we don't know exactly. So just to be clear, we don't know exactly what this looked like, how this looked like because that's not the point of the story that we're reading. The story that we're reading is that God pulls his people out of Egypt and he's teaching them about himself and how to worship and love him. Um, but it's safe to assume that this is what was going on. Yes. So we can anytime we have an interpretation question, it's helpful to ask what's the context of this passage as you just pointed out and what else

19:42 does the Bible say about this? So you put those things to those two things together and you see okay clarification was clearly needed for the Israelites. Yes. For the Israelites and we learn later on in Joshua that some Israelites in who were in Egypt during this period had drifted. Yes. From Yahweh. So, their knowledge of the Lord was was probably blurred and compromised would maybe be a more clear way to express what Ty was saying. And I think that's what she meant. Yes. And I think too we need to remember that at this point they actually only have their oral tradition.

20:24 That's right. So they don't have this any of the books that we have written down that tell about the beginning that tell about Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. I mean it's not it's not crazy to think that maybe there was some sort of written document but in terms of the first five books of the Old Testament Moses was the one who wrote those. And so we would maybe have they would have maybe had different pieces, you know, something written down, but it was it was an orally transmitted storyt um ancestors. So they obviously know something about Yahweh, they know uh like when he shows up to Moses in the burning bush and he says, "I'm the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses at that point doesn't say, "Who are these people?

21:12 I've never heard of them and I've never heard of you." You know, like that if he didn't know anything about God, he could have easily said that. But there's obviously a recognition of, okay, I know who these people. I've heard these stories and I have some sense of who you are. Yes. I I I wrote down it was like God was reintroducing himself. So through the plagues, he shows his power over the gods of Egypt. At Cyani, he revealed his name and covenant. In Leviticus, he's now teaching them how to live as his holy people. And at this point in Leviticus, to Terry Le's point, they've only had about a year of direct instruction from the God who brought them out.

21:52 Yes. Right. And so that may be a helpful nugget for the recap asking this question is that it's not that they didn't know about God, right? But it's only been one year of relating to God in this new way. Totally. Of having this more experience of God, this this depth of knowledge of God. Um, this was certainly something new for them and like you were saying, their understanding of God was probably certainly mixed with Egyptian idolatry and just kind of who knows even what other orig It's, you know, the way we'd maybe talk about this today is that they were just learning to know the Lord personally. Yes, that would be a great way to think about it. God was patiently teaching them step by step what holiness looked like and what he was like. And so the story I think it reminds us that God meets us where we are. He doesn't expect instant maturity. I think about a little kid like what are the first things about the Bible that you teach a little kid. You teach them the stories of

22:55 Noah or Abraham or Joseph. That is the level that these Israelites who lived in Egypt probably knew about God. They knew these stories that had been passed down. But as we grow up or as I grew up, I'll speak for myself. As I grew up in the church, over time, I learned to put these stories go together. Yes. There's a general relationship with God. He desires to know me. And as you grow up in Christ, you see him more clearly. And and God is over time revealing himself very patiently. Yeah. To his people in the Old Testament, drawing them away from idols and to himself. Yeah. And I think this can actually be kind of a really encouraging thing um kind of no matter where you're at with your relationship with God. Like if you're brand new to your relationship with God, praise God, you have so much to learn. And I am very excited. We all do. We always have so much to learn. Yes. Yes. But I'm thinking especially of the person who's going through the Bible for

23:55 the first time or really hearing these stories for the first time. you get to join the Israelites in their journey. And then you get to join the New Testament believers in their journey in kind of a special way where you're really learning about God alongside of them because you you don't have as much context. And then the more context you get, then there's a different level of excitement because you get to this place of a continual deepening and maturity in your faith and your walk with the Lord. So, I just think yeah, it it's very fun because we all have so much to learn and there's we're bringing different realizations and different understandings about who God is and learning different things about God. And I think that's also one of the fun things about learning about God in community and doing it together is because we're all at different places in our journey and we can really learn from each other. We need each other. Yep. Agreed. The next

24:48 question comes from day 56. The specific verse that it comes from is numbers 3:41 which says, "And you shall take the Levites for me. I am the Lord instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the people of Israel." So the question is, why are firstborns quote unquote more important? Also, I know God hasn't shown a pattern of esteeming the firstborns like their culture does. Why do they need to be redeemed? Yeah. So, okay. When the recaptain posted this question our Facebook group, they put the words more important in quotes. And I like that because the reality is we know that in God's eyes, firstborns were not more important than other children. But we do need to unpack this because God is doing something with this cultural norm. Yes. Um there are two different things that I think are going to be helpful as we answer this question. So, first we've got the way that ancient

25:49 Neareastern cultures viewed firstborn children. And then second, connected with God's command for Israel to redeem the firstborn. So, it's like how is God using the culture to then help the people understand this idea of redemption and what that means? So, the first part of the answer is what was the culture and then the second part is what is God doing? Yes, that's that's great. That's super clear. Yeah. So, in patriarchal cultures or ancient Neareastern cultures that we're dealing with, firstborn sons had a unique responsibility to their family. They were the ones who would carry the family line. They would manage the household and they were held in a place of honor and were given more authority simply because of their birth order. They also received a double inheritance and leadership of the family when their father passed. Yes. And so their the male firstborn to be specific. Exactly. And so their culture established them as more important,

26:53 not God. So when God commanded the Israelites to redeem their firstborns, this was meant to remind the Israelites of how God had redeemed them from Egypt. And their firstborn sons were spared in Egypt. That's right. As the Lord brought them out of the land. And so these firstborn sons pre being presented to God would have reminded the Israelites that God does things differently than their cultural norms. Their livelihood shouldn't be tied up in their offspring. They shouldn't be looking to their firstborn sons to bring their family honor um or provision. Instead, all of this comes from God. He is the one responsible for their redemption. He's the one taking care of them. He is the one giving them honor. so on and so forth. Those firstborn children were considered his. Yes. So any temptation in the parent to elevate that child uh and look to that child as their provision, their value, their worth. God was saying, "No,

27:58 no, no, no, no. That child is mine. Look to me." Yes. Yeah. And I think too we see like even in the Jacob and Esau story is kind of an interesting way that God is also reflecting these cultural norm or basically working against these cultural norms. Esau was born first. I then Jacob comes out and God is like Jacob the second born is going to be the one who's going to almost take that place of the firstborn. Um and so I think we just see that God is really working in different ways y than what the cultural norm is. But he's also still working within the cultural norm.

28:34 He's working in ways that people can understand given their context. Yes. So there there's some interesting nuances here. So because God claimed the firstborn, Israel had to either sacrifice clean animals or redeem their firstborn sons with a substitute offering in Numbers 3. And then instead of taking every family's firstborn into temple service, God took the Levites instead. So that's even an example. If all the firstborn sons are gods, you'd think, okay, who are the priests going to be? Probably the firstborn sons. No, God says, actually, I'm going to take the Levites, this other group. Yeah. Which is different. Yeah. The Levites fully belonged to God, and the rest of the firstborns were redeemed through payment, through the sacrifices the parents would make on their behalf. Like we've talked about in TBR and you've just said, God often overturns cultural expectations time and time again. Jacob and Esau, Joseph was the 11th

29:32 son, right? David was the youngest. Moses was the second born. And this shows us that his purposes, God's purposes are not bound to human status. They aren't. And yet sometimes he also uses cultural norms or human status to make his own points. So it's it's cool to see God in and through and over our culture. Yes. And so this whole deal going back to the question with with the firstborn is that they the firstborn the firstborn kids or the male firstborn remind Israel of God's saving power at the Exodus. and his claim on their lives. They had to be redeemed to show that everyone ultimately belongs to God. Mhm. And the good news is that Jesus himself became the ultimate firstborn. Colossians 1:15-18, set apart and given for us so that we too could be redeemed, but redeemed forever. A pretty sweet. That's so cool. Thanks for taking a deep dive with us. We'll see you next week as we continue to read, understand, and love the Bible and the God who wrote it.

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