People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
RESULTS OF OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE
Results of obedience and disobedience. If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments and [obediently] do them, then I will give you rain in its season, and the land will yield her produce and the trees of the field bear their fruit.
CONSIDERATION FOR THE POOR
Consideration for the poor. ‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell some of his property, then his nearest relative is to come and buy back (redeem) what his relative has sold.
THE SABBATICAL YEAR AND THE JUBILEE
But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow [seed in] your field nor prune your vineyard.
LIGHT AND BREAD AND THE HOLY NAME
The pure lamplight, emblematic of the influence of a religious life; and the showbread, set on the golden table, emblematic of lives of obedience and devotion, which are well-pleasing to God, are both said to be “before the Lord.”
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
The feast of tabernacles. “Say to the children of Israel, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, and for seven days, is the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) to the LORD.
The first day is a holy convocation (calling together); you shall not do any laborious work [on that day].
ACCEPTABLE OFFERINGS TO THE LORD
Acceptable offerings to the LORD. “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any stranger in Israel who presents his offering, whether to fulfill any of their vows or as any of their freewill (voluntary) offerings which they presented to the LORD as a burnt offering–so that you may be accepted–it must be a male without blemish from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.
HOLINESS AND THE PRIESTS
Holiness and the Priests. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘No one shall defile himself [that is, become ceremonially unclean] for the dead among his people [by touching a corpse or assisting in preparing it for burial], except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother, also his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may become unclean.
PUNISHMENT FOR CHILD SACRIFICE
Moreover, you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘Any Israelite or any stranger residing in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech (the god of the Ammonites) [as a human sacrifice] shall most certainly be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
UNLAWFUL SEXUAL RELATIONS
Unlawful Sexual Relations. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.
You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, and you shall not do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes (practices, customs).
THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD
The life of the flesh is in the blood. Any man from the house of Israel, or any stranger living temporarily among you, who eats any blood, against that person I shall set My face and I will cut him off from his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them]. [Eze_33:25]
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life [which it represents].’ [Rom_3:24-26