Cleansing

The ashes of a heifer used to purify the unclean - Numbers 19:1 – 19:22 (commentary)

Laws had been given whereby a person coming in contact with a corpse would be considered unclean and disqualified from religious life and service for a period of seven days. These regulations about “clean and unclean, for those under the law,’ are spelled out in detail in Le …

The Chief Priest - Zechariah 3:1 – 3:10 (commentary)

In the fourth vision Zechariah sees Joshua the high priest standing before God. Joshua’s filthy garments are exchanged for clean robes; Satan’s accusations against him are rejected by God. This vision can be divided as follows: (1) The details of the vision (vv. 1-5); and …

Jesus Cleansing of the Temple - Luke 19:41 – 19:48 (commentary)

Every Jewish man coming to Jerusalem for the Passover feast had to pay a temple tax. Many types of currencies were circulating, and, since only special temple coins were acceptable, money changers could charge a fee and make handsome profits at the expense of the people. …

Sacrifices To Please The Lord - Leviticus 1:10 – 1:17 (commentary)

Why are there such detailed regulations for each offering? We can be sure that God had a purpose in giving each of these commands. Starting from scratch, He was teaching, His people a whole new way of life. He wanted to cleanse them from the many heathen practices they had learne …

What Women Must do After Giving Child Birth - Leviticus 12:1 – 12:8 (commentary)

Now we come to a passage which deals with afflictions and diseases and, in the spiritual realm, with what these do to us in our relationships with others, and between ourselves and God. Here we will find that many modern sanitary procedures are anticipated by the rules and laws l …

Bodily Discharges From a Woman - Leviticus 15:19 – 15:33 (commentary)

This passage dealing with women (vv. 19-33) is very similar to that dealing with men in the previous passage. It deals with the normal, natural monthly menstrual flow of women. Again, there is no implication here that there is anything morally wrong about this function. But the s …