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Schedule for Week Ending February 19

Sunday Feb. 13 Leviticus 8-10 Monday " 14 " 11, 12 Tuesday " 15 " 13, 14 Wednesday " 16 " 15-17 Thursday " 17 " 18-20 Friday " 18 " 21-23 Sabbath " 19 " 24, 25

NOTE secondly the exceeding sinfulness of sin everywhere emphasized; that was one of the great reasons of the mighty object-lessons which God has given us in this book of Leviticus.

THIRDLY, the important feasts of Passover, of Weeks, or Pentecost, of Tabernacles, and the great yearly fast in the Day of Atonement. Every year there was a round of priestly service. Every year that yearly service closed on the tenth day of the seventh month, or the great Day of Atonement. All the sins of the people were remembered in the sanctuary day by day; but on the last great day those sins were brought out, placed upon the head of the scapegoat, and sent away to a land of forgetfulness. It was in that sense a judgment-day, and typical of the great, final judgment-day. Every soul that was not on that day in living connection with God, was cut off from his people. Unless some of these great thoughts are kept in mind as we read the book, the reading will be dry and wearisome; but if we continually remember that all these sacrifices were types of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all the slain beasts pointed forward to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, if we see Him in them all, it will invest these otherwise dry details of laws and regulations with new life, and make them a blessing to the reader.

CHAPTER 9 shows how God blessed His people by taking away their sin, and accepting the offering in which their sins were represented. That offering was wholly consumed by the fire which fell from the Lord, showing that their sins were all taken away; but chapter 10 shows us that where men identified themselves with sin so as to become a part of it, and so went into the presence of the Lord, they were devoured with the sin. So it will be when God’s presence shall be revealed in the last days. Those who are identified with sin will be consumed with the sin.