Our Bible Band by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 12, 1908

Our Bible Band.

By Editor

SCHEDULES for the year's reading will be sent to all club members who enclose stamp. To all those who sent in lists of names as far as we could, we have sent schedules. We can not send to those not belonging to the Band as enough are not printed; nor can we very well return stamp without using its equivalent.

Schedule for Week Ending February 22, 1908. Sunday February 16 Lev. 16, 17 Psalm 47 Monday “ 17 “ 18, 19 “ 48 Tuesday “ 18 “ 20, 21 “ 49 Wednesday “ 19 “ 22, 23 “ 50 Thursday “ 20 “ 24, 25 “ 51 Friday “ 21 “ 26, 27 “ 52 Sabbath “ 22 Num. 1, 2, 3 53, 54

Leviticus 16 contains instructions for the ceremonies of the great day of atonement, the last day in the yearly round of Jewish service. It was the judgment day of the year. Each year's service carried out in full is typical of the entire ministry of our great High Priest, Christ Jesus. The services of the closing day are typical of the closing work of Christ. The offering of Christ is symbolized by the Lord's goat, the priesthood of Christ by the high priest, only Christ ministers His own blood. Heb. 9: 28. The scapegoat, or the goat "for Azazel," is a type of Satan, cast at last into the bottomless pit. Revelation 20.

Chapters 17 to 24 are made up of various laws, ordinances, prohibitions, and precepts, the reason for most of which is self-evident. Note that it is not a law of the New Testament alone to "love thy neighbor as thyself." Chapter 19: 18.

Chapter 25 is that pertaining to the great jubilee, typical of the time when all God's people shall pass from the environments of the bondage and slavery of this world to the liberty of the glory of the kingdom of God.

Chapter 26 presents before Israel the two ways of good and evil, good if they walk in God's ways, evil if they turn from His commandments. The "seven times" of verses 18, 21, 24, 28 have reference to degree, as sevenfold, and not to periods of time. In chapter 27 are laws concerning vows and tithes. Study them.

We give only three chapters in the book of Numbers instead of four as usual for the closing day of the week. There will be found a sameness in the numbering of the tribes, but note how definitely the numbers of men of certain age are given. When we reach chapter 26, at the close of the forty years, it will be worth while to refer back to this chapter and note how the tribes have gained and lost.

Chapter 2 describes how the camp of Israel was arranged; the sanctuary in the center, the tribes pitched under twelve tribal standards, under four great standards, on the four sides of the tabernacle. These four standards, tradition tells us, bore the following symbols: that of Judah a lion; Reuben, a man; Ephraim, an ox; Dan, an eagle. Chapter 3 describes the divisions of the sons of Levi. No words are required upon the beautiful devotional Psalms.