Lesson date: 5/3/5856AA

Verse 1 – This verse sounds much like Chapter 5 but the difference is that in Chapter 5 you were guilty if you heard someone else commit a trespass or guilt and now in Chapter 7 it is our own guilt. The Guilt Offering is much like the ascending offering and as believers in the Messiah we know that Yeshua was the good and perfect sacrifice for our guilt(sins). We must confess our guilt so that the sacrifice Yeshua made can be complete: Joh 3:16 “For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.

It does not say shall not but rather should not. We have to believe in Yeshua’s sacrifice, repent and then walk according to YHVH’s instructions(Torah).

As a Christian, I was always told that “God’s” love was unconditional. But if you search the Scripture, any version, there is no word “unconditional” used. YHVH’s love is conditional and the condition is that we obey His commands: 1Jn 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of Elohim, when we love Elohim and guard His commands.

1Jn 5:3 For this is the love for Elohim, that we guard His commands, and His commands are not heavy,

Verses 3-5 – All the fat belongs to YHVH. Fat is synonymous with “the best”. But do we really give YHVH the best in our lives? Do we keep His Commands lovingly or grudgingly? Do we give Him our tithe of our time each day? Psa 1:1 Blessed is the man who shall not walk in the counsel of the wrong, And shall not stand in the path of sinners, And shall not sit in the seat of scoffers,

Psa 1:2 But his delight is in the Torah of יהוה, And he meditates in His Torah day and night.

Not is only fat equal to the best but look at what else is His; the inward parts. Have we committed our inward parts to Him? Psa 51:6 See, You have desired truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You make me know wisdom.

Psa 51:16 For You do not desire slaughtering, or I would give it; You do not delight in ascending offering.

Psa 51:17 The slaughterings of Elohim are a broken spirit, A heart broken and crushed, O Elohim, These You do not despise.

A broken spirit and a contrite (broken and crushed) heart. These are the sacrifices we are supposed to make to YHVH, along with the “bulls of our lips”. Hos_14:2 Take words with you, and return to יהוה. Say to Him, “Take away all crookedness, and accept what is good, and we render the bulls of our lips.

Heb 13:15 Through Him then, let us continually offer up a slaughter offering of praise to Elohim, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His Name.

Just one more thing that was not done away with at the cross, our slaughter offerings of praise to YHVH. Hallelu-YAH!!!

What happens when we walk in Torah? It continually reminds us of His Love, Mercy, Grace, Patience and Forgiveness: 1Pe 4:1 Therefore, since Messiah suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

1Pe 4:2 so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but according to the desire of Elohim.

Verse 8 – This was a big “goosebump” moment for me. The priest who makes atonement for our sin, the skin is his, or should I say His: Heb 10:19 So, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place by the blood of יהושע,

Heb 10:20 by a new and living way which He instituted for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,

Heb 10:21 and having a High Priest over the House of Elohim,

Heb 10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in completeness of belief, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.

What part of the sacrifice was washed with clean water?

Isa 61:10 I greatly rejoice in יהוה, my being exults in my Elohim. For He has put garments of deliverance on me, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Verses 9-10 – We see a differentiation between the slaughter offering, the skin belonging to the priest who makes the atonement, the baked grain offering, prepared in the stew pot or on a griddle is also the priest’s and the grain offering mixed with oil or dry is for all the children of Aharon: Luk 7:45 “You gave Me no kiss, but she has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in.

Luk 7:46 “You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume.

But wait a minute, I’m not a priest: 1Pe_2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation, a people for a possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light,

We all partake of the grain offering: 1Co 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Messiah? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Messiah?

1Co 10:17 Because there is one bread, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

Verses 11-21 – Peace Offering – Our High Priest has made Atonement for us, we sat down to the table of Remembrance and broke bread (grain offering) with Him and now we are to be at peace with our Father: Rom 5:1 Therefore, having been declared right by belief, we have peace with Elohim through our Master יהושע Messiah,

In our modern world it seems impossible to be at peace with anything but through Yeshua we have peace with Elohim. Shelemim is the word for peace offerings – H8002. The root word is H7999 – shalem and it means ‘to be complete or sound, finished, fully repay, make and end, make full restitution’. H7999 comes from the Hebrew word that we use most often H7965 ‘shalom’ which means completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, prosperity, health, safety, security. Now apply these meanings to “Shabbat shalom”! The peace of shabbat, the completeness of shabbat, the soundness of shabbat, etc.

Think about the peace offering: it was to be a freewill offering, an offering for thanksgiving to YHVH, friendship and fellowship with YHVH just like our Messiah: Col 1:19 Because in Him all the completeness was well pleased to dwell,

Col 1:20 and through Him to completely restore to favour all unto Himself, whether on earth or in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of His stake.

Col 1:21 And you, who once were estranged and enemies in the mind by wicked works, but now He has completely restored to favour

Col 1:22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you set-apart, and blameless, and unreprovable before Him,

Col 1:23 if indeed you continue in the belief, founded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the expectation of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed to every creature under the heaven, of which I, Sha’ul, became a servant,

In verse 15 it says that it has to be eaten the same day! Suppose it was a yearling bull that weighed 600 pounds or more. How would you eat it all? You can’t! So, you invite as many people who are willing to share in your peace offering to YHVH. It might be your entire family, all of your friends and close associates. Even if it was a ram it was still too much for one person. This was a time of rejoicing! Praises were being shouted and sung. Halellu-YAH!!! was heard over and over.

Verses 16-18 make an exclusion. If the peace offering was for a vow or voluntary offering it could be eaten on the second day but whatever remained had to be burned with fire on the third day.

Wait a minute. How can this be about the Messiah? Yeshua was in the grave three days not two, except in the church theology, and He was not burned so, how is this about the Messiah. I’ll give you a clue: 2Pe 3:8 But, beloved ones, let not this one matter be hidden from you: that with יהוה one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Think about the Creation Week: Yeshua came on the Fourth Day. We are now in the Sixth Day, two days later. What happens next? Rev 21:1 And I saw a renewed heaven and a renewed earth, for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more.

Rev 21:2 And I, Yoḥanan, saw the set-apart city, renewed Yerushalayim, coming down out of the heaven from Elohim, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the heaven saying, “See, the Booth of Elohim is with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and Elohim Himself shall be with them and be their Elohim.

It’s not about Yeshua coming the first time, it is about His return. Halellu-YAH!!! But wait, where is the burning? Isa_24:6 Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left.

2Pe_3:10 But the day of יהוה shall come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up.

This also speaks of the original covenant of Mount Sinai: Exo 19:10 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Go to the people and set them apart today and tomorrow. And they shall wash their garments,

Exo 19:11 and shall be prepared by the third day. For on the third day יהוה shall come down upon Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people.

Verse 20 gives a little more detail – no one unclean shall eat of it. Mat 22:9 Therefore go into the street corners, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding feast.’

Mat 22:10 “And those servants went out into the street corners and gathered all whom they found, both wicked and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.

Mat 22:11 “And when the sovereign came in to view the guests, he saw there a man who had not put on a wedding garment, (Unclean/Unprepared)

Mat 22:12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not having a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.

Mat 22:13 “Then the sovereign said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him out into the outer darkness – there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Isa_52:11 Turn aside! Turn aside! Come out from there, touch not the unclean. Come out of her midst, be clean, you who bear the vessels of יהוה.

Verses 22-27 – Do not eat the fat or the blood. Thanks to modern science we now know that blood born pathogens can be transmitted by eating or drinking the blood. ((The Massai tribesmen drink the blood of animals, without killing them, when there is a shortage of drinking water. Also, don’t forget blood pudding and blood sausage.))

Verses 29-32 – You are responsible for bringing the offering with your own hands. You must be skilled in how the sacrifice is to be made, slinning and cutting up the offering. You cannot transfer this responsibility to someone else: 2Ti 2:15 Do your utmost to present yourself approved to Elohim, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of Truth.

It is the priest who makes the wave offering and burns the fat. The breast is given to the priest as a contribution along with the right thigh. Why the right thigh? (Ber. 32)

Ahavah vberakhot