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God is actually telling Moses in this chapter to talk to all
the kids under 20 years old at that time, because their parents would never enter the Promised Land. So it could have started with, “Thirty-eight
years from now, you kids …” God was guaranteeing that they would enter the Promised Land, but they’d
have to suffer for the sins of their parents to get there.
God specified several offerings they were to make one day,
when they’d settled in the Promised Land and begun to raise animals and
crops. “The burnt offering typified the worshipper’s complete devotion to God, for the animal was totally consumed on
the altar. The meal offering spoke of the worshipper’s dedication of his labor to the Lord, and the peace offering represented joyful
fellowship and thanksgiving to God for His blessings … the sin offering and the trespass offering were not sweet
savors because they dealt with guilt and sin, and there’s nothing pleasing
to God about sin,” my commentary explained.
One thing I noticed in verse 15 seems to speak to what
Christ would one day do: “You and the
foreigners are alike before the Lord.” His sacrifice brought Jews and gentiles
together into the kingdom when they believe in Him.
Forgetting God’s
commands is a sin, it tells us in
verses 22-29, but God promises forgiveness for sins of omission. HOWEVER, there is a stern warning we
each should remember every day in verse 30:
“But anyone who sins on purpose
is against the Lord and must be cut off from the people (stoned to
death)… That person has turned against the Lord’s Word and has not obeyed
His commands … He is guilty.” There was no offering available in the Bible
for forgiveness of intentional
sin. If it weren’t for Christ’s
sacrifice, none of us could make it into the kingdom of God!
God knew that we tend to forget, so He instructed the Jews
to prepare tassels, each with a blue thread woven into the rest, to remind the
Jews to be separated and holy. When they noticed them during the day, they
would “remind you of all the Lord’s commands.
Then you will obey them and
not be disloyal by following what your
BODIES and EYES want.” God knows
that we fight what our bodies and eyes want every day and wanted to help with
that fight. He still does today.
Father, I know it’s good that You deemed intentional sin to
be unforgivable, because You want us to remain close to You and to not have to
suffer for those intentional sins. I know
that every day I have to say no to what my body and my eyes want if I am to
stay loyal to You. Thank You that Christ
has already taken away even my intentional sins that I may commit in the
future, but help me not to commit
them and therefore in doing so add
to what He suffered on the cross for me.
Your Brother In Christ,
Gary Ford
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