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Law & grace are diagnosis & cure: Finding Messiah in the Torah (Leviticus 26–27)

Law & grace; diagnosis & cure: Finding Messiah in the Torah (Leviticus 26-27)

The recent discovery of a 3,400-year-old hammered lead tablet on the Bible’s Curse Mountain, which imprecates via the name of God, shows that the covenant curses recorded in Torah reading בְּחֻקֹּתַי Bechukotai (“in My statutes,” Leviticus 26:3–27:34), weren’t the later inventions that critics claim.

More startling is what the mountains of blessing and cursing imply about sin and judgment. As this study reveals, both the blessings of obedience and curses of disobedience in Leviticus 26 mirror suzerain-vassal treaties of the ancient world. This suggests an alarming truth — that left to ourselves under the power of sin, facing God’s perfect standard can only end in curse, destruction and death. Truly only through the Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) covering work of Messiah Yeshua (Christ Jesus) can we find forgiveness and life that brings rest to our deep restlessness.

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Torah reading Bechukotai (בחקתי): Leviticus 26–27

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Part of the Golden Rule is concern for other people. One way to view the somber warnings in the Torah reading Bechukotai (“in My statutes,” Leviticus 26–27) is God is concerned about the world so much that its lifeline — Israel — has to remain pure.

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What happens when we take Heaven’s mercy for granted (Jeremiah 16–17)

What happens when we take Heaven's mercy for granted (Jeremiah 16-17)

“It’s good to be king!” Except when invaders are about to conquer your kingdom because of your predecessors forgot Who put the crown on their heads and Who gave them the Land they ruled. The closing chapters of the Bible book of Vayiqra (Leviticus) foretell of Israel’s dystopian future, but it didn’t have to be that way. The companion passage to the Torah reading בְּהַר Behar / בְּחֻקֹּתַי Bechukotai (“on the mountain” / “in My statutes,” Leviticus 25–27), shows a moment just before that horror arrived when a king tried to reverse centuries of oppression in the Promised Land, Heaven’s mercy for Israel and the world.

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Parashot Behar (בהר) & Bechukotai (בחקותי): Leviticus 25–27

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We’ve all had days when we are so physically or mentally exhausted that we long to go home and relax, or better yet, nap. The LORD gave our forefathers in faith memorials and reminders in time to nudge us to seek Him Who can truly bring us rest from guilt, fear, loneliness, etc. That’s the lesson in the combined Torah readings בְּהַר  Behar (“on mount” Sinai) and בְּחֻקֹּתַי Bechukotai (“in My statutes”) that wraps up the book of Leviticus.

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Heaven’s promise of a fresh start: You can count on it (Leviticus 26–27)

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The Book of Leviticus may seem like a lot of dos and don’ts for a Tabernacle service that hasn’t existed for two millennia. But what’s revealed at the end, in Torah reading בְּחֻקֹּתַי Bechukotai/Bekhuqotai (“in My statutes,” Leviticus 26–27), is that it is the gospel of hope, promises from Heaven of the new covenant, that our past can be removed, setting us up for a bright future ahead of us.

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Why is it so bad to sin against the Land? (Leviticus 25–27)

Why is it so bad to sin against the Land? (Leviticus 25-27)

We often think that the walk of Torah only concerns itself with one’s relationship with God and one’s relationship with others. This is not true. An observant reading of the Torah shows us that God also concerns Himself with how we treat the land that sustains us. That’s a key lesson of the dual Torah reading of בְּהַר Behar (“on mount” [Sinai]) and בְּחֻקֹּתַי Bechukotai (“in My statutes”), which covers the last three chapters of Leviticus.

God promised the land of Israel as a special inheritance to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and they were expected to respond by treating the land itself with dignity as much as He expected them to treat Him and their neighbors with dignity.

Sins against the Land are atoned by exile, not by blood. Learn more through this Bible study.

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Leviticus 26–27: How Yeshua the Tabernacle made flesh steers us away from a cursed life

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When we’ve finally had enough of the “house of bondage” that’s kept us doing doughnuts in the parking lot of life, the Creator of Heaven and Earth shows us the way out. Just as Pesakh (Passover) and Shavuot (Pentecost) are annual reminders of that journey to freedom and how we get to know the One […]