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Week 7

Week 7. Intro to Judaism. Jewish Calendar. When’s Hanukah this year? The same time it is every year! The 25 th of Kislev! . I digress…. …by the way…there’s a lunar eclipse tonight. Time Markers. Rotation of earth on its axis (1 day) Revolution of the moon around the earth (1 month-ish)

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Week 7

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  1. Week 7 Intro to Judaism

  2. Jewish Calendar • When’s Hanukah this year? • The same time it is every year! The 25th of Kislev! 

  3. I digress… …by the way…there’s a lunar eclipse tonight.

  4. Time Markers • Rotation of earth on its axis (1 day) • Revolution of the moon around the earth (1 month-ish) • Revolution of the earth around the sun (1 year) • Gregorian calendar (ours) focuses only on #1 & #3. Months are arbitrarily set to “fit”. • Jewish calendar attempts to reconcile all 3. • Months are either 29 or 30 days (Lunar cycle = 29.5 days) • Years are then 12 or 13 months (12.4 months per year) • First month begins when first sliver of moon is visible after new moon. • Calendar begins to “drift” earlier each year, relative to a solar calendar (Passover would get 11 days earlier each year. The Passover was supposed to be a spring festival, so this is problematic. • Sanhedrin were the determiners of the months, etc. If Passover would be too early (winter), every 3-4 years, they would push back the last month (Adar), inserting an ‘extra month’, Adar I. • In 4th Century AD, calendar standardized. Lunar calendar sync’d to solar calendar over 19 years. The pattern follows a musical scale of sharps and flats. http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm

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  6. Wiersbe on Sacrifice • The shedding of animal blood couldn’t change a person’s heart or take away sin (Heb. 10:1-4). However, God did state that the sins of the worshiper were forgiven (Lev. 4:20, 26, 31, 35; 5:10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7); and He did this on the basis of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross (Heb. 10:5-14).2-1 • Like some people in churches today, Jewish worshipers could merely go through the motions at the altar, without putting their heart into it; but this meant that God had not truly forgiven them (Pss. 50:8-14; 51:16-17; Isa. 1:10-20; Micah 6:6-8). God doesn’t want our sacrifices; He wants obedience from our hearts (1 Sam. 15:22). • The sacrifices described in Leviticus 1-7 remind us of the basic spiritual needs we have as God’s people: commitment to God, communion with God, and cleansing from God.

  7. Sacrifices

  8. There were also grain and drink offerings (Leviticus 2; 6:14-23). These grain and drink offerings usually accompanied the burnt offerings and peace offerings. http://www.new-life.net/sacrific.htm

  9. The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt, 1854. Hunt had this framed in a picture with the quotations "Surely he hath borne our Griefs and carried our Sorrows; Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of GOD and afflicted." (Isaiah 53:4) and "And the Goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a Land not inhabited." (Leviticus 16:22)

  10. Christ’s Sacrifice • Martyr for the Father • Scapegoat and Sacrifice • Substitution • Restitution • Expiation • Atonement • Redemption

  11. 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

  12. Animal sacrifice ceased after the final destruction of the temple (and Jerusalem) in AD 70. This destruction is symbolic of the severance of God’s former covenant with Israel. No longer did they have means for atonement in the law. No longer do they have God’s special blessing or election. Israel became and will remain just another secular nation that happens to have a colorful background in relationship to God. Orthodox Jews still look forward to a messiah’s resumption of sacrifice and Jewish supremacy as part of their eschatological views. Neo-orthodox Jews are considering now restarting “temple sacrifices” without a temple, assuming total restoration isn’t on its way.

  13. The Story Continues • God’s glory is guiding. • People cry for meat. • Spirit on 70 prophets. • “I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!” (Num 11:30) • Miriam nearly gets zapped. • Spies sent into Canaan • Wilderness wanderings result

  14. More Zappage • Korah’s Rebellion • Moses strikes the Rock • Balaam’s talking donkey

  15. Manna Hoarfrost size Like Coriander Seed White Color of bdellium Ground and pound into cakes, baked, tasted like olive oil Like wafers made with honey Didn’t last long

  16. Quail • God’s glory is guiding.

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