The Children of Israel Bible Study

EXODUS 27:1–5 Plans for the Altar   “You shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide—the altar shall be square—and three cubits high. You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze. You shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and basins and forks and firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze. You shall make a grating for it, a network of bronze; and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners. You shall put it under the rim of the altar beneath, that the net may be midway up the altar. And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. The poles shall be put in the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to bear it. You shall make it hollow with boards; as it was shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.”   The Purpose of the Altar   The altar was the ...

LEVITICUS 16 Atonement for Sin — The Day of Atonement   (Vs. 1–2) How Aaron Must Approach the Holy Place   The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, who died when they offered strange fire before the LORD (Leviticus 10). *See note.   The LORD said:  “ Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place  inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.”   Aaron could not enter God’s presence whenever he desired—only at the appointed time and in the prescribed way.   The same principle remains true today. We do not come to God on our own terms, but by His invitation:   “ No man come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him : and I will raise him up at the last day.”  (John 6:44)            * Note:   What Was the “Strange Fire”?  (Leviticus 1...