The Meaning Of Life

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Leviticus 21 and 22 continue with ritual laws about how priests conduct themselves and the offerings that are appropriate and those which are not.

In Leviticus 23, God outlines the recognition days and weeks that should be observed, most of them still observed today. Even on Christian calendars, Passover is shown. If you recall, Passover was the night the plague of the death of every firstborn in Egypt came down, and if the Hebrews sacrificed a lamb and put blood on their door posts and lentils, “death” would “pass over” their house.

And while we’re on the subject, let’s review Passover a bit deeper. Did God kill the first born of Egypt? If He did, why did the Hebrews have to put blood on their houses? Did God not know where they lived? I thought God was all-knowing, He couldn’t distinguish between an Egyptian house and a Hebrew house?

I believe on that night, God removed his “hedge of protection” he used to protect sinners from Satan. If you love God and are faithful to Him, to the best of your sinful, mortal ability, He will protect you from Satan (you can break that hedge of protection by knowingly and willingly sin), but otherwise, God protects you from Satan. And just like in Job, God allowed Satan to test Job, providing he didn’t kill Job, and removed His hedge of protection from Job.

Yes, God knew where the Hebrews lived and He knew where the Egyptians lived. But He removed his protection and allowed Satan to have free reign. The result, the blood of the lamb saved the Hebrews, just as the blood of our lamb will save us if we allow it to. It isn’t free, it has been given to us, but we have to accept it.

And the Passover week is to remind us of our history, of how we were saved by the blood of the lamb.

And this is extremely important, repeated more than any other command throughout the Bible. 3‘Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

God established the Sabbath in the book of Genesis at the end of His Creation and we have been reminded ever since.

It was in the book of Exodus when God commanded the Hebrews to collect twice as much manna on Friday because none would be provided on Saturday, and today, the Jews still observe Friday as “preparation day”, which is also mentioned in the Gospels when Jesus was crucified. If you reread that chapter in Exodus 16, God even commands them to stay in their house on the Sabbath day and to not leave.

And the Sabbath is still Saturday, the seventh day of the week. Was the Sabbath changed to Sunday? No, it was not. If you Google how the Sabbath changed, you’ll find it was changed by man and NOT by God, and God never changes.

The change from Saturday to Sunday as the day of worship is often attributed to Roman Emperor Constantine, who established Sunday as a day of rest in A.D. 321, and later church authorities, particularly the Catholic Church, which claimed the authority to make such a change. This shift was influenced by various factors, including the desire to distinguish Christianity from Judaism and the adoption of sun worship practices.

Will you die if you don’t observe the Sabbath? I honestly don’t know. A thief, who clearly had violated the 8th Commandment, was saved on the cross by simply admitting that Jesus was the Messiah. Would he have been saved if he admitted that three years prior, but then continued to sin? Only God knows. All I know is that in our strife to repent from our sins and be true to God, you can NEVER go wrong by observing God’s law.