SUNDAY
1. What was the purpose in the first act of animal sacrifice in the Bible?
Gen. 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
ANSWER:
To clothe their nakedness.
2. What is the meaning of the word “coat” in Hebrew?
ANSWER:
Coat- in Hebrew- 3801 kthoneth, keth-o´-neth; or kuttoneth, koot-to´-neth; from an unused root meaning to cover (compare 3802); a shirt:—coat, garment, robe.
3802. katheph, kaw-thafe´; from an unused root meaning to clothe; the shoulder (proper, i.e. upper end of the arm; as being the spot where the garments hang); figuratively, side-piece or lateral projection of anything:—arm, corner, shoulder(-piece), side, undersetter.
3. What were Adam and Eve wearing before and what does it mean in Hebrew?
Gen. 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
ANSWER:
Apron- in Hebrew-2290. chagowr, khag-ore´; or chagor, khag-ore´; and (feminine) chagowrah, khag-o-raw´; or chagorah, khag-o-raw´; from 2296; a belt (for the waist):—apron, armour, gird(-le).
OBSERVATIONS:
Apron covers from the waist below.
Coat covers from the shoulders below.
4. What did the animal give up in order to provide clothing for Adam and Eve?
ANSWER:
Life or shedding of the blood because the life is in the blood (Lev. 17:11).
5. What was the ultimate significance for shedding animal blood in the sacrificial system?
Lev. 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
ANSWER:
To teach about the atonement.
6. What is the meaning of the word “atonement” in the Hebrew?
ANSWER:
Atonement- in Hebrew-3722. kaphar, kaw-far´; a primitive root; to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel:—appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).
7. What does putting on a new “coat”, or garment, represent in the book of Zechariah?
Zech. 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
Zech. 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
ANSWER:
Forgiveness and cleansing.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
How do you cover your spiritual nakedness?
What is the connection between the atonement and the new garment?
MONDAY/ TUESDAY
1. Who needs to bring a sacrifice for their sins?
Lev. 4:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
Lev. 4:3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
ANSWER: A sinner.
2. How many people are guilty before God in the world?
Rom. 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
ANSWER: All.
3. What does the guilty one do with the sacrifice?
Lev. 4:4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock’s head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
ANSWER:
Lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering.
Kill the sin offering.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Why lay the hands on the head?
Why does the sinner have to be the one to kill the sacrifice?
4. What does a guilty person do when he lays “his hand upon the head of the sin offering?”
Lev. 16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat…
ANSWER:
Confessing his iniquities. In figure, transferring his sins to the sacrifice.
5. What does the priest do with the blood from the sacrifice?
Lev. 4:5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:
Lev. 4:6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
Lev. 4:7 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
ANSWER:
Bring the blood to the holy place.
Dip his finger in the blood.
Sprinkle of the blood on the veil seven times.
Put it upon the horns of the altar of incense.
Pour all the blood of the sacrifice at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering.
In figure, transferring the sins of the sinner to the sanctuary
WEDNESDAY
1. Who does the priest represent today?
Heb. 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus
ANSWER:
Jesus.
2. What does the finger of a priest, or the finger of God, represent?
Ex. 8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
Ex. 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Dan. 5:5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
John 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
ANSWER:
Judgment of God.
DISCUSSION QUESTION:
So what does it mean that the finger of a priest is dipped in the blood?
3. What does it mean to “sprinkle” in the Hebrew?
ANSWER:
Sprinkle- Hebrew- 5137. nazah, naw-zaw´; a primitive root; to spirt, i.e. besprinkle (especially in expiation):—sprinkle.
ADDITIONAL DEFINITIONS:
Spirt-noun -1. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn: jet] verb-1. gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; "water gushed forth" [syn: spurt] 2. move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy [syn: forge]
Expiation- ORIGIN Latin expiare ‘appease by sacrifice’, from pius ‘pious’. 1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. atone for (guilt or sin).
4. What is the significance of the “veil”?
Heb. 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus Heb. 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh
Col. 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight
ANSWER:
Jesus our Substitute made the way of forgiveness.
DISCUSSION QUESTION:
What is the significance of “seven times”?
5. What is the significance of “horns” in the Bible?
Gen. 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Psa. 118:27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
Hab. 3:4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
Luke 1:69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
Psa. 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
ANSWER:
It represents the power of salvation.
DISCUSSION QUESTION:
What is the significance of putting the blood on the horns of the altar of incense?
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