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Gordo, thanks for this. Just to add that Phil Campbell published his ideas on a 4 week sermon series on Leviticus on the Perspective website.
Here is a quote about how he broke the series up
When I used his idea at my previous parish, we added a fifth talk on Leviticus 19 which addressed the topic of the Law of Moses and how Christians should relate to it (and the various types of material in it) and hence addressed the apologetic question you mentioned people mockingly raise.
I am inspired by your post to re-work this series here in Wollongong next year!
(The Perspective website is no longer adding new material but is a very helpful archive of articles from some of our Presbyterian friends on preaching, ideas for sermons series, illustrations, preaching on special occasions like Christmas and Easter.
I would say it is especially good for younger pastors who are working up sermons series rather than just individual sermons for the first time. )
“Leviticus…seems, for some reason, to be the target for particular mockery both by non-Christians (who will invariably allude to the silliness of the food laws as they attempt to satirize its opposition to homosexual practice)”
You’ve got to love the internet. There is even a website called http://www.godhatesshrimp.com
Leviticus is full of riches.
Chapter 1 is a recapitulation of the Creation week -using blood. The ascension offering makes a new world. The head and body of the sacrifice (Adam and Eve) are presented on “Day 6”.
Thank for the links Sandy and Nick. Nick, What is this thing you call ‘shrimp’?
The sermon series that helped me a great deal in understanding Leviticus was the series by John Woodhouse, now principal of Moore Theological College, at Katoomba in 1986.
Mike, there is no mention of or allusion to creation in Leviticus 1, neither is there any mention of sacrifice, blood or death in Genesis 1. So there doesn’t seem to be any direct connection between these passages.
(Leviticus 11:10) Sadly, their website makes no mention of Acts 10:9-16. Pity :-(
I’m not seeing creation in Leviticus 1 either
You can see a rundown at http://www.biblicalhorizons.com/biblical-horizons/no-107-re-creation-in-the-ascension-offering/
When this was written, Jordan hadn’t figured out Step 5. It concerns swarms, clouds, armies.
The Tabernacle instructions in Ex. 25-31 follow the same pattern. So do the feasts. You can see the fire put on the Altar at Pentecost (Lampstand), and the armies of God summoned (swarms) as Trumpets (Incense clouds).
The narrative of Moses to the exodus follows the same pattern, with the plagues as Trumpets of warning on “Day 5.” You also see it many times in Revelation. The 5th Trumpet releases clouds of smoke from the Abyss, the “bad” incense altar of false worship.
Jesus also used the pattern in the sermon on the mount. The lilies of the field, and grass etc. (multitudes) are at Day 5.
Sounds strange, but it plays out like clockwork. I wrote a book tracing the pattern through the Bible. It opened up Zechariah and Ezekiel like a can of sardines. Revelation has the pattern going sometimes at three or four levels. It’s the Bible’s DNA, but you have to think ‘visually.’
I call it systematic typology. : )
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