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My Daily Blessing from My Daily
Bible Reading
with meditations
by my mother, Poetess Gertrude Sanborn
February
8
Leviticus 16:29 -- Leviticus 19:33
DEVIL WORSHIP OUTSIDE THE CAMP
Leviticus
17:3-4, 7, 9, 11-12
"What man . . . of the
house of Israel that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in
the camp . . . or out of the camp, and bringeth it not
unto the door of the tabernacle . . . to offer an
offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle . . . blood
shall be imputed unto that man . . . that man shall be
cut off from among his people "
Evidently some
of the Israelites were secretly offering an ox, a lamb,
or a goat to idols, heathen deities, away from the proper
God-approved place of offerings at the Tabernacle.
This verse implies that it
was happening on a regular basis. Behind the backs of
the faithful, blood sacrifices were made "in the
camp" and "out of the camp" to idols and
false deities. The influence of the gods of Egypt and
the ways of the heathen had rubbed off on some of the
people whom God looked upon as His chosen.
Verse 7 implies that those
disobedient Israelites were sacrificing unto devils to
whom they had spiritually prostituted themselves.
Some had cut and tattooed themselves for the dead. They
had cut their beards in heathen styles. They had sought
after "peeping wizards." They had looked to
enchantments and observed times. They were mean to
strangers within their midst. They had cheated in
business dealings with weights and measures. They had
sacrificed their children to Molech and had committed
adultery with their neighbors’ mates, as well as
homosexual and bestial sexual activities.
I believe they even drank the
blood of their sacrifices as many heathen do today.
All this spiritual unfaithfulness was abominable to the
LORD! God said that the life of the flesh was in the
blood (Leviticus 17:11, 14). These people were
degrading the blood of the animals as they degraded
themselves in heathen worship.
They did not see the big picture
that some day in the future the Lamb of God, Jesus
Christ, would sacrifice His holy blood to redeem their
souls. All such animal sacrifice were to be brought
to the door of the tabernacle. If they refused to do so,
they would be cut off from among God’s people.
You and I sit back and think
"How could they do such evil? How could they disregard
the words of the LORD?" They appeared to have no
fear of Him! The answer lies within you and me. Some of
us are the very same. We have His Words in our
Scripture; yet we, too, often ignore what we read. We go
our merry way and think no one knows what we are doing
outside the camp of believers and away from those who
walk godly. (ysw)
"GOD IS GREATER
THAN ANY MAN"
(Job 33:12)
"Why dost thou
strive against Him, for He giveth not account of His
matters"
Why doth the
clay say to the Potter, "WHY"?
A Sovereign God
does not need to explain
though He often
does. (GGS)
And
Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he
said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly
return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo,
Sarah thy wife shall have a son. (Genesis 18:10)
Under God's Care,
Yvonne S. Waite
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