March 2025

I don’t know if it’s part of the translation or if it’s just God’s desire for simplicity, but all of the sacrifices are relatively self-explanatory. A sin offering is for sin, a free will offering is given of our own free will, and a grain offering involves grain. Easy peasy. But what’s a wave offering? […]

Most of the laws and regulations in the Old Testament centered around the nature of sacrifices. There were several different types of sacrifices, as well as different sub types inside those sacrifices. Sometimes the sacrifice was sin-based and involved a bull. Other times it was a freewill offering and involved grain. Although the Text records

There are so many sacrifices in the Old Testament. Like…a lot. To make it simpler, most scholars place them in five different groups: burnt offerings, grain offerings, peace offerings, sin offerings, and trespass offerings. Not all of them are put on the altar and lit on fire; indeed, some are simply placed at the doorway

Being a priest is hard work.  First, there’s the physical side of it: slaughtering animals, moving pieces of the tabernacle, shoveling ash and procuring olive oil for lamp that is burning nonstop. Then, there’s the emotional side. Since the priests were to intercede on behalf of the people, they would’ve been intimately aware of the

Can you imagine the noise that accompanied the sacrifices that happened all day in the Tabernacle? Not only do you have an entire nation at the door offering various animals, but you have priests shoveling charcoal, moving oil, and offering prayers. Not to mention the sounds of the animals themselves (who are only silenced by

It doesn’t take me very long to get ready in the morning. I won’t tell you the exact time because I’m sure it’ll make everyone jealous, but take whatever time you think it should take the average male to get ready, then cut it in half. That’s how quickly I can be out the door.

On the surface, there’s nothing fantastic about Aaron’s garments in Exodus 28. Sure, they’re elaborate—as they should be for someone who ministers to hundreds of thousands of people on behalf of an all-powerful God—but they’re still just clothes. All the colors of royalty are there. Blue, purple, scarlet material (Exodus 28:5), “skillfully woven bands” (Exodus

Let’s make something clear: When I say “built the priesthood” in the title, I’m talking about physically made the garments and the Tabernacle the priests would use. God “built” the priesthood. It was His design and His creation. But someone had to physically make the elements that the priests, right? I personally don’t think the

For a job that relies heavily on genealogy, the sons of Aaron are largely background players in the book of Exodus. A lot of that has to do with Aaron himself; as the high priest, Aaron is the one in charge. His sons will eventually take on that mantle (literally), but right now, the focus