Lessons from Torah
Raise your hands, who in here hates the book of Leviticus? Who hates reading about all those sacrifices? Anyone? Everyone?
Not me! I love the Torah, and especially Leviticus. Not for the reasons you think. Anyone who knows my life, knows I hated rules…in fact…it wasn’t a rule unless I wanted it to be a rule in my Pre-Jesus walk.
But not today…I love the fact that there are standards, written for me, but I love the spiritual allusions they bring. Today is one of those days.
I bet when you read the rules for what parts of an animal the priests sacrifice, you just gloss over. Well, they are in there for a reason. And it is not about Jesus’ sacrifice at all.
Leviticus 3:3-5 (Complete Jewish Bible) From the sacrifice of peace offerings he (priest) is to present an offering made by fire to YHWH—the fat covering the inner organs, all the fat on the inner organs, the two kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys. Aaron’s sons are to make this go up in smoke on the altar with the burnt offering on the wood on the fire, as and offering made by fire, a fragrant aroma for YHWH.
Look at you! You even dozed off reading that! But it is important because there is a spiritual lesson in the verse. God loves the smell of the fat burning on the altar from the inner organs. Sounds dumb to us…he enjoys fat burning, woo hoo!
That isn’t the spiritual lesson, at least not all of it. Many people do not know that our own bodies carry fat on the kidneys, organs, liver etc. It is a typology. God wants the fat from our inner organs to burn up too. Guess which fat burns up first when a person fasts? Yep, you got it….The typology is that we are priests unto God, and we are to offer the fat of our internal organs as well. Fasting will kickstart fat-burning. So when we are fasting unto God, it becomes a sweet aroma, because the sacrifice of your will, want, desire is an acknowledgement of humility to him. True Worship.
We will have another Torah lesson tomorrow! So much to learn!
