 Okay, I think the record button is working. Yeah, so we looked very briefly at the book of Exodus. There are so many things that we could have, you know, talked about, but there was no time. So we just looked at some very basic concepts. So we'll have to now move into the book of Leviticus. The book of Leviticus is not very popular. People don't like it a lot because there are no stories in it. But if the book of Leviticus was not there, the nation of Israel would have stopped existing because it's the book of Leviticus which explains to them what sacrifices they can do, how they can please the Lord, how they can, you know, make themselves acceptable to the Lord. The book of Leviticus is very important because that laid the foundation for these Israelites to continue living in the presence of a holy God and, you know, be able to finally enter into the promised land. So Genesis is generally known as the book of beginnings because it talks about the beginning of many, many things, you know, we touched on that last class. Then when we come to Exodus, Exodus is called the book of redemption because the people redeemed the people from God redeemed his people from slavery. Leviticus is called the book of atonement that word atonement means someone paying the price for somebody else's sins so that they can be forgiven. So the sins of the people were atoned for by the sacrificial lamb. The sacrifices which were done, those sacrifice atoned for the people's sins. Because of those sacrifices, the people's sins were forgiven. So Leviticus talks a lot about the sacrifices which were performed and the various steps which the priests, which the Levite priests should take in performing the different ceremonies. So it's more like a instruction guidebook about sacrifices and what the people should do when they come to the temple. It is also a guidebook to the Levite priests to explain to them all the procedures which they should be following when they are serving in the temple. So all these details are mainly found in your book of Leviticus. So because the focus in this book is upon the sacrifices and the temple procedures, I mean, of course, the temple had not been constructed yet, but you know, all these things would be done in the tabernacle. So all the details regarding this are given in the book of Leviticus. And here in this book, because of the topic, the nature of the topic which is being covered over here, the word which is used most often, the word which is, you know, used repeated more often than any other word in the book of Leviticus, it's the word holy. Holy is that one word which is mentioned more than a hundred times in the book of Leviticus, because this book is all about a holy God telling his people how they can be sanctified and purified and how they can make themselves acceptable to him. So the word holy is mentioned more than a hundred times in this book. You can guess what the next most repeated word would be. It's the word sacrifice. The word sacrifices mentioned 42 times in this book of Leviticus. And of course, you have the word blood also being mentioned many times. The word priest is mentioned many, many times because there are so many instructions given to the priests in this book of Leviticus. So these are the main topics that are dealt with in this particular book. So God told the Levit priests what they should do during the festivals. You know, the Israelites were asked to celebrate certain festivals and they were supposed to perform sacrifices in the morning and in the evening. So the procedures for that was given and all these things were done so that one day when Jesus comes, he can take the place of all these sacrifices and fulfill once for all the atonement, the final act of atonement for us. So if you look at all the festivals which the other nations would have had, they all had their own religious festivals, all the surrounding nations, including even the Egyptians. Their festivals were just festivals. But when you look at the feasts which are mentioned in the book of Leviticus, each of these feasts has a purpose. It's actually pointing towards Jesus Christ. If you look at the festivals and feasts of the other nations, they are just something that the people are doing in the hope of pleasing the gods, you know, in the hope of getting their blessings from those gods. But when you look at the feasts which are mentioned in the book of Leviticus, each of these feasts has a significance. As the people were celebrating these feasts, without even realizing it, what they're actually celebrating is what Jesus is going to accomplish one day. So there's a lot of spiritual significance attached to the feasts which are mentioned in Leviticus. So the people were not supposed to celebrate these feasts in a very light-hearted, casual manner. This was something that should be done with a lot of reverence in a very sacred and holy manner because these feasts are actually pointing towards what Jesus is going to accomplish one day for the people, not only of Israel but for the entire world. So this book of Leviticus basically is dealing with things which happened during one month, that one month when they were at the Mount Sinai. So the events which are mentioned in this book of Leviticus, all those events take place during a span of just about one month. During the time when they were actually receiving instructions from God at Mount Sinai. And people who say that the book of Leviticus was not written by Moses, we have evidence to prove that he wrote it. If someone can read out from Romans chapter 10 verse 5, where it clearly gives the name of the author of Leviticus, Romans chapter 10 verse 5. For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, the man who does those things shall live by them. This verse which is quoted over here, the person who does these things will live by them. That's actually your Leviticus chapter 18 verse 5. So Paul is quoting this particular verse over here and according to him who wrote this verse, he very plainly says that Moses wrote it. So Moses says, so Paul says Moses wrote this in Leviticus 18 5. He wrote that the person who does these things will live by them. So this is actually proof that Moses wrote the book of Leviticus. Just to look at the overall structure of the book of Leviticus, we can again divide this book also into five sections. The first section can be chapters 1 to 7 where you have the five main sacrifices being described. So chapters 1 to 7, the five main sacrifices which all the people must perform on a regular basis that is explained in great detail in chapters 1 to 7. Chapters 8 to 10 is where you have instructions given to the Levite priests. The instructions are given to Aaron and to his sons on what they should do, what they should wear, what sacrifices they should perform before entering into the tabernacle. All those details are given in chapters 8 to 10. It's mainly the instructions given to the Levite priests. The third section would be chapters 11 to 15. Here you have a detailed list of what is clean and what is unclean. This long list given of animals which are considered as clean and unclean. If you touch what objects will become unclean and what are the things which are sacred and should not be touched by people, all those details are given. So this section chapters 11 to 15, it focuses more on the clean and the unclean, the pure and the ordinary everyday use objects. Certain things you're not supposed to touch because they are sacred. Other everyday objects you can touch. Those kind of details are given. Chapter 16 maybe can be called a separate section by itself because in chapter 16 is where it talks about the day of atonement. This is that one single day in the entire year when the high priest is allowed to enter into the Holy of Holies. For the rest of the time, the Levite priests will only do their work in the holy place but nobody will ever enter into the Holy of Holies because you have the Ark of the Covenant placed over there and God's presence dwells over there in that most holy place. So nobody could enter there but on the day of atonement, Aaron would sacrifice an entire bull just for himself. I mean imagine, he can't just walk inside the most holy place, it's too risky, it's too dangerous. So he in fact very reverentially performs the sacrifices which he's supposed to do before even entering. So in fact he would sacrifice a bull, he would follow all the procedures which are given, he would prepare himself and then he would enter into the most holy place with the blood of the goat which has been killed and then he would sprinkle that blood on the Ark of the Covenant on the inside, inside the most holy place. So the details of this are not mentioned in the book of Levitechus but generally according to tradition, we are told that when Aaron or whoever the high priest is who is serving, when the high priest would go inside the most holy place, they would tie a rope to his leg because in case God's anger comes upon him and he falls down dead, who's going to go inside and bring out the dead body, nobody would have the guts to do that. So they would tie a rope to the leg so that in case there is judgment, at least they can pull out that person from using the rope and then there was this special rope which the high priest was supposed to wear and at the bottom of the rope near the hem, the bottom hem of the rope, you would have a decoration of little pomegranates and bells. So you would have one pomegranate, one bell and one pomegranate and one bell, that would be your hem, the lower hem of the rope and this was supposed to represent fruitfulness, the pomegranates represented fruitfulness, on the other hand the bell represented holiness. So when this high priest would go into the most holy place at one single time in the entire year when he's allowed to go inside, when he goes inside, as he's moving around doing what he's supposed to do over there, his bells would tinkle, you can hear the tinkling of the bells and it's basically like as if the priest is reminding, the high priest is reminding God and saying, Lord, I'm coming inside over here covered by your holiness. I'm not coming over here on my own, it's because of the bull sacrifice which I have performed according to the instructions which you gave me, I have prepared myself and now in your holiness I'm stepping inside to do this task of high priestly duty which I'm supposed to do and so the people standing outside, the people, the Levite helpers who are there in the holy place, they would be able to hear the tinkling of the bells. Now for a long amount of time if there's no noise from inside and there's no tinkling of bells then you have to understand, maybe the high priest was killed because you had not met the requirements which God has made. So if that were to happen and there's no sound coming from inside, no tinkling bells then I suppose they would have to pull the dead person out. So this was not a light hearted ceremony, the day of atonement was something very sacred because on that day once a year God would remind himself once again that one day Jesus Christ will be coming to make final atonement for everyone. So based on that God would accept whatever the high priest is offering over there in the most holy place. So chapter 16 basically deals with this. Chapter 17 to 27 I suppose can be called one single section. Chapter 17 to 27 is where you have different laws which are given to live a holy life. So what are all the things that you should do to live a holy life? So you have many laws which talk about not indulging in idolatry. You have property laws being mentioned. You have laws regarding giving of justice. You have laws regarding moral life of course. And in chapter 23 is where it talks about the seven feasts, the seven festivals which the people were supposed to celebrate. So that's also mentioned in chapter 23. So these are the five sections which you find in the book of Leviticus. Let's look very briefly at the seven feasts which are mentioned in chapter 23. Like I said all the feasts which the Israelites performed had significance. They all were pointing towards Jesus Christ. The Passover Feast of course is very obvious. We know that Jesus became the Passover lamb. We know that's explained to us in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 6 to 8. We are told that Jesus Christ became our Passover lamb. So we know the significance of the Passover Feast. The second feast which was celebrated by these people, the Israelites was the Feast of Unleavened Bread. In fact that also is mentioned in 1 Corinthians 5 verses 6 to 8. So it says over there, because Jesus Christ has now become our Passover lamb, we should be living without any leaven in us. That word leaven over there is talking about yeast. You know so there's nothing wrong with yeast. It's just a symbol that is being used to represent something else. So you know God uses the symbol of the yeast to talk about sin. So the people when they are celebrating the Passover Feast and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, they are not supposed to mix any yeast in the bread which they prepare you know inside the tabernacle to represent the fact that we should be living lives which don't have any yeast. So we can all ask ourselves this question. Is there any yeast inside my heart right now? And I'm of course not talking about the yeast which we prepare in our kitchen. I'm talking about the spiritual yeast. Is there any yeast because in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 6 to 8 you know Paul says, remember Jesus Christ has become the Passover lamb and so now you have an obligation. You are now supposed to live a life which does not have any yeast in it, which does not have any sin in it. You need to be holy because the Passover lamb has made a sacrifice on your behalf. Those things I know explained in 1 Corinthians chapter 5. Now coming to the next Feast which these people celebrated, it was called the Feast of First Fruits. So when the Israelite people celebrated the Feast of First Fruits, that's basically when they would bring the first fruits which they have you know grown from their crops, their trees and their crops and they would place that before the Lord as an offering saying, Lord you promised us this land, now we have come inside this land and we have been able to grow these crops. You have blessed us with rain, you have provided us with all that is required and now we were able to produce these first fruits and now we are coming and presenting it before you to say thank you to you. We are grateful to you for the first fruits which you have given us and remember the term is called First Fruits which means many many more fruits are going to come, you know even as the harvest season continues. So it's like an act of faith. The people are saying we are coming and giving you this first fruit so Lord as an offering and making a statement saying we trust you that you're going to continue giving us much more fruit even as the season goes by and also the first fruits is like a act of submission. The people are saying Lord we are giving you this first fruits, we are dedicating it to you as a symbol that in the same way we have dedicated this first fruits the rest of the crop which is going to come later that also is dedicated to you. Yes it is true we will use it for our homes, we will use it to sell and earn money, we will use the fruits which come later for other purposes but the fact remains that in the same way the first fruits were dedicated to you the rest of the fruits are also dedicated to you which is basically what we do today with our Sunday offerings. When you're putting that offering amount or that type into the offering bag you're not just dedicating that particular amount to God, you're basically saying in the same way I'm dedicating this amount the rest of what you're going to give me that also I consider it as dedicated to you so I will use it in the right manner I will use the money in a honourable manner so it is like the first fruits you're giving him the first portion which has come into your hand and you're trusting him and saying in the same way you provided this I know you're going to provide the rest and because I believe in you and I trust you I'm right now declaring and saying even all the rest which you're going to give to me that also I consider it as dedicated unto you and I will use it in the right manner so they called it the feast of first groups today we don't have a feast of tithing but it is something that we are supposed to do in an honourable manner you know when we go to the church and make our offerings the other feast which they had was the feast of weeks so this feast was observed 50 days after the feast of first fruits so they would celebrate the feast of first fruits 50 days after that they would celebrate something called the feast of weeks so which means there are basically 50 days in between these two festivals and later when you came up with Greek and Latin the word for 50 is Penta so it began to be called the feast of Pentecost so the feast of weeks the Greek word for that would be the feast of Pentecost but originally it was called the feast of weeks in what way does the feast of weeks remind us of what Jesus did you see after the feast of first fruits okay let us look at how first fruits you know points towards Jesus first Corinthians chapter 15 verses 20 to 23 there Paul takes an old testament word he takes this word first fruits from the book of Leviticus and he applies it to Jesus he says when Jesus Christ was resurrected it's like as if Jesus Christ was the first fruits in the same way he got resurrected all the people who follow him who will be coming after they also will be resurrected in the same manner so he takes an old testament concept and he applies it to Jesus Christ and calls Jesus the first fruits so in that sense you can think of Jesus Christ as being the first fruits and then 50 days after Jesus resurrection you have the feast of weeks taking place at which time you actually have you know in the New Testament the Holy Spirit coming down upon the people so I'm not saying that it no the exact number of days it matches and all of that but basically there is a kind of significance in the Old Testament time they had the feast of first fruits 50 days they would wait and then finally they would have the feast of weeks in the New Testament times Jesus Christ rose up from the dead he rose up victorious and then for for you know for for a certain number of days he mixes with them and oh and he shows the people that he's alive and that he has risen up and then finally he ascends and he goes away and the people are waiting in the same way in the Old Testament the people would wait for those 50 days for the next feast to begin here in the New Testament time you also see the people waiting for the next event to take place and that even takes place on the day of Pentecost so there is a kind of connection so everything that God did in the Old Testament he was doing it with the New Testament in mind almost everything that happens in the Old Testament is a shadow the shadow is pointing towards what's going to take place in New Testament times so the Old Testament is not something outdated it is a shadow of all the things that we are experiencing today there's a very direct connection which is why in Second Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 you know Paul says all the things which have been mentioned in the Old Testament in the scriptures it is for your learning it is for you to learn from it is for you to be corrected from you know so there is value in these things which we are doing in the Old Testament survey class because all these things which were which happened so many centuries ago they are directly connected to the things which are happening today in our own Christian lives so that's the connection between the first fruits and the feast of weeks the feast of trumpets they generally say it could be a pointing towards the you know second coming of Jesus Christ when when it says everyone would hear the trumpet being you know sounded and then Jesus would descend once again so they say the feast of trumpets is probably connected to the second coming of Jesus Christ so we see that all the feasts of the Israelite people they had spiritual significance and they were pointing towards Jesus Christ now maybe we can look at those five sacrifices which are mentioned in your Leviticus chapters 1 to 7 because those were every single person who lived in the land of Israel was supposed to perform these five sacrifices now if you look at that list I know the first seven chapters two of those sacrifices are compulsory okay so they are compulsory sacrifices the sin offering and the guilt offering those two were compulsory everyone has to perform them you know according to whatever instructions are given so let's look at what these two offerings are actually supposed to mean you know if someone could be kind enough to give me a sip of water it would be a big help let's look at what the sin offering talks about now that would actually be in your Leviticus chapter 4 yeah where it talks about the sin offering so a person may sometimes commit a sin without actually meaning to do it you know accidentally he happens to commit a sin so in such cases the sin offering would have to be given also in the same way they may break a purification ritual for instance they may touch you know the fungus on the wall you know if that happens then you know your impure and you have to offer a sin offering to be cleansed or you may accidentally touch some object you know that God has declared as sacred so if that happens again it is a it's a it's a sin so then you would have to make a sin offering to be forgiven of that particular sin so sin offering was something that was performed every time a person would commit a sin but they're not doing this deliberately it's just that accidentally it happened you know unintentionally they happen to do that particular sin guilt offering on the other hand is basically for the offering which you are giving for the sins which you deliberately did you decided in your heart I know God wants me to obey him in this way but I choose to break his commandment and do this sinful thing so the guilt offering is something that you would offer for things that you have done deliberately so sin offering is for unintentional sins which happened accidentally you know you may you may accidentally harm somebody you know you're having a fight with a person and then maybe you push that person that person falls and they are very badly hurt so you know sin offering is for unintentional sins which just happened on the spur of the moment on the other hand guilt offering is for those sins which you have deliberately chosen to do by breaking the commandments of God you know it's it's a decision that you make in your heart to disobey the Lord for such things the guilt offering would be given so these two were compulsory offerings which the people must perform on a regular basis the other three sacrifices which I mentioned they all were voluntary so the other three sacrifices the first of them was the burnt offering now you see when was when was when did God give the instructions for all these sacrifices he gave these instructions at the Mount Sinai but long before Mount Sinai from the time of Abel and Cain we see people offering burnt offerings why because the burnt offering is basically saying Lord you know like this animal which I am sacrificing I'm offering myself completely to you in submission to obey you to follow you completely in every single way so the burnt offering the main central meaning of the burnt offering was you're saying that I just like this animal which is being given over completely to you completely it's going to be burnt in front of you in the same way I am choosing and saying that I also am completely offering myself to you in submission so right from the time of you know Abraham Isaac and all that you have burnt offerings being given so this was a voluntary offering God doesn't force anyone to go and make you know offer themselves as a burnt offering it's a personal choice the person whenever he wishes to make that commitment he goes with the sacrifice to the tabernacle and he performs that sacrifice over there to say Lord see just like this animal which has been completely given over to you completely burnt in front of you I also I'm willing to give myself totally so in Romans chapter 12 verse 1 where it says you know I urge you brethren by the mercies of God to offer yourselves as a living sacrifice it's basically talking about the burnt offering in the case of the Old Testament on the altar you would be placing an animal the animal would be placed over there but over here in our New Testament in Romans chapter 12 verse 1 I know Paul is saying in the same way the animal was placed on that altar and it was completely burnt up for God I'm asking you believers to place yourself on the altar not to be burnt up but to be living sacrifices so on a daily basis you choose to stay on the altar and you know the main point which preachers make regarding this is if you put an animal on the altar the animal will try to run away so which means you have to take ropes and tied to the altar on the other hand the believers are not tied to the altar it's a choice that you make to stay over there you know when it starts burning and the sacrifice starts hurting you want to get down and escape but at that time you're not like an animal you know you have you have been created in the image of God so you think about what you are doing and you choose and say yes even though this is burning even though this is hurting I choose to continue to stay on this altar because I'm offering myself in submission to the Lord so this burnt offering was a sweet smelling offering to the Lord of course all the offerings were sweet smelling sacrifices to the Lord but this would have meant a lot to the Lord because the person is coming voluntarily this is not one of the compulsory sacrifices and yet the person comes chooses to come and do this on a monthly basis where they are giving this burnt offering to say to the Lord I'm submitting myself completely to you you know if they had known the New Testament terminology they would have actually said the same just like this animal I am going to be a living sacrifice unto you oh Lord you know that's the kind of commitment that they would be making when they are doing this particular sacrifice the second kind of voluntary sacrifice was the grain offering this is basically when they you know when they were whenever crops are grown they would bring the crop a portion of the crop to the altar to say thank you to the Lord and say Lord you know you have given me all of these crops and now out of gratitude I'm bringing this grain offering to you so that would be the grain offerings and then you have another final offering which is called the peace offering or the peace offering was given sometimes to to say to say to say thank you to the Lord sometimes the peace offering was given because a person has taken a vow and you know they have said I will you know I will dedicate myself to the Lord for so many days and I'll spend time you know in his presence during that time instead of doing my everyday jobs you know I'll just spend time at the tabernacle in God's presence you know in spend time in prayer and things like that so the end of the vow they would make they would give a peace offering so that is the last type so you so these are five main types of offerings which were given in the Old Testament and you know if you reflect upon it all these five offerings they apply even to us we are also supposed to be living sacrifices just like the burnt offerings grain offering the same way God gives to us we give back to him in the form of types and offerings how does the peace offering apply to us sometimes we make an offering just to say just to thank the Lord for something sometimes we may make an offering as a kind of a vow where we are saying Lord I'm dedicating this amount to you because I have no decided that you know my business is going to be completely devoted to you the way I run this business will be only according to your principles so I am making this offering to you as a kind of a vow where I'm saying well whatever I'm whatever I know I'm going to take up whatever venture I'm taking up it's going to be completely only for you and for your purposes or something like that so we in a sense these Old Testament sacrifices also apply to us but of course we would not do it with animals because no one can substitute for Jesus Christ so we will not be using animals or anything like that but the spiritual principle which is there in these sacrifices those spiritual principles they apply even to the New Testament believers we maybe we can also look at you know Leviticus chapter 16 which talks about the day of atonement and so in Leviticus chapter 16 verses 6 to 10 it talks about how Aaron would first you know offer a bull for his own sins you know so he first of all performs that sacrifice for himself so that he can enter into the most holy place and then it goes on to explain in those in those verses you know Leviticus 16 verses 6 to 10 that he takes two goats okay so one goat is offered as a sacrifice for the sins of all the people of Israel and so the blood of that goat is what the you know high priest will take inside the most holy place and sprinkled sprinkle it on the Ark of the Covenant what about the other goat why were two goats used for this particular ceremony the second goat is you know it explains what Aaron is supposed to do with the second goat maybe we can actually read these verses Leviticus chapter 16 if someone can read out verses 7 to 10 Leviticus 16 7 to 10 okay so the second goat is supposed to have some different spiritual significance it says that this goat is it is to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness it explains over here if you look later on you know in verses 20 21 22 you get a little more detail maybe we can read out verses 21 and 22 someone could read out same chapter verses 21 and 22 about the second goat and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all the inequities of children of Israel and their transitions in all their sins putting them upon the head of a goat and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness yeah so the first goat which was sacrificed the sins of the people are placed on that goat and the goat takes the punishment which would come upon them so that becomes the sin offering in the second case of the second goat again Aaron places his hand is it says he lay he lays his hands on the head of the second goat and again all the sins of the people the wickedness and rebellion of the people is passed on to the goat but this one is not killed as a sin offering rather it is taken into the wilderness and left to go free so the goat just goes wandering away nobody knows where it has gone and it has gone carrying all the sins of the people upon it what is the signifying it signifies the first goat signified the fact the sins of the people have been washed it's a sin offering and so by the blood of that goat the sins of the people were washed and cleansed is the spiritual significance the second goat which is bearing all the sins of the people and which has gone away somewhere and no one can find it anymore it has gone away it's like God to say I have forgotten what you people did not only did I pay for the sin and wash you off it I have also chosen a second goat which signifies that it's gone away from you you know nobody can find that goat it's gone somewhere in the wilderness completely lost only if you catch hold of it will you again remember all the sins which were put upon it so in a symbolic sense God is saying that far your sins have been removed from you it's like it's been taken away from my presence and I will no longer remember what you did you are completely forgiven so these so you know the technical terms that I used the first goat is for the propitiation of sin where the sin is paid for the second one is for the remission of sin where God is saying you know I cut the sins away from you completely and I will not even connect you to those sins anymore the next time I look at you and no longer think of you as the person who did that sin no the connection between you and that sin is cut off I will no longer think about you in terms of that sin anymore you are forgiven to that extent so that's the you know significance of these two goats which were used for this particular ritual to briefly touch upon this whole thing about clean and unclean animals a lot of people say that you know God categorized some animals as clean and some as unclean for health reasons so they say all the unclean animals are the ones which are bad for our health and that is why God said you should not eat them but this is this a defect in that argument because what happened in the New Testament in the New Testament God says you're allowed to eat all animals so does that mean with women when the New Testament started God stopped caring about the health of his people so it's not for health reasons that he categorized them into two categories God still cares about our health he still wants us to eat only the you know the correct kind of meat so it's not for health reasons that he makes a division between the clean and the unclean animals we get an idea of what God is trying to say you know on the rooftop where Peter has that experience where God connects this whole idea of unclean and clean animals to the idea of gentiles and Jews very clear connection nobody you know humanly made that connection God himself said that to Peter God talks about clean and unclean animals and he connects that idea to the concept of Jews and Gentiles so in the Old Testament time when God introduced this idea of clean and unclean animals he was trying to make a point which are the animals which are declared as unclean it's those animals which are not following the standard pattern you see the animals which are supposed to chew grass you know which chew the cut you know is what it says in the in the verse they're all supposed to have you know that the hoof of the thing is supposed to be divided so if the hoof is divided that is the proper vegetarian animal you know on the other hand you have some animals which are vegetarian for the hoof is not divided so they are not following the standard pattern so such animals God says they are unclean he has separated away all the all the no Philippians see when he writes his book he calls them the odd balls the standard ones which follow the pattern they are called clean all the odd balls which are not following the regular pattern they are you know steps kept in a separate set as unclean why does God have anything against that those animals no not at all no God loves the prawns you know God loves the pigs so it's not that God has got anything against any any any animal because when he got created creation he created all of them and declared and said this is good so all animals are good in his eyes but he was trying to bring out a spiritual meaning he was saying you Israelite people have been chosen by me to follow certain standards I am setting the pattern for you I have written five books of the Torah to show you what pattern you're supposed to follow so you are following my pattern the rest of the people the other nations are following different patterns so they are unclean but a day will come when they will also come to me and when they come to me I will teach them my ways and then they too will follow the ways of the Lord and at that time there will be no unclean unclean because you see now they're all following the same standards which God has set so at that point of time there is no need for any separation anymore so this is the spiritual significance which is there behind this whole idea of clean and unclean animals every time the Jewish people the Israelite people would eat the clean animals and they would avoid all the unclean animals in their mind they are basically saying to themselves yes we are like these clean animals which are following the set pattern which has been set by God we are not like the Gentiles who are choosing to live in other ways in different ways we be on the other hand are following the set pattern of the Lord and so finally when the time of Peter comes and Peter is on the rooftop God says now I'm going to start bringing in all the Gentiles to myself and they too will be baptized by the Holy Spirit just like the Jewish people and they too will become new you know in their inner man they will be reborn into somebody into a new person and so now those people can no longer be regarded as unclean so from now on you don't have to follow this idea of eating certain foods and avoiding certain foods because that was supposed to signify the separation of the Jews and Gentiles and now that the separation is now over you no longer have to follow that food law so God did not introduce the food loss just for the sake of health reasons he had a spiritual reason for introducing this concept all right so there is no time had this we could have talked about a few more things but that's okay anyone has any questions or doubts no one has posted anything over here either so if you don't have any doubts or questions you know we can close with the word of prayer let's pray Lord we just thank you so much for the spiritual lessons that we could learn from the book of Exodus and Leviticus Lord I pray that you would help us to live sanctified lives we thank you that you reached out to us first and now you're waiting for us to reach out to you to reciprocate from our side and express our devotion to you so we pray oh Lord that you would help us to be like those burnt offerings to completely offer ourselves in submission to you so that you may be honored in our lives thank you Lord in Jesus name amen thank you ma'am