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Excerpted from: Wilderness Wandering (Part 2)Let me explain what happened here. Everyone knows that the Levitical priesthood was established to offer sacrifices, but how many of you know that they were living sacrifices, separated to the work of God, and as such they became forerunners of you and me. The wave offering given in this ceremony was of themselves. Symbolically and figuratively, they were sacrificing themselves, and when hands were laid on the sacrificed animals, the animals then represented them.
In other words, the Levites, who were offering themselves here to the direction of Aaron, laid their hands on the animals that were actually sacrificed, and when they laid their hands on the animals, those animals figuratively became them, and then those animals were actually sacrificed, but the priest remained alive. The emphasis in the Old Testament sacrifices was not on the death of the animal, but the giving of a life—a life lived. Now where do you think Paul got the expression telling us to be living sacrifices? That is where he got it. Right there.
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Excerpted from: Matthew (Part Thirty)Now, for quite a number of years, our ordinations of our ministers tended to be done in private. I do not know whose idea that was. But most of the years that we were in the church before they always did it right out in front of the congregation. They, just like it says here, bring them all before the whole assembly of Israel. And I am going to give them an office.
I do not know who of the children of Israel did it, whether it was certain representatives among the people; maybe the 70 elders. I do not know, maybe because there were thousands of Levites, maybe there were thousands of Israelites who laid their hands upon them.
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