Study questions

Life-Study of Leviticus

1. An Introductory Word

  1. How do we see the advancement of the divine revelation in the books of Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus?
  2. Present the three points concerning the contrast between the books of Exodus and Leviticus spoken of in this message.

2. A General Definition of the Offerings

  1. What is the relationship between the tabernacle and the offerings?
  2. What are the categories of the offerings, how do they relate, and what is the significance of the sequence of the offerings?

3. The Burnt Offering Christ for God's Satisfaction (1)

  1. What is the significance of the burnt offering?
  2. Present the characteristics of the burnt offering spoken of in this message. What is the significance of the offerer laying his hands on the offering?

4. The Burnt Offering Christ for God's Satisfaction (2)

  1. How is our experience of Christ as the offerings related to our laboring on Christ?
  2. What is the significance of the slaughtering, skinning, cutting into pieces, and washing of the burnt offering?

5. The Burnt Offering Christ for God's Satisfaction (3)

  1. What is the significance of the different sizes of the burnt offering?
  2. What does it mean to have our offering "processed" by the other saints?

6. The Burnt Offering Christ for God's Satisfaction (4)

  1. Describe experientially how we may experience the aspects of the burnt offering in our daily life.
  2. What is the significance of the details related to the ashes of the burnt offering?

7. The Burnt Offering Christ for God's Satisfaction (5) Experiencing Christ in His Experiences and Offering the Christ We Have Experienced, and Offering Him to God as Our Burnt Offering According to Our Experiences of Him (1)

  1. What does it mean to experience Christ in His experiences and offer the Christ we have experienced?
  2. Provide verse references from the Gospels that show each of the experiences of Christ as the burnt offering as presented in this message.

8. The Burnt Offering Christ for God's Satisfaction (6) Experiencing Christ in His Experiences and Offering the Christ We Have Experienced, and Offering Him to God as Our Burnt Offering According to Our Experiences of Him (2)

  1. What is our basic problem before God?
  2. What does it mean for us to experience Christ in His experiences of being brought to the slaughter, in His being slaughtered, in His being skinned, and in His being cut into pieces? Provide verse references for each.

9. The Burnt Offering Christ for God's Satisfaction (7) Experiencing Christ in His Experiences and Offering the Christ We Have Experienced, and Offering Him to God as Our Burnt Offering According to Our Experiences of Him (3)

  1. Describe the experience of experiencing Christ in His wisdom.
  2. Describe the experience of experiencing Christ in His inward parts.

10. The Burnt Offering Christ for God's Satisfaction (8) Experiencing Christ in His Experiences and Offering the Christ We Have Experienced, and Offering Him to God as Our Burnt Offering According to Our Experiences of Him (4)

  1. What are the two schools of thought concerning the experience of Christ?
  2. What is the way to live a victorious life?

11. The Meal Offering Christ for the Satisfaction of God's People Enjoyed Together With God (1)

  1. Describe the relationship between the meal offering and the burnt offering.
  2. What are the ingredients of the meal offering and what is the spiritual significance of each?

12. The Meal Offering Christ for the Satisfaction of God's People Enjoyed Together With God (2)

  1. How practically can we enjoy Christ as the meal offering?
  2. Describe in some detail the spiritual significance of the fine flour being mingled with oil.

13. The Meal Offering Christ for the Satisfaction of God's People Enjoyed Together With God (3)

  1. What is the significance of the meal offering having salt but no leaven and no honey?
  2. What is the significance of the different forms of the meal offering?

14. The Practical Experience and Enjoyment of Christ as the Offerings

  1. What does it mean to say that Christ as the reality of the offerings is God's food and our food?
  2. According to this message, what is the practical way to enjoy Christ as the reality of all the offerings?

15. The Elements of the Meal Offering for the Christian Life and the Church Life

  1. Describe how we can see Christ as the reality of the meal offering in the four Gospels. Provide verse references for each element.
  2. What does it mean to say that the Christian life is a duplication of Christ's life?

16. The Meal Offering Church Life

  1. What is the meaning of Paul's word in 1 Corinthians 16:13, "Be a man"?
  2. How can we see all of the elements of the meal offering in the book of 1 Corinthians? Provide verse references for each.

17. The Peace Offering Christ as the Peace Between God and God's People for Their Co-Enjoyment in Fellowship

  1. According to this message, how can we have peace?
  2. Describe the spiritual significance of the details related to the peace offering.

18. The Sin Offering Chrst for the Sin of God's People (1)

  1. How does the sequence of the offerings correspond to the sequence in 1 John 1, and what is the difference between sin and sins?
  2. What are the four inseparable negative things dealt with by Christ as the sin offering?

19. The Sin Offering Chrst for the Sin of God's People (2)

  1. How is sin related to the struggle for power?
  2. What does it mean to take Christ as our sin offering?

20. The Sin Offering Chrst for the Sin of God's People (3)

  1. What are the five items whose aggregate is sin? Describe the universal power struggle related to sin.
  2. What is the significance of the sin offering being slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered?

21. The Trespass Offering Christ for the Sins of God's People (1)

  1. What is the difference between the sin offering and the trespass offering?
  2. What is the source of every trespass, and what are some of the particular transgressions mentioned in Leviticus 5?

22. The Trespass Offering Christ for the Sins of God's People (2)

  1. What are the three kinds of death, and how are they related to the trespass offering?
  2. What does the trespass offering include and how can we experience the trespass offering?

23. The Law of the Burnt Offering

  1. What is the significance of the fire on the altar being kept burning continually and not going out?
  2. What is the deep significance of the priest putting on other garments to carry the ashes outside the camp?

24. The Law of the Meal Offering

  1. Where do we need to be and what kind of persons do we need to be in order to enjoy Christ as the meal offering?
  2. What does it mean to say that the meal offering is only prevailing in the priestly service?

25. The Law of the Sin Offering

  1. What does it mean to say that there is a law concerning the enjoyment of Christ? Explain in some detail.
  2. What were the regulations concerning the sin offering? What is the significance of each?

26. The Law of the Trespass Offering

  1. How is our being regulated in the enjoyment of Christ related to the divine life and the law of life?
  2. What were the regulations concerning the trespass offering? What is the significance of each?

27. The Law of the Peace Offering

  1. What is the significance of the breast as a wave offering and the right thigh as a heave offering being for Aaron and his sons?
  2. What is the spiritual significance of the two sequences of the offerings found in Leviticus? What is the difference between them?

28. The Consecration of Aaron and His Sons (1)

  1. What is the meaning of the Hebrew word for consecration? How is this related to Christ and the offerings?
  2. How are the church, the cross, the washing Spirit, and sanctification related to consecration?

29. The Consecration of Aaron and His Sons (2)

  1. What is the relationship between the offerings and the anointing oil?
  2. What is the significance of some of the blood being put on Aaron and his sons' right ear, thumb of their right hand, and big toe of their right foot?

30. The Consecration of Aaron and His Sons (3)

  1. Why do we need to experience the reality of the cleansing of the right ear, right thumb, and big toe of the right foot?
  2. What is the meaning of the consecrating priests remaining at the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days for their propitiation?

31. The Initiation of the Priestly Service of Aaron and His Sons

  1. What is the significance of the initation of the priestly service being on the eighth day?
  2. What is the significance of Aaron preparing his sin offering and his burnt offering and making propitiation for himself and for the people?

32. The Issue of the Priestly Service

  1. What is the issue of the priestly service?
  2. How is the appearing of God's glory in the church meetings related to our enjoyment of Christ as the offerings?

33. The Lesson and the Regulations for the Priests (1)

  1. What can we learn concerning God and His service from the case of Nadab and Abihu?
  2. What is the significance of "strange fire"?

34. The Lesson and the Regulations for the Priests (2)

  1. How do we see God's mercy going along with His punishment and correction in Leviticus 10?
  2. What is the best way to help a sinful brother?

35. A Concluding Word on the Offerings and the Priesthood

  1. Describe the aspects of the all-inclusive Christ revealed in Hebrews.
  2. What is the central thought of Leviticus?

36. Discernment in Diet

  1. What is the real meaning of eating in Leviticus 11?
  2. What is the significance of the various kinds of clean and unclean animals?

37. Abstaining from Death

  1. How is our abstaining from death related to the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Why do we say that death is more defiling and abominable than sin?
  2. What are the aspects of Christ revealed in Leviticus 11?

38. Uncleanness in Human Birth

  1. What is the significance of the human birth coming out of the woman being unclean?
  2. What is the significance of the male being circumcised on the eighth day after birth, and how is this related to our uncleanness?

39. Uncleanness Issuing from Within Man (1)

  1. What does leprosy signify? Provide verse references.
  2. What are some symptoms of spiritual leprosy?

40. Uncleanness Issuing from Within Man (2)

  1. What is the significance of the disease on the head and the beard?
  2. Why, spiritually speaking, should we "shave the beard but not the head"?

41. Uncleanness Issuing from Within Man (3)

  1. What is the significance of the leprosy in a garment?
  2. According to this message, what are two things we need daily in our Christian life?

42. The Cleansing of the Leper (1)

  1. Where do we see Christ in the type of the cleansing of the leper?
  2. What is the significance of the leper washing his clothes, shaving off all his hair, and bathing himself in water?

43. The Cleansing of the Leper (2)

  1. What were the four kinds of offerings involved in the cleansing of the leper? What is the significance of this?
  2. Explain the way the leper who was to be cleansed needed to solve the problem of his sin and sins before God according to Leviticus 14:10-32.

44. The Leprosy in a House

  1. What is the significance of the leprosy in a house?
  2. What is the significance of some of the stones being removed, their being replaced with other stones along with fresh mortar, and the breaking down of the house?

45. The Cleansing of the Discharges from Man's and Woman's Body

  1. What is the significance of the discharges coming out of the human body being unclean?
  2. How is the matter of human discharges related to God's dwelling place?

46. The Propitiation (1)

  1. What is the meaning of propitiation, what is the meaning of atonement, and what is the relationship between the two?
  2. What is the significance of the two goats, one for Jehovah and one for Azazel, in Leviticus 16?

47. The Propitiation (2)

  1. What is the significance of Aaron coming out to the altar and making propitiation for it?
  2. What is the significance of Aaron going back into the tent of meeting, taking off the linen garments, leaving them there, bathing his flesh in water in a holy place, and putting on his garments, then coming out and offering his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and making propitiation for himself and for the people?

48. Taking Care of the Sacrifices and of the Blood

  1. At the end of Leviticus 16, everything is wonderful. Why, then, is there the need of chapter 17?
  2. What is the significance of taking care of the sacrifices and the blood?

49. The Holy Living of the Holy People—Putting Off the Old Life and Putting on the New

  1. How does Ephesians 4:17—5:14 help us to understand Leviticus 18—20?
  2. What is the meaning of the prohibitions of mixture in Leviticus?

50. The Holy Living for the Priesthood and the Disqualifications from the Priesthood

  1. What are the various aspects of the holy living for the priesthood? What is the significance of each?
  2. What is the significance of the different disqualifications from the priesthood?

51. The Holiness in Enjoying the Holy Things and the Acceptable Way for the Offering of a Vow and a Freewill Offering

  1. Describe the points regarding the holiness needed for the enjoyment of Christ as the holy things.
  2. Describe the acceptable way for the offering of a vow and a freewill offering.

52. The Festivals (1)

  1. What are the festivals types of? What is the significance of these festivals being convocations?
  2. Describe the significance of the Sabbath, the feast of the Passover, the feast of unleavened bread, and the feast of firstfruits.

53. The Festivals (2)

  1. What are the two ways that the first four feasts can be applied?
  2. What is the significance of the feast of Pentecost?

54. The Festivals (3)

  1. What is the significance of the feast of the blowing of trumpets and the feast of propitiation?
  2. What is the significance of the feast of tabernacles?

55. The Arrangement of the Lampstand and the Showbread Table and the Death-Judgment of the Blaspheming of the Holy Name

  1. What are the two matters that we need to take care of properly and adequately in order to serve God as priests?
  2. What does it mean to sanctify the holy name?

56. The Sabbath Year and the Jubilee (1)

  1. What is the significance of the Sabbath year?
  2. What does the type of the Jubilee portray? What is the meaning of the fact that the year of Jubilee was the Pentecostal year?

57. The Sabbath Year and the Jubilee (2)

  1. What is the significance of the restoration of the land that was sold?
  2. What is the significance of the redemption of the house that had been sold? How does this type indicate that the loss of the church life is more serious than the loss of the enjoyment of Christ?

58. The Sabbath Year and the Jubilee (3)

  1. How do we see the relationship between the experience of the jubilee and spiritual revival in this message?
  2. How can we say that the enjoyment of Christ is based on the principle of grace, whereas the enjoyment of the church life is based on the principle of righteousness?

59. The Word of Warning (1)

  1. What are the three matters that compose the word of warning?
  2. What are the six issues with which we, the New Testament believers, are blessed by walking according to the Spirit?

60. The Word of Warning (2)

  1. According to this message, what is the intrinsic significance of not having idols, keeping God's Sabbaths, and reverencing God's sanctuary?
  2. How can we be constituted into God's obedient ones?

61. The Word of Warning (3)

  1. What are the five levels of chastisement spoken of in this portion of Leviticus?
  2. How do we see the grace of God in Leviticus 25 and the administration of God in Leviticus 26? Which two sections of the New Testament do these two chapters correspond to?

62. Devotions for a Vow (1)

  1. What does it mean to say that the Christian life should be a life of a vow?
  2. What are the four kinds of devotions for a vow? What is the significance of each?

63. Devotions for a Vow (2)

  1. Explain how the devotion of a field is related to the enjoyment of Christ. Explain also what it means to say that the more we devote ourselves to the Lord in anything, the more we are related to the enjoyment of Christ.
  2. According to this message, what is the emphasis in Leviticus 27?

64. A Concluding Word

  1. Based on this message, summarize the entire book of Leviticus in a concise way.
  2. After seeing and passing through all the matters revealed in Leviticus, what should be our response?