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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

JESUS Is The Light Of The World And The Bread Of Life



Leviticus 24:1-23









Olive Oil and Bread Set Before The Lord



1The Lord Said to Moses, 2“Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. 3Outside the curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant Law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before The Lord from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. 4The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before The Lord must be tended continually.




5“Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephaha for each loaf.6Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before The Lord. 7By each stack put some pure incense as a memorialb portion to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to The Lord. 8This bread is to be set out before The Lord regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. 9It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to The Lord.”






A Blasphemer Put to Death



10Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite. 11The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed The Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.) 12They put him in custody until The Will of The Lord should be made clear to them.




13Then The Lord Said to Moses: 14“Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him. 15Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their GOD will be held responsible; 16anyone who blasphemes The Name of The Lord is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme The Name they are to be put to death.


17“ ‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death. 18Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution—life for life. 19 Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. 21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death. 22You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I AM The Lord your GOD.’ ”




23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did As The Lord Commanded Moses.






Punishment by Stoning



Stoning, or lapidation, is a form of capital punishment whereby a group throws stones at a person until death ensues. No individual among the group can be identified as the one who kills the subject, yet everyone involved plainly bears some degree of moral culpability. This is in contrast to the case of a judicial executioner. Slower than other forms of execution, stoning is a form of execution by torture.



In The Old Testament


·         The son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian man, for cursing GOD (Leviticus 24:10–23)
·         A man who gathered wood on Sabbath (Numbers 15:32–36)
·         Achan (Joshua 7)
·         Adoniram, King Rehoboam's tax man (1 Kings 12:18)
·         Naboth, (1 Kings 21)
·         Zechariah ben Jehoiada, who denounced the people's disobedience to the commandments (2 Chronicles 24:20–21, perhaps also Matthew 23:35)


In the New Testament

·         Stephen, the deacon, evangelist accused of blasphemy, AD 31 (Acts 6:8–147:58–60).


In the Talmud

·         Yeshu the Nazarene "will be led out to be stoned" (Sanhedrin 43a)



People who were almost stoned

·         Moses (Exodus 17:4)
·         Moses and Aaron (Numbers 14:6–10)
·         David (1 Samuel 30:6)


In the New Testament:

·         The Gospel of John chapter 8 gives the story of JESUS and the woman taken in adultery, in which people wanted to stone the woman.
·         JESUS (John 10:31)
·         The captain of the Temple and his officers (Acts 5:26)
·         Paul of Tarsus, stoned at Lystra at the instigation of Jews. He was left for dead, but then revived. (Acts 14:19)



The Cases of Punishment by Stoning In the Bible


For touching Mount Sinai : Exodus 19:13

For taking "accursed things" : Joshua 7:1-26

For cursing or blaspheming : Leviticus 24:16

For adultery (including urban rape victims who fail to scream loud enough) : Deuteronomy 22:23-24

For animals (like an ox that gores a human) : Exodus 21:28

For a woman who is not a virgin on her wedding night : Deuteronomy 22:13-21

For worshiping other gods : Deuteronomy 13:5-10

For disobeying parents : Deuteronomy 21:18-21

For witches and wizards : Leviticus 20:27

For giving your children to Molech : Leviticus 20:2

For breaking the Sabbath : Numbers 15:32-56

For cursing the king : 1 Kings 21:10








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