Outside The Camp

Leviticus 16:25-30 – He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar. “The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp. The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and intestines are to be burned up. The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp. “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work—whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you—because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins.

Leviticus 4:12 – But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, as well as the head and legs, the internal organs and the intestines—that is, all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a place ceremonially clean, where the ashes are thrown, and burn it there in a wood fire on the ash heap.

Jeremiah 33:8 – I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me.

Zechariah 13:1 – “On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

Application:

• ·         As the bull was taken outside the camp, so also Jesus was crucified outside Jerusalem.
• ·         On the Day of Atonement the repentant Israelite was assured of sins forgiven.
• ·         “Forgive all their sins” is the basis of the institution of the new covenant.
• ·         “Cleanse them from sin” is another way of describing one of the provisions of the new covenant.

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