Leviticus 12

From: Messages of God's Love: 1923

Leviticus 12

This chapter is one for us to think seriously about, though it has only eight verses. It shows us that we are born sinners; not, as some would have us believe, that we only become sinners through being in bad company.

Here we learn that the little, helpless, new born babies need the shedding of blood, for it is true of them, as of us older ones, “Without shedding of blood is no remission.” Heb. 9:22²²And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. (Hebrews 9:22).

Sweet and innocent looking little things, but they ate sinners, because their parents are sinners by nature, and so it has always been since Adam and Eve went out of the garden of Eden, and their first baby, Cain, was born.

If you have believed God’s message about His Son, you are “redeemed with the precious blood of Christ.” 1 Peter 1:18, 19¹⁸Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; ¹⁹But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: (1 Peter 1:18‑19). The question is, Have you believed God’s message.

Another lesson in this chapter is that God does not forget the past, for, as it seems, the reason why the mother was not to come into the holy place of the tabernacle for 80 days when a girl baby was born, (yet she was shut out only 40 days, if it was a boy baby) is, that Eve was the first to sin. (1 Tim, 2:14).

Satan would have us think that what happened a long time ago, doesn’t matter, but in Eccles. 3:15¹⁵That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. (Ecclesiastes 3:15) we read,

“God requireth that which is past.” Yes, He does! Have you ever thought of this seriously?

When the parents of the new baby were too poor to bring the lamb required, (verse 6) they might bring to the priest. for a burnt offering, a turtle-dove, or young pigeon. (Luke 2:22,24²²And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; (Luke 2:22)
²⁴And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. (Luke 2:24)).

It was into a poor man’s home that the Lord Jesus was born, when He came down into this world to go through it as a man, and die for our sins. I am glad He did, are you?

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