Training toward Holiness Leviticus was a chisel, fashioning and forming the slaves of Egypt into the people of God. Leviticus was an exercise regimen, a plan for how God’s people could embrace God’s blessings. Leviticus was a time-out, a pause in the action for training toward holiness.
After this time-out, the action continues in the book of Numbers, reminding us how difficult it is for humans to stick to the game plan that brings God’s blessings. Together, Leviticus and Numbers paint a picture of the habits of holiness and how committed God is to seeing us become who he created us to be.
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I like this series because it focuses on the text itself and the message the text is trying to communicate more than most other Bible studies, which usually take great interpretive license and ignore the overarching story of the Bible as a whole, do. This particular one in the series, though, errs a little too much on that side. A lot of the questions are pure reading comprehension. Apparently the authors ran out of steam toward the end—almost all of the questions in the last lesson or two in Numbers start with “summarize …” or “what is the significance of … ?”. You’re not much better off than you are just reading the Biblical text without this book. The historical notes, commentary, and cross references in a few of the questions are still helpful though.
The Romans book in this series was better, with more thought-provoking questions that were rooted in the Biblical text’s message.