SET-APART OIL & BREAD (LEV.22)
And YAHUSHA said to Moses, “Instruct the people of Yisharal to bring you pure oil of crushed (beaten) olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning regularly HEBREW WORD IMPLIES `DAILY’ (NOT CONTINUALLY) for this is the lampstand (menorah) that stands in the Tabernacle, in front of the inner curtain that shields the Ark of the Blood-Covenant Witness. And Aaron must keep the lamps burning in My presence from evening until morning. This is a permanent instruction for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation. Aaron and the priests must daily maintain the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in My presence.
You must bake twelve flat loaves of bread from choice flour SEMOLINA, using 4.4 Litres of flour for each loaf THAT’S A BIG-ASS LOAF OF BREAD! Place the bread before Me on the pure gold table, and arrange the loaves in two stacks, with six loaves in each stack THE 12 LOAVES ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS (JUST AS THERE ARE 2 STONES ON THE HIGH-PRIEST’S EPHOD WITH THE 12 NAMES OF YISHARAL ALSO DIVIDED WITH 6 NAMES BEING WRITTEN ON EACH STONE), SYMBOLISING THE NEAR FUTURE THAT YISHARAL WOULD BE SPLIT UP INTO TWO HOUSES. Then put some pure frankincense near each stack to serve as a portion of remembrance, a special gift presented to Me. And every Shabath day this bread must be laid out before Me as a gift from Yisharal and it’s an ongoing expression of the ETERNAL BLOOD-COVENANT OF DELIVERANCE. The loaves of bread will belong to Aaron and his descendants, who must eat them in a special place, for they are most set-apart. It is the permanent right of the priests to claim this portion of the special gifts presented to Me.
AN EXAMPLE OF JUST PUNISHMENT
One day a man who had a Yisharalite mother and an Egyptian father came out of his tent and got into a ‘fisty-cuff’ with one of the Yisharalite men and during the fight, he ‘blasphemed’ (MEANING `TO PIERCE’) the Name of Yahuah with a curse. So the man was brought to Moses for JUDGMENT. His mother was Shelumith, the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. They kept the man in custody until YAHUSHA’S will in the matter should become clear to them.
So YAHUSHA said to Moses, “Take the blasphemer outside the camp and tell all those who heard the curse to lay their hands on his head. Then let the entire community stone him to death and say to the people of Yisharal, ‘Those who blaspheme (pierce) the Name of Yahuah will be punished for their behaviour and stoned to death by the whole community of Yisharal. Any native-born Yisharalite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the Name of Yahuah must be put to death’. IN LEVITICUS, THERE WAS NEITHER EARTHLY FORGIVENESS NOR SOME KIND OF SUBSTITUTIONARY SACRIFICE AVAILABLE FOR THE ONE WHO BLASPHEMED YAHUSHA’S NAME AND ACCORDING TO THE WORDS OF YAHUSHA HIMSELF, THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS NOR SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT AVAILABLE FOR THE PERSON WHO BLASPHEMES THE SET-APART SPIRIT (TURNING OUR BACKS ON YAHUSHA AND WALKING AWAY). Also anyone who takes another person’s life must be put to death and anyone who kills another person’s animal must pay for it in full, a live animal for the animal that was killed. Anyone who injures another person must be dealt with according to the injury inflicted, a fracture for a fracture, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Whatever anyone does to injure another person must be paid back in kind. This same standard applies both to native-born Yisharalites and to the foreigners living among you, for I am Yahuah your Alahim”.
THESE VERSES ARE HEBREW IDIOMS CALLING FOR PROPORTIONAL PUNISHMENT, AND NOT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY. THE IDEA IS THAT THE PUNISHMENT SHOULD NOT BE GREATER THAN THE CRIME. MONETARY COMPENSATION WAS ALWAYS PREFERRED OVER PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT AND PHYSICAL MUTILATION WAS LOOKED DOWN ON WITH DISGUST. A FAIR PRICE IS TO BE PAID AS RETRIBUTION FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
After Moses gave all these instructions to the Yisharalites, they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as YAHUSHA had instructed Moses.