It's been a long time since revisiting the Bible and I'm finding out how hard it really is to continue writing about it. Hats off to the believers who do dedicate themselves to willingly study the Scriptures and apply a closer walk with the Lord. I guess I personally like listening to the Word and reading up on some devotions, but attempting to do this just out of the blue is a lot more hindering than I thought.
So in verse 24, the priest takes a lamb for the trespass offering and a log of oil (less than half a pint) and then a wave offering was done. I read up one interpretation which states that they were pretty much offerings presented as though it were for the Lord, but then later became the sole possession of the priests.
Basically, doing some Google searches and trying to read up on some of these crazy passages that I don't understand really helped clear a little bit of confusion for me. Verse 25 states that the priest ends up killing the lamb of the trespass offering, takes some of the blood, puts it all on the right side the person's ear, thumb, and big toe who is to be cleansed.
Wow, I have been totally ignoring what this meaning is about putting the blood on ear, thumb, and toe. I've been reading up on how it symbolizes that God's words are heard, the hand symbolizes action, and the foot is the pilgrimage of life. The blood symbolizes life and death. This is crazy in that the right side is just another way for saying that it's the better and good side in the Bible, rather than being evil.
Putting it all together, this ceremonial practice just means that the ears, hand, and foot represent the whole body and it is about having a full dedication to the Lord's ways. In a way, it feels like re-committing to the Lord again and I guess if the heart was really for it after admitting one's sins, the Lord was just more than happy to forgive the sinner. The Lord doesn't really keep count, just like how Jesus told Peter to forgive someone seven times seventy, which is a figure-of-speech for infinity!
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