Amabhuku Asetshenziswe Kugwalo Lwempilo Lenkonzo YamaKhristu
DECEMBER 7-13
AMAGUGU ASELIZWINI LIKANKULUNKULU ULEVI 10-11
“Thanda UJehova Ukwedlula Ukuthanda Imuli”
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Umnikelo Okwakungamelanga Wenziwe
Illegitimate Fire and Incense. At Leviticus 10:1 the Hebrew word zar (feminine, za·rahʹ; literally, strange) is used with regard to “illegitimate fire, which [God] had not prescribed for them” but which Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu presented before Jehovah and for which he executed them by fire. (Le 10:2; Nu 3:4; 26:61) Subsequently, Jehovah said to Aaron: “Do not drink wine or intoxicating liquor, you and your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, that you may not die. It is a statute to time indefinite for your generations, both in order to make a distinction between the holy thing and the profane and between the unclean thing and the clean, and in order to teach the sons of Israel all the regulations that Jehovah has spoken to them by means of Moses.” (Le 10:8-11) This seems to indicate that Nadab and Abihu were in a state of intoxication, which condition emboldened them to offer fire not prescribed. Such fire was likely illegal as to its time, place, or manner of offering, or it could have been incense other than of the composition described at Exodus 30:34, 35. Their inebriated condition did not excuse their sin.
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Usungenile Yini Ekuphumuleni KukaNkulunkulu?
U-Aroni, umfowabo kaMose, wabhekana nesimo esinzima ngokuphathelene namadodana akhe amabili. Cabanga ngendlela okumelwe ukuba wazizwa ngayo lapho amadodana akhe uNadabi no-Abhihu enikela ngomlilo ongekho emthethweni kuJehova futhi ewabulala. Yiqiniso, lokho kwaqeda noma ikuphi ukuxhumana la madoda ayengase abe nakho nabazali. Kodwa kunokwengeziwe. UJehova wayala u-Aroni namadodana akhe athembekile: “Ningawayeki amakhanda enu engalungisiwe, futhi ningaziklebhuli izingubo zenu [nilila], ukuze ningafi futhi ukuze [uJehova] angayithukutheleli yonke inhlangano.” (Lev. 10:1-6) Iphuzu licacile. Uthando lwethu ngoJehova kumelwe lube ngaphezu kothando esinalo ngamalungu omkhaya angathembekile.
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Kumele Sibengcwele Kukho Konke Esikwenzayo
Okuzasinceda ukuthi sibengcwele kukho konke esikwenzayo yikuhlola iMibhalo ngelihlo elibukhali ukuze senze lokho uNkulunkulu akufunayo. Buyela endabeni kaNadabhi lo-Abhihu ababulawa ngenxa yokunikela ‘ngomlilo ngokungekho emandleni abo.’ Kukhanya angani amadoda la ayeke abukhelela utshwala. (Levi. 10:1, 2) Khangela ukuthi ngemva kwalokho uNkulunkulu wathini ku-Aroni. (Bala uLevi 10:8-11.) Kodwa lokhu kutsho ukuthi akusamelanga sibuthinte yini utshwala loba iwayini nxa singakayi emihlanganweni yobuKhristu? Cabanga ngemicijo elandelayo: Kasisekho ngaphansi koMthetho. (Rom. 10:4) Kwamanye amazwe abafowethu labodadewethu bajayele ukuthi kha kancane utshwala kumbe iwayini nxa besidla bengakayi emhlanganweni. Kanti njalo kwakulenkomitshi ezine ezazilewayini elasetshenziswa ngelanga lePhasika. Lalapho uJesu eqalisa iSikhumbuzo, wanika abafundi bakhe iwayini elalimela igazi lakhe. (Mat. 26:27) IBhayibhili alikuvumeli ukunatha kakhulu kanye lokudakwa. (1 Khor. 6:10; 1 Tim. 3:8) Kanti njalo umzangedwa wamaKhristu amanengi awuwavumeli ukuthi anathe utshwala loba iwayini nxa esenza loba yini ephathelane lenkonzo yethu engcwele. Kodwa lokhu kuyatshiyana kusiya ngokuthi ukuliphi ilizwe, njalo okuqakatheke kakhulu yikuthi amaKhristu ‘ahlukanise okungcwele kokungangcwele’ ukuze abengcwele kukho konke akwenzayo ngoba lokhu kuyamthokozisa uNkulunkulu.
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Izinyamazana
These dietary limitations applied only to those who were under the Mosaic Law, for the statement of Leviticus 11:8 is: “They are unclean for you,” that is, for the Israelites. With the abrogation of the Law on the basis of the sacrificial death of Christ Jesus, the prohibitions were canceled, and once more all humans could consider themselves under the same broad provision announced to Noah following the Deluge.—Col 2:13-17; Ge 9:3, 4.
Ukubalwa KweBhayibhili
DECEMBER 14-20
AMAGUGU ASELIZWINI LIKANKULUNKULU ULEVI 12-13
“Funda Emthethweni Wobulephero”
Lisalele Emuva Yini Kumbe Liphambili?
• Abalobulephero babesehlukaniswa kwabanye.
UMthetho kaMosi wawusithi abantu abalobulephero bafakwe endaweni yabo bodwa. Eminyakeni engaba ngu-700 eyadlulayo kwaba lezifo ezenza odokotela baqalisa ukukulandela lokhu. Lalamuhla kulokhu kulandelwa.—Isahluko 13 lo-14 sikaLevi.
Ubukwazi Yini?
Ngezikhathi zeBhayibhili amaJuda ayewesaba umkhuhlane wobulephero. Umkhuhlane lo wawuyingozi ngoba wawuhlasela imisipha okokuthi umuntu olawo wayecina esegogekile. Yayingaziwa indlela yokwelapha umkhuhlane wobulephero. Owayehlaselwe ngumkhuhlane lo wayehlaliswa yedwa kanti njalo kwakumele amemeze ukuze abanye bangasondeli phansi kwakhe.—ULevi 13:45, 46.
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Ubulephero
In garments and houses. Leprosy could also affect woolen or linen garments, or an article of skin. The plague might disappear with washing, and there were arrangements for quarantining the article. But where this yellowish-green or reddish plague persisted, malignant leprosy was present and the article was to be burned. (Le 13:47-59) If yellowish-green or reddish depressions appeared in the wall of a house, the priest imposed a quarantine. It might be necessary to tear out affected stones and have the house scraped off inside, the stones and scraped-off mortar being disposed of in an unclean place outside the city. If the plague returned, the house was declared unclean and was pulled down, and the materials were disposed of in an unclean place. But for the house pronounced clean there was an arrangement for purification. (Le 14:33-57) It has been suggested that the leprosy affecting garments or houses was a type of mildew or mold; however, about this there is uncertainty.
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Amaphuzu Avelele Encwadi KaLevitikusi
12:2, 5—Kungani ukuzala kwakwenza owesifazane abe “ongcolile”? Izitho zokuzala zazenzelwe ukudlulisela ukuphila komuntu okuphelele. Nokho, ngenxa yemiphumela yesono esiyifa, ukuphila okungaphelele nokunesono kwadlulela enzalweni. Izinkathi zesikhashana zokuba “ongcolile” ezazihlobene nokuzala kanye nezinye izindaba, njengokuya esikhathini nokushaywa izibuko, zazikhumbuza ama-Israyeli ngalesi sono esiyifa. (Levitikusi 15:16-24; IHubo 51:5; Roma 5:12) Iziqondiso zokuhlanzwa ezazidingeka zazizosiza ama-Israyeli ukuba abone isidingo somhlatshelo wesihlengo owawuzosibekela isono sesintu ubuyisele nokuphelela kwabantu. Ngakho, uMthetho waba “umfundisi [wawo] oholela kuKristu.”—Galathiya 3:24.
Lisalele Emuva Yini Kumbe Liphambili?
• Isikhathi sokusokwa.
UMthetho kaNkulunkulu wathi umntwana ongumfana kwakumele asokwe ngemva kwamalanga angu-8 ebelethiwe. (ULevi 12:3) Kuthiwa igazi losana liqalisa ukoma kuhle ngemva kweviki yokuqala lubelethiwe. Kudala ngezikhathi zeBhayibhili, zingakabikhona izindlela zokwelapha ezithuthukileyo, ukusoka usana sekudlule iviki kwakulicebo elihle.
Ukubalwa KweBhayibhili
DECEMBER 21-27
AMAGUGU ASELIZWINI LIKANKULUNKULU ULEVI 14-15
“Inhlanzeko Iqakathekile Ekukhonzeni Kwethu”
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Ukugeza
Ceremonial bathing on the part of the Israelites in general was required for various reasons. Anyone who recovered from leprosy, anyone who contacted things touched by those with “a running discharge,” a man who had an emission of semen, a woman after menstruation or hemorrhaging, or anyone having sexual intercourse was “unclean” and had to bathe. (Le 14:8, 9; 15:4-27) One in a tent with, or touching, a human corpse was “unclean” and had to be purified with cleansing water. If anyone refused to comply with this regulation, he “must be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because it is Jehovah’s sanctuary that he has defiled.” (Nu 19:20) Appropriately, then, washing is used figuratively to denote a clean standing before Jehovah. (Ps 26:6; 73:13; Isa 1:16; Eze 16:9) Bathing with Jehovah’s word of truth, symbolized by water, has power to cleanse.—Eph 5:26.
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Ukuba semfuleni
The woman was also viewed as unclean for the duration of an irregular running discharge of blood or “a flow longer than her menstrual impurity,” at which time she made the articles on which she lay or sat as well as persons touching these items unclean. After the abnormal discharge ceased, she was to count seven days, and she then became clean. On the eighth day the woman brought two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, who made atonement for her, presenting one of these creatures to Jehovah as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.—Le 15:19-30; see CLEAN, CLEANNESS.
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Indawo Engcwele
The tent of meeting and, later, the temple. The entire arrangement, including the courtyard of the tabernacle and the temple courts, was a holy place. (Ex 38:24; 2Ch 29:5; Ac 21:28) The primary items located in the courtyard were the altar of sacrifice and the copper basin. These were holy objects. Only those persons ceremonially clean could enter into the tabernacle courtyard at any time; likewise, no one could go into the temple courts in an unclean state. For example, a woman in the unclean state could not touch any holy thing or come into the holy place. (Le 12:2-4) Evidently even a state of continued uncleanness on the part of the Israelites was considered to be a defiling of the tabernacle. (Le 15:31) Those presenting offerings for cleansing from leprosy brought their sacrifice only as far as the gate of the courtyard. (Le 14:11) No unclean person could partake of a communion sacrifice at the tabernacle or the temple, on pain of death.—Le 7:20, 21.
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Indlebe
At the installation of the priesthood in Israel, Moses was commanded to take some of the blood of the ram of the installation and put it on the lobe of the right ear of Aaron and of each of his sons, as well as on the right hand and right foot, indicating that what they listened to, the work they did, and the way they walked should be directly affected by what was there taking place. (Le 8:22-24) Similarly, in the case of the cleansed leper, the Law said that the priest was to put some of the blood of the ram offered as a guilt offering, as well as some of the oil offered, on the lobe of the leper’s right ear. (Le 14:14, 17, 25, 28) An arrangement of comparable nature was found in the provision made for the man who wished to continue in slavery to his master to time indefinite. In such case the slave was to be brought to the doorpost, and his master was to pierce his ear through with an awl. This prominent mark, being made on the organ for hearing, evidently represented the slave’s desire to continue in obedient attention to his master.—Ex 21:5, 6.
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Isikhunta—Singaba Usizo, Sibe Ingozi!
INGABE ISIKHUNTA SASIKHONA NGEZIKHATHI ZEBHAYIBHELI?
IBhayibheli likhuluma ‘ngesifo sochoko endlini ethile,’ okuwukuthi isifo esasisesakhiweni uqobo. (Levitikusi 14:34-48) Kucatshangwa ukuthi lesi sifo esimangalisayo, esasibizwa nangokuthi ‘uchoko olubulalayo,’ kwakuwuhlobo oluthile lomngcithi noma isikhunta, kodwa akukho okuqinisekile ngalokhu. Noma ngabe yikuphi, uMthetho kaNkulunkulu wawuyala abanikazi bezindlu ukuba bakhiphe amatshe analesi sifo, baphale lonke ingaphakathi lendlu, futhi balahle konke okunalesi sifo ngaphandle komuzi “endaweni engahlanzekile.” Uma lesi sifo sibuya futhi, yonke indlu kwakuthiwa ingcolile, ngakho yayidilizwa bese kulahlwa konke eyayakhiwe ngako. Iziqondiso zikaJehova eziningiliziwe zabonisa ukuthi wayebathanda ngokujulile abantu bakhe nenhlalakahle yabo.
Ukubalwa KweBhayibhili
DECEMBER 28–JANUARY 3
AMAGUGU ASELIZWINI LIKANKULUNKULU ULEVI 16-17
“ILanga Lokubuyisana Lisifundisani?”
Sifundani Ebhukwini LikaLevi?
Bala uLevi 16:12, 13. Ake sithi liLanga Lokubuyisana futhi umphristi omkhulu ungena ethabanikeli. Ngelanga leli kumele angene kathathu eNgcwele Ngcwele njalo lokhu ngokokuqala. Kwesinye isandla uthwele impepha enukelelayo futhi kwesinye uthwele isiphathelo segolide esilamalahle avuthayo. Ufika ame ngemva kwekhetheni engakangeni eNgcwele Ngcwele. Utshengisa inhlonipho enkulu ngesikhathi esengena eNgcwele Ngcwele futhi esima phambi kwebhokisi lesivumelwano. Kufanana lokuthi umi phambi kukaJehova uNkulunkulu. Ngemva kwalokho umphristi uthela impepha ngonanzelelo emalahleni avuthayo, iNgcwele Ngcwele yonke inukelele. Uzaphinda angene eNgcwele Ngcwele esethwele igazi leminikelo yezono. Nanzelela ukuthi uqala ngokutshisa impepha engakalethi igazi leminikelo yezono.
Sifundani Ebhukwini LikaLevi?
Ukusetshenziswa kwempepha ngeLanga Lokubuyisana kusifundisani? IBhayibhili lithi imithandazo eyenziwa ngabantu bakaJehova abathembekileyo injengempepha. (Hubo. 141:2; Isam. 5:8) Khumbula ukuthi umphristi omkhulu wayeletha impepha phambi kukaJehova ngendlela etshengisa inhlonipho enkulu. Lathi sitshengisa inhlonipho enkulu nxa sikhuleka kuJehova. Sikubona kuyisibusiso sibili ukuthi uMdali wezinto zonke usivumele ukuthi sikhuleke njalo sisondele kuye njengomntwana kuyise. (Jak. 4:8) Uyasamukela okokuthi uze avume ukuthi sibe ngabangane bakhe. (Zaga. 3:32) Siyasiqakathekisa isibusiso lesi yikho asifuni ngitsho ukumdanisa.
Sifundani Ebhukwini LikaLevi?
Khumbula ukuthi umphristi omkhulu kwakumele aqale atshise impepha engakanikeli imihlatshelo. Ukwenza lokhu kwakumenza aqiniseke ukuthi uJehova uzamamukela nxa esenikela imihlatshelo. Sifundani kulokhu? Ngesikhathi uJesu esemhlabeni kukhona okwakuqakatheke kakhulu ukwedlula ukusindiswa kwabantu okwakumele aqale akwenze engakabafeli. Yikuphi lokho? Kwakumele alalele uJehova njalo abeqotho kuye okwempilo yakhe yonke ukuze uJehova amukele umhlatshelo wakhe. Nxa wayengenza njalo wayezabe etshengise abantu indlela eqondileyo okumele baphile ngayo. Wayezakwenza kukhanye ukuthi uYise nguye ofanele ukubusa lokuthi ubusa ngendlela elungileyo.
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Ukuphila Okuphakade Emhlabeni—Ithemba Esilinikwe UNkulunkulu
Cabanga nangenqubo eyayiseMthethweni KaMose maqondana nembuzi ka-Azazeli. Kanye ngonyaka, ngoSuku Lokubuyisana, umpristi ophakeme ‘wayebeka izandla zakhe zombili phezu kwenhloko yembuzi ephilayo avume phezu kwayo zonke iziphambeko zabantwana bakwa-Israyeli, azibeke phezu kwenhloko yembuzi, futhi le mbuzi yayithwala zonke iziphambeko zabo iye nazo ehlane.’ (Lev. 16:7-10, 21, 22) U-Isaya wabikezela ngokuza kukaMesiya, owayezoba nendima efanayo futhi athwale “ukugula,” “izinhlungu” ‘nesono sabantu abaningi,’ ngaleyo ndlela evula indlela yokuthola ukuphila okuphakade.—Funda u-Isaya 53:4-6, 12.
Kungani Kumele Sibengcwele?
Bala uLevi 17:10. UJehova walaya abako-Israyeli ukuthi bangadli “loba yiliphi igazi.” AmaKhristu lawo kumele alalele umlayo wokuxwaya igazi, kungaba ngelenyamazana loba elabantu. (ImiSeb. 15:28, 29) Asifuni lakancane ukuthi uNkulunkulu ‘amelane lathi’ abesesisusa ebandleni lakhe. Siyamthanda futhi sifuna ukumlalela. Lanxa kuyikuthi sesikukhangele sibili ukufa, sizimisele ukuthi singalandeli okutshiwo ngabantu abangamaziyo uJehova njalo abangelandaba lemilayo yakhe. Siyakwazi sibili ukuthi singasolwa kakhulu ngokuxwaya kwethu igazi kodwa sikhetha ukulalela uNkulunkulu. (Jud. 17, 18) Kuyini okuzasinceda ukuthi sizimisele ‘ukunanzelela’ ukuthi singalidli igazi lokuthi singavumi ukulifakwa emzimbeni?—Dute. 12:23.
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