LEVITICUS
Lesson 2 - Introduction Continued
Last week we looked at some basics about Leviticus to set the stage for our study.
This week, before we get into the details of the “burnt offering” which is the first subject of the
first chapter of Leviticus and a very specific type of the several types of sacrificial offerings,
there are some principles we need to address. Some of these principles don’t jump right out of
us, and in fact, are not actually stated until we get into Numbers and then Deuteronomy.
However, it’s good to know them BEFORE we read Leviticus, because then we don’t make
assumptions that turn out to be false.
One of the most enlightening, yet least understood, theological elements of the sacrificial
system is this: the Levitical sacrificial system that God gave to Israel did not have a remedy for
all sins committed. That is, while the sacrificial system was primarily, though not entirely,
established by Yehoveh for the purpose of atonement of sins, not every sin could be atoned
for…..not every sin could be covered by an animal sacrifice. Chew on that for just a moment,
and think about the ramifications, since Jesus Christ is said to be the fulfillment of that very
same sacrificial system. This concept is among the reasons why, today, we have these great
theological debates between very reasonable, knowledgeable and Godly men over whether or
not ALL of our sins, under every possible circumstance, are covered by Yeshua’s passion on
the Cross. These debates are typically held under the title of “Eternal Security”…or, as a
question that many a Believer has wrestled with, “can you lose your salvation?”
Since the Levitical sacrificial system did NOT provide atonement for some sins, but did for
others, which is which? What sins could someone commit for which they could not turn to the
sacrificial system to atone for them….. to provide them with Yehoveh’s forgiveness? The Torah
is very clear on this: intentional sins (in general) cannot be atoned for. Sometimes we will see
words used in the Bible to describe this category of sins as “high handed”, or “great”. The
idea is that this is a category of sin for which there is no excuse in God’s eyes. They were
premeditated sins. These sins involved denying either the truths of the Holy Scriptures or
Yehoveh’s righteousness in pronouncing and enforcing the laws and ordinances He gave to
Moses. These were sins of out and out defiance against the King of the Universe. They were
planned, or committed with gross negligence; that is, committing a sin that you fully knew was
a serious sin, but you did it anyway (has anybody done that recently?). All that the sacrificial
system atoned for was UN-intentional, non-high handed sin. We’ll slice than onion a little
thinner as we go, but for now, I’d like to give you a couple of examples as to how the Torah
classifies sins, in order that you get the bigger picture.
Murder is an intentional and highhanded sin. While we may have an ongoing debate in
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America about whether ANY killing of a human being is murder….you know, the death sentence
for certain criminal acts, or even death resulting from military combat…. Biblical Law made it all
pretty cut and dried for the Israelites: the killing of a human fell into two basic categories,
justified or unjustified. Justified killing was not murder. Justified killing would be, for example,
that you caught an UNARMED thief in your house AT NIGHT, had no way to make a quick
judgment as to the level of danger this thief posed to you and your family, and so you killed
him. In the Law of Torah, you were justified in killing because you were assumed to be
protecting life…. yours, your guests, and your family’s. Killing that same UNARMED thief during
daylight hours, however, when you reasonably could have discerned whether the thief was a
known dangerous criminal and whether or not he was armed, is Unjustified. Taking his life, in
this case, was only about protecting property, and God does not allow that trade-off……life for
property. Any Hebrew would know this. Therefore, the unjustified killing was an intentional sin
and NOT coverable by sacrificial atonement: but the justified killing was NOT intentional, and
therefore WAS coverable by sacrificial atonement.
Another example: adultery. If a married man had sex with a married woman who was not his
wife, this was an intentional sin. They both knew the Law on this matter, or should have
because the prohibition against adultery was common knowledge. It was not accidental nor
was it a mistake, and it certainly was not justifiable. Therefore, this was NOT covered by the
sacrificial system, and atonement could NOT be made for this. That person was usually cut-
off…executed for this sin. And, by the way, execution, usually by stoning, was itself considered
justifiable killing, and therefore Unintentional killing, and it was atoned for using the sacrificial
system.
So what happened to those who could not make sacrificial atonement for their sins, because
the sins they committed were classified as intentional? They were turned over to the other part
of God’s justice system, the curses of the Law. That is, ALL unintentional sins could be
remedied by a proper sacrifice……the sacrificial system atoned for them….this was a great
blessing because by God’s grace your sin could be atoned for. BUT NO intentional sins could
be covered by the sacrificial system; now it was a matter for the curses of the Law. Let me be
clear; I’m not talking about Law in some vague sense, or some local criminal justice system.
I’m talking about the Biblical Law as found in the Torah. To be fair, some unintentional sins did
require reparation in addition to a sacrifice if there was an injured party. For instance, a man’s
donkey broke its leg in a hole you had dug and failed to cover up. You would have to make an
animal sacrifice at the Tabernacle, AND make reparation to the man for the loss of his donkey.
But, in doing so, you have BOTH made peace with God and fairly compensated the injured
party for your error. Now you’re OK.
Please bear with me as we go through this. This such an important principle to apprehend
because it not only will help us understand the OT Hebrew mindset, it will aid us wonderfully in
understanding so much of what Paul was talking about in so many of his references to the law
in his letters to the various churches.
Turn your Bibles to Numbers 15:27-30.
“If an individual sins by mistake, he is to offer a female goat in its first year as a sin offering.
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The priest will make atonement before Yehoveh for the person who makes a mistake by
sinning inadvertently; he will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. …..no matter
whether he is a citizen of Israel or a foreigner living with them. You are to have one law for
whoever it is that does something wrong, by mistake. But, an individual who does something
wrong intentionally, whether a citizen or a foreigner, is blaspheming Yehoveh. That person will
be cut off from his people. Because he has contempt for the Word of Yehoveh, and has
disobeyed His command, that person will be cut-off completely; his offense will remain with
him”.
This is a great example of what is called the curse of the Law. Now if you ever wondered why
so many pastors, teachers, and church leaders prefer not to teach, nor really even have you
read, the OT, this passage is certainly at the top of the list. This statement, and the principle it
so clearly and unambiguously spells out, is a thorny theological problem when trying to fit it in
with modern day doctrines. Because even though most modern pastors are generally
unfamiliar with the OT, they would unhesitatingly agree with the statement that Jesus satisfied
all the requirements of the sacrificial system. We’ve all heard that from the pulpit, and probably
everyone in this room would agree with that statement as well. But, exactly which sacrificial
system are they referring to? That Jesus is the perfect sacrifice, once and for all, and an
authorized substitute for all those prescribed animals deaths that were used to atone for sin
within the Bible’s sacrificial system, as found in Leviticus, is absolutely accurate…..those
Pastors and I would have no problem with that. But, what do we do about the stark reality that
God plainly said that now that you know what is right and wrong in my eyes, to intentionally
do wrong, is to sin against Me….to BLASPHEME against Me; and for that you will be cut-off,
and for those sins there is no atonement…they will stay with you forever. Yikes. This is a much
more difficult issue when we actually examine the sacrificial system, than when we are
blissfully ignorant of it and just assume some things that aren’t so; that is, when we look at the
actual words of the Bible, in context, and not just accept a greatly distilled and unquestioned
doctrine that fits a predetermined agenda.
Bear with me. I know some of you are getting uncomfortable with this, and may think you know
where I’m headed. And you’re probably wrong so hang in there.
The Hebrews knew they had a big problem here. The Torah simply does NOT provide a way
for an Israelite to reconcile with God, once that Israelite commits a “high handed”, or “great”
sin. So, in time, the writers of the Jewish Traditions took over. You can read of all kinds of
remedies for this seemingly insolvable problem in the Talmud. After all, who wants to commit
one of these high-handed sins, and then go through life knowing that your fate is inescapable?
The great sages and Rabbis made sweeping pronouncements that ranged from saying that the
Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, was what covered the intentional sins; even saying that doing
good deeds and/or showing heartfelt repentance covered intentional sins. Some said that
being sorry enough, or studying Scripture enough, or doing a GREAT act of repentance or a
GREAT good deed could even, almost magically, turn that intentional sin into a deed that had
MERIT in Yehoveh’s eyes. Of course, none of this is in the Holy Scriptures. But, this just
highlights what a serious matter intentional sin is, and how these Hebrew religious authorities
would go to such great length to conjure up these tortured procedures on how to rid
THEMSELVES of this rejection by God due to their commission of an intentional sin. Let me
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put this in modern terms: what we call the unforgivable sin, they called the intentional sin,
because, generally speaking, these sins had no available means of atonement…therefore, they
remained unforgiven indefinitely.
Back in Exodus we started reading about the 1st of the series of laws given to Israel, which
began with the 10 Commandments. In Hebrew thinking there is no difference between religious
and civil law…..they are one in the same. The religious Biblical Law WAS also the civil law. The
Biblical Law was ALL the law that the Hebrew society lived under (at least while they were
governing themselves). They would have laughed at our questionable Western concept of
separation of Church and State. We learned of laws, in Exodus, prescribing immediate death
for adulterers and murders and idolaters, and of other laws that even prescribed death for
gross negligence. Some laws dealt with property, and therefore, usually involved reparations
when wrong was done. Someone discovered to be a thief was not jailed; instead they had to
make reparations to the person they stole from. And, these reparations always involved giving
back well more than the amount they took. There were laws involving accidental injuries to
people or animals, and the remedy for these was also normally reparation. If you couldn’t or
wouldn’t make any of the required reparations, your life was turned over to that person who
had been harmed or suffered loss, more or less as a slave, until you worked off that debt to
him. These sorts of issues, their remedies and punishments, are all covered in the Biblical
Law.
So a good way for us to understand the justice system God set up for Israel is to think of it as
consisting of two primary components: the Law, and the Sacrificial system. Now, a Hebrew
would want to argue a little about what I just said on some technical merits, and they would be
correct; because technically, the sacrificial system is contained within the Law as part of the
Law, at least in the common way of speaking. But the FUNCTIONAL way that the Biblical
justice system operated also made the Law and the Sacrificial System as somewhat separate
systems, used for different…nearly opposite……purposes.
Some time ago, back in Exodus, we went into great detail about God’s justice, which in
Hebrew is called Mishpat. The Law is NOT God’s justice, it is but part of God’s justice. The
Law had a role to play in God’s justice system, just as the sacrificial system had a role to play
in God’s justice system.
One foundational principle underlying God’s justice system is quite similar to our American
legal system whereby we declare some crimes less serious than others, and so we classify the
offenses accordingly and we have different processes of how we deal with the less serious
versus the more serious. We generally classify the less serious crimes as misdemeanors, the
more serious as felonies. To make an analogy, admittedly imperfect but close enough to make
the point, the sacrificial system atoned for misdemeanors…… but NOT for felonies (please don’t
take that too literally). God, in His justice system, defined a misdemeanor as committing an
unintentional sin…….and a felony as committing an intentional sin. Whereas we Believers want
to classify sins according to big ones and little ones…..bad ones and not-so-bad ones….a little
one is cheating on your taxes, a big one is robbing a bank, and a bigger one is premeditated
murder…..it seems that God begins by classifying sins as unintentional or deliberate.
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We have to remember that ALL crime among the Hebrews was sin. Everything a Hebrew did
wrong was first and foremost an offense to God….and the OT Hebrews saw it that way.
Certainly the doing of wrong often, and usually, manifested itself in the form of someone doing
harm against somebody else. But the key is that all right and therefore all wrong was defined
by God; so in all cases wrongdoing of any kind among Israelite society was in violation of
Yehoveh’s laws, so every wrong was a sin.
Let’s be very clear before we even start to read Leviticus: the sacrificial system’s
purpose was not to extract a penalty from the wrongdoer. The sacrificial system was not an
escalating system of penalty fees or fines in the form of more valuable or less valuable
animals, the choice of which depended on the severity of your offense. The idea was NOT so
much that the bigger the sin, the bigger and more expensive the animal you had to give up.
You didn’t pay a dove for a tiny sin, and a bull for a giant sin. The sacrificial system was there
to MAINTAIN your relationship with God, and to REPAIR it if it got broken as a result of your
sin. It was there to BENEFIT the sinner far more than to appease God. And whatever form the
appeasement of God was to be, it was not about paying Him off…..it was about obedience and
reconciliation within His system of justice so that you could have your relationship with Him
restored.
Let me put it another way, and please pay close attention because it may change the way
you’ve ever looked at the Law: the sacrificial system represented the blessings part of the
Law, and the curses of the Law represented the punishment part of the Law.
If an Israelite sinned Unintentionally, he could always turn to the sacrificial system that is laid
out in detail in Leviticus, and be reconciled with God. Is that not exactly what we Believers in
Yeshua rely on? When we sin we turn to the sacrifice of Jesus as our way out. If in committing
a sin a person did harm to another person, either financially or bodily, then some reparation to
that harmed person was usually prescribed, together with the appropriate animal sacrifice at
the Tabernacle as reparations to God. Further, forgiveness…..real forgiveness, not some
inferior kind…… atonement was achieved, and peace with God was restored to the wrong doer,
the sinner, through the indispensable sacrificial system that was the agent of atonement. They
were blessed by this process, rather than punished.
However if someone sinned intentionally, high handedly, they could NOT go to the sacrificial
system and gain reconciliation with God. Instead they were to be dealt with under the curses of
the Law. Instead of being under the blessing and grace of the sacrificial system, they were put
under the punishment (the curse) of the Law. Let me state that again: the sacrificial system
was based entirely on grace. It was the animal that lost its life rather than the person who
committed the sin. The curses of the Law, however, were different. And when a sin was of the
type that required a punishment UNDER THE LAW, although Hebrews usually did not lose
their physical lives (but sometimes they did), they DID lose their relationship with God, and
there was really no defined method to regain it. This was a terrifying possibility that every
Hebrew faced every day of his entire life. I mean, did an Israelite honestly believe he could go
his entire life and never ONCE intentionally break one of God’s laws? Never ONCE have a
bad day and deliberately sin?
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The sad reality is that as much inner enjoyment as too many of us get in looking back at those
stiff-necked Hebrews who tended to wander off into idolatry from time-to-time, and comparing
them to ourselves who would NEVER do such a foolish thing as bow down to a pagan god,
those Hebrews’ sins were almost always unintended. They worked like mad NEVER to sin.
How about us? We’re almost the exact opposite. Church doctrine and tradition has led us to
the point that we hardly ever, IF ever, consider unintentional sin, AS sin. Our view is that if we
didn’t mean it, or didn’t even recognize it, there’s nothing to it. As a matter of fact it’s almost
not a sin if you didn’t know you were being disobedient; that ignorance of the Law is an excuse
and can actually be to our advantage. And yet it was precisely this KIND of sin, the unintended
sin, that the sacrificial system was designed to accommodate. It was the unintentional sins for
which millions, perhaps billions, of God’s animals were put to death to atone for things men
did….things they gave little thought to.
Almost all of the sins that we modern Believers currently think of as the everyday variety of sin
actually falls into the category of deliberate and intentional. We mean to do it, even though
later we might regret it. We know that its wrong, but we do it anyway. We know it’s an offense
to God, but we choose to consider the consequences later. When we have sin to confess to
God it is usually, by the Biblical definition, an INTENTIONAL sin that we are confessing. And
the Levitical sacrificial system did NOT cover this type of sin.
Since the sacrificial system of the Bible only covers sins that weren’t intended, and if Jesus
fulfilled ONLY THAT system, where does that leave us when most of the time we sin
deliberately? Well, here’s the good news: just to help demonstrate how Paul saw Christ as
fulfilling MORE than the Levitical sacrificial system, with all its definitions of what it could and
could not atone for, we only have to go to Romans 3:25.
READ Romans 3:23-25
“…..since all have sinned and come short of earning God’s praise. By God’s grace, without
earning it, all are granted the status of begin considered righteous before Him, through the act
redeeming us from our enslavement to sin that was accomplished by the Messiah Yeshua.
God put Yeshua forward as a kapparah for sin through his faithfulness in respect to his bloody
sacrificial death.”
Now, what did Paul just say here? First, understand that where my Bible has the word
kapparah, yours may say “mercy seat” or “sacrifice of atonement” or some such
thing. Kapparah is just Hebrew for atonement. But, in the Greek, the word used here is
hilasterion, which is used two other places in the NT, and BOTH times is referring to the
Mercy Seat….the lid to the Ark of the Covenant. So it’s not wrong to translate this as
atonement. But when we realize that it is MORE referring directly to the most important
furnishing in the most important location of the Tabernacle, which is central to the Levitical
sacrificial system, then we see how thoroughly tied together the Levitical sacrificial system and
Jesus Christ, is. Yet even that is not FULLY representative of what it is that Yeshua fulfilled.
A key phrase in the verses we just read was “enslavement to sin”. That phrase, or others very
similar, has always received much attention among Believers. But if we’ll apply what we’ve
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learned today……that once a Hebrew committed an intentional sin, and there was no hope for
atonement for that…..it lends NEW meaning to the words “enslavement to sin”. Commit an in
tentional sin, and indeed, you are its slave forever. There is no escape from an Intentional sin
under the Levitical sacrificial system. THIS is closer to the meaning it had to Paul, because by
the Hebrew thinking of that day, it was intentional sins that were the problem because these
hung over your head forever. You were not a slave to Unintentional sins, but rather to
Intentional sins, because the sacrificial system as it existed from Moses’ day forward was fully
capable of dealing with the unintentional sins that Hebrews committed.
Notice the first portion of our Romans 3 scripture that we just read: It says that BECAUSE not
one person has ever gone his lifetime without sinning, that by God’s grace there is now a
method by which ALL those sins can be atoned for. To Paul it was obvious that Messiah did
something MORE than what the Levitical Sacrificial System was capable of doing; and what
Christ could do was to atone for the INTENTIONAL sins in our lives as well as the
unintentional.
You now have a good idea of the basic principles of the justice system (mishpat) the Israelites
lived under. It’s no wonder that over the centuries the Hebrew Scribes, Sages, and Rabbis
eventually developed a lot of tradition to deal with the inflexibility and seeming harshness of
such a system that had no remedy for intentional sins. And those traditions they developed in
many cases simply overturned God’s ways and replaced them with man’s ways, because it
better fit with their evolving philosophies of life and fairness and justice and their NEED to get
rid of their guilt. They ignored that God had a purpose for this system of Laws and sacrifices
that did NOT have a way to atone for every type of sin; and that the prophets told them that a
remedy for their predicament was on the way…..to be provided by Yehoveh Himself…..in the
person of Messiah.
It helps us to understand why the more educated an Israelite was (in Biblical times higher
education was ONLY religious education), the more STRICT he was, generally speaking, in
demanding that those around him follow the Law, as well as how scrupulous he was on
following the law himself. Because better than most, he understood the limited ability of the
sacrificial system to atone for his sins……that is, what it could atone for, and what it could NOT.
But also look at the burden every Israelite carried. One careless or rash moment basically
carried an eternal sentence. Commit a sin that the sacrificial system was not built to atone for
and beyond the criminal punishment you might receive from the Law, you were now at war with
God forever. Since the only way, in God’s justice system, to atone and be forgiven was an
animal sacrifice within the context of the sacrificial system protocols, but what you did was not
covered by that system….well…..you were done for. Are you getting the picture?
This, of course, was the world that Paul and all of the Jews in Christ’s day lived in. This was
the world the Hebrews of the Old Testament, beginning with Moses, lived in. Paul, as a highly
positioned Pharisee, understood the realities of God’s justice system to a degree that the
common folk didn’t. It was his profession to contemplate this difficult reality, day and night.
Imagine the mental energy necessary to try to control your will so thoroughly as to NEVER in
your lifetime commit a deliberate sin; the effort must have been exhausting. But the failure to
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avoid such sin was so terrible that NOT to work yourself to exhaustion to avoid it was
unthinkable. The common folk understood their situation, but they had lives to live, mouths to
feed, and most didn’t go to bed at night, and then wake up in the morning, and re-examine
their position with God. For Paul, as with all the other Pharisees, however, it was the center of
all their thoughts.
You see when Paul and other Pharisees went around strong-arming fellow Jews….it wasn’t
only followers of Jesus who they were accusing of crimes and arresting. It was everyday
traditional Jews. Because primarily what Paul’s job was, or at least he seemed to take the
greatest delight in, was to look for Jews who had committed an intentional sin……because
THAT person NOW was going to be dealt with harshly. That person would now be UNDER
THE CURSES OF THE LAW (how many times have you heard that expression?), as opposed
to under the sacrificial system. That person was now out of fellowship with God and subject to
punishment by men. This was the system Judaism operated under in Biblical times.
With that as a perspective, is it no wonder that the SAVED Paul came to use such harsh words
when describing the Levitical sacrificial system and the Law in comparison to Christ? For in
fact what made Christ’s blood so precious to Paul was that it DID cover sins that were
intentional. You see, even though Christ is often described as our High Priest, He is not the
type of High Priest that Aaron represented; He is MORE than the High Priesthood started by
Aaron, because He is actually closer in type to what Moses was. The Bible tells us that the
Messiah will even be “after the order of Melchizedek”, who was both king and high priest.
Even though Yeshua provided the once and for all sacrifice that had formerly been the purpose
of the Levitical Sacrificial System, He was MORE than what that system could provide. He
also provided what the Passover provided, and THAT was the key.
Let me explain: The Passover sacrifice was not really part of the Law per se or the general
Sacrificial System…..it actually came BEFORE that. The Biblical Feasts (even though contained
within a body of Scripture that is loosely called Law) generally functioned somewhat
separately, and had different purposes than the Laws of do’s and don’ts. The Passover
sacrifice is a case in point: it was not about atoning for sins, was it? The Passover sacrifice
was originally established as a means of being protected from death. Lambs’ blood was
smeared on doorposts in Egypt so that God’s wrath, His hand of death, would not come to the
homes of His people and kill the firstborn sons. When the Israelites celebrated Passover, it
was for them a remembrance, a memorial holiday, to recall God freeing them from Egypt and
protecting them from death…it was not about atonement for sins. Of course it had much deeper
significance that they didn’t comprehend…..that it was a foreshadowing of Christ’s death on
the Cross. But the sacrifice of the Passover Lamb had NOTHING to do with the sacrificial
system whose job it was to make peace with God by means of atonement.
When Yeshua died on the Cross at least 2 things were accomplished that directly affects us:
One, He paid the price with His blood for our sins……He atoned for our sins…..intentional and
unintentional. Two, as the Passover Lamb, His blood marked us to be passed over for the
Eternal Death….Spiritual Death….which the Bible describes as, first and foremost, eternal
separation from God.
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Further what had infuriated the Jewish religious authorities about Jesus, even beyond His
claim of being Messiah, was that during the time of His ministry He was running around giving
divine forgiveness to those who had committed INTENTIONAL sins!! Jesus was pronouncing
that the person who put their trust in Him could achieve reconciliation with God even after
committing an intentional sin. My goodness, even the sacrificial system, the holiest most
blessed, gracious and powerful part of the entire Hebrew justice system, couldn’t do that!!
So as we move along through Leviticus keep that perspective in mind. Nothing in the sacrificial
system that we’re about to study atones for INTENTIONAL sins. And as you have occasion to
read Paul’s books in the New Testament, try to grasp just how INFERIOR the sacrificial part of
the Law must have seemed to him, once he comprehended what Yeshua’s death had
accomplished. Paul never says the Law is obsolete or dead; he only says that compared to
Christ, the Law (primarily the sacrificial portion) is as nothing. Amen, brother! That by faith in
Christ, you now are subject to Christ’s grace when you intentionally sin, instead of subject to
the curses of the Law when you intentionally sin is too wonderful for words. You can be sure
that while Paul is awestruck at how Yeshua can provide for “forgiveness of sins”, that what he
was thinking about, at least what was in the forefront of his mind, was INTENTIONAL
sins…because Paul took it for granted that Unintentional sins could be forgiven…..as they
always had, by means of a proper animal sacrifice, since the days of Moses. Also keep in mind
that Paul NEVER compared the ability of Christ to forgive against the Law’s FAILURE in that
same area. The Law never failed in forgiveness because it was never designed to forgive…..or
to atone….every Jewish child knew that much. But guess what…..the sacrificial system DID
provide a means of forgives but it was limited to the unintentional sin. As an analogy of the
Law: when compared to the incredible flying ability of Eagles, are Elephants failures? Of
course not. Elephants don’t FAIL to fly, because they were never built to fly. The Law portion
of God’s justice system was not designed to atone or forgive, but to draw a line between
obedience to God and disobedience to God. The Law established moral choices for
humankind; in doing so it showed us what sin is. The sacrificial system, on the other hand, was
designed to achieve forgiveness by means of atonement. But the sacrificial system had limits;
it could ONLY deal with a certain class of sin and then on a case-by-case basis. Both systems,
both parts of God’s justice system, did what they were designed to do, perfectly.
Now using all that I just told you as the lens through which to view Leviticus, next week we’ll
take a look at the first type of sacrifice addressed in Chapter 1, the burnt offering, and discover
what it was intended to accomplish.
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