Key ideas from Jeff Cavins

• The hardest day to pray or read the Bible is the day after the day you don't - faithfulness matters more than perfection
• 400 years pass between Genesis and Exodus with no recorded story, representing Israel's time in Egyptian bondage
• Three major changes emerge at Mount Sinai: the Levitical priesthood, the tabernacle worship system, and God's Torah law
• Leviticus was the starting book for biblical education in Jesus' time because it teaches holiness and discipleship fundamentals
• God commands 'be holy as I am holy' six times in Leviticus, establishing imitation as the foundation of discipleship
• The ten plagues represent painful but necessary freedom, like chemotherapy that causes suffering to eliminate disease
• Moses' name means 'to draw out,' reflecting his calling to draw Israel from Egyptian bondage and idolatry
• Modern believers have priesthood, Eucharistic worship, and Scripture paralleling Israel's three gifts from Sinai