Many readers open Leviticus, meet the smoke and the blood of the first seven chapters, and quietly close the book. That is a tragedy, for those chapters are a portrait gallery, and every portrait is of the Messiah. Yahweh called to Moses out of the tabernacle and gave Israel five offerings: the burnt offering, wholly consumed on the altar; the grain offering, fine flour and firstfruits; the peace offering, a shared meal of fellowship; the sin offering, blood carried in for sins done in ignorance; and the trespass offering, restitution paid with a fifth part added. Hebrews tells us plainly...
Many readers open Leviticus, meet the smoke and the blood of the first seven chapters, and quietly close the book. That is a tragedy, for those chapters are a portrait gallery, and every portrait is of the Messiah. Yahweh called to Moses out of the tabernacle and gave Israel five offerings: the burnt offering, wholly consumed on the altar; the grain offering, fine flour and firstfruits; the peace offering, a shared meal of fellowship; the sin offering, blood carried in for sins done in ignorance; and the trespass offering, restitution paid with a fifth part added. Hebrews tells us plainly that the law had a shadow of good things to come, and a shadow is cast by a real body standing in the light. In this lesson we will walk the gallery slowly, offering by offering, learning what each one required and what each one meant. Then we will watch every line of the shadow find its body in Yahshua, whose soul was made an offering for sin, who offered Himself once for all, a sacrifice to Elohim for a sweetsmelling savour. And we will end at our own altar, with the offerings that Yahweh still asks of us: praise, a broken spirit, and our very bodies. Bring your Bible. Leviticus is about to...