View source for Template:DOD protected/January 31

{{DOD-January}}

The name "Leviticus" means "pertaining to the Levites." The Levites were responsible for the service of the Tabernacle. The Book of Leviticus contains divine instructions for the Priests concerning the sacrifices and feasts. This book deals with separation and communion. It is also a book of sacrifices and blood. These words are repulsive to many people. Mankind wants a bloodless religion, but this is impossible because, without the shedding of blood there is no remission of [[sin]].

In chapter 1 of Leviticus we have pictured the burnt offering. This offering had to be a perfect male of the first year and the very best that was in the herd. The meal offering is explained in chapter 2. In chapter 3 the [[peace]] offering is explained. The burnt offering pictures Christ offering Himself completely spotless to [[God]]. The meal offering is a non-blood offering. Christ is prefigured in His sinless humanity, the perfect Man. The [[peace]] offering presents Christ's work on the cross in the aspect of procuring [[peace]] for the sinner. For the [[New Testament]] believer the chief significance of the [[Old Testament]] sacrifices is that they are symbolical. They express a need which they cannot satisfy but which the coming Redeemer would fulfill. For the [[Old Testament]] believer the sacrifices were a means of approach to [[God]], for guilty men needed some way to draw near to the Holy [[God]], with assurance of acceptance. The acceptance was provided through the sacrifices we are now studying.