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In way of recap, the first five and a half chapters of Leviticus lay out five different offerings God instructed the people of Israel to make at the tabernacle of meeting. Again, it’s worth repeating Leviticus was not designed to work, but to establish the way in which God would work. In this first half of the book where God is explaining how He should be approached by sinners, there is no question everything was predicated upon these sacrifices.

In chapter 1 we have the protocols for the Burnt Offering — which intended to illustrate the atoning sacrifice God would have to make on behalf of the sins of the people. As we’ve noted, God would have to offer something costly. Jesus the Sacrifice would willingly endure something ghastly. And in the end atonement would come from our faith in these two things being enough to make us right with God. Leviticus 1:4, “It will be accepted on his behalf.”

In chapter 2 we were presented the Grain Offering. Directly following a sacrifice God would make to atone for our sins, the Lord then explains the appropriate way in which we should respond to Him on account of His great grace. God doesn’t demand something extravagant nor does he delight in the artificial or fake (“no leaven or honey”). Instead, He tells us to bring to Him “fine flour, mixed with oil, seasoned with salt,” and topped with “frankincense.”

In chapter 3 we transition from a response to His grace to the celebration of His grace. The Peace Offering was not a sacrifice made to secure peace with God, but a sacrifice made in celebration of the peace Jesus secured on our behalf! Because of the work Christ accomplished on our behalf satisfying a debt we could not pay, today we not only have oneness with Him through His Spirit, but we experience genuine community with each other.

While the first three offerings were made as a manifestation of one’s freewill and the sacrificed received by the Lord a “sweat aroma,” the Sin and Trespass Offerings laid out in chapters 4, 5, and part of 6 were much different. Regardless of whether or not a sin was committed as a manifestation of one’s sin nature (the Sin Offering) or was done willfully (the Trespass Offering) a sacrifice was mandated by the Lord nonetheless.

It’s worth noting, in the procedures concerning these two offerings, the connection back to the Burnt Offering is undeniable. In fact, the “Burnt Offering” is referenced 10 different times in chapters 4 and 5 alone. Understand, the entire purpose of these offerings was to remind you that sins of nature or will can only find atonement in the Sacrifice made by God!

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