Christ in Leviticus

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Christ in Leviticus

• The Sacrifices Part 2

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Leviticus

• The book of liturgical services
• Levi priestly tribe
• Leviticus Book of worship and liturgical work
• Key word HOLINESS used 87 times
• Key verse You shall be holy, for I the Lord
  your God am holy. (Lev 192)
• Sacrifice is the basis for approaching God
• Priesthood is the means to approaching Him

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The Offerings

• Sweet-savor offerings demonstrate that Christ
  was acceptable to God
• Burnt Christ the Perfect Sacrifice
• Grain Christ the Perfect Person
• Peace Christ the Eucharist
• Non-sweet-savor offerings demonstrate that the
  sinner is unacceptable
• Sin
• Trespass

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Sin Trespass Offerings
Sin Offering Trespass Offering
Intentional, active sins Sins out of ignorance or negligence directed towards the sinner himself To remove Gods wrath Unintentional, passive sins Sins out of ignorance or negligence directed towards God or others For comfort of the consciences Restitution required
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Sin Offering

• To be offered for
• Sins of ignorance of the commandments of the LORD
  (Lev 4)
• The consecration of priests (Exo 29)
• The consecration of Levites (Num 8)
• The expiration of a Nazarite's vow (Num 6)
• Cleansing of a leper (Lev 14)
• Purification of women (Lev 12)
• Purification of those with issues (Lev 15)
• The day of atonement (Lev 16)

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Trespass Offering

• To be offered for
• Concealing knowledge of a crime (Lev 5)
• Involuntarily touching unclean things (Lev 5)
• Rash swearing (Lev 5)
• Sins of ignorance in holy things (Lev 5)
• Any sin of ignorance of the commandments of the
  LORD (Lev 5)
• Breach of trust, or fraud (Lev 6)
• Purification of Nazarites who had broken their
  vow (Num 6)
• Connection with a betrothed bondmaid (Lev 19)

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Sin Offering

• (Lev 41-12) Christ the crucified, bearer of
  our sins
• who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the
  tree, that we, having died to sins, might live
  for righteousnessby whose stripes you were
  healed. (1Pet 224)
• Not a sweet-savor offering
• Different sacrifices according to the status of
  the sinner, and according to the financial
  situation
• Sins of the offerer transferred by imposition of
  hands

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Sin Offering

• High Priest offers a young bull (Lev 43)
• All the fat is removed and burned on the Altar
• All the skin and meat is burned outside of the
  camp
• Sin has no place is Gods presence
• Christ was crucified outside of the Holy City
• For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is
  brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for
  sin, are burned outside the camp. Therefore Jesus
  also, that He might sanctify the people with His
  own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore
  let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing
  His reproach. (Heb 1313)

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Sin Offering

• The entire sacrifice is burned, as sin destroys
  the entire being of man
• The whole head is sick, And the whole heart
  faints. From the sole of the foot even to the
  head, There is no soundness in it, But wounds and
  bruises and putrefying sores They have not been
  closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.
  (Isa 15-6)
• The skin resembles the outer appearance and pride
  
• The head sinful thoughts
• Limbs feet that sought after sin and hands that
  committed sin
• Entrails The hidden inner desires
• Blood is sprinkled seven times towards the veil
• Veil sin that separated us from God
• Seven perfect number
• It is the perfect redemption from sin
• The veil was torn into two, when Christ True
  Sacrifice died

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Sin Offering

• The Entire Congregation offers a young bull
  same as the High Priest (Lev 413- 14)
• The sin of the High Priest is equal to the sin of
  the entire congregation
• In the Liturgy, the priest prays, Grant O Lord
  that this sacrifice be acceptable on behalf of my
  sins and the ignorance of your people
• The sacrifice is offered according to the same
  rites as for the priest, after the elders of the
  congregation place their hands on the head and
  confess the sins

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Sin Offering

• A ruler offers a kid of the goats (Lev 422-23)
  
• The priest does not enter into the Holy with the
  blood, but rather puts it on the horns of the
  Altar of Sacrifices and pours the rest at the
  base
• Blood poured Christs blood being shed on the
  Cross

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Sin Offering

• A common person offers a female lamb (Lev 432)
  
• Same rite as the ruler
• If he cant afford a lamb, he may present a kid
  of the goats
• If he is poor, he may bring two turtledoves or
  two young pigeons one as a sin offering and the
  other as a burnt offering (Lev 57)

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Sin Offering

• It was a most holy sacrifice
• Also the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to
  Aaron and to his sons, saying, "This is the law
  of the sin offering In the place where the burnt
  offering is killed, the sin offering shall be
  killed before the LORD. It is most holy... (Lev
  624-29)
• For if the blood of bulls and goats and the
  ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean,
  sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how
  much more shall the blood of Christ (Heb
  913-14)

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Sin Offering

• With some exceptions, the priest eats of the sin
  and trespass offerings
• Every male among the priests may eat it. It
  shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
  The trespass offering is like the sin offering
  there is one law for them both the priest who
  makes atonement with it shall have it. (Lev
  76-7)
• The offerer does not eat of it
• He has no role in salvation salvation is free -
  by grace
• The priest eat from it, as he is the
  representative and the servant of the work of
  Salvation

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Trespass Offering

• (Lev 51-6 61-5) Christ the crucified, bearer
  of our trespasses
• But He was wounded for our transgressions, He
  was bruised for our iniquities Yet it pleased
  the LORD to bruise Him He has put Him to grief.
  When You make His soul an offering for sin (Isa
  53)
• Not a sweet-savor offering
• Preceded by confession
• Accompanied by restitution
• One-fifth of what was harmed (Lev 61-5)

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The Offerings

• Sweet-savor offerings demonstrate that Christ
  was acceptable to God
• Burnt Christ the Perfect Sacrifice
• Grain Christ the Perfect Person
• Peace Christ the Eucharist
• Non-sweet-savor offerings demonstrate that the
  sinner is unacceptable
• Sin, Trespass
• Christ the crucified, bearer of our sins and
  trespasses

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Imperfect Sacrifices

• Certain sins are not redeemable with sacrifices
• Murder - The sinner would be put to death
• The Sacrifices were insufficient for complete
  redemption
• The Sacrifice of Christ, however, is complete
• If we do not see the value of this Sacrifice, we
  are inexcusable
• For if we sin willfully after we have received
  the knowledge of the truth, there no longer
  remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain
  fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery
  indignation which will devour the adversaries.
  Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without
  mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose,
  will he be thought worthy who has trampled the
  Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the
  covenant by which he was sanctified a common
  thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we
  know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will
  repay," says the Lord. And again, "The LORD will
  judge His people. "It is a fearful thing to fall
  into the hands of the living God. (Heb 1026-31)

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The Great Day of Atonement

• Yom Kippur - "Day of Atonement"
• (Lev 161-28)
• The greatest day of Sacrifices
• To atone for all
• The Sacrifices of that day
• The Daily Burnt Offerings
• The Sacrifices of the Feast
• Ram as a burnt offering, for the priest
• Bull and seven lambs as a burnt offering for the
  people
• Ram as a sin offering, for the people
• The Sacrifices of the Atonement
• Bull as a sin offering, for the high priest, his
  household and the sons of Aaron
• Two goats as a sin offering, for the people

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The Great Day of Atonement - Rites

• In the early morning the high priest performed
  the daily morning sacrifices (Exo 28)
• Washed his whole body in the laver, then his
  hands and feet
• Put on his robes of service
• Performs the ordinary morning rite of dressing
  the lamps
• Offered incense.
• Offered the daily morning sacrifice which is
  doubled because it is a Sabbath
• And on the Sabbath day two lambs in their first
  year, without blemish, and two-tenths of an ephah
  of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with
  oil, with its drink offering (Num 289-10)

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The Great Day of Atonement - Rites

• The sacrifice of atonement - a bull and two goats
  (Num 297)
• He removed the festive robes, and left them in
  the Holy
• He washed again in the Laver
• He put on special vestments of linen (Lev 16 4).
  
• With his hands placed on the head of a bull
  (purchased from his own means), he made
  confession of his own sins and of those of his
  household (Lev 16 6).
• The two goats contributed by the people (Lev 16
  5) were placed before him, being designated by
  lot
• one for a sin offering "for the Lord,"
• the other to be sent away into the wilderness
  "for Azazel" (verses 7-10).
• Once more the high priest made confession over
  his own bull, for himself and his wider
  householdhis brother priests (verse 11a).

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The Great Day of Atonement - Rites

• After killing the animal (verse 11b) he received
  its blood into a vessel
• He took a censer full of live coals from the
  altar of burnt offering (Ex. 27 1-8) and two
  handfuls of fine incense into the Holy of Holies
  
• He placed the incense on the coals, the cloud of
  incense enveloping the Mercy-seat (verse 12),
• He offered a short prayer, and left the censor
  and incense

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The Great Day of Atonement - Rites

• He returned for the vessel containing the blood
  of the bull and reentered, sprinkling some of it
  with his finger seven times on the mercy seat
  (verse 14 Ex. 25 13-15).
• He then sacrifices the people's goat (marked "for
  the Lord")
• With its blood he reentered the Holy of Holies,
  there to perform the same number of sprinklings
  in the same place (verse 15).

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The Great Day of Atonement - Rites

• By these rites the most holy place was purified
  (v 16 Num 19 13).
• By sprinkling the bull's blood and the goat
  against the vile, the entrance to the Holy of
  Holies was purified (verse 16b).
• No one was permitted to remain in the sanctuary
  while the high priest officiated in the Holy of
  Holies (verse 17).
• The high priest then mixed the blood of the bull
  and goat, and put some of it on the four corners
  of the altar of incense (Ex 30 1-10)
• He sprinkled some of it with his finger seven
  times on the surface of the altar, cleaned of its
  coal and ashes (verse 18), while the remainder
  was poured out at the base of the altar outside
  (Lev. 4 7).
• The bull and goat were burned outside the camp,
  and the priests who burned them, along with the
  priest who lead the scapegoat did not re-enter
  the camp until they washed their bodies and
  cloths they need to be purified of the sins
  that theses sacrifices represent.

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The Great Day of Atonement - Rites

• The live goat was now brought forward before the
  Lord to be judged as a representative of the
  people.
• The high priest laid his hand upon its head and
  confessed all the iniquities of the Israelites,
  and all their transgressions, which were thus
  placed upon the goat's head.
• Laden with the people's sins, the animal was
  sent away into the wilderness (verses 20-22).

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Two Goats - One Sacrifice
First goat - For the Lord Second For Azazel
Atonement and forgiveness of sin Blood is the only means of atonement Death of Christ For the Lord Acceptable Remains in the sanctuary Casting the sins away Effectiveness of atonement Resurrection of Christ For Azazel (Satan) rejected and cast away Cast out to barren land - wilderness
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The Great Day of Atonement - Rites

• The Additional sacrifices of the feast (Num
  297-11)
• One young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their
  first year without blemish
• Grain offering fine flour mixed with oil
  three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths
  for the one ram, and one-tenth for each of the
  seven lambs
• One kid of the goats as a sin offering
• He washed again in the Laver
• He removed the linen robes, and put on the
  festive robes
• The daily evening sacrifice was offered (Num. 29
  11 Ex. 29 41).
• The sacred vestments were then left in the
  sanctuary.
• In his ordinary robes, the high priest closed the
  service with the evening rite of lighting the
  lamps, which was accompanied by an offering of
  incense (Ex. 30 8).

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The Great Day of Atonement - Explanation

• But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
  that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
  us. (Rom 58)
• The High Priest performed the rites of atonement
  - Christ a High Priest over the house of God
  (Heb 1021)
• He performed it alone Nor is there salvation
  in any other, for there is no other name under
  heaven given among men by which we must be
  saved. (Act 412)
• He removed his glorious festive robes - but
  made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of
  a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
  8 And being found in appearance as a man, He
  humbled Himself and became obedient to the point
  of death, even the death of the cross. (Phil
  27-8)
• He washed to be purified Permit it to be so
  now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all
  righteousness. (Matt 315)

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The Great Day of Atonement - Explanation

• He offered much incense to cover the mercy seat,
  least he dies sin separated us from God and we
  can not behold Him
• Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins
  has neither seen Him nor known Him. (1Jn 36)
• My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? (Matt
  2746)
• The high priest himself was human and sinful and
  must also atone for himself, but Christ was
  perfect without sin For the law appoints as
  high priests men who have weakness, but the word
  of the oath, which came after the law, appoints
  the Son who has been perfected forever. (Heb
  728)
• Aaron was the priest of the Old Testament of the
  Law, but Christ is the priest forever, according
  to the order of Melchizedek (Heb 56)

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The Perfect Sacrifice

• The great day of Atonement The day of
  Crucifixion
• Despite all the daily sacrifices and even the
  sacrifices of great day of Atonement, complete
  atonement was not achieved except though the
  sacrifice of Christ
• For on the one hand there is an annulling of the
  former commandment because of its weakness and
  unprofitableness, for the law made nothing
  perfect (Heb 718-19)
• But Christ perfected all once!
• But Christ came as High Priest of the good
  things to come, with the greater and more perfect
  tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of
  this creation. Not with the blood of goats and
  calves, but with His own blood He entered the
  Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained
  eternal redemption. (Heb 96-12)