Leviticus 1

The burnt offering was for atonement (“appeasement”). It was a freewill offering. Different animals were allowed because of varying incomes. The laying on of hands was presumably a way of identifying the worshipper with the sacrifice. The animal had to be a perfect specimen, giving its perfect life for the sins of the sacrificer. The shedding of blood and the burning of the sacrifice were to appease God’s wrath. The burning is described as a “pleasant aroma” to God.

The burnt offering is a wonderful foreshadowing of Jesus Christ!

Romans 5:9 (WEB) “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.”

1 Peter 1:18-19 (WEB) “knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ”

Ephesians 5:2 (WEB) “Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.”

Hebrews 9:14 (WEB) “how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

Thought for the day: “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.”

Philippians 4:20 (WEB) “Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.”