The Lord speaking to Moses here introduces further instructions, standing within the opening chapters on individual offerings and the offering system, part of Leviticus 1 to 7, 16 and 23 describing the main features of the service appointed in the days of Moses for the worship of the true God and part of Leviticus 1 to 16 giving the complete yearly round performed every year in the earthly sanctuary built by Moses in the wilderness. It belongs to the ceremonial law, which is distinct from the moral law as a body of ordinances associated with Moses and instituted because of sin. As part of the instructions about offerings, it reflects a system that shows God's hatred of sin and its penalty.
When the blood of the sin offering was not brought into the sanctuary, its flesh was to be eaten by the priests in the holy place, and through that flesh the sin was figuratively brought within the sanctuary. Every individual offering made in faith, together with the daily offering, transferred in figure through the blood of the sacrifice or the person of the priest the sins of the penitent to the sanctuary. There the priest's sprinkling of the blood upon the altar before the ark left the forgiven sins of God's people through the year until the yearly cleansing.
The offerings and types of this system point to Jesus Christ as their fulfillment, for the earthly service typifies the service of Christ and His priesthood in the heavenly sanctuary, which was once for all. It is a pattern, shadow, and type of the temple of God in heaven and of Christ's priestly service therein as High Priest and Minister of the heavenly sanctuary. These instructions were not written in vain or without purpose but are part of Scripture profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness to make the man of God perfect, and were written for learning to give patience, comfort, and hope. As an impressive object-lesson of the heavenly sanctuary, their study reveals God's way, power, and glory and gives clearer views of the Saviour and His work in behalf of men.
The Lord speaking to Moses here introduces further instructions, standing within the opening chapters on individual offerings and the offering system, part of Leviticus 1 to 7, 16 and 23 describing the main features of the service appointed in the days of Moses for the worship of the true God and part of Leviticus 1 to 16 giving the complete yearly round performed every year in the earthly sanctuary built by Moses in the wilderness. It belongs to the ceremonial law, which is distinct from the moral law as a body of ordinances associated with Moses and instituted because of sin. As part of the instructions about offerings, it reflects a system that shows God's hatred of sin and its penalty.
When the blood of the sin offering was not brought into the sanctuary, its flesh was to be eaten by the priests in the holy place, and through that flesh the sin was figuratively brought within the sanctuary. Every individual offering made in faith, together with the daily offering, transferred in figure through the blood of the sacrifice or the person of the priest the sins of the penitent to the sanctuary. There the priest's sprinkling of the blood upon the altar before the ark left the forgiven sins of God's people through the year until the yearly cleansing.
The offerings and types of this system point to Jesus Christ as their fulfillment, for the earthly service typifies the service of Christ and His priesthood in the heavenly sanctuary, which was once for all. It is a pattern, shadow, and type of the temple of God in heaven and of Christ's priestly service therein as High Priest and Minister of the heavenly sanctuary. These instructions were not written in vain or without purpose but are part of Scripture profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness to make the man of God perfect, and were written for learning to give patience, comfort, and hope. As an impressive object-lesson of the heavenly sanctuary, their study reveals God's way, power, and glory and gives clearer views of the Saviour and His work in behalf of men.