And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, introduces the Lord's instructions to Moses about offerings and the sanctuary service. It stands in the opening chapters of Leviticus, described as chapters 1-6, 1-7, and 1-8, which prescribe offerings for individual sins, describe different kinds of sacrifices, and set forth the main features of the service of the sanctuary. It belongs to the instructions for individual offerings brought in faith in the Redeemer who was to come. It belongs to the ceremonial law, which was instituted because of sin. The sanctuary where the worship of the true God has centered by divine appointment ever since the days of Moses was the wilderness sanctuary built by Moses and later replaced by the temple.
The directions about offerings show God's hatred of sin and that sin requires a penalty. The offerings for individual sins involved confession, the transfer of sin in figure to an unblemished animal, and the animal's death as a substitute. Every offering made in faith transferred in figure, through the blood of the sacrifice or the handling of its blood or flesh by the person of the priest, the sins of the penitent to the sanctuary. The forgiven sins were left at the altar before the ark through the year until they were cleansed out on the tenth day of the seventh month, so the priestly ministry included daily offerings and individual sin offerings followed by the yearly service for atonement and cleansing. The building, appointments, priesthood, and service of the earthly sanctuary, and the complete round of service performed every year given in Leviticus 1-16, were typical of Christ and his priesthood in the heavenly sanctuary begun when he ascended on high, with each year's round typifying Christ's service which was once for all. Each sacrifice has a typological connection to the work of Jesus Christ, and the offerings are types pointing to Jesus Christ.
These instructions for the sanctuary and its service were not written in vain or without purpose, but are part of Scripture that is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness to make the man of God perfect, and were written for learning to give patience, comfort, and hope. Study of this earthly sanctuary and its service as a pattern, shadow, and type gives clearer views of the temple of God in heaven and Christ's priestly service therein as High Priest and Minister of the sanctuary on behalf of men, revealing God's way, power, and glory.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, introduces the Lord's instructions to Moses about offerings and the sanctuary service.
It stands in the opening chapters of Leviticus, described as chapters 1-6, 1-7, and 1-8, which prescribe offerings for individual sins, describe different kinds of sacrifices, and set forth the main features of the service of the sanctuary.
It belongs to the instructions for individual offerings brought in faith in the Redeemer who was to come.
It belongs to the ceremonial law, which was instituted because of sin.
The sanctuary where the worship of the true God has centered by divine appointment ever since the days of Moses was the wilderness sanctuary built by Moses and later replaced by the temple.
The directions about offerings show God's hatred of sin and that sin requires a penalty.
The offerings for individual sins involved confession, the transfer of sin in figure to an unblemished animal, and the animal's death as a substitute.
Every offering made in faith transferred in figure, through the blood of the sacrifice or the handling of its blood or flesh by the person of the priest, the sins of the penitent to the sanctuary.
The forgiven sins were left at the altar before the ark through the year until they were cleansed out on the tenth day of the seventh month, so the priestly ministry included daily offerings and individual sin offerings followed by the yearly service for atonement and cleansing.
The building, appointments, priesthood, and service of the earthly sanctuary, and the complete round of service performed every year given in Leviticus 1-16, were typical of Christ and his priesthood in the heavenly sanctuary begun when he ascended on high, with each year's round typifying Christ's service which was once for all.
Each sacrifice has a typological connection to the work of Jesus Christ, and the offerings are types pointing to Jesus Christ.
These instructions for the sanctuary and its service were not written in vain or without purpose, but are part of Scripture that is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness to make the man of God perfect, and were written for learning to give patience, comfort, and hope.
Study of this earthly sanctuary and its service as a pattern, shadow, and type gives clearer views of the temple of God in heaven and Christ's priestly service therein as High Priest and Minister of the sanctuary on behalf of men, revealing God's way, power, and glory.