If you're like me the seemingly repetitive descriptions of sacrifices for this and that and everything, becomes hard to read and you keep flicking through to Numbers to see how much is left to read, all the while thinking 'when is it going to end?'
That is probably a great point about Leviticus, a feeling that should accompany the state of humanity described and the animal sacrifice that atones for it. Hour after hour, day after day, month after month & year after year the Israelites made sacrifice according to the requirements of the law. Surely the same phrase stands over this?
'When is it going to end?'Animal sacrifice had to be repeated, and repeated, and repeated, and repeated, it was never enough . . .
And then Jesus!
"For by a single offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified." Hebrews 10:14
With one sacrifice, in fact the ONE sacrifice that all the rest foreshadowed, Jesus brought the sacrificial repetition to an end. We can now rely on His sacrifice and move forward with God without further sacrifices. Leviticus has a much more glorious meaning as it finds fulfilment in Christ.
