Leviticus; Not the boring book you always thought it was!
With the book of Leviticus what I would love for people to see as they study through this book is what a beautiful and wondrous thing it was for God to make a way for His presence to dwell among his people. Because that is the heart behind the book, we saw in Exodus that God has redeemed his people for relationship and now in Leviticus we begin to get a more full and beautiful picture of the Covenant-keeping God’s ambition to pursue humanity and make a way for his presence to dwell among them!
At first glance this book can seem very monotonous and hard to get through with all the details concerning offerings and such, but don’t miss the beauty and wonder that a Holy God is making a way for his children to approach him! He is not distant and unconcerned, He is a God of mercy and love and longs to be with his children, and though sin has separated His children from being able to freely enter his presence he is making a way for them to do so. And hopefully as you study the book you will begin to see how all of this is pointing to a much bigger purpose God had in mind in sending his Son so that all might approach freely,(as seen in the book of Hebrews, which incidentally I would highly recommend reading alongside any serious study of Leviticus) don’t miss how this fits into God’s universal Plan of Redemption. Think about it, even from just a cursory glance one can see the themes of Holiness, Atonement, Blood, Sin, Guilt, Offerings, God’s Character…can you see how all this fits into the context of the whole Bible? Leviticus gives us a foundation for our theology, many of us may have general understandings of concepts like atonement, sacrifice, the Perfect Spotless lamb, man’s sinfulness, but an in depth study of Leviticus will bring depth and fullness and beauty to your understanding of these theological concepts!
