Leviticus is about offerings and feasts and how God went about making his people clean, holy and fit for his presence. Difficult as some of the imagery may be for us in our modern world, we study Leviticus because of all the wealth it has to tell us about something that lies close to our hearts as believers—the Lord Jesus. If Leviticus can help me to see a little bit more of what it meant when the Lord Jesus loved me and gave himself for me, then we should labour at trying to understand it. Further, because those Old Testament sacrifices were a prefigurement of our Lord, we shall find the New Testament talking of his death in phrases borrowed from Leviticus. Says John the Baptist, as he points to the Saviour, ‘Behold the Lamb of God,’ choosing this term deliberately to contrast him from those thousands upon millions of lambs that died in Old Testament days as a token payment for sin. That’s why we study Leviticus.

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