Offering Part One...

Day Fifteen: Leviticus 1:1 - 5:19

My First Post For Leviticus.

Even though I have only finished two books now, I feel an amazing accomplishment when finishing a new book of the Bible. It puts me in a very good mood when starting a new one.

Leviticus so far...

God is explaining to the Israelites the Procedures of Offering. Every type of offering has its own procedures.

The Burnt Offering
The Grain Offering
The Fellowship Offering
The Sin Offering
The Guilt Offering

When you commit a crime, you don't get off in court just by saying. "Oops! My Bad!" Justice requires that you pay for you crime. The Israelites, therefore, could not just march into God's presence to fellowship with him. They had to bring sacrifices to "Atone", for their inadequacies (been waiting all day to use that word). These sacrifices cost most of what the Israelites have.

To subsistence farmers, a bull or goat represents a large contribution. Those less fortunate could give less (due to the fact that was all they were able to do), a pair of doves, a little flour. But in just about all cases, a person would feel the cost, cost meaning...something they has worked hard for, something inherited, or something grown on their own farm.

I wonder how bad the economy was in this time period. Think of all the animals, livestock, and firewood they went through just for offering. It leads to believe that God knew this was going to happen. Making it impossible to survive in the long run if people continued to sin. The more they sinned. The more they were to offer and sacrifice. The more it became rare. God definitely knew what he was doing. :)

Its amazing to me that blood and animal parts were once considered a sacrifice. God wanted them to sacrifice something dear and important to pay when they sinned. It would be equivalent to one of us today...burning a Cell Phone, IPod, or Computer. These are things we consider necessities today. To the Israelites, animals, food and grain were considered necessities.

I know I am a post behind. So tonight there will be two. See you again in like....five minutes.

Kale