Leviticus 15-16

Leviticus 16 describes the Day of Atonement. God gives Moses the instructions for how once a year the high priest can enter the Most Holy Place, and there is sin offerings of a goat and a bull. There is another goat that is the scapegoat that the high priest puts the sins of the nation on his head and then they release it into the desert.

I must admit that although I do find Leviticus a bit boring, I am beginning to understand why it is important to read it. It gives me a better understanding of what Jesus did and the law that he not only released us from, but took to completion. Jesus became our scapegoat. Jesus tore the curtain to the Most Holy Place and became our high priest.

Hebrews 9 says:
11When Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say, not a part of this creation. 12He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. 13The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
15For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

I am so thankful!