There are large numbers of God’s beloved people who have never carefully studied the marvelous types of the Person and work of Christ given us in the early chapters of Leviticus. Here we have five distinct offerings, all displaying various aspects of the work of the cross and unfolding the glories of the Person who […]
Some of us who heard Dr. David Gooding warn about the inroads of Eastern Orthodox views into the church-at-large at the Mission 93 Conference in Cincinnati wondered at the relevance of warning about these mystical heresies. But now we see that the threat is quite real. Peter Gillquist, a popular evangelical author and youth speaker […]
The vigorous and sizable man was a former priest, variously known as “the Second Paul,” “Strong George,” and “the Mighty Joerge.” William Estep called George Blaurock (1491-1529) “the Hercules of the Anabaptists.” He became the standard for the itinerant evangelist. More than that, he was a disturber of the tranquility of this misguided world, and […]
While the burnt offering gives us that aspect of the work of Christ which was a “sweet savor unto God,” that is, His perfect obedience unto death, the sin-offering, given in Leviticus 4:1 through 5:13, is altogether different. Instead of a sweet savor on the altar, the body of the victim was carried outside the […]
How wonderful the book of Leviticus becomes to us when we find that, instead of mere Jewish ritual, we have precious things in it concerning the Lord Jesus Himself. And when we find that each one of the offerings gives us a picture of the Lord Jesus, either in His Person or His work, how […]
Leviticus 5:14 through 6:7 contains the doctrine of the trespass offering, of which there were two distinct kinds, namely, trespass against God, and trespass against man. “If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord, then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram […]
The distinguishing feature of the peace offering (Lev. 3) is that Jehovah, the priest, and the offerer all have a portion in it. In this it differs from the burnt-offering. There, it was Jehovah receiving His portion. The whole of it was consumed on the altar. Here, it is Jehovah satisfied, having received His portion, […]
The meal-offering, described in Leviticus 2, was a sweet-savor offering, and so could be put on the altar as the food of God. It did not represent Christ primarily in His death because there was no life taken, nor any blood shed. It was made up of various materials, but they were all the fruits […]
How very good God has been in giving us such plain pictures in His Word, setting forth man’s moral condition and great deliverance through the death and resurrection of Jesus. What a terrible picture of sin leprosy is–a living death of wretchedness and desolation. The disease is loathsome–the person covered with sores, wandering alone, or […]