While Leviticus makes for difficult reading for people today, it contains a simple message that everyone needs to learn: God is holy, so we may approach him only in the manner he determines. In the context of Leviticus, God determined that his people approach him through a holy priest offering a perfect sacrifice. However, the fact that the people had to offer many sacrifices through many priests over many centuries indicated that none of the sacrifices finally took away their sins. It turns out that the whole system was pointing forward to Jesus, the only truly holy priest who offered himself as the only perfect sacrifice.
With so much insistence in Galatians on our being right before God through faith in Christ and not by the works of the law,...
With the book of Acts, we finish our review of Bible history. Unlike Old Testament history, New Testament history ends on a very positive...
Although the books of Kings and Chronicles cover much of the same history, they have different and complimentary perspectives, focusing mostly on the time...