Leviticus 23:26–32
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now in our study of Leviticus to the high point of the entire ceremonial law. If you want to understand the gospel, if you want to understand the cross of Jesus Christ in all its bloody and beautiful glory, you must understand the Day of Atonement. Our modern evangelical sensibilities often want to skip over Leviticus. It feels archaic, full of strange rituals and laws that seem to have little to do with our lives. But this is like trying to understand a novel by starting three-quarters of the way through. The plot of the entire Bible is this: how can a holy God dwell with a sinful people? Leviticus, and particularly the Day of Atonement, is God's appointed answer in picture form. His very presence is a consuming fire to sin. So when this holy God, in His grace, decides to pitch His tent in the middle of Israel's camp, it creates a crisis.