Leviticus 3:6–11
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
When modern Christians think of the Levitical sacrifices, our minds tend to go to one place: sin and forgiveness. We think of the blood, the death, the atonement, and we rightly see in all of it a bloody finger pointing down through the centuries to the cross of Jesus Christ. We see the preparation for the meal but miss the meal itself. The sacrificial system was not a monotonous, one-note affair. It was a rich and textured liturgy, a divine audio-visual aid designed to teach Israel, and us through them, the multifaceted glories of relating to a holy God. They had the guilt offering, which dealt with sin. They had the ascension offering, or whole burnt offering, which was about total consecration to God. But then they had this, the peace offering, or as it is sometimes called, the fellowship offering.