This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.
As I read through all these instructions that are given in these old testament books, it’s very easy for me to skip over whole sentences as I go. It seems like it’s just more instructions that don’t relate to me.
However, as I read today, I wanted to see if I could study a little more in-depth around what I was reading. I know I could spend weeks studying even just the chapters I read today, but I also have to be realistic with what I can study while still getting through the Bible I want to get through. So, for today, I just decided to do a little more study starting at the beginning of the first chapter, and immediately I was overwhelmed with content.
I’m still processing some of it and trying to understand the way that it all ties together (because the Bible does all tie together). But verse three seemed to have a lot of cool correspondence to some things that we see in new testament books.
The payment for our sins is directly related to these sacrifices that we see in the old testament. Verse 3 says: “If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting that he may be accepted before the Lord.”
The words “offer”, “without blemish” and “male” stand out to me. All three of these happen to also fit Jesus. Jesus being the sacrifice for our sins, was the ultimate sacrifice. The sacrifice that made it so that these daily sacrifices were no longer necessary.
I’m getting a bit ahead of myself in the story here, but it’s so cool to see how the old testament lays the groundwork for Jesus to come in later and be the sacrifice for our sins.
It may be a bit painstaking over the next few books, but I am looking forward to it.