Agriculturally based religious festivals and sacrificial offerings to gods were common in the ancient world long before Israel ever came into existence. Thus, when the Lord first introduced the complex system of rituals detailed for us in Leviticus, it wouldn’t have been foreign to the Hebrews. All of these animal sacrificial rituals were just standard […]
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L-INTRO-5: In ancient Israel, EVERY PERSON played a priestly role
Today, let’s start taking a look at Leviticus in its historical context and begin to lay out its basic structure. First, let me start off by saying there is one fundamental difference between the Scriptures (what the gentile church calls the Old Testament) and the New Testament. Outside of the four Gospels, the New Testament […]