Leviticus 6 — Sketch

Leviticus 6

Big Idea:

• Burnt offerings must be kept burning all night.

• The priest must change clothes to take the ashes from the altar to a holy place outside the camp.

• The fire on the altar must never go out.

• A portion of the flour-oil-incense grain offerings will be burned and the rest is for the priests to eat in the courtyard. It must be yeast-less.

• The day Aaron is anointed, he must bring a griddled grain offering – half in the morning and half in the evening.

• The priest who performs a sin offering will get to eat it, but he must break the clay pot it cooks in. But if the blood is brought into the tent, the offering can’t be eaten.

Jesus:

• The fact that they were to keep the fire constantly burning shows how insufficient the sacrificial system was – It needed to be continued and repeated over and over.  But Christ is our real, once-and-for-all, ultimate sacrifice for sin.

• The way the priests had to take the sacrifices’ ashes outside the camp makes me think of the distance Jesus puts between our sins and us.