Here I am writing another post about my experience of reading the Bible in a year. HELLO. I am currently reading through Leviticus and for a majority of the first half of the book I was constantly thinking "Why am I reading this? It doesn't matter to me anyways." AH! But it does! Leviticus matters, all the commandments, guidelines, atonement, and sacrifices matter.
"Well, Jesus died on the cross already so they don't matter. We live by the New Testament." Is probably the biggest argument to my opinion that Leviticus does matter. Jesus dying on the cross IS exactly why it matters! All of these so called "rules" and "rituals" of the Old Testament were put in place because Jesus had not come yet. Stay with me here...Leviticus and books of the like matter because they are a reminder of life without Jesus having been the ultimate sacrifice. How many of us would need to sacrifice and slaughter a lamb every five minutes? I know I probably would and at that point it would probably have to be pigeons because that's all I'd be able to afford.
"Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creat of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself."-Hebrews 9:26
Soapbox aside, I confess that at the beginning of my reading through Leviticus I did tell myself that it didn't matter and I did scan the pages rather than read through them. However, now that I am almost done with the book of Leviticus God has reminded me of our sweet savior and why books like this are important and a part of the Bible still today in "New Testament times."
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