Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Shannon, Exodus, and Leviticus.

One of the hardest things for us is Latter-day Saints, and I think it's a problem with part of Christianity anyway,

to see and do is recognize the sacrificial system is a complete religious system.

It brought them closer to Jehovah.

They don't just say, now I know who Jesus is.

I have to do something with these sacrifices. The sacrifices are how they met with God.

Back to the sacrament for a second. We think about Jesus. We remember Jesus. The bishop stands up there and says, okay, now for 15 minutes, we're going to think about Jesus, remember we did for us.

You sit there and you think, no, the priest kneels down, breaks bread, blesses bread, we eat it.

There's more than just a mental thing happening with sacrifices.

We talk about how they all point to the Savior.

They absolutely do, but they don't necessarily all point to the mortal ministry and the

resurrection, if that makes sense, i.e. remembering what President Oaks and President

Nelson both repeatedly taught, Jehovah is the God of the Old Testament.

And the purpose of sacrifices was to reconcile Israel with Jehovah.

It was to make that relationship right.

There's a whole burnt offering that we've written one. There's a tresp burnt offering that's we read in one.

There's a trespass offering, peace offering, and then sin offering.

That's the five main offerings.

They do different things.

You do a trespass offering for different reasons than you do a peace offering.

This was their sacrament.

This was their baptism. This was their endrament. This was their baptism. This was their endowment.

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