Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Well, hey everyone, welcome to another episode of a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

My name is Stephanie, and I will be your host through the book of Leviticus.

The book of Leviticus is the third book of the Bible, and it is a widely neglected book

today for many reasons, right? At first glance, all of the details regarding offerings,

feasts, and rituals for worship can seem overwhelming. We can think these specifics for

worship were only for the Israelites, right, making them irrelevant for us today. We may

also feel resistance to the nature of the book. Up until this point, we were reading about

the unfolding story of God's people, which involved a lot of action like plagues and

seas being parted. Leviticus, on the other hand, takes place at Mount Sinai over the

course of a year, the entire book. But as we'll see, this book has major implications

for our lives today. We will see that while the ceremonial laws do not apply to us today,

every sacrifice and feast and ritual does point to Jesus Christ, right? Ultimately, the

book of Leviticus is a book about our holy God and how He has provided the way for

sinful people to be reconciled to Him through sacrifice. On this side of the cross, we

know that this is accomplished by the sacrifice of God's only Son, Jesus Christ, the true

and better spotless Lamb. So let's keep this in mind, allowing every detail in this book

to wet our appetite for the one who is to come. The first few verses of the very first

chapter of Leviticus offers us important context. In verses one through three, we read about

God talking to His servant Moses at the tent of meeting at Mount Sinai. The tent of meeting

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