Snapshots of Christ in Leviticus: A Scriptural Study of Christology in Leviticus

By Cordell W. Mitchell

This book will turn on a bright light as you see Leviticus with Christ at its center. If you are a pastor, teacher, or preacher, hundreds of diamonds await you to pick up and expound on them.

To the young ministers in third world countries, this book was written specifically for you to open your eyes to the seed truths in Leviticus of Christ and their fulfillments in the New Testament.

The greater knowledge you have of the Scriptures, the greater will you see in these snapshots. The author assumes your knowledge is wide and has made the subject quick and to the point, awaiting only your hand to expound on it for your hearers.

You hold in your hand much of the results of my quest in searching for Christ in the Scriptures; His snapshots are in every book of the Bible, waiting for you to behold His face.

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:27)

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781449754303

Cordell W. Mitchell

Cordell and Odena have been evangelists, pastors, and teachers over fifty years in Texas and Oklahoma. Cordell has a BA in biblical studies. He has been a pastor, banker, dean of The Biblical School of Theology in Cleburne, Texas, and administrator over Pacific Mission Training Centre in Matafele, Apia, Western Samoa. He is now retired, writing and publishing. He and Odena have four children, all married, with thirteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. They reside in Midland, Texas.  

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Contents

Forward

Introduction

Leviticus Chapter 1

A Male without Blemish

A Man Offers a Consecration Offering

Put His Hand on the Offering

Sprinkle Blood Round About

They Flayed the Sacrifice

Unctioning of Holy Ghost Fire

The Head and Fat in Order

Inward and Legs Wash With Water

Sweet Savour to the Lord

Of the Sheep or Goats

Blood on the Side of the Altar

His Feathers, His Clothing

The Tomb, the Place of the Ashes

A Sweet Savour

Leviticus Chapter 2

An Offering of Fine Flour

Handful of Fine Flour

The Remnant

The Oven

Baked in a Pan

In Pieces with Oil

In the Frying Pan

Present it to the Priest

Burn no Leaven nor Honey

Firstfruits not to be a Burnt Offering

All Offerings Shall Be Seasoned with Salt

Green Ears Dried by the Fire

The Memorial

Leviticus Chapter 3

Without Blemish

Lay his Hand upon his Offering

The Fat that Covereth the Inwards

Lay His Hand on the Lamb

Hard by the Backbone

All Fat is the Lord’s

Eat Neither Fat nor Blood

Leviticus Chapter 4

Sin through Ignorance

If the Priest Shall Sin the Sin of the People

The Priest that is Anointed

Sprinkle the Blood Seven Times

Blood on the Horns of the Altar of Incense

All the Blood Poured Out at the Brazen Altar

His Skin, Head, and Legs

His Dung

A Clean Place

Offer a Young Bullock

Shall be Forgiven Him

A Female Kid of the Goats

A Female without Blemish

Leviticus Chapter 5

If We know We Bear Witness

The Unclean Sacrifice

Teach the Uncleanness of Man

An Oath to Do Good or Evil

Both Good and Evil as Evil

Evil Corrupts Friends

A Female Lamb or a Goat

One Lamb: A Sin Offering and a Burnt Offering

Wring Off Its Head

Wrung Out at the Bottom

The Second for a Burnt Offering

Provision Made for the Poorest

A Handful of Faith

The Remnant shall be the Priest’s

Sin in Holy Things

The Fifth Part

He didn’t know, yet He was Guilty

They Erred and Didn’t Know It

Leviticus Chapter 6

Satan Lied, Deceived, and Took It

The Burnt Offering Burned all Night

The Priest Ceases to Struggle or Sweat: Linen Clothes

Put on Other Garments

Carry Forth the Ashes

The Peace Offering

It Shall Never Go Out

The Meat Offering

The Priests Can Live Ordinary Lives

No Leaven for Their Portions of My Offerings

All the Males; Your Sons and Daughters

The Evening Sacrifice

Give a Meat (Meal) Offering

Wholly Burnt, All the Tithes

It Shall not be Eaten

The Same Place for the Sin and Burnt Offerings

The Priest Shall Eat the Sin Offering

We Touch His Flesh

The Earthen Vessel Shall be Broken

Brazen Pot, Scoured and Rinsed in Water

Shall not be Eaten Until

Leviticus Chapter 7

The End Result: Everything is in Christ

Offer All the Fat

One Law for Sin and Trespass

The Skin Was For the Priest

All, All, All

The Peace Offering

Besides Leavened Bread

A Heave Offering

Don’t Leave Any of It until Morning

A Voluntary Offering

Leviticus Chapter 8

Washed With Water

Seven Articles of Clothing of the Priest

The Mitre, the Golden Plate: the Inscription

The Anointing Oil, the Church

Lay Hands on the Sin Offering

Put the Blood on the Horns of the Altar

The Fat, the Glory, Burned on the Altar

Outside the Camp

The Ram

Sprinkled the Blood

Cut the Ram in Pieces

Washing the Inwards

The Other Ram

The Right

The Kidneys

He Took One

A Wave Offering

Sweet Savour

The Breast a Wave Offering

The Bread and the Oil Mixed

Eat the Flesh of the Ram of Consecration

Burn with Fire

Seven Days of Consecration

Seven Days and Nights

Leviticus Chapter 9

The Eighth Day Moses Called

A Young Calf

A Kid, a Calf, and a Lamb

Today the Lord Will Appear to You

The Lord will Appear to You

The Glory of the Lord Shall Appear

The Sin Offering for Himself

The Blood on His Finger, upon the Horns

Took the Goat

The Fat upon the Breasts

Love and Friendship

Hands and Blessed Them

And the Glory Appeared

God’s Fire

Leviticus Chapter 10

Strange Fire

Fire from the Lord Devoured Them

Sanctified in Them that Stand Before Me

Carry Your Brethren Out of the Camp

Don’t Uncover Your Heads

No Drunkenness in the House of God

A Difference

It is Your Due

Eat it in a Clean Place

Examine the Heart

Leviticus Chapter 11

What Do the Beasts Mean?

Meditate: Chew the Cud

Divide the Hoof and Chew the Cud

Chews the Cud, but Divides not the Hoof

Meditates but Has No Doctrine

The Swine

We Refuse to Go Back to Former Life

You May Eat Scales

No Scales, Don’t Eat

Not Eat Their Flesh an Abomination

No Fins

Fowls that Eat Dead Flesh: an Abomination

Legs Above Their Feet

Locusts

Flying Things Which Have Four Feet

Don’t Touch the Unclean

If You Carry the Carcase You Are Unclean

Beasts that Call for Divine Obedience

Creeping Things

On Whosoever the Dead Falls

Break the Earthen Vessel

Unclean Water

Truth Corrupted by Cults is Not to be Received

The Fountain, Plenty of Water

The Seed Shall Be Clean

The Seed and the Water Shall Be Unclean

If a Beast That Ye May Eat Die

Goes On Its Belly

Be Holy Like God

The Difference: No Fellowship

Leviticus Chapter 12

Mary: Conceived, Born, Seven Days Unclean

The Eighth Day, Circumcised

Thirty-three Days of Purification

The Maid Child, Israel, Bears through Christ

Two Turtledoves, Two Young Pigeons

Leviticus Chapter 13

Leprosy

Bring Them to the Priest

The Gentiles are Clean

Raw Flesh

Unclean, Unclean

A Plague on the Head or Beard

A Yellow Thin Hair

No Black Hair

He Shall be Shaven

Their Flesh Be Darkish White

A Bald Man

Utterly Unclean; It is in His Head

Tear Clothes, Bare Head, Cry Unclean

The Criminally Demon Possessed

Wool, Linen, and Skin

Greenish and Reddish Leprosy

Shut Up the Leprosy

Leprosy Cannot be Overlooked

Religious Error

Leviticus Chapter 14

The Leper Shall Be Brought to the Priest

The Chapter that Failed to be Proclaimed in Fullness

Christ Fulfilled Every Sacrifice of the Cleansed Leper

Two He Lambs, One Ewe Lamb Eighth Day

The Priest and the Man Pronounced Clean

One He Lamb, Oil, Waved

Slay in the Place

The Lamb, the Sin and Trespass Offering Shall All Die at the Same Place

Trespass Blood Applied to the Ear

The Ear, the Thumb, and the Great Toe

The Oil in the Left Hand

God Offers the Oil Out of the Left Palm

The Oil Sprinkled Seven Times before the Lord

Oil upon the Blood of the Trespass Offering

Last of the Oil Poured

The Owner Comes and Tells the Priest (Jesus)

The Priest (Jesus) Empties the House

Shut the House Up for Seven Days

Take Away the Stones

Remove the Leprous Stones and Mortar

Tear Down the Whole House

To Be Close to the Leprous House; Personally Corrupt

The Blood, Water, Hyssop, and Two Birds

Leviticus Chapter 15

A Running Issue

Issue of Uncleanness

Every Bed You Lie on Is Left Unclean

Spit on Him that is Clean

Ride on a Saddle

Washes His Hands

The Earthen/ Wooden Vessel

Direction to Pilate

Pilate’s Believing Wife

Seed is Gone Out

The Woman, the Doctrine

This Woman Has an Issue of Blood

Blood from the Wrong Source

Separate That They Die Not

Leviticus Chapter 16

They Were Judged While Leading the Worship

Don’t Be Too Familiar With Holy Things

I Will Appear in the Cloud

Christ Is Already Dressed

Responsible For His House

The Two Goats

Casting Lots

The Goat a Sin Offering

The Scapegoat Presented Alive

Let Him Go Into the Wilderness

Take the Censers Full of Burning Coals’

Sweet Incense, Prayer on the Altar’s Fire

Within the Vail

Put the Incense on the Fire

Sprinkle the Blood upon the Mercy Seat Eastward

Sprinkle With the Finger Seven Times

He Shall Kill the Goat

Sprinkle It upon the Mercy Seat

Why Make Atonement for the Tabernacle?

There Shall Be No Man in the Tabernacle

Blood on the Horns of the Altar

The Work of the Cross and of the Priest

End of Reconciling

Shall Lay Both Hands upon the Goat

Release the Goat in the Wilderness

Put Off His Priestly Garments

Put Off the Garments

The Fat Burn

And Afterward

Bodies of the Sin Offering

Not of Works

The Actual Day

A Day of Rest

The Day of Atonement

Leviticus Chapter 17

One Place of Worship

Eating of Blood Forbidden-Until

Leviticus Chapter 18

These Don’t Do

Sister and Sister to Wife

The Menstruous Woman

Plant Seed in Thy Neighbor’s Wife

Don’t Let Thy Seed Pass through the Fire of Molech

Homosexuals; What Does It Mean?

Bestiality

Reprobate Minds

The Land Vomits Out

What Level of Sin?

Leviticus Chapter 19

Your Own Will

The Third Day Hidden

The Change from Law to Grace

Gleanings of Thy Harvest

Blood of Grapes Preached to the World

Don’t Steal or Lie

The Wages Shall Not Abide All Night

Don’t Curse the Blind and Deaf

No Respect of Persons

Talebearer to Blood

Don’t Hate Your Brother Christ Jesus

Revenge, Grudge, and Forgive

No Mixing of Seeds

Shall Be Scourged

Progressive Unfolding

Blood, Enchantments, and Fortune Telling

Don’t Change the Head or the Beard of Christ

No Cuttings in the Flesh for the Dead

Reverence My Sanctuary

Fortune Tellers and Wizards

The Hoary Head and Face of the Old Ancient of Days

Don’t Vex a Stranger

And Ye Shall Love Him as Thyself

Ye Shall Love Him as Thyself

Four Justs

Leviticus Chapter 20

Stone Him with Stones

Give Your Seed to Molech

Gives His Seed to Molech

Against His Family (Judas)

Familiar Spirits and Wizards

Sanctification

Curseth Father or Mother

Another Man’s Wife

Lay with His Father’s Wife

Incestuous Act

Daughter-in-Law: Off Limits

Man Lie with Mankind

A Wife and Her Mother

A Man Lie with a Beast

Approach a Beast to Lie Down

No Sisters

The Fountain of Her Blood

Die Childless

Your Brother Dead or Alive

Spue You Out of the Land

Warning Example and Result

From Israel to the Gentiles and Back

Unclean Creatures and Heresies

His Plan for a Separate People

Stone Them with Stones

Leviticus Chapter 21

None Defiled for the Dead

But For His Kin

His Sister A Virgin

He Shall Not Defile Himself

Make No Baldness

Offerings Made by Fire and the Bread

A Clean Priesthood

The Profane Daughter

Not Uncover His Head nor Rend His Clothes

Acts Like He Has No Father or Mother

He Does Not Go Out of the Sanctuary

A Wife in Her Virginity

He Shall Not Take a Widow

The Profaned Seed

Seed With No Blemish

The Blemished Not Allowed In

A Brokenfooted or Brokenhanded Man

Things That Keep Us Out of the Work of God

We Were Blemished, But No More

We Can Eat the Deep Things of God

Come Into the Vail

Leviticus Chapter 22

Don’t Play With Holy Things

The Ministry That Continues in Sin and Ministry

God is not Mocked

Other Men’s Sins Become Ours

The Ministry Excluded from Eating

When Sin is Finished and Repentance Has Come

Died on Its Own

Lest They Bear Sin and Die For It

The Shewbread

A Soul Bought with a Price or that is Born Shall Eat

The Priest’s Daughter Marries a Stranger

No Stranger May Eat

If a Man Eat of It Unwittingly

We Did Profane the Holy Things

Forgive and We Will Not Bear the Trespass

The Free-will Burnt Offering

The Perfect Sacrifice Required

Imperfection Surrounding Perfection

Freewill, the Foundation for New Testament Giving

It is Him, the Christ

Not Accepted to Accepted

From the Eighth Day and Thenceforth

Not Kill Mother and Child

A Sacrifice of Thanksgiving

Eat it All; Leave None of It

Keep My Commandments

Leviticus Chapter 23

The Sabbath

The Passover, Communion

The Firstfruits of Harvest, the Resurrection

The Drink Offering Shall be of Wine

The Group Who Were Raised

Seven Sabbaths from Passover to Pentecost

A New Meat Offering

Two Wave Loaves

The Avalanche of Offerings, the Sweet Smell

The Sin and Peace Offering

Firstfruits, Wave Offering, and Resurrection

Proclaim No Work on this Resurrection Day

Leave the Gleanings; Seven Resurrections

The Blowing of the Trumpets

The Day of Atonement

No Work, God Does It All

Rest and Faith Become One

The Feast of Tabernacles

The Feast of Tabernacles, 8 Days Long

His Day

Beside

The Feasts of Ingathering

Trees, Trees, and More Trees

Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles

Dwell in Booths

Leviticus Chapter 24

Pure Oil to Cause the Lamps to Burn

Twelve Loaves of Shewbread

The Flesh and the Spirit, an Allegory

Kill One Beast and Replace It with Another

Revenge; Watch Out

Kill a Man; You Will Be Put to Death

Christ Jesus No Respecter of Persons

Stone Him that Caused the Curse

Leviticus Chapter 25

From Sinai to the Promise Land in the New Testament

We Rest, yet We Always Grow Deeper in Christ

Rest is Coming

Sound the Trumpet

The Fiftieth Year is Still Here

Faith without Works

Jubilee Is About to Come

Jubilee

Dwelling in Safety

What Shall We Eat?

Sow the Eighth Year

Redeeming the Land

Either Redeem It or It Stays

Redeem the House in One Year

It Shall Not Go Out in the Jubilee

Houses without Walls

When Can I Find Christ? Anytime

May Not Be Sold

The Poor Brother

The Poor Go Out in the Jubilee

No Increase from Thy Brother

Don’t Lend to Him with Interest

Release Your Brother

Master-Slave

Restore

Bring Them In

A Hired Servant

Restore the Second Time

Redeem Yourself

A Hired Servant until Jubilee

The Price He Paid for Us

Thirty-Eight Years Go Out in the Jubilee

Servants Have Changed to Friends

Leviticus Chapter 26

Reverence My Sanctuary

A Sower Reaching the Harvest

Peace

You Shall Chase Your Enemies

The Old and the New

Tabernacle among Us and Will Be Our God

My Yoke is Easy

You Heard and Did Not!

The Enemies of the Gospel Can’t Eat At All

Who Are Your Enemies?

Punish Seven Times More

Break Your Pride, Complete It

Your Weakness, His Strength

Walking Contrary to God

The War is Coming

Listen and Change or Else

Avenge the Quarrel of My Covenant

Ten Women and One Oven

Seven Times

Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy

Destruction of the Temple Foretold

We Must Not Fail to Enter

Stand or Fall

Confess

God Does What is Needed to Keep You in Christ

The Law from Mt. Sinai

Forward

This book you are about to read will be difficult to understand unless you approach it within the following framework:

1st: The author sees each and every point of the sacrifices used or the surrounding objects as all referring to Christ in the four gospels. No other fulfillment is entertained.

2nd: The primary purpose of Leviticus is to unfold Jesus on the cross as the fulfillment of all the sacrifices.

3rd: The Law of Moses as laid out in the sacrificial system of Leviticus can only be understood when viewed through the blood sacrifice of Jesus.

If you will approach Leviticus through these New Testament glasses, then you will see it as the author has seen it most of his life and the book of Leviticus will come alive.

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27. And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:25-27)

Introduction

You are about to walk into the book of sacrifices. There will be no sacrifice found here that does not point to Jesus in the New Testament. If you will start from that foundation, you will see all that Leviticus holds for the sacrifices will point to the life, death, and resurrection of Christ Jesus.

Much of my life has been spent seeking the key to understanding this book of blood, oil, and meal offerings.

Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. 46. And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. (John 1:45-46)

Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? (John 4:29)

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. (Matt. 16:16)

You are to come and look at the sacrifices of bread, blood, the bodies of animals, the sweet smell, oil, and so much more.

In the final sweep, a verse in Revelation says it all:

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. (Rev. 5:6)

Leviticus lays it all out for us to see in types and shadows until the final fulfillment walks before us in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

If I should tell you of all the schools I have attended, the churches I served as pastor, the Bible Schools I have headed up both in the United States and overseas, would you read this study in Leviticus based on my education and experience; however, if you see Christ Jesus in every sacrifice and the details that surround it, no one can keep you from these pages.

I believe you will agree with me that Leviticus is indeed the Old Testament revelation of the New Testament sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and his resurrection.

Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. (John 1:45)

Leviticus Chapter 1

A Male without Blemish

If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD. (Lev. 1:3)

This male bullock was offered as a burnt offering. It was the type of Jesus the Christ, who was the fulfillment of the burnt offering spoken of in Leviticus as seen in:

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Heb. 10:8-10)

According to Hebrews 10:8, the sacrifices were not all that God wanted. Then said I (the Christ), Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. Jesus came voluntarily to do God’s will as the offerings required.

He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. (Matt. 26:42)

Jesus expressed his total submission to the will of the Father, voluntarily.

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. (John 4:34)

As a male without blemish, he was ready to be the burnt sacrifice:

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Heb. 4:15)

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. (Heb. 2:18)

He was fully man, not a make-believe male, without blemish, for sin was defeated and had no place in him.

A Man Offers a Consecration Offering

If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD. (Lev. 1:3)

This offering was taken from the herd, a male bullock. We find ourselves looking at the offering of consecration. A male consecrated to God as a man with all the strength and commitment a man can put forth. Joshua was a man who consecrated himself to God in strength.

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. 15. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. (Josh. 24:14, 15)

Joshua and his family would be consecrated to the Lord.

Jesus began offering himself as an offering of consecration when he was a twelve-year-old boy.

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business? (Luke 2:49)

Jesus was consecrated from his youth, just as Timothy:

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. (2 Tim. 3:15)

Those who follow their Master will also consecrate their life from a child.

Jesus would walk in consecration with the Scriptures for the next eighteen years until he was ready to step into the purpose and plan of God for his life.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, (Gal. 4:4)

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. (Matt. 3:13)

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. (Matt. 4:1)

Consecration must be deep and strong or it will fail in the time of confrontation with evil.

And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.(Matt. 26:39)

Consecration begins early in life and ends in total consecration. The work of the Holy Spirit in our life through the Word brings us into a life of consecration to Christ.

Put His Hand on the Offering

And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. (Lev. 1:4)

The action of placing your hand on the head of the burnt offering, which you voluntarily brought, spoke of transferring your sin to the offering. It was simple and plain; to see our sin transferred to this animal.

This same transfer took place on the Day of Atonement when the priest placed his hands on the second goat and confessed the sin of all Israel over it, and then had it carried it to a land where no man lived. This signified that the sin had been carried away and would not be held against us anymore.

In the New Testament, the apostle states that the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Heb. 10:4)

What was required?

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. (Heb. 9:12)

This verse in Hebrews 9:12 showed that the blood of Christ totally replaced the Levitical system of blood sacrifices.

The symbolic placing of the hands on the head of the burnt offering was replaced by the action of putting our faith in the sacrifice of Christ Jesus.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. (Mark 16:16)

Believing on the sacrifice of Christ Jesus in the New Testament is equivalent to placing our hands on the Old Testament offering.

Sprinkle Blood Round About

And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. (Lev. 1:5)

This all takes place at the brazen altar, at the door of the wall of curtains. The person and the offering he brought came into the tabernacle area. This was not the tent, which was at the other end with the Ark of the Covenant. This event would take place where the sacrifice was killed, which in the New Testament was the cross.

And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death. 33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. (Luke 23:32-33)

It took place at Calvary where his blood was sprinkled roundabout the altar and upon the altar. The blood from his head, hands, feet, side, and back splattered the Cross and the ground where they killed the bullock. That bullock was Christ. That brazen altar was Calvary.

They Flayed the Sacrifice

And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces. (Lev. 1:6)

Christ was cut into pieces; as foreseen in the book of Isaiah:

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (Isa. 53:5)

The words: wounded, bruised, chastisement, and stripes are what we can see in the gospels:

And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! (Matt. 27:29)

And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. (Matt. 27:30)

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. (Mark 15:15)

And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. (Mark 15:24)

But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. (John 19:34)

He shall flay the burnt offering and cut it.

This flaying of the burnt offering was seen in the various methods: the crown of thorns on his head, a spear in his side, his back cut with whips, smitten with a reed on his head, and nails in his hands and feet. They flayed the sacrifice of Calvary, the body of Christ Jesus.

Unctioning of Holy Ghost Fire

And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire: (Lev. 1:7)

This fire represented and pointed to the Holy Ghost unctioning. It was what unctioned Christ every step to the cross and his death.

From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. (Matt. 16:21)

See the Holy Spirit unctioning in the garden:

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. (Luke 22:44)

This was the fire being placed on the altar of incense, preparing Jesus to offer himself on the cross. He, Christ in the flesh, was unctioned by the Spirit in the flesh.

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The Head and Fat in Order

And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar: (Lev. 1:8)

The head was laid out first. The head of Jesus was mentioned in the sacrifice of the cross.

Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, (Matt. 26:67)

And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! (Matt. 27:29)

And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. (Matt. 27:30)

The head of Jesus had been laid in order for sacrifice.

Those who suffer from mental illness, nervous breakdown, depression, or anything that may spring from the mind can look to Christ; like the stripes that were laid on the back of Jesus was for our healing, so the head of Christ carried our many struggles both mental and emotional. We know he has carried it all.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isa. 53:3)

Inward and Legs Wash With Water

But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. (Lev. 1:9)

The inwards represent that which was in the innermost being of Jesus. The legs spoke of the daily walk of Jesus.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. (Matt. 4:4)

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. (Matt. 4:7)

Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. (Matt. 4:10)

The washing of the water is the Word of God.

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (Eph. 5:26)

Jesus from an early age was being immersed in the Word of God. As a child, he asked the doctors of the law questions concerning the Word of God. His inwards were washed.

And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. 47. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. (Luke 2:46-47)

Sweet Savour to the Lord

But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. (Lev. 1:9)

When Noah came out of the ark and offered burnt sacrifices, God smelled a smell that he knew would be the same smell that would one day come up to God from Calvary:

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. (Gen. 8:21)

Now was the moment to smell that sweet savor.

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. (Luke 23:46)

To God it was a sweet smell. To men it was love, mercy, and grace.

Of the Sheep or Goats

And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish. (Lev. 1:10)

Leviticus points out the two acceptable sacrifices for the Passover. Soon the Scriptures would emphasize the lamb for the Passover and the goat for the Day of Atonement. It would be Christ Jesus, who would be a personal burnt sacrifice and a corporate sacrifice for Israel.

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: (1Pet. 1:19)

Jesus satisfied the requirement for both of the offerings of Lev. 1:10. They both were completed at Calvary; the sheep and the goat.

Blood on the Side of the Altar

And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar. (Lev. 1:11)

Read Leviticus 1:10-13. There will be mention of a word, one in verse eleven and one in verse fifteen; the word was side.

And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar. (Lev. 1:11)

And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar: (Lev. 1:15)

This would point us to the side of Jesus from which blood and water came out:

But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. (John 19:34)

The sheep, goats, turtle doves, and pigeons all spoke of Christ on the cross and this word especially points to the wound in his side and the blood he shed while he was on the cross.

His Feathers, His Clothing

And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes: 17. And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. (Lev. 1:16-17)

This picture of Christ was of the dual parts of the nature of Christ: all man (the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us), all God/deity. He was not a little of each but all God and all man. You could not divide him as part man and part God.

The scriptural reference here of the plucking of his crop with his feathers pointed to his clothes being taken from him and Jesus being left virtually, if not actually, naked. The one word cast beside the altar, may well point to casting lots for his coat.

And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. (Matt. 27:35)

This clothing was his crop with his feathers.

The Tomb, the Place of the Ashes

And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes: (Lev. 1:16)

When the sacrifice was finished and wholly consumed; it had become only ashes ready to be buried. The place of the ashes was fulfilled on the Cross.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:30)

What was left of the sacrifice was ready to be buried.

And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. (Matt. 27:60)

The tomb was the place of the ashes.

A Sweet Savour

And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. (Lev. 1:17)

A smell to the Lord was picked up in another place in the New Testament. It was written in three of the four Gospels.

And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38. And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. (Luke 7:37-38)

The Scriptures say this woman was a sinner. In so identifying her, we see what she was to God. A sinner comes to God. Grace and mercy is given as repentance comes out from the heart; This is a sweet savour to God!

The result was:

Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. (Luke 7:47)

This was the main purpose of Jesus going to the Cross.

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of