Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Leviticus 16:15-19
by: Jennifer Lewis Berg.
Reading the step-by-step process of purification and sacrifice that took place in the earliest tabernacle may seem like a pointless exercise to some. However, there is much we can learn here. There was no access to God without the purification of the sacrifices. God instituted the necessity of sacrifice so that Israel would realize the gravity of sin. Though He dwelt among them, God wanted the ritual of sacrifice and atonement to remind His people that it was sin that separated them from Him. Even though Christ offered the once-for-all sacrifice that atoned for our sins, we must never forget that God takes sin most seriously.