Levitical Offerings

The Levitical Offerings, which reveal the Person and the work of the Messiah in shadow form, are a part of the Mosaic Law. The Mosaic Law, contrary to popular belief, does not consist only of the Ten Commandments (Ex., Chap. 20). Actually, the Mosaic Law is so extensive that it governed every phase of the lives of the Israelites to whom it was given. We must distinguish between the pre-Mosaic offerings and the offerings required by the Mosaic Law. Animal offerings were used in worship from the time of Adam's Fall through the days of the Patriarchs; but with the giving of the Law, several new categories of offerings came into existence. There were the daily offerings, the Levitical Offerings. (Lev., Chaps. 1-6), the special feast offerings on holy days and at the time of the new moon. The specifications for these offerings differed and often overlapped, as would their applications and their implications.