A detailed run-through of: clean and unclean animals, skin diseases, bodily discharges, purity in childbirth, and the day of atonement.

Delving into laws that are foreign to our modern way of thinking, and understanding ritual impurity, moral impurity, profanity, and the conditions for coming into God’s holy realm.

Priests represent the people before God: Christ had to be incarnated in order to represent us. The danger of presuming upon God’s grace.

The gravity of priestly responsibilities. Christ’s fulfillment of the Aaronic order.

The priestly office as exercised by patriarchs in the book of Genesis. The transgressions of the sons of Aaron.

The nature of the priesthood as intermediaries between sinful humanity and a perfect God.

Christ’s sacrifice on the cross parallels and perfects the Levitical offerings. Exploration of these connections in the letter to the Hebrews.

Sacrifices depend on following the prescribed rites with the proper interior disposition. A survey of Biblical examples.

The Levitical sacrifices do not operate through their own inherent value but because they are commanded by God.

We must not take God’s mercy for granted. He is generous with His mercy, but He is still a Holy and all-powerful God, not a mere friend.