I read 17 chapters of Leviticus today, and 10 yesterday. I’m on a new schedule of reading 10 chapters of the Bible a day and Leviticus was it. Normally, I would kind of groan out of boredom while reading the book, but this time, I actually enjoyed it.

My big revelation is that to keep the Law, a Jew had to make a sacrifice for their sin. This means that built into the Law was the expectation that a person would sin. Does this mean that “keeping the Law” was not, to not sin, but to repent and make a sacrifice when you did sin?

If this is true, than the prophets cry of, “to obey is better than sacrifice” (1 Sam. 15:22; Hos. 6:6), takes on a new meaning. “Obedience” was to actually make a sacrifice with a repentant and believing heart, meaning, you possess the knowledge of God. When the prophets were negatively referring to “sacrifice,” they were not saying the institution itself was rotten, but that it was not effective without obedience, a repentant heart.

Anyway, that was my day in Leviticus. I can’t wait for Isaiah or Romans.