One of the things that has struck me as our Rooted Bible Reading planhas taken us through Leviticus is the bloodiness of the sacrificial system. Can you imagine placing your hand on the head of a lamb, symbolically transferring your sins to that lamb, seeing the priest slit its throat and then watching the life drain out of it? What a reminder of the seriousness of sin!
Today Justin Taylor linked to a blog post by Todd Bolen about a video of a Passover sacrifice conducted in Old Jerusalem last year. The video link is at the bottom of Bolen’s post. As they mention, it is graphic- but perhaps graphic is what we need in this case.
Today we celebrate that Jesus the Lamb of God, the ultimate Passover lamb, gave Himself for our sins- once for all.