Leviticus 7:37

"This is the law of the burnt-offering, of the meal-offering, and of the sin-offering, and of the trespass-offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace-offerings; which Jehovah commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai."

These two verses are the formal summary of the whole first sections of Leviticus (Leviticus 1-7), and it should be particularly noted that the time and the place of these instructions as well as the human author through whom they were given are dramatically stated. We cannot believe that any man has the authority to replace this sacred information with his "scholarly" guess. The law of sacrifice for sins did not begin here, for it had existed since the Fall of Adam. However, what was achieved in these chapters was the ordering and establishing of sacrifices in such a manner as to bear witness to the eventual coming of the Messiah to redeem lost and sinful people. Many instances of the effectiveness of this symbolism have been observed and stressed in our comments on these chapters.

There are many other lessons of a personal and practical nature that appear in these instructions. Honesty, integrity, fair-dealing, self-denial, humility, hospitality, and many other virtues are inherently woven into the whole structure of the sacred sacrifices. Also, the dramatic and vital difference between that which is holy and that which is not holy is apparent in every word of these divine instructions. The extreme danger in all sin, the heavenly Father's unqualified hatred of sin (yet coupled with the love of the sinner), and the eventual outpouring of divine wrath upon Adam's sinful race are constant overtones of all that is written here.