Leviticus 01:02-17 Bible Study - The Burnt Offering

In this study, Bible teacher Dave Bigler (Iron Sheep Ministries), covers Leviticus 1.2-17. This includes a close look at the Burnt Offering, what it was, how it was performed, and why. Interesting subjects covered are the foundation for the term “scapegoat” as well as “holocaust.”

01:33 - Leviticus 1.1-9
03:02 - Historical, cultural context of the text, who is the author and who is the audience?
05:36 - What is a burnt offering?
Gen 4.4 - Abel’s offering MAY have been a burnt offering - not sure
Gen 8.18-21 - Noah and his family come out of the ark onto dry land, “Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.”
Gen 22.2, “Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” - God provided a ram.
Ex 10.24-29, Moses pleads with Pharaoh to let the Israelites go into the wilderness “to make burnt offerings to the Lord.”
12:06 - A Malawian perspective on owning a goat. Hear from Pastor Edwin Thera in Malawi Africa on the value of a goat to a person living in a rural African village.
14:51 - Lev 1.3 - A male without defect. The goat was to be without fault. Mal 1.6-14 has harsh words from God for those trying to cheat God.
16:40 - Jesus is our perfect sacrifice.
1 Pet 1.18-19 tells us that Jesus is a lamb without blemish of defect.
2 Cor 5.21 tells us that Jesus had no sin and was sacrificed for us.
18:07 - Lev 1.4 - “Lay Your Hand on its head; an atonement for you”
19:09 - where does the term scapegoat come from?
Leviticus Chapter 16 is all about the Day of Atonement, aka Yom Kippur.
The high priest makes sacrifices for the nation of Israel; 1 Bull, 2 goats, and a ram. The bull is offered for Aaron's own family & household. One goat is sacrificed as a sin offering (Lev 4) and the ram is sacrificed as a burnt offering. The second goat had all the sins of the people put on it and sent into the wilderness. Jesus is our scapegoat! Read Isa 53.6, Rev. 13.8 and Heb 10.10.
22:00 - Lev 1.5 - “Splash the blood against the sides of the altar.”
Lev 17.14 - the life of a creature is its blood
22:40 - Lev 1.9 - “burn all of it on the altar” - a burnt offering was fully consumed by the fire. None of it was saved, or used for food by the priests, it was 100% a sacrifice to the Lord
23:01 - Where does the term Holocaust come from? It is a Greek word “sacrifice by fire” - an offering completely burned by fire. The word was appropriately chosen to describe the mass murder of +6mil Jewish people under the Nazi regime in Europe from 1941-45. Before that, it was another term for the Israelite burnt offering, the holocaust offering.
23:42 - Jesus is our burnt offering, he was fully consumed, and he gave up everything for us. His entire life, from beginning to end. Read John 10.14-18
24:23 - what is the protoevangelium?
25:43 - Lev 1.9 - An aroma pleasing to the Lord. Read Ephesians 5:2
28:10 - Lev 1.10-13 - “From the flock”
29:30 - Lev 1.14-17 - From the birds
33:43 - Conclusions and application