Types of offerings in Leviticus
Burnt Offerings
Grain Offerings
Well-being Offerings
Sin Offerings
Offerings with Restitution
Caldwell calls the ‘Burnt Offering’ the ‘Ascending Offering’. The other four are ‘Meat Offering’, Peace Offering, Sin Offering and Trespass Offering
He says each on e represents a distinct aspect of the one offering of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Substance, of which all the offerings were shadows.
17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. (Col 2:17 ESV)
5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain." (Heb 8:5 ESV)
ESV Hebrews 10:1 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; 6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'" 8 When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. (Heb 10:1-14 ESV)
Key point in Caldwell’s introduction: Notice that the order of presenting the five offerings in Leviticus is NOT the order they were actually practiced. The order in presenting them in real life is reversed.
Offerings with Restitution
Sin Offerings
Well-being Offerings
Grain Offerings
Burnt Offerings
examples of this include: Leviticus 14:12, 19, 20
