The Day of Atonement. You know, this passage plays right into a lot of what we believe as Christians. The Book of Hebrews explains how Christ's once-and-for-all sacrifice pretty much fulfilled the priests' office of going in once a year to offer atoning sacrifices all at once. And no sacrifice was necessary to be offered for His own atonement, because He was without sin. Pretty cool, huh? Reading through this passage just impressed upon me how much they had to do to atone for their sin, and this only once a year. All the sin for an entire people accumulated over a year is atoned for on this one day with these few sacrifices. But even more, all the sin for not simply an entire nation, but the entirety of all nations, for every single person, throughout all time, was atoned for in one single sacrifice of the God-Man Jesus. He who was wholly human and wholly divine. That's about as far as I can wrap my mind around.
Tomorrow's Reading: Leviticus 17:1-18:30
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