Leviticus 6:24 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 25 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord; it is most holy. 26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.
God spent over two chapters giving instructions for the sin offering, when it was to be offered, and by whom. He now told about what to do with it. It was to be eaten by the priests who had been made holy for this service. God was very specific about who, when, and where it was to be eaten. Fast forward to the upper room, where Jesus said: "This is My body, given for you; take and eat." They were being told to eat the sin offering. In that same setting He told them that they were made holy through their faith in Him. They, and those after them, were His priests, made holy through faith, who gather in remembrance of Him and what He has done. This pictures God's acceptance of what Christ has done for us, just as the eating of the sin offering by the priest pictured God accepting the sin offering.
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