Day 24: September 30, 2025 – Leviticus 1-4 and Hebrews 1-2

It is fairly important to understand why these two Scriptures have been brought together, Leviticus and Hebrews. Leviticus might feel like, and for good reason, a check box on our reading and not something that potentially any of us could get a whole lot out of. The primary thing we should understand is that when people sinned, when we sinned, a sacrifice was necessary to make an atonement for our sin. We read about sins that took place without us even realizing it, that sin needed a sacrifice that was offered to the Lord God for our sin. But this would happen in perpetuity unless God Himself came down to us and offered the ultimate sacrifice, that was once and for all, for all of our sins.

We read in Hebrews this discussion about angels and how God became one of us for a short time, higher than the angels he was, but made himself lower than the angels. There have been books upon books written about the nature of angels. The literal Greek translation for angel is messenger, and I know that they are talking more here than just the prophets of old who were messengers of God. I know that here this discussion is something other human being which angels seem to be described as. But I don’t understand it. Truly, I don’t understand it and so as a result I don’t tend to get involved in these discussions or feel strongly about it. My take from this passage on angels is that there is some being that is not human and yet also not God, we are not angels, but God has allowed us to be made whole by the sacrifice of his Son Jesus for eternity. How angels fit into this I have no idea and don’t really lose much sleep over it either.