February 21

Sacrifices and Offerings - 1. Burnt Offerings - Leviticus 1:1-17, 6:8-13; Numbers 28:1-8; Leviticus 17:8-9; 2. Cereal Offerings - Leviticus 2:1-16, 6:14-23; Numbers 15:1-21

"It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the Lord." [Leviticus 1:9]

So much killing, so much blood.  I can't imagine the smell that must have welled up from the Tent of Meeting.  It must have reeked like a meat processing plant.  The stench of spilled blood and a disemboweled animal carcass wafting through the camp.

Is this a pleasing aroma to God?  

Or a reminder to man of the putrid stink of sin and the bloody mess it is to deal with. 

Post from last year on this date.