Quarter 4: Week 4: God ordains the sacrificial system

Leviticus 1 - 7
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RATIONALE:
Here is a blog about teaching the Torah to toddlers...

Keep in mind that the ceremonies and sacrifices of the Old Testament are actually action-oriented.  We often forget.  Reading about these ceremonies can be like reading a recipe.  The recipe itself isn’t very interesting, but it’s an important guide to the the much-more-interesting process of cooking.  While you wouldn’t sit and read a cookbook to your child, many of you might try actually cooking with your child.
Imagine taking a small child to the Tabernacle.  You’re bringing a spotless lamb to sacrifice.  Imagine the impact that watching a lamb be slaughtered on an altar would have on a child.  Most of us would cover our children’s eyes! 
But God set no age limit on those witnessing the grotesqueness of animal sacrifices.  (Is it less grotesque to think of a human sacrificed on a cross?)  Your child would see the priests wearing robes splattered in blood, probably looking more like a butcher than anything else.
So, when it comes to teaching about the Tabernacle and sacrifices and the table of showbread, act it out!  Use visual elements and props like crazy!
DO NOT simply read the cookbook.  Use the smells, sights, and sounds that God intended to accompany the “recipe book.”
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this subject as well, especially if you have any other suggestions that could help others teach this tricky area of the Bible.  http://blogs.faithlafayette.org/faithkids/teaching-the-torah-to-tots/

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From http://www.truthforchildren.net/images/pdf/TTBS_Leviticus.pdf
SACRIFICE(Lev. 1-7)
As I have been trying to show you, The purpose of Leviticus is echoed in verses such as 11:44-45, 19:2, and 20:26: "Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.” The word "holy" appears more often in the Book of Leviticus than in any other book of the Bible. The Book of Leviticus both calls God's people to be holy, and shows us how sinners are made holy by Christ.
In chapters 1-7, God gave Moses specific instructions about the sacrifices and offerings by which his people would be allowed to Through The Bible Series—LEVITICUS 12 approach him. In these five sacrifices, Israel was ceremonially provided with everything needed to make them whole, holy.
These sacrifices represent the Lord Jesus Christ, in and by whom the Lord God gives us everything needed to make us whole, complete, holy before him (Col. 2:9-10).

1. The burnt offering shows us the way to God (1:1-17). --We must come to God by faith in Christ, who was consumed by the fire of God’s wrath as our Substitute. But our Lord Jesus Christ is that Burnt Offering who consumed the fire of God’s wrath for his people. 
2. The meat offering portrays the character of Christ, the God-man (2:1-16). – He who is our Substitute is most holy  unto the Lord. – It also speaks of our consecration to God by faith in Christ.
3. The peace offering speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our Peace (3:1-17). – Christ alone can reconcile God and man. Christ alone can speak peace to the guilty conscience.  Christ alone is our Peace. 
4. The sin offering, of course, represents Christ our Substitute (4:1-35). – Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. There is no forgiveness with God except by the merits of a suitable, slain sin offering; and that Sin Offering is Christ.
5. The trespass offering sets before us a picture of Christ’s atonement (5:1-6:7). – Our Lord Jesus Christ made atonement for the sins of his people by paying our debt to the full satisfaction of divine justice.  I hear the Savior say,

“Thy strength indeed is small.
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”
Jesus paid it all! All the debt I owed!
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow!