The Old & The New

I have found it a blessing lately to read a chapter or two of Leviticus and then read portions of Hebrews in chapters 9 and 10:

The old: "...if anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity; or if anyone touches an unclean thing...when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt; or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these; when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed, he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin." Leviticus 5: 1-6

The new: "For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near...But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifce for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God...For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified." Hebrews 10:1, 12, 14

Because of our many sins atonement is necessary, and because of Jesus one sacrifice atonement has been accomplished.