Leviticus outline
📘 Book Outline: Leviticus
Leviticus reveals the inner workings of the cross—atonement, cleansing, priesthood, and holiness. Christ is seen in every ritual, sacrifice, and law, as the one who fulfills them all.
📖 Leviticus 1:1–17
Symbol: Burnt offering = whole offering of Christ
Pericope:
- Start: Instructions begin
- Middle: Animal without blemish offered
- End: Entire animal consumed
📖 Christ offered Himself wholly, a pleasing aroma to God (Eph 5:2)
📖 Leviticus 2:1–16
Symbol: Grain offering = Christ as the Bread of Life
Pericope:
- Start: Offering without leaven
- Middle: Oil and frankincense added
- End: Memorial portion burned
📖 Unleavened = without sin; oil = anointed; frankincense = priestly prayer.
📖 Leviticus 3:1–17
Symbol: Peace offering = fellowship restored through cross
Pericope:
- Start: Offerer brings animal
- Middle: Fat and parts burned
- End: Shared by priest and offerer
📖 Christ makes peace between God and man (Col 1:20).
📖 Leviticus 4:1–35
Symbol: Sin offering = substitutionary judgment
Pericope:
- Start: For unintentional sins
- Middle: Blood placed on altar, body burned outside
- End: Sin is forgiven
📖 Christ suffered outside the camp (Heb 13:11–12).
📖 Leviticus 5:1–13
Symbol: Guilt offering = confession and cleansing
Pericope:
- Start: Failure to testify or touch uncleanness
- Middle: Confession made
- End: Atonement through blood
📖 Christ bears both sin and guilt (Isa 53:10).
📖 Leviticus 8:1–36
Symbol: Ordination of priests = Christ as High Priest
Pericope:
- Start: Garments and anointing
- Middle: Blood on ear, thumb, toe
- End: Seven days of consecration
📖 The priesthood is fulfilled in Christ who always lives to intercede (Heb 7:25).
📖 Leviticus 10:1–20
Symbol: Strange fire = false worship judged
Pericope:
- Start: Nadab and Abihu offer strange fire
- Middle: They are consumed
- End: Aaron is silent
📖 Only Christ mediates acceptable worship.
📖 Leviticus 11–15
Symbol: Clean vs unclean = holiness through the cross
Pericope:
- Start: Animals, childbirth, skin disease
- Middle: Laws of separation
- End: Laws of restoration
📖 Christ fulfills all cleansing—He declares the unclean clean (Mark 1:41–44).
📖 Leviticus 16:1–34
Symbol: Day of Atonement = total work of the cross
Pericope:
- Start: High priest prepares
- Middle: Two goats—one slain, one released
- End: Priest returns to the people
📖 One sacrifice, one scapegoat—Christ died and removed sin (Lev 16; Heb 9).
📖 Leviticus 17:10–14
Symbol: Life is in the blood
Pericope:
- Start: Command against eating blood
- Middle: Blood makes atonement
- End: Repeated warning
📖 The blood of Christ is our only source of life (Heb 9:22).
📖 Leviticus 19:1–37
Symbol: Be holy as I am holy
Pericope:
- Start: Call to holiness
- Middle: Specific examples
- End: Love neighbor as yourself
📖 Holiness flows from the cross, not from law alone.
📖 Leviticus 23:1–44
Symbol: Feasts = the full gospel arc
Pericope:
- Start: Sabbath
- Middle: Passover → Pentecost
- End: Atonement → Tabernacles
📖 All feasts fulfilled in Christ’s death, resurrection, Spirit-giving, and final dwelling (Col 2:16–17).
📖 Leviticus 25:1–55
Symbol: Jubilee = freedom through the cross
Pericope:
- Start: Sabbath years
- Middle: Jubilee announced
- End: Land and people restored
📖 Christ is our Jubilee—freedom from debt and return to inheritance (Luke 4:18–21).
📖 Leviticus 26:1–46
Symbol: Blessing and curse = covenant enforcement
Pericope:
- Start: Obedience brings blessing
- Middle: Disobedience brings curse
- End: God promises mercy for repentance
📖 Christ bore the curse of the covenant so the blessing could come to us (Gal 3:13–14).
📖 Leviticus 27:1–34
Symbol: Vows and redemption = price paid in full
Pericope:
- Start: Rules for valuation
- Middle: Substitution and payment
- End: Every devoted thing is holy
📖 All things belong to Christ—He has redeemed what was vowed (1 Cor 6:20).
✅ Leviticus Complete.
Every law and ritual in Leviticus is a shadow of Christ—His suffering, intercession, and priestly work—so that His bride can be made holy.
