ws governing priestly sacrifices, priestly consecration, priestly violation, priestly purification, and for the Day of Atonement, while the directions for fellowship with God detail the preservation of holiness, the governance of religious feasts, for lamp, bread of the presence, etc., for the Sabbath and Jubilee, promises and warnings, and concerning vows and tithing.
             Although the individual portions of the law can be reviewed according to their own merits, the whole of the ceremonial law was intended as a guideline for the worship of God and to look to the future, to a time when the Levite tribes of Judea would be delivered from bondage and strife, by the Messiah, the deliverer, the anointed one, the prophet, priest, King, The Christ. When Jesus was born, raised, ministered, crucified, and risen from the dead, the ceremonial law was fulfilled. Because Jesus was identified as the Messiah, he was often accused by the Pharisees of violating the Law, perhaps an
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