24. Weren’t the Levitical sacrifices intended to avert God’s wrath toward sin?
Not per se. They were divinely appointed as prophetic shadows prefiguring God’s way of cleaning sin out of human hearts, because cumulating sins are what actually provoke his mounting anger. Not the averting of divine wrath, but the more essential cleansing of human hearts from sin is what the mainstay of the sacrificial system depicts in shadowy detail.
The Premial Atonement 