Prague, Czech Republic
“Oh,
we ought to make more of the blood of the Lamb, because it is by the
blood that we are saved; by the blood atonement is made.”
A.W.
Tozer
In
the Old Testament, offerings were made to atone for sin. There were 5
types of offerings that could be made:
Burnt
Offering
Grain
Offering
Peace
Offering
Sin
Offering
Guilt
Offering
God
was super meticulous in how he wanted the offerings presented. For
instance, God was precise in His command of what was to be offered-
the specific animal, the age of the animal, and the grain, flour or
bread (without yeast). He also declared what it would make atonement
for- such as intentional sin, unintentional sin, forgiveness of sin,
etc. Everything had to be clean,
pure and without
fault. It had to be just the way God wanted it, it had to
be perfect.
In
Leviticus 8, Moses is obedient to the Lord in ordaining Aaron and his
sons. He does it the exact way God commands…
“Moses
grabbed the anointing oil and anointed the
tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated
them….. He then presented the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron
and his sons laid their hand on its head. Moses slaughtered
the bull and took some of the blood, and with his finger he put it on
all the horns of the alter to purify the
alter. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the alter.
So he consecrated it to make atonement for
it� Lev. 8:10-15
*side
note: The phrase, “laid their hand on its head,� appears 14
times in the book of Leviticus- that intrigues me… it stuck out to
me, but I’m not quite sure what the significance is. *
God
may have been meticulous and specific, but He did this out of love
and for His glory.
He
instilled the Law. He did it in love. He works everything together
for our good. But, “for what the law was powerless to do in that it
was weakened by its sin nature, God did by sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.�Romans 8:3
Because
of Jesus Christ’s death on the cross, we no longer have to make
atonement for sin. No more offerings. No more purifying of alters or
consecrating the tabernacle.
He
was the ultimate offering.
He
was the ultimate sacrifice.
And
through that, He consecrated us. He
purified us. He anointed
us. And made atonement for our sins.
He
sees us as clean,
pure and without
fault. He see us as
perfect.
