Aug 2024- Coming to You as a sacrifice - Favour by Fire

Shabbat Shalom - Happy Aug 2024

Psalms 40:7 TPT- So I said, “Here I am! I’m coming to you as a sacrifice, for in the prophetic scrolls of your book you have written about me.

Out of many types of scarifices mentioned in the Bible, I would like to start with Burnt scarifice, aka offering. 

Purpose: A gift to the Lord, seeking favour, substitution, sacrificial act; it cost the worshipper something.

It's a voluntary sacrifice but  is one of the oldest and most common offerings in history and could give it at any time. Each morning/evening, each Sabbath, each month beginning, at Passover, at the new moon and along with Grain/ first fruit offerings. 

The Hebrew word for “burnt offering” actually means to “ascend,“ literally to “go up in smoke.” The smoke from the sacrifice ascended to God, “a soothing aroma to the LORD. ( Lev1:9) The priest shall technically burn all the cut pieces at the altar. 

This is shadowing in the life our Lord Jesus Christ, symbolically, He submitted upon the Cross, until death (horrible). His physical life was completely consumed, He ascended to God, and His covering (that is, His garment) was distributed to those who officiated over His sacrifice (Matthew 27:35). But most importantly, His sacrifice, once for all time, atoned for our sins and restored our relationship with God.

Wishing you an awesome Aug 2024. 

Peace be upon The State of Israel and Us. Shalom. 🙏

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