Continued from previous post.
“Then you shall kill the bull before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the base of the altar.” (Exod 29:11, 12)
“The “finger” of the “law” thus pointed out that the altar of earthly sacrifices was acceptable to God by reason of the shed blood (the life given), and that all who realize the power of the altar (the horns are a symbols of power) must first recognize the blood which sanctifies it (Christ’s blood). The blood poured at the base the altar showed that through the blood of the sacrifice (life given) even the earth was purchased back from the curse, “Unto the redemption of the purchased possession.” See Eph 1:14 (T 41)
“And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys and fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. But the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its offal, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin-offering.” (Exod 29:13, 14)
“And Moses took the bullock his hide, flesh, and etc., and burnt them with fire outside the “camp”. Thus the humanity of Christ complete, head and body is made “a sin-offering”, suffering the destruction to which the world was doomed, and from which by this sacrifice it will ultimately be delivered- the merit being in the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus, we his ‘brethren’, being privileged to fill up a measure of his sufferings, as ‘members of his body’.” (Col 1:24) But while the humanity of the Royal Priesthood is destroyed, as a vile thing in the eyes of the world, as represented by the burning of the bullock outside the camp, God accepts the heart devotion which prompts the sacrifice, which says, ‘ Lo I come to do thy will, O God’, I delight to do thy will, O my God.’ This was represented by the offering on the altar of the fat and parts of the inward life producing organism, as a ‘sweet savor’ unto the Lord.” (T 42)
The blood having been applied to the horns of the altar and poured at its base, seems to point out “that the altar of earthly sacrifices was acceptable to God by reason of the shed blood, (the life given), and that all who realize the power of the Altar, must first recognize the blood which sanctifies it” and that “even the earth was purchased back from the curse.” (T 42) Horns are symbols of power, probably because those creatures bearing them often manifest their power by means of them.
This consecration of the altar was in addition to that accomplished with the holy anointing oil at the time of God’s formal acceptance of the Tabernacle as his dwelling place. (Exod 40:10) The altar, in this instance, does not specifically represent the ransom sacrifice as the basis upon which all other sacrifices should be acceptable, though this is of course implied. In this type it seems to represent more particularly the earthly altar, i.e. the earth itself is made acceptable as an altar, by way of the shed blood which in this age sanctifies it again—at the incoming age! (“Notes on the Tabernacle” Pages 504-506)
We will continue with the Consecration of the Priesthood with our next post.
“Then you shall kill the bull before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the base of the altar.” (Exod 29:11, 12)
“The “finger” of the “law” thus pointed out that the altar of earthly sacrifices was acceptable to God by reason of the shed blood (the life given), and that all who realize the power of the altar (the horns are a symbols of power) must first recognize the blood which sanctifies it (Christ’s blood). The blood poured at the base the altar showed that through the blood of the sacrifice (life given) even the earth was purchased back from the curse, “Unto the redemption of the purchased possession.” See Eph 1:14 (T 41)
“And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys and fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. But the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its offal, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin-offering.” (Exod 29:13, 14)
“And Moses took the bullock his hide, flesh, and etc., and burnt them with fire outside the “camp”. Thus the humanity of Christ complete, head and body is made “a sin-offering”, suffering the destruction to which the world was doomed, and from which by this sacrifice it will ultimately be delivered- the merit being in the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus, we his ‘brethren’, being privileged to fill up a measure of his sufferings, as ‘members of his body’.” (Col 1:24) But while the humanity of the Royal Priesthood is destroyed, as a vile thing in the eyes of the world, as represented by the burning of the bullock outside the camp, God accepts the heart devotion which prompts the sacrifice, which says, ‘ Lo I come to do thy will, O God’, I delight to do thy will, O my God.’ This was represented by the offering on the altar of the fat and parts of the inward life producing organism, as a ‘sweet savor’ unto the Lord.” (T 42)
The blood having been applied to the horns of the altar and poured at its base, seems to point out “that the altar of earthly sacrifices was acceptable to God by reason of the shed blood, (the life given), and that all who realize the power of the Altar, must first recognize the blood which sanctifies it” and that “even the earth was purchased back from the curse.” (T 42) Horns are symbols of power, probably because those creatures bearing them often manifest their power by means of them.
This consecration of the altar was in addition to that accomplished with the holy anointing oil at the time of God’s formal acceptance of the Tabernacle as his dwelling place. (Exod 40:10) The altar, in this instance, does not specifically represent the ransom sacrifice as the basis upon which all other sacrifices should be acceptable, though this is of course implied. In this type it seems to represent more particularly the earthly altar, i.e. the earth itself is made acceptable as an altar, by way of the shed blood which in this age sanctifies it again—at the incoming age! (“Notes on the Tabernacle” Pages 504-506)
We will continue with the Consecration of the Priesthood with our next post.
