Tabernacle Lectures (60) Living sacrifice

The altar is where the lamb’s blood is sprinkled for us, where the flesh of the offering is burned and becomes nothing, so that only blood and ashes remain. In the Old Testament, the Israelites offered several types of offerings to God: the burnt offering, grain offering, peace offering, and sin offering. If we start reading from Leviticus 1, we can see that all these offerings were given at the altar.

For the burnt offering, the skin of the lamb or cow is removed, and their bodies are cut into pieces and burned. The blood is sprinkled on the four sides of the altar, while their organs are all washed in water and burned on the altar. The altar is where the flesh of the lamb or cow is burned to ashes, and the blood is sprinkled. For the grain offering, after the unleavened fine flour is mixed with oil, salted, and frankincense is put on it, the grain offering is all burned on the altar and offered to God.

The peace offering can be either a male or female lamb or cow. The priest eat its meat, but the organs that have fat attached are burned on the altar, and its blood is either placed on the horns, or sprinkled on the sides of the altar or at the bottom of the altar.