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Sacrifice Offerings of the Lord: Part 3 of 3          March 7, 2020

Voluntary Sacrifice – Sweet aroma to the LORD

Burnt Offering; Meal Offering; Pease Offering

Mandatory non-sweet savor for us: The Cleansing from God

Sin Offering; The Guild or Trespass Offering

These offering or sacrifices are hard to understand, so many rules and terminology. All are called, Burnt Offerings, but how is it used.

Have to careful when we say, Burnt Offering {169 times} or Burnt Sacrifice {16 times}.  Same word, H5930 used different ways and used in every sacrifice.   

Offerings were often cooked and most of it eaten by the Priests and / or the offeror and a small part burnt on the altar.

**Burnt offerings had a regular schedule time to be made every day, morning and evening with a Grain Offering  {Exodus 29:38-42, Numbers 28:3-8; 2 Chronicles 2:4}

**An additional Burnt Offering was to be offered up each Sabbath day and other times in the year {Numbers 28:9-10,11,16,26,27, 29:1,6}

Whole Burnt Offering – only two places mention in certain versions

**1 Samuel 7:9 NKJV And Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. Then Samuel cried out to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answered him.

**Psalms 51:19 NKJV Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, With burnt offering and whole burnt offering; Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.   {both mention same verse}

**Deuteronomy 13:16 NIV  You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt,

** "You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep which has any blemish or defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God. **Deuteronomy 17:1

Whole Burnt offering {Lev 1:3-9, Lev 6:8-13}

This is the oldest offering known to man. We covered the offering of Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses on altars. Burnt Offering was before the giving of the law.

The burnt sacrifice, means “that which ascends. and going up in smoke,  

Basic requirements for any Burnt Offerings.

Clean animals, male without blemish, offering of the livestock—of the herd and of the flock, Bull, Sheep or goats, birds, turtledoves or young pigeons.  

Leviticus 1:3 'If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD.

Leviticus 1:4 Then he {person} shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

Leviticus 1:5 He {person} shall kill the bull before the LORD; and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

Leviticus 1:6 And he {Priest} shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.

Leviticus 1:7 The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay the wood in order on the fire.

Leviticus 1:8 Then the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;

Leviticus 1:9 but he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water. And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

Remember, we have to look at all verses what happens to the sacrifice

Deuteronomy 18:3 "And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.

Leviticus 9:2 And he said to Aaron, "Take for yourself a young bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.   {found 32 times – young bull}

The sinner would bring his offering to the entrance of the tabernacle where he would be met by a priest. The sinner himself would slay the animal.  (There is an exception in vv.14, 15 - birds).

Leviticus 7:8 And the priest who offers anyone's burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.

Leviticus 6:8-13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, (9) "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. (10) And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen trousers he shall put on his body, and take up the ashes of the burnt offering which the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. (11) Then he shall take off his garments, put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. 

(12) And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order on it; and he shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. (13) A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out.

Laws for Grain {Meal} Offerings  {Lev 2:1-16, Lev 6:14-23}

Leviticus 2:1 'When anyone offers a grain offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.

Leviticus 2:2 He shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests, one of whom shall take from it his handful of fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as a memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

Leviticus 2:3 The rest of the grain offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'. It is most holy of the offerings to the LORD made by fire.

Leviticus 2:11 'No grain offering which you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering to the LORD made by fire.

**Leviticus 2:4-16 Just repeats above

**Leviticus 6:14-23 Just repeats above

Grain offering was an offering of fine flour or unleavened baked goods, mixed with oil and frankincense. A handful of the offering was burned (with incense) in the altar fire. The rest went to the priests.

The meal offering was presented along with animal sacrifice. It represents the owners personal property, his body and his possessions.

The meal offering was presented daily, along with the morning and evening sacrifice.

The Peace Offering {Lev 3:1-, Lev 7:11-35}

Leviticus 3:1 'When his offering is a sacrifice of a peace offering, if he offers it of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:2 And he {offeror} shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of meeting; and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood all around on the altar.

Leviticus 3:3 Then he {priests} shall offer from the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire to the LORD. The fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

Leviticus 3:4 the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall remove;

Leviticus 3:5 and Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is on the wood that is on the fire, as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

Leviticus 3:17 'This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.' "

**Leviticus 3:6-16 Just basically repeats above

Leviticus 7:31-32 And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. (32) Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

Leviticus 7:35 This is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his sons, from the offerings made by fire to the LORD, on the day when Moses presented them to minister to the LORD as priests.

**Leviticus 7:11-35 Just basically repeats above

Most of the animal was eaten, divided between the priests and the owner.

Sin / purification offering  {Lev 4:1-35; 5:1-13, Lev 6:24-30}

Leviticus 4:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'If a person sins unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not to be done, and does any of them,

**Leviticus 4:3-10 When a priest sins: covers what he has to do

Leviticus 4:11-12 But the bull's hide and all its flesh, with its head and legs, its entrails and offal-- (12) the whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

Different sacrifices requirement for different people

**Leviticus 4:13 – when congregation has sinned
**Leviticus 4:22 – when a ruler has sinned
**Leviticus 4:27 – when a common person has sinned
**Leviticus 5:1-13 persons by oath, unclean, swears, requires an offering

**Leviticus  4:1-35; 5:1-13; Just basically repeats above

**Leviticus 6:24-30; Just basically repeats above

Leviticus 6:26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of meeting.  {exception}

Guilt or Trespass Offerings  {Lev 5:14-19; 6:1-7, Lev 7:1-10}

Leviticus 5:14,15 "If a person commits a trespass, and sins unintentionally in regard to the holy things of the LORD, then he shall bring to the LORD as his trespass offering a ram without blemish from the flocks, with your valuation in shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, as a trespass offering {guilt offering}.

Leviticus 5:16 And he shall make restitution for the harm that he has done in regard to the holy thing, and shall add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. So the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

**Leviticus 5:17,18 Just basically repeats above

Leviticus 5:19 It is a trespass offering; he has certainly trespassed against the LORD."

**Leviticus 6:1-7 Just basically repeats above

Leviticus 7:1-2 'Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering (it is most holy): (2) In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the trespass offering. And its blood he shall sprinkle all around on the altar.

Leviticus 7:3-4 And he shall offer from it all its fat. The fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, (4) the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall remove;

Leviticus 7:5 and the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a trespass offering.

**Leviticus 7:6-10 repeat, the priest who sacrifice shall, eat it,  have it, the skin, grain offering,

Ezra 10:19 And they gave their promise that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they presented a ram of the flock as their trespass offering.

Here sin is looked at as a trespass against the government of God. Amends had to be made for the wrong done and the fifth part added to it.

What about family members eating of the sacrifice.

Numbers 18:11 "This also is yours: the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and your sons and daughters with you, as an ordinance forever. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

Numbers 18:31 You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting.

The Drink Offering  {Num 15:1-11}

The drink offering was added later after entering the land of Canaan. Not offered by itself alone. It was “strong wine poured unto the Lord” (Num 28:7). 

The Drink offering is oil and wine.  Oil typifies the Holy Spirit, and the wine means communion.  Begin and end each day with the oil and wine (the Spirit and fellowship with Him).  Added to the other sacrifices.

Numbers 15:1-2 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, (2) "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you,

Numbers 15:3 and you make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or in your appointed feasts, to make a sweet aroma to the LORD, from the herd or the flock,

Numbers 15:4 then he who presents his offering to the LORD shall bring a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil;

Numbers 15:5 and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering {this is new} you shall prepare with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for each lamb.

Leviticus 5:6-9 Just basically repeats above

Numbers 15:10 and you shall bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

Numbers 15:11 'Thus it shall be done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat.

** "The drink offering is to be one fourth of a hin for each lamb. You are to pour out a drink offering of strong wine to the LORD in the Holy Place.  Numbers 28:7

The first recorded occurrence of a Drink Offering was Jacob, right after God changed his name to Israel, this was before the giving of the law, law of sacrifices and Burnt Offering.

Genesis 35:14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.

In New Testament, We do know that the pouring out of a drink offering is a metaphor for the blood Jesus spilled on the cross.  

** In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. Luke 22:20

** But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. John 19:34

We notice Paul took this metaphor further, to describe his own service

** Yes, and if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. Philippians 2:17

Whole Burnt Offering listed 24 times – ISV version; 2 times – NKJV, 1 time – NIV

Lev_6:25  "Speak to Aaron and his sons. This is the regulation concerning sin offerings. Slaughter the sin offering in the same place where the whole burnt offering is slaughtered—in the LORD's presence. It's a most holy thing.

Lev_8:18  Next he brought the ram for whole burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Lev_8:21  Moses washed the internal organs and the thigh with water and then burned the entire ram on the altar as a whole burnt offering, a pleasing aroma of an offering made by fire to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Lev_8:28  After this, Moses took those things from their hands and burned them on the altar over the whole burnt offering for consecration. They served as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Lev_9:2  He told Aaron, "Take a young calf for a sin offering and a ram without defects for a whole burnt offering and bring them into the LORD's presence."

Lev_9:3  He also told the Israelis, "Bring a male goat for a sin offering, a calf, a year old lamb without defects for a whole burnt offering,

Lev_9:14  He washed the internal organs and the thighs and incinerated them on the altar, along with the whole burnt offering.

Lev_9:16  Then he brought the whole burnt offering and offered it according to procedure.

Lev_12:6  "When the days of her purification have been completed, whether for her son or daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting a one year old lamb for a whole burnt offering or a young dove for a sin offering.

Lev_14:19  This is how the priest is to present the sin offering to make atonement for the person being cleansed of his impurity. After this, he is to slaughter the whole burnt offering.

Lev_14:22  and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford. One is for a sin offering and the other is for a whole burnt offering.

Lev_14:31  Based on what he can afford, one is for a sin offering and the other for a whole burnt offering. Along with the grain offering, the priest is to make atonement for the person to be cleansed in the LORD's presence.

Lev_15:15  Then the priest is to offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a whole burnt offering. That's how the priest will make atonement for him in the LORD's presence regarding his discharge.

Lev_15:30  Then the priest is to offer one for a sin offering and the other for a whole burnt offering. This is how the priest will make atonement in the LORD's presence for her regarding her unclean discharge.

Lev_16:3  "Aaron is to enter the sacred place with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a whole burnt offering.

Lev_16:5  "He is to take two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a whole burnt offering from the assembly of the Israelis.

Lev_16:24  He is to wash his body with water at the sacred place and put on his clothes. Then he is to go out, offer a whole burnt offering for himself and a whole burnt offering for the people, thereby making atonement on account of himself and on account of the people.

Lev_17:8  "Tell them that if a person from the house of Israel or a resident alien who lives among you brings a whole burnt offering or a sacrifice

Lev_22:18  "Tell Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelis that when a person from the house of Israel or from the resident aliens living in Israel brings his offering to the LORD as a whole burnt offering (whether votive or free will offerings),

Lev_23:37  "These are the LORD's appointed feasts that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. Bring offerings made by fire to the LORD—a whole burnt offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings. Do this every day on its assigned date

Deu_33:10  They will teach your ordinances to Jacob, and your Law to Israel. They will offer incense as a pleasant aroma to you and a whole burnt offering upon your altar.

2Ki_16:15  and issued these orders to Uriah the priest: "Burn the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king's burnt offering and grain offering, the whole burnt offering, the grain offering, and the drink offering on behalf of all the people of the land on the large altar. And sprinkle all the blood from the burnt offering and from the sacrifice. But I will use the bronze altar to ask God questions."

Job_42:8  So take seven bulls and seven rams and bring them to my servant Job. And bring a whole burnt offering for yourselves and my servant Job will pray for you. I'll encourage him by not responding as your disgraceful folly deserves, since you didn't speak about me correctly as did my servant Job. 

***1Samuel 7:9 ISV, NKJV  Then Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. Samuel cried out to the LORD on behalf of Israel, and the LORD answered him.

**Psalms 51:19 NKJV, KJV Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, With burnt offering and whole burnt offering; Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.  

**Deuteronomy 13:16 NIV  You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt,

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Sacrifice Offerings of the Lord: Pt 2 - Why, Intro            February 29, 2020

Joshua 13:14  The Territorial Assignments; The Land Given to the Tribe of Levi: Moses hadn’t assigned any land to the tribe of Levi: instead, they were given the offerings brought to the Lord.

Joshua 13:33 But Moses had given no land to the tribe of Levi for, as he had explained to them, the Lord God was their inheritance. He was all they needed. He would take care of them in other ways.

Joshua 14:1-3 These are the areas which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed as an inheritance to them. (2) Their inheritance was by lot, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe. (3) For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of the Jordan; but to the Levites he had given no inheritance among them.

Moses had already given land to the two and a half tribes on the east side of the Jordan River. The tribe of Joseph had become two separate tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and the Levites were given no land at all, except cities in which to live and the surrounding pasturelands for their cattle.

·       Joshua 13-21 – Distribution of the Land

·       Joshua 13:8 – ½ Tribe of Manasseh East

·       Joshua 13:15 - Tribe of Reuben

·       Joshua 13:24 – Tribe of Gad

·       Joshua 13:29 – ½ Tribe of Manasseh East

·       Joshua 14:1 – Tribe of Judah

·       Joshua 16:1 – Tribes of Joseph (Ephraim and 1/2 Tribe Manasseh)

·       Joshua 16:5 – Tribe of Ephraim

·       Joshua 17:1 – Tribe of Manasseh

·       Joshua 18:11 – Tribe of Benjamin

·       Joshua 19:1 – Tribe of Simeon

·       Joshua 19:17 – Tribe of Issachar

·       Joshua 19:24 – Tribe of Asher

·       Joshua 19:32 – Tribe of Naphtali

·       Joshua 19:40 – Tribe of Dan

Joshua 21:2 “The Lord instructed Moses to give cities to us Levites for our homes, and pastureland for our cattle,” they said.

Provision for Priests and Levites according to sacrifice.  Important,

They did not have a land inheritance in Israel.

Deuteronomy 18:1-4 "The priests, the Levites: all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion. (2) Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as He said to them. (3) "And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach. (4) The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

The Sacrifices were required to be done in the Lord’s Home, the Temple, Altar or Tabernacle.

**Genesis 3:21 Adam and his Eve, made tunics of skin, {first animal sacrifice}

**Genesis 4:3-5 Cain {fruit of ground} and Able {firstborn of flock} made Sacrifice to God.  They had to know about Sacrifices.

**Genesis 8:20-21 Noah built an altar with burnt offerings, clean animal

**Genesis 12:7,8 Abram built an altar  

Abraham to Sacrifice of Isaac – Burnt Offering – Where we left off.

Genesis 22:2 Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."

Genesis 22:9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

Genesis 26:25 So he {Isaac} built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.

We know the rest of the story Abraham and Isaac

Genesis 33:20 Then he {Jacob} erected an altar there and called it El Elohe Israel.

Jacob receives God’s covenant, His promise

Genesis 28:13-14 And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. (14) Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

The point is that the promises that God made to Israel are only, one way; unconditional.  Cannot be change.  Only punish to return to the Lord.

If they are unconditional, One Way, there is

·      no way Israel can forfeit her promises, 

·      no matter how much idolatry she has, 

·      no matter how unfaithful she becomes. 

God redeem them in Exodus, and He cured them of idolatry with the Babylonian captivity.  This is why Ezra was so very important to Israel.

One of the commands that were given to Israel is the Altar of Stone.

Exodus 20:22-25 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. (23) You shall not make anything to be with Me; gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves. (24) An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you. (25) And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.

The Divisions of the Law

The Law can be divided into three major divisions: the moral law, the civil law and the ceremonial law.  

Moral Law is typified by the 10 commandments in Exodus 20, that is in effect, God’s claim on His human creatures.  

Civil Law found in Exodus 21-23, which are social regulations to regulate their lives (slavery, possession, murder, etc).  These are to give guidance to an individual or judges.  

Ceremonial Laws is the third group of laws, deal with the religious life (the purification, the priests, the implements, ceremonial observations, etc).  

**Matthew 5:18 because I tell you with certainty that until heaven and earth disappear, not one letter or one stroke of a letter will disappear from the Law until everything has been accomplished.   {new Heavens and Earth}

        {Notice, Does the law go away, No, Jesus said}

The Book of Leviticus deals with the ceremonial laws.

Upon entering the courtyard of the Temple, the first item to be encountered was a bronze altar for sacrifices to be offered in accordance with the various Levitical ordinances.

The Altar of Incense {Golden Altar}

Numbers 4:11 "Over the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of badger skins; and they shall insert its poles.

Exodus 30:1 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on; you shall make it of acacia wood.

·      Members of Israel could only go to Brazen or Bronze Altar, only 

·      Aaron and sons could go on to the Golden Altar.

If we think about sacrifices as gifts given to God.   We take an animal, we kill it and sacrifice it through the Priests and God received the smoke of the burning sacrifice as a pleasing odor.  

Leviticus 1:13 but he shall wash the entrails and the legs with water. Then the priest shall bring it all and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD. {or an aroma that will be pleasing to the LORD."}

Leviticus 3:16 and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma; all the fat is the LORD's.

Sweet aroma means a savor of satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasant smell.

There are 40 verses that says animal sacrifice with fire to God is a sweet aroma to the Lord.  The incense Jesus loves.

God enjoyed a fellowship meal with human beings in God’s dwelling on earth; The Temple before the Temple was destroyed.

We covered in the past, animal sacrifice will be re-instituted or start up again during the millennial kingdom in the Temple. We will not cover it here.

Now, we are the Temple of the Holy Spirit and He dwells in us and enjoys us.  Our prayers are important to the Father.  

Is not our prayers special to the Lord

Psalms 141:2 Let my prayer be set before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.  {like an aroma}

Revelation 5:8 Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Our prayers are the pleasant smell of incense that goes to the Father and collected in golden bowls and offer it on the golden altar before the Father Throne.

Revelation 8:3 Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

We understand our prayers are like the sweet aroma the Lord receives.

We know the Temple is called a house and has furnishings, such as a lamp and a table.  The altar was a cooking surface, like a barbecue, where sacrificial animals was cooked.

Instructions for the performance of various types of sacrifices are found in the first seven chapters of the book of Leviticus. There are five main types of grain and animal sacrifice plus a drink offering later added: 

We covered in the past about where there will be animal sacrifices in the Millennial Temple according to Ezekiel Chapter: 40-48.  We will not cover it here.

This is as far as I will go on general sacrifices, I would like now to cover something I think is important.

Important:  What about women making sacrifices or offerings in the Temple.

Leviticus 12:2-3 "Tell the Israelis that a woman who conceives and bears a son is unclean for seven days. Just like the days of her customary impurity, she is unclean. (3) On the eighth day, the flesh of the baby's foreskin is to be circumcised.

The purification process to be undertaken by a woman following childbirth. The process has two stages: first come the days of her flow (Leviticus 12:2), seven days when a boy is born and two weeks for a girl. 

Then, the mother must remain in the blood of purity (12:4) for thirty-three days when a boy is born or for sixty-six days when a girl is born. 

After purification, she must go to the priest and offer a lamb as a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove as a sin offering (12:6). Scripture mentions an alternative offering for women who cannot afford a lamb: "And if she cannot afford a sheep, she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering. And the priest shall effect atonement for her, and she shall become clean" (12:8).

All of this is somewhat surprising and interesting, that men made no similar sacrifice upon having children or offering during circumcise.  Men were required to visit the Temple during the Festivals to bring the sacrifices. 

Women’s visits to the Temple were marked personal events related to her life cycle.  She must bring the offerings to the priest to satisfy this requirement and instruct the priest how to sacrifice them.  If the priest failed to follow her instructions, the sacrifice was invalid. 

Men are required to have their sons circumcised, but not responsible for the offering or sacrifice in the Temple and to celebrate his birth in the Temple.  It seems the wives are not allow to be in the main room for the circumcise celebration.  The ceremony for the child starts after he has been passed among the relatives, beginning with the mother (in a separate room; she is customarily secluded at this time).

After the actual circumcision, the child is handed to the father, then the blessing, the boy’s name is announced.  Circumcision is not a sacrifice, because nothing is loss.  **Circumcision of John the Baptist: Luke 1:57-66

Leviticus 12:4-8 She shall then continue in the blood of her purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled. (5) 'But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her customary impurity, and she shall continue in the blood of her purification sixty-six days. 

(6) 'When the days of her purification are fulfilled, whether for a son or a daughter, she shall bring to the priest a lamb of the first year as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 

(7) Then he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her. And she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who has borne a male or a female. (8) 'And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she may bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons--one as a burnt offering and the other as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.' "

What about Jesus circumsicion

Luke 2:21 And when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the Child, His name was called JESUS, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

This is when Jesus was names. Now Jesus is Presented at the Temple

Luke 2:22-24 Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord (23) (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "EVERY MALE WHO OPENS THE WOMB SHALL BE CALLED HOLY TO THE LORD" ), (24) and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, "A PAIR OF TURTLEDOVES OR TWO YOUNG PIGEONS."

With this Sacrifice, this show Mary and Joseph were somewhat poor.  This                                   offering has shown that it is not dishonorable to be poor.  So the timeline for Mary with Jesus would be 40 days, it would put the  time line somewhere around Oct/Nov.

Proverbs 7:13-14 So she caught him and kissed him; With an impudent face she said to him: (14) "I have peace offerings with me; Today I have paid my vows.

Women were required to perform a number of offerings, including:

·      The offerings following childbirth as described in Leviticus, just covered

·      Thank offering and its accompanying meal offering following recovery from illness or danger.

·      The Passover sacrifice on Passover. Women could offer the sacrifice and hold a Passover Seder themselves if they wished, even if married.

·      Sin offerings or guilt offerings in atonement for transgressions and unintentional errors.

·      Offerings relevant to fulfillment of, or transgression of, the Nazirite vow.

·      Offerings following cure from certain diseases and unusual bodily discharges.

Women could also voluntarily participate in a number of other offerings and rituals for which they were not obligated, including:

·      First Fruits on the holiday of Shavuot.

·      Temple tax - The half-shekel tax for Temple needs.

·      Voluntary offerings, peace offerings and a variety of other voluntary and donative offerings.

·      Laying on hands of sacrificial animals for sacrifices they were not required to perform.

·      Women could slaughter their sacrificial animals themselves if they wished.

·      Women could make vows {**Numbers 30:4-8}

·      Did Hannah give a portion of the offering of Elkanah {*1 Samuel 1:4,5}

·      Hannah made a vow to God {**1 Samuel 1:11}

·      Hannah made a sacrifice to God {**1 Samuel 1:24-28}

Next time we will cover the actual sacrifices