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The Offerings
Zee Official Writer
1145Leviticus 1:4
You are to lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on your behalf to make atonement for you.
Bible reading for a year: [bible]Psalm36[/bible]; [bible]0acts8[/bible]; [bible]exodu21-22[/bible]
Presenting animals as offerings may not be familiar for us Christians, yet in Indonesia we often see offering ceremonies when our siblings, the Moslems, present their offerings on The Feast Day of Sacrifice. As for the Jews, presenting animals as offerings is a law that is mandatory as it was mentioned by Leviticus 1. The offering is very important to maintain the harmonious relationship with God.
The first rule in rightly presenting the offering is that the animal has to be male. It can be a bull, or a lamb, as long as it’s fresh and flawless. No flaw is accepted.
The second rule is that the presenter has to put their hands on the head of the offering as a symbol that the particular offering represents the presenter.
The third rule is that the offering must be slaughtered in front of God and its blood be spread around the altar in front of the Meeting Camp as the representation of the atonement of the sin of the presenter. Atonement means reconciliation between God and human through the blood of the offering.
Do you know that the animal sacrifice that was mentioned by the Old Testaments was a symbol of the arrival of the Son of God, Jesus Christ? He came to the world as the Holy Lamb of God with no flaws. He is Holy and Without Sins.
Through our faith in Him, we place our hands on Him as a statement that He has sacrificed Himself to replace us. And because He died on the cross and His blood was poured on earth, we were cleansed from our sins. Through His resurrection and His victory over death, we are all saved and reconciled with God.
Amazing isn’t it? God had announced the arrival of His Only Son thousands of years beforehand. Through His blood, the sins of all humans were abolished. [bible]roman10:9[/bible] wrote that If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Today, no matter what our condition is like, God wrote: “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. [bible]isaia1:18[/bible], so let us come to Jesus and allow Him to cleanse all our sins so our relationship with God is reconciled.
If there’s no sacrifice, there’s no abolition of sins. That is why without Christ’s cross, there’s no eternal salvation.
