Friday, January 3, 2014
Gruesome…..Sacrifice needed (exodus 29)
I was thinking about the way
God ordained sacrifice for Aaron’s sons to be cleansed in this passage. God
said “you shall kill the bull before the Lord,” basically so that He/we can see
it clearly, Exodus 29:11. I was thinking, why does this even need to happen?
Why must a Holy God who is pure be shown this? God loves analogies. Maybe sin
is gruesome and gory to God? To see our “sin” placed on an alter and burned, in
all of it’s goriness, is that sin being demolished away. God in His Holiness is
demonstrating to us, graphically, what He sees everyday from us! This isn’t God
who created gore, it was us first! We abused how He meant things to be. God is
all for equality an balance of things, that offering doesn’t equal sin, it was
only an animal. It’s a prophesy and the image of what needed to be done for us.
The true sin offerings were meant through Jesus Christ, the representative for
the human race. That “needed” to happen. We don’t have the ability to be
perfect and free to not sin in our power. God had to offer Himself (His son)
for all of our sin to create balance in this existence. His Judgment will not
fall on those who choose Christ! It’s only right for a perfect God to create balance
and judgment, for the same reason a judge in the judicial system can’t simply
let a criminal go free unpunished.
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