The
Sin and Trespass Offering the Mazzaroth Declares
Non-sweet Savor Offerings
(Leviticus 4 and 5)
Of the
twelve covenant stellar signs, only two portray animal pictorials relating to
the Levitical offerings; they are Taurus and Aries. This week we will be considering the
animal star chart drawing of the sin and trespass offerings as conveyed in the lamb/ram of Aries.
The
figurative teaching of the Eternal Covenant in the luminaires and the
figurative teaching of the Eternal Covenant in the ceremonial law of the offerings is first and foremost the expression of love and devotion from God to man.
All is
of God. The Eternal Covenant
is God’s covenant; all is God’s “doing.”
God is acting from Himself. Love
does not act for itself. God is Love – He
never does for Himself because that
would be acting for self, selfish. He is
acting from Himself – He is giving all for the purpose of love for others. He is giving Himself.
The
five ceremonial offerings
foreshadow different characteristics of
the person of God – Spirit Being of Deity and His work of redemption. Each aspect requires a
separate depiction (Romans 6:10; Hebrews 7:26-28; 9:23-28; 1Peter 3:18); united, the
representations show the person and work are one.
In each of the Levitical offerings, the Son of the
covenant is portrayed in three different roles.
He is the worshipper of God offering
the offering of Himself. He is the priest
interceding as the mediator between God and
man and He is
also the sacrifice offered; His body
“types” the animal offered.
In the signs of Taurus and Aries,
the two star chart drawings unite in the body of three animals; the bullock,
the lamb and ram collectively portray one God in the Son of the Covenant.
The burnt offering is the offering of a life
wholly consumed. It is one of three
sweet savor offerings. In figure, the
burnt offering is the burnt sacrifice offered for acceptance as a worshiper; sin
is not seen or considered; it is the offering of righteousness.
The Hebrew word used for “burnt” offering is
literally “ascending.” The same word is used
for the burning of the incense. In the
sweet savor offerings, the offerer is accepted as a worshiper in the presence of God’s infinite grace because of the
“ascending” Son of the covenant.
In
the Son of the covenant, God has one righteous man, one man wholly acceptable
unto God as a worshiper. He is the one
mediator between God and man, the Servant Jehovah, the bullock of Taurus who becomes the lamb of God lifted
up between heaven and earth to make peace with God (1Timothy 2:3-6; Hebrews
9:14-15).
Taurus is the sixth sign. Six is the number of man’s labor. Looking at the bullock as the Servant of Jehovah who comes in the
likeness of man – a flesh body, we see the message of the sign and offering is not the death of a sinner. The
death was a sinless sacrifice. The one righteous man, the one acceptable sacrifice
that could take the death penalty appointed to man (Hebrews 9:27) is the Servant of Jehovah. The Lamb of God is lifted up on the cross that
the world might be reconciled unto God by the ram, man’s substitute (2Corinthians
5:19) that man might receive the life eternal offered in the Son of the covenant. One man dies in man’s stead that whosoever
believes into Him might not perish, but have life eternal (John 3:16). There is no salvation apart from the sinless
sacrifice (Hebrews 9:28; 10:12-14).
Aries is a new
“beginning.” Originating in eternity
past in the sign Libra (He who is) through the establishment of the kingdom in
the sign Taurus (He who is to come) is the fore telling of the message the heavens declare of the glory of the
Eternal Covenant − the hope of life eternal and a holy calling of sons of God.
He who is, the Eternal – God has done this
(Psalm 22); it is finished; it is done.
The Eternal did not say, it shall be done, He said, it is done
(Revelation 21). The victory of the Son of Man’s labor is
laid out in the first six stellar signs.
From
the next sign Aries, to the last stellar sign Scorpio is the telling forth of the One who is, who was,
who is to come. The message of the last
signs “speak” in past, present and future tenses. He who is was He who was, who is to come – He
came, past tense, past fulfillment. He
who is, is He who was, who is to come, present tense, present status and He who
is, is He who was, and He who is to come − again, future tense, future
accomplishment.
Aries is the seventh sign.
Seven is the number that speaks of completeness. The Soul
poured out (the Servant of Jehovah, the Spirit Being of Deity, God in three
persons) “becomes” the non-sweet
savor offerings − the sin and trespass offering. The bullock (Spirit Being) becomes the sin
and trespass offering (the seed coat – the birthed son of God) the lamb/ram, the
sacrifice slain (John 1:29), the substitute given (Leviticus 5:15), and the life
offered (the begotten Son out from the dead - the Seed) once for all.
He offered Himself for all of mankind, once for all time
and for all eternity, the one offering
of Himself; the one sacrifice of His body is complete as is pictured in the sign Aries.
The two non–sweet savor offerings, the sin
and the trespass offerings, are distinct from one another; however, most never
apprehend the difference that God intends in the two offerings. To see and judge anything as God sees and
judges is seen
in the eyes of the understanding.
What is
sin? According to God’s word, sin is
lawlessness. Lawlessness is the setting
of one’s will above the will of God. Lawlessness is a heart issue and the evidence
– confirmation of the lawlessness is seen in one’s behavior. But lawlessness is in the
secret chambers of the heart and must not be confused with trespasses.
A trespass is an unlawful act done against a fellow human being
and therefore against God Himself. So
then who can know the heart? That is why
man must judge lawlessness accordingly to what God says it is and not as
behavior. Man is apt to look at what a
man does − his behavior and call
behavior sin. In man’s way of thinking,
man “judges” sin by what man considers appropriate behavior. God looks at what a man is. What a man is is what a
man does. Sins are committed because man
is a sinner. Man is self-willed and as
such he is lawless.
In the non-sweet savor offerings of the lamb
slain and the ram offered in the Son of the covenant, the sin of lawlessness, the
pride of man’s self-will is put away.
He who is, the Eternal – God, has done this
(Psalm 22); it is finished; it is done. The Eternal did not say, it shall be done, He
said, it is done (Revelation 21). Here is the victory (Matthew 27:50)!
If you put something away, it is out of
sight, no longer in your presence? God
put away the lawlessness, the pride of man’s self-will, the enmity of the
thinking and the offenses that come from the willingness of man to transgress
the law of God by the one offering of Himself in the one sacrifice of the Son
of the covenant.
Without understanding in the spirit of our being,
there is no rightly directed reverence of God; and without meaning to be, we
are flippant. We will say to one
another, we do not want to make light of sin, meaning we do not want to make
sin something frivolous; however, we do that very thing when we make our
behavior and thus ourselves the issue.
The sin offering of the non–sweet savor
offerings is not man giving something to God; there is nothing in
man to fulfill the conditions of the offerings.
In the sin offering, the offerer came as a convicted sinner to receive in his offering the judgment due his sin, the
execution of the death penalty.
Looking at man and judging him as God does,
man is a sinner born dead in trespasses and sins. The body is without life eternal and man is a
sinner with judgment due his sin. His
sin demands the death penalty; what can a dead man do or offer to God as
acceptable restitution? Nothing! He has been found guilty and must take the
judgment due – execution.
The sin offering is confession of sin. The
offerer comes as a confessed sinner. The offerer offering the sin offering is
acknowledging the right judgment of God as acceptable. The judged
sin requires a sacrifice of blood shedding. In the offering, sin is remitted, therefore,
blotted out and pardoned.
The sin offering shows sin to have been
judged on the Son of the covenant and to have been put away once for all. In the offering of the sin offering, the
offerer is acknowledging his sin, the
sin − the lawlessness, the pride of man’s self-will, was perfectly and fully paid
for by the sacrifice; the sin was perfectly put away.
He who is, the Eternal – God, has done this
(Psalm 22); it is finished; it is done. The Eternal did not say, it shall be done, He
said, it is done (Revelation 21). Here is the victory (Matthew 27:50)!
Had not the Son of the covenant in Himself
been what the burnt offering and the meal offering typify (a sinless victim - without
spot or blemish, pure and undefiled), a voluntary offering, He could not have
been offered for sin in the sinner’s stead.
The fact that the Son of the covenant is
holy, harmless and undefiled (Hebrews 7:26) fitted Him to take the execution of
God’s judgment on sin and trespasses. As
God’s appointed servant, God’s offended justice is vindicated. Justice has been done; the death penalty
executed before the foundation of the
world.
So great is the love of God, He willingly offered the one and the only acceptable sacrifice
unto God for the forgiveness of sins, Himself.
God burned the sins of the whole
world on the body of His Son, all consumed by the fire of His holiness.
In His just recompense, God demonstrated His
Love in His wrath against the sin of
man exercising his will over the will of his Creator Redeemer − in man’s face. Just as man in the face of God rebels against
God’s will in the exercising of his will over the will of God for him, so also
God in the face of man demonstrated His great Love in the fury of His wrath
in His public display of judgment on the Son of His Love. Consumed in the fire of His holiness all was
burnt out on the Son of the covenant − it has been put away; you cannot be
“more” put away than consumed in the fire of Holiness. But there is yet a “much more” to that so
great a Love.
As we
have seen, there is nothing in man that supposes that man could in any way
fulfill the conditions of the offerings; rather, it is poignantly obvious that
the Eternal Covenant is all the work of God, entirely of and from Him. What then are we to do but direct our eyes to
the author and finisher - to look upon Jesus?
In so
doing we find ourselves not in the presence of man’s need but in the presence
of God’s immeasurable grace; we find ourselves in God’s beauty of holiness, His
otherness. Not only does the offering of the Son of the covenant and our union
with Him in His death set us free from
the law of sin and death, all of our enemies have been
conquered.
As a
son of God, I am free of the world and its enticement. It is true that I am in the world, but no longer of
it – I am a new creation. And I am
free of my lust of the flesh; the flesh with its affections and lusts has been
crucified with Christ in my union of death with Him (1John 2:16-17). And I’m freed from “the way I’m wired,” – I’m
free from my own way of thinking, because I am a son of God.
By
believing and receiving, man becomes what he was not nor ever could have been
on his own.
By
believing and receiving, man:
Receives the
righteousness of God,
Is freed from the
sin,
Is delivered from
death, and
Becomes a born son of
God − bearing the heavenly image − a body of eternal life.
Yet again, another much more; “Much more
then; being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him” (Romans 5:9). Jesus was
delivered for our offenses and raised for our justification. Jesus not only offered
Himself for us, but He offered Himself as us. The measure of His acceptance by the Father
God is the measure of our acceptance.
He reserved nothing for
Himself. The life was unspotted,
unblemished, and it was all surrendered, all yielded up, that it might be
consumed in the holiness of God. I am
free to be, be what I am – a son of God.
So then, what is the issue? If before the foundation of the world in His
death we are made safe from the condemnation to come and healed from
sin-sickness (Romans 5:9; 8:1; 1Peter 2:21-24), what is the issue? Not sin, but life eternal!
The sin consumed by the Love of God in His
holiness never to be seen again – is put away; it is God’s provision, His love that
man might also be consumed with the holiness of His Love – free to mind the
things of God.
The Son of the covenant raised and glorified as high priest and mediator finds
satisfaction in the sin offering. In His
ministry as High Priest, the offering offered is acceptable. The work the Father had given the Son of the covenant
to do, He finished. The Son has
glorified the Father in His death and the Father glorified the Son with a body
of glory. The life of the flesh is in
the blood (Leviticus 17:11). The blood
is precious to God. The blood is the
redemption price, the ransom. Through the
offering of the body of the Son of the covenant, all sons of God are
sanctified, once for all. The
presentation of the body out from the dead to God the Father is the gift of the
life eternal of the begotten Son.
The one
offering and sacrifice offered is not
for man but for God. The gift of life eternal is the offering of
the begotten Son for God that He might be all in all and have that for which He
purposed in eternity – a holy priesthood of sons of God, a kingdom of God. It is imperative that man receive the life
eternal to become a son of God and not perish, but the offering is for
God.
Personified
in the person and work of the Son of the covenant, the offerer (Jesus) took His
body, the body prepared for Him as His
offering, that in that body He might reconcile man unto God and that He might
reconcile His people unto God (2 Corinthians 5:14-21; Colossians 2:9-17; John 11:47-51;
Acts 2:22-36; 3:12-26; Hebrews 10:9-22).
In Him who is, who was, who is to come is a
once for all offering of Himself. The
gift of life eternal is for all from Adam to the forefathers of Israel. Also, it is for the seed of Abraham as the
stars of the heaven and the future remnant to come out of the great tribulation
and for their progeny in the kingdom and for whosoever will of the nations during the kingdom age.
It is done! He who is, the Eternal – God, has done this
(Psalm 22); it is finished; it is done. The Eternal did not say, it shall be done, He
said, it is done (Revelation 21). Here is the victory (Matthew 27:50)! By the One offering He has perfected forever those who are set apart unto Him
in God.
If we
would be willing to see and judge as God sees and judges, if we
would be willing to buy
God’s clarification of sin as lawlessness – the setting of our will in the secret chambers of the heart
above His will and change our mind concerning sin as
behavior, would we set our will above
God’s will for us?
No,
because we would see that before the foundation of the world sin was not the
issue. The
provision was already made. The issue is
the Son of the covenant. The issue is life
eternal.
We must have a change of mind concerning sin
as behavior; otherwise, we will make the faith of the Son of the covenant a
religion of works; something we do or do not do; that way of thinking is
self-serving, defiling and impersonal, counting as nothing His offering.
However, if we will judge according to the
truth, our faith has substance (Hebrews 11:1). Our faith is in a person and not a faith in
our faith. In a man’s union
in Christ’s death, he is freed from self! Free to walk in a newness of life, alive unto
God, a son. In his union with God in the
Son of the covenant, God gave man the Holy Spirit to enlighten man to the Word
of God in the spirit of his being, which would cleanse his way so that man
might walk in the Spirit.
“Minding” God, the Holy Spirit will guide man
in the truth in the spirit of his being, glorifying Christ to the man and being
filled with the things of God, man is able to live by every word that proceeds
out of the mouth of God (Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4).
If in eternity, God offered Himself a gift – life
eternal; then all is of God. Nothing can
be added to or taken from it; all is confirmed in the covenant Son. Here is the victory even our faith (1John
5:4)!
So then in conclusion, what is our part? Isn’t that always the question? Here’s our answer.
“Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the
heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our profession Christ
Jesus; … a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, … Ye
also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to
offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ … that ye
should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into
His marvelous light” (Hebrews 3:1,2:17,1Peter 2:5,9).
Our “part” is to mind God. Our “part” as part
of a holy priesthood is to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by
Jesus Christ. Our “part” is to show
forth the praises of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous
light (1Peter 2:9).
Well … what does it mean to be a part of
priesthood? What is the office of a
priest? What are the spiritual
sacrifices we are to offer up? How do we
offer them? What does it mean to show
forth the praises of Him? What are the
praises of Him and how do we show them? What is the darkness that we have been called
out of and what is His marvelous light?
The answer to these questions is next week’s
lesson.
For next week’s lesson, please read:
Hebrews 2:17; 3:1; 4:14,15; 5:1,5,6,10; 6:20; 7; 8:1,3,4; 9:7,11,25;
10:11,21; 13:11
1Peter 2:5, 9
1Corinthians 6:19, 20
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No Glossary for the Sin and Trespass Offering the
Mazzaroth Declares
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