Sacrifice Offerings of the Lord: Part 3 of 3

Sacrifice Offerings of the Lord: Part 3 of 3

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

Voluntary Sacrifice – Sweet aroma to the LORD

Burnt Offering; Meal Offering; Peace 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,

In the ISV version

** “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  . 

Remember, we have to look at all verses what happens to the sacrifice to understand what is going on 

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 communionBegin 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

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