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WE HAVE AN ALTAR(the Cross): echomen (1PPAI) thusiasterion:
The ''altar'' is His body & His
blood and legalists have no right to eat there. Those who continue the
ritualistic service of the tabernacle have no right to eat of or to
assimilate the significance of the sacrifice of the eternal paschal
Lamb. Specific Foods are irrelevant within the scheme of the “time of
reformation” (9:10) of the new covenant which “has made the first
obsolete.” (8:13).
We are all ministers. And the
glory of Christianity is that we have an altar - we have an old rugged
cross. And there the Savior, Jesus Christ, serves inexhaustible
helpings of grace. Do you want your heart to be strong? Do you want to
be a strong person who has the resources to love each other, and take
in strangers, and care for prisoners, and stay married or single and
chaste, and not love money? Then stay close to the altar and eat and
eat and eat again - the grace of God.
FROM WHICH THOSE WHO SERVE THE TABERNACLE HAVE NO RIGHT TO
EAT: ex ou phagein (esthio: AAN) ouk echousin (3PPAI) exousian oi te
skene latreuontes (PAPMPN):
He's referring to the priests in Jerusalem who have rejected Jesus as
their Messiah, but who go on "serving the tabernacle" which was meant
to point to Jesus as the final sacrifice and the cross of Jesus as the
final altar of sacrifice (Heb9:26; 10:12). So the altar he has in mind
is the cross where our final sacrifice was offered once for all for
our sins. There is where our food is found. There is the table where
grace was prepared.
The priests of Israel could not eat the flesh of any animal whose
blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat, though they partook freely of
the flesh of other sacrificed animals. We are “eating Christ” when we
trust him and obey him. This may be an oblique reference to the words
of Jesus in Jn 6:53,54 though this cannot be certain. But to draw
grace and strength from Jesus is to be made holy daily. This is on the
basis of the once-for-all shedding of Jesus’ blood. It was for this
very purpose that Jesus suffered outside the city gate. |
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FOR THE BODIES OF THOSE ANIMALS WHOSE BLOOD IS BROUGHT INTO THE
HOLY PLACE BY THE HIGH PRIEST: on gar eispheretai (3SPPI) zoon to
haima peri hamartias eis ta hagia dia tou archiereos:
The logic goes like this: the
sacrifices offered on the Day of Atonement were a prophetic type for
the sacrifice of Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the
world (Jn1:29). On the Day of Atonement a bull was slain to atone for
the sins of the priest and his family, and a lamb likewise was
sacrificed for the sins of the rest of the people. The blood of these
sacrifices was taken into the Holy of Holies, but both the carcasses
were taken outside the camp and burned up (Lv16:27). Therefore, those
under the old sacrificial system could not partake of this great
offering as a meal.
But Jesus, the ultimate atoning
lamb, was sacrificed outside the camp—outside Jerusalem’s walls, on
Golgotha—as an offering to God. This means two great things: 1) All
those who remained committed to the old Jewish system were excluded
from the benefit of partaking of Christ’s atoning death. And, 2)
Jesus’ death outside the camp means that he is accessible to anyone in
the world who will come to him. Jesus planted his cross in the world
so all the world could have access. And there he remains permanently
available!
AS AN OFFERING FOR SIN: peri hamartias:Ex29:14 Lv4:5-7
ARE BURNED OUTSIDE THE CAMP: katakaietai (3SPPI) exo tes paremboles:
Cp. Jn19:17 the reference here may be to the Day of Atonement, when
the priest went into the holy of holies with the blood of the
sacrifice (Lv16:27). |
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