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Sanctuary Complex
God found us under the bondage of slavery. So He paid our debt by giving Himself as a ransom and literally sold Himself into debt bondage as our kinsman redeemer. This is why slavery by debt bondage is a part of the system recorded in the Bible. It allows us to understand the magnitude of the debt to which God submitted Himself and the conditions under which we are being forced to live in the house of Satan. The system of offerings is a prophecy about how this debt was paid.

The Offerings
Although these could not atone for sin they showed that God would take the form of a lower creature to pay the penalty of sin. Only certain clean animals could be used for an offering. The characteristics and the type of animal represented what would happen to Christ when He died for our sins.

- Split Hooves. Represents the wounds in His hands and feet.
- Chews Cud. Represents the ability to return from the bowels. This is resurrection from the bowels of the earth.
- Unclean Animals. Unclean animals and scavengers cannot represent Christ because they take life and drink blood and they cannot demonstrate the wounds on the body of Christ.

Characteristics Of The Clean Animals.

Rules for Clean Animals | Ruminant Stomach
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Creature | Clean | Use | Christ | First Death. Stomach 1 and 2. Vomit. Second Death. Stomach 3 and 4. No resurrection (no regurgitation or vomit)
Animal | Split hooves | Food, sacrifice | Represents the pierced hands and feet
Chews cud | Vegetarian animals eat the seed or the green grass. Green grass represents people. The seed is the Promised Seed resurrected or coming up from the bowels of the grave and then dying to sin
Bird | No scavengers | Food, sacrifice | They feed their young by regurgitation. Rapture is represented by wings which can lift them high and can represent the arms stretched out
Insects | Jump in the air. Four or more legs | Food | Lifted up in the air. No crawling creature can represent this. Insects with many feet cannot represent Him
Fish | Scales and fins | Food | Sea creatures without fins and scales have the characteristics of the snake who represents the enemy. But since the sea is symbolically the enemy, no sea creature can be used as a sacrifice. | Chewing the Cud. Food goes from the mouth to the first stomach, then to the second stomach and back up to the mouth. Then it goes from the mouth to the third and fourth stomach then to dung where it becomes earth

The Type Of Sacrificed Animals.
While all clean animals could be used for food only certain clean animals were used for sacrifice.

Offerings | Cherubim
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Goat | Dove | Lamb | Ram |  | Heifer | Bull | Man | Lion | Eagle
Sin, Guilt | Burnt, Peace | Death | Sin, Guilt | Ordination | Son of Man | King | Avenger
God Judges the Righteous | God Judges the Wicked

Animal Offerings | The Mussaf Offerings (Numbers 28-29)
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Creature | Age (Months) | Offering | Symbol |
Feast | Bull | Ram | Lamb | Goat | All
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Daily | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2
Sabbath | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2
Rosh Chodesh (Monthly) | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 11
Passover | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 11
Shavous (Pentecost) | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 11
Rosh Hashannah | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 10
Yom Kippur | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 11
Succos (Feast of Tabernacles) | 1 | 13 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 30
2 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 29
3 | 11 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 28
4 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 27
5 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 26
6 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 25
Succos (Hosana Raba) | 7 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 24
Total Succos Offerings | 70 | 14 | 98 | 7 | 189
Shemini Atzeres | 8 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 10
| Lamb | 8 | 12 | Burnt offering (Elevated offering) (Olah) | The white color represents purity and innocence
Ram | 14 | 24
| Calf | 8 | 24 | Strength, conquering. It is Christ as the king bearing burdens
Bull | 12 | 36
Cattle | 8 | 36 | Burnt
| Kid | 8 | 12 | Sin and Guilt (Chatas and Asham) | Abomination. It represents the point at which Christ became sin, or Satan. The goat also represents Satan. He is the goat not killed on Yom Kippur.
Goat | 8 | 24
| Red Heifer | 8 | 24 | Cleansing from death | The red blood of Christ cleanses us from death at the Second Coming resurrection
| Dove | The white color represents purity. This offering for the poor was provided by heaven, in the form of a creature from heaven.

Each animal was chosen because it represents someone who would be responsible for sin.

- Lamb ("Christ"). It is God who makes peace with us by offering Himself as a whole burnt offering.
  » Burnt Offering. This offering represents the purity of God who is the one in charge of the purifying, eternal flames. Only the righteous can live in the eternal flames.
- Goat ("Satan And Sinners"). Satan is guilty but he cannot atone for sin. Only when Christ became like a goat did He officially become the sin offering.
  » Sin and Guilt Offering. This offering represents the one responsible for sin. Satan was the demon goat and Satan must represent this offering.
  » Guilt Offering: Gold Tumors and Mice (1 Samuel 6: 3-5). The story of the Philistine's guilt offering is the best proof that the offering represents the object responsible. After they were punished by a plague, the people made a guilt offering in the shape of the mice which carried the plague and in the shape of the tumors which were a symptom of the bubonic plague.
- Dove ("Holy Spirit"). God helps us to make peace with Him by giving us the Holy Spirit.
- Bull ("God"). The only clean animal of the cherubim, God gives Himself for His people and His ordained priests.
  » Peace Offering. This offering represents God Who made peace.
  » Sin and Guilt Offering. The bull was the guilt offering of the priest. He made this offering for Himself before He made the offering for the people. This represents God taking responsibility for sin.
  The Passover seder shows that Christ had a dual nature which was separated at the crucifixion. But the picture of the offering and the record of His life showed that the divine nature was submissive. This was the Bull.
  Christ must accomplish everything that He did as a human with the help of the Father and the Holy Spirit. He must win the victory with the same resources as all other humans.
  » Ordination Offering. The bull was used to ordain the priests. The bull was a prominent feature of the feast of tabernacles. Since it is the time we are ordained so that we can enter the sanctuary to live with God, the bull offering at tabernacles is a symbol of peace as we reconcile with God by becoming His priests.
- Heifer ("Church"). God even makes atonement for the dead, cleansing those born of a woman.
  » Cleansing From Death. This offering was made by the female cow. As a female it represents the church which must be cleansed from death. As a cow it represents the image of the bull who submitted to death for the bride of the bull (church).
- Donkey ("Burden Bearer"). The donkey was not sacrificed. It is an unclean animal that represents the fact that Christ was treated as unclean as He bore the burden of sin for the world. While the donkey is seen as lowly and unimportant, it was a bull disguising God in human form. Both the bull and the donkey were burden bearers. The bull wore a wooden collar to pull a plough or a cart. A donkey carries burdens on his back.
  » The Burden Of Sin. Jesus dragged a wooden cross, tied to His shoulders, down the road to Golgotha.
  From Balaam's prophecy we know that the donkey was female - the submissive gender. Together they show an image of submission from a position of strength. Although God is a powerful being, He submitted until He appeared like a lowly, unimportant and unclean beast of burden - just like a woman. Eve and all women have always been burdened with the reputation that she was the first to sin. Jesus took her shame and burden.

Female Donkey | Bull | Goat | Dove | Lamb | Ram |  | Heifer
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Burden Bearer | Ordination | Sin, Guilt | Burnt, Peace | Death
Carries Wooden Cross | Priests | Carries Away Sin and Guilt | Can Live in the Fires of God | Cleanses

The Age Of The Sacrifice.

2000 Years | 1000 Years | Eternity
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12 Months Old | 14 Months Old | 24 Months Old | 36 Months
The Time of Satan | The New Year (God Takes Over) | Eternity
Crucifixion | Shavous | Rosh Chodesh | Yom Kippur | Second Coming | Tabernacles | Third Coming
Lamb | Kid | Lamb | Lamb | Ram | Kid | Scapegoat | Red Heifer | Scapegoat | Bull
The scapegoat is condemned during Yom Kippur. Then he is set free in the wilderness to die. The global Yom Kippur started in 1844. The Holy Spirit came to tabernacle with us at Pentecost. Tabernacles will start at the Second Coming when we physically live with God. Satan, the scapegoat, will be wandering the broken earth for 1000 years. Then he will die.

There seems to be a relationship between the maximum age of the offering and historical time. If the ceremonial year to put away sin started with the baptism or crucifixion of Christ, then the maximum age and type of animal offered is related to the stage of time and the feast.
The sacrifice was made once at the crucifixion at the age of one year and is effective for all time. As each feast is fulfilled throughout time notice that the animal could also be older. In this time table, every year is approximately 1000 years.
The offering made to establish the covenant was also three years old. While Christ made this offering in the third year of the ministry, it also points to the fact that when a new heaven and earth is made, the covenant will be renewed using the blood that was shed three thousand years before.

Christ As The Offering.

Most Holy Place | Holy Place | Outer Court
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Ark of the Covenant | Veil | Altar of Incense | Menorah | Table of Showbread | Veil | Laver | Sacrifice Altar
Rod | Law | Manna | 4 Holes | Sweet Cloud | Light | Bread | Wine | 5 Holes | Water | Animal
Covenant | Law | Jesus | Gospel | 12 Disciples | Law | Baptism | Lamb Of God
Life | Obey | Life | Flesh | Intercessor | Word/Truth | Body | Blood | Flesh | Holy Spirit | Crucifixion
Law In The Heart | Tzitzit Tallit | Prayer | Testimony | Bible Study | Bread | Wine | Door | Washed | Dead To Sin
Tefillin | Repent | SHEMA | Passover | Mezuzah | Mikvah | Circumcision
Loved God More Than Life | The Word Of Our Testimony | Overcoming By The Blood Of The Lamb

The rooms, furniture, activities, feasts and traditions are all symbols of the phases of the Plan of Salvation.

- Circumcision. Like a crucifixion, we must be cut off from sin and become dead to sin.
- Mikvah (Baptism). The Holy Spirit washes away sin like a stream of pure water.
- Passover (Communion). We must feast on the gifts of Christ. He gave His life as an atonement for sin.
- Torah Study (SHEMA). The SHEMA reminds us of the importance of learning the Word of God.
- Veil (tzitzit and Tallit). His body, torn by four nails, lifted the veil of separation between us and God.
- Mezuzah. The fifth hole placed in His dead body hanging on the cross proved that He chose obedience.
- Law Internalized (Tefillin). Like this mysterious cube we must have the law permanently written inside our heart.
- Overcoming (Revelation 12: 11). According to the Plan of Salvation we will overcome by the blood of the lamb, the words of our testimony and by preferring death to disobedience and unrighteousness.

The Lamb Of God.
Jesus is the solution for sin, planned before the creation of the world.

- The Lamb Of God. John the Baptist identified Jesus as the sacrifice who takes away the sins of the world.
  The Day Has Come. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1: 29)
  The first thing the Lamb of God did was to wash in the laver - He was baptized. Then the real agent of baptism and cleansing, the Holy Spirit, came down on Him.
  The Baptized Lamb. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
  The Washing Agent. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: (Matthew 3: 13-16)
  The Table Of Showbread And The Menorah. Then He went to find the twelve and they spread the light.
- Slain Once For All Time. His perfect sacrifice is only made once.
  Jesus Is The Offering. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10: 10)
  Offered Once. Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. (Hebrews 7: 27)
  Offered At The End. For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (Hebrews 9: 26)
- Guarantees And Promises Before The Foundation Of The World. These are the plans God made.
  - Perfect Lamb With Precious Blood. We were redeemed with Someone of great value.
    The Blood Of The Lamb Of God. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (1 Peter 1: 18-20)
  - Eternal Life. Despite our record of sin, we were promised eternal life.
    Life Not Death. In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; (Titus 1: 2)
  - The Lamb's Book Of Life. Jesus has a book in which He will have the names of all who accept His offering of life.
    The Righteous. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13: 8)
    The Wicked. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. (Revelation 17: 8)
  - Grace. God's own kindness and plans made this possible and calls us.
    Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: (2 timothy 1: 8-10)
  - A Chosen, Royal, Holy People. Through Jesus Christ we are chosen to be a special nation.
    A Blameless People. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (Ephesians 1: 4)
    A Holy Nation. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; (1 Peter 2: 9)
  - Kingdom. God planned to give us His kingdom when He moves the capital here to earth. So we are destined to be His priests, messengers and ambassadors. We me also take the place of covering cherub forfeited by Lucifer. To us will go the spoils of victory of all he gave up.
    A Blessed Kingdom. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (Matthew 25: 34)
  All of this is possible through the sacrifice of the Lamb of God.
- Human Sacrifice? Really!!! How can the Plan of Salvation involve activity that is clearly a violation of God's own law? Why must we "eat His flesh and drink His blood"?
  Forbidden Sacrifice? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. (John 6: 53-54, 56)
  Yet human beings are clearly unclean for food, and drinking blood is an abomination that will exclude us from the congregation (Leviticus 17: 10) . Cannibalism is a curse. It is the ultimate forbidden food. How could Adam and Eve be punished for eating a real fruit, yet God makes us eat this ghastly food in violation of His own laws. The Plan of Salvation involved two steps, a substitution and a ransom.
  - Gethsemane (God's Substitution) Numbers 3: 41,45. Jesus made us righteous before God by voluntarily giving His blood through no acts of murder or torture. He resisted sin so much that He sweat blood through His pores, proving that Humans can be perfect before God.
    You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin. (Hebrews 12: 4)
    Since the righteous cannot be substituted for the unrighteous, He must have set us right with God even before this event. When He submitted to being the substitute, He went to calvary to pay the blood ransom that Satan desired.
  - Calvary (Satan's Ransom) Numbers 3: 46-48. The kidnapper set the terms of the ransom.
    Many laws were broken on Calvary, so it could not be what God required. God did not kidnap us, then asked for a ransom for Jesus from Himself to pay Himself. At best, God would be collecting a fee or tax from Jesus or committing extortion. Since the word "ransom or redemption" is used, God must be buying us back from whoever has us in slavery or in his custody. This is Satan.
    Purchased FOR God, Not FROM God. And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. (Revelation 5: 9)
    The terms of the ransom are written in the curse. Satan wanted blood, particularly the gruesome torture and death of Jesus Christ. He wanted this opportunity so badly he was willing to trade billions of people for one weakened and humiliated Man. Why he hated Jesus so much is the subject of another discussion.
  The answer must be that just as Satan made Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit and essentially kidnapped them, he requires cannibalism as the ransom for our release. In addition, Satan must be the author of the curses. The scriptures teach that angels gave the laws.
  Angel Given. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. (Acts 7: 53)
  We assumed that this meant that they took it from the hand of God and gave it to Moses or they were the messengers of God that dictated to Moses the words he should write. It could also mean that they, the good angels, help Christ in His role as the High Priest or that the evil angels had a part in determining these laws because it is Satan's terms for ransom.
  Sin Laws. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. (Galatians 3: 19)
  The only laws added because of transgression are the curses and the sacrificial laws. The Ten Commandments, the covenant, must have existed before because only where there is law, there is sin.
  The curses are the only part of the law that will be abolished in the new earth. They are not from the mind of God.
  No More Curse. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: (Revelation 22: 3)
  People will live in it and there will no longer be a curse for Jerusalem will dwell in security. (Zechariah 14: 11)

The Offering On The Cross
You shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God at the place where He chooses to establish His name. (Deuteronomy 14: 23)
Christ must die in the following way to satisfy the legal requirements.

The Lamb with Split Hooves The Torn Veil Hung on Four Hooks The Blood Sprinkled on Four Horns
The Breast Offering is Waving The Shoulder Offering is Waving The Thigh Offering is Lifted Up The Wings of the Tzitzit

- Qualifications. Ready to be picked.
  - Perfect and clean or sinless.
  - At a certain age (33).
  - After 3.5 years of ministry. In the fourth year (Leviticus 19: 23-25).
- Preparation.
  - Tenderized (beaten and pounded).
  - At the hands of the priests.
  - Skinned, cut up, disemboweled.
  - Cut in two (Divinity and Humanity separated).
  - Washed and salted (constant tears).
  - Cooked (boiled, baked, roasted in a trial by fire).
  - Prayer (SHEMA). He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane.
- Presentation.
  - Hands and feet pierced.
  - Lifted up in the air.
  - Arms stretched out and bound.
  - Lying on wood.
- Consumption and Disposal.
  - Eaten up by the people.
  - Carcass thrown outside the north of the city.
  - Resurrected or vomited from the bowels of the earth.

The offerings demonstrated that He would be lifted up with his arms stretched out like wings on the cross and His hands and feet would have four splits when He redeemed us.
His ordeal was patterned after the stages of Judgment which was also prophesied in Zechariah 11.

- Judgment Rendered ("Mene, Mene - Counted, Counted"). He was counted among the sinners (Mark 15: 28). He counted His bones (Psalm 22: 14, 17).
- Judgment Sealed ("Tekel - Weighed"). They weighed 30 shekels of silver to bribe the traitor.
- Judgment Delivered ("Upharsin - Divided"). Jesus was cut up as the offering. The process is still not complete after this point.
  » Salted. Preserved for judgment (Leviticus 2: 13). The people judged and mocked Him on the cross.
  - Lot's Wife. She became a pillar of salt because she was preserved for the coming judgment.
  - Church. We are the "salt of the earth" because we exist as a standard to preserve righteousness.
  » Burnt. Jesus goes before the scorching treatment of the world and the eternal flames of the Father. The wicked are burned up after the third coming when they come before the Father, but Christ lives through the burning.

Preparation Of The Offering.
Atonement was being made from the Garden of Gethsemane when God shed His own blood!

Gethsemane | 12:00 AM | Trial by the Priests | 6 AM | Trial by the Government | 9 AM | Crucified on Golgotha
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Incense Offering | Bull Offering |  | Bull Offering | Covenant | Lord's Goat | Lamb
The Altar of Incense | Burnt offering on the altar | Altar in Purple | Nailed | Sin Offering outside city
Blood on the ground | Roasted and burnt | Ashes | Given purple clothes | Wood | Ashes | - | Carcass
Fat | Liver and Kidney | Head, body, legs ...
Insides Removed | Outside Removed
South (Kohath) Furniture Removed | North (Merari) Tent Removed

Beaten and Skinned. The beating and pounding He was given by the Roman soldiers was symbolized in the process of making bread. The bread is His broken body. He was beaten, pounded, marked with lines (stripes) and poked with holes by the flagellum. When the bread is eaten, it is also broken and torn again. Then we gnash at it with our teeth and spit on it as we chew.

Disassembling The Offering.
Jesus was not burned to death or cremated. So how did He become the burnt offering?
The Son of Man was placed in the fires and was not burned up. He was preserved because He was being faithful to God.
But these three men Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego fell into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire still tied up.
... Then Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the midst of the fire.
... the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their trousers damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come upon them. (Daniel 3: 23, 26, 27)
» The Fire That Cannot Burn. God considered this emotional suffering to be worthy of its own prophetic memorial. It was symbolized as His burning. From the time He was arrested and tied up until His crucifixion, Jesus had fallen into the burning flames still tied up. The ashes that remained were His demoralized emotional state after the trials. What remained was also symbolized in the offering as His external carcass which was destroyed on the wood of the cross. The offerings were made in this order by the tribe of priests who had a specific duty in the disassembly of the sanctuary.

- Offered By The Priests ("Purchased"). They bribed Judas to betray Him with 30 shekels of silver and plotted with the Romans to kill Him. They are guilty of His death.
  ... you and your sons ... shall bear the guilt in connection with the sanctuary and ... in connection with your priesthood. (Numbers 18: 1)
- The Altar of Incense ("Incense Offering"). The altar of fragrant incense was the prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. The rest of the blood poured out at the base of the altar was the blood that came out of the pores of His body and fell to the ground.
  And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the LORD which is in the tent of meeting, and the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the door of the tent of meeting. (Leviticus 4: 7)
  Jesus began to fulfill this offering in the Garden of Gethsemane as He sweat blood on the ground.
  And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground. (Luke 22: 44)
- Disemboweled: Insides Removed ("Burnt Offering and Peace Offering"). He was emotionally disassembled at the trial. The internal organs were a symbol of the extreme emotions.
  Peace Offerings. The peace offerings had time limitations. These were the only offerings eaten by the people.
  And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD;
  Hard By The Backbone. the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone;
  Insides. and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD. (Leviticus 3: 9-11)
  There were three types of peace offerings.
  - Thank Offering. Given for unexpected blessing. Eaten on the first day. Jesus was killed on the first day. All these offerings were made on the first day, after sunset on Thursday and before sunset on Friday. Jesus made this peace offering when He unexpectedly healed the ear of the high priest's servant during His arrest. He healed those who were there to kill Him.
  - Votive Offering. Given to ask a request. Jesus prayed for their forgiveness on the cross.
  - Free Will Offering. Eaten by the third day. Jesus presented Himself as the wavesheaf on the third day, Sunday. All activities associated with the offerings were presented within three days, from Thursday evening to Saturday evening. Given out of love, it is not related to any request or blessing received. Jesus chose to forget our sins and what we had done to Him. This is His freewill offering.
  » Skinned (Take Off Hard By The Backbone). He was beaten as required by the peace offering. This was a description of His pain and suffering as He was severely beaten on His back, legs and rump by the Roman soldiers with the flagellum.
  ... The chastisement of our peace fell on Him and with His scourging we are healed. (Isaiah 53: 5)

  The Importance Of The Mind
  For many centuries, the burnt offering was the only offering known. From this lesson we see that the burnt offering was made without a physical death. This highlights the fact that God considers mental suffering as being extremely important and that it much more devastating than physical suffering. "I am hated and unloved!" The cry of Simeon is memorialized as a burnt, fat offering of this anguish of Jesus. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" (Matthew 27: 46) "I have Nothing. I am Nothing!" This is the cry of the weeping willow.

  Sin Offering. This offering was also disemboweled. In addition, it was disposed of outside the city because sinners will be placed outside the City of God and destroyed.
  Blood around the Altar. And you shall take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
  Internal Organs. And you shall take all the fat that covers the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
  External Carcass. But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, you shall burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering. (Exodus 29: 12-14)
  - Removing The Insides (Disemboweled). The inner organs such as the kidney and liver and the blood and the fat were taken out and burned on the altar. This is the tribe of Kohath removing all the furniture on the inside of the sanctuary.
    The liver and kidneys were the seat of emotions in ancient times. In the same way, we use "heart" today. Therefore the words for liver and kidney are now translated as "heart" or "reins".
    » Liver. They are associated with anger, grief, intense suffering and deep sorrow (Lamentations 2: 11).
    » Kidneys. Associated with emotions, conscience and wisdom (Lamentations 3:13; Proverbs 23:16; Psalm 16: 7; Jeremiah 17: 10).
    » Fat on the Liver and Kidney. His entire emotional suffering and pain.
    » Spleen (Milt). The organ that controls laughter. All joy was gone from Him.
    All of this symbolizes the mocking and fiery trial of Jesus and His mental or internal anguish.
    Salvation Science. It is a medical fact that fat around the belly is associated with stress. Therefore the ancients are correct, these internal organs and their fat are somehow connected to emotional memory through some mechanism that we have previously associated exclusively to the brain.
  - The Outside. This is His external disassembly. The building structure was moved by the tribe of Merari. The outer portion of the offering (the head, legs, skin and entrails) were moved in the morning to the outside of the city and burned. After an all night trial, Jesus was sent to be crucified at about 9:00 AM.
  The Priest and His Sin Offering. If the priests cause the congregation to sin, then he must offer a bull as a sin offering. Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin had sinned and caused the people to sin.
  if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer to the LORD a bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed. (Leviticus 4: 3)
  So after He was reduced to ashes, Jesus became the bull offering, carrying the yoke of the wooden cross on His shoulders to the outside of the city where He was killed. Jesus counted this as unintentional sin, because He forgave them.
  But Jesus was saying, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing" ... (Luke 23: 34)
  Burnt Offering. Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law for the burnt offering: The burnt offering itself shall remain on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire on the altar is to be kept burning on it. (Leviticus 6: 9)
  » Fiery Trials ("Grilled All Night"). His all night trial by the sanhedrin and the chief priests was the burning of the insides of the offering until the morning (John 18: 27-28). At 6:00 AM in the morning they gave Him to the government to be tried again so the Gentiles could also keep the fires burning with their civil trials.
  » Awake All Night. On the Day of Atonement it was the duty of the other priests to make sure that the high priest does not fall asleep from sunset until it was time to give the offerings. He might become unclean by having a nocturnal emission and could not possibly become clean again until the evening. So they made him walk barefeet on the cold surface and questioned him all night. This was what was done to Jesus. He had no rest during their tribunals.
  Grain Offering. The grain offering represents the seed that would be buried and resurrected. It is presented as grain mixed with oil and is always given with a drink offering and oil. Together these all represent the sacrificed Christ with His blood offering. However, it represents something else that the meat offering could not. It represents the possibility of life coming from the dead ground. The ordination offering adds one more picture that is only seen with the three Passover Matzah. We have the trinity in the offering.
  and one cake of bread and one cake of bread mixed with oil and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread which is set before the LORD. (Exodus 29: 23)
  - Father. He is the one cake of bread.
  - Holy Spirit. He is the one cake of bread mixed with oil.
  - Son. He is the wafer from the basket of unleavened bread. The whole basket are humans. On Passover, Israel is the basket of wafers that has removed all traces of leaven from their homes. Jesus is the one sinless human chosen from that basket who was without the leaven of sin.
    The wafer is made by poking holes in it so that it will not rise. Christ had five holes poked into His body to kill Him.
  » Salt. Every grain offering is also given with salt (Leviticus 2: 13). It reflects the fact that when the Seed falls into the earth and dies that it will be preserved (John 12: 24). It will not see corruption or decay. Instead it will be raised from the dead or sprout to life.
  Ordination Offering. This offering that was made after the resurrection has all the requirements.
  Blood around the Altar. And you shall take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
  Internal Organs. And you shall take all the fat that covers the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
  External Carcass. But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, you shall burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
  Blood. "You shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the lobes of his sons' right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the rest of the blood around on the altar.
  Oil. "Then you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him; so he and his garments shall be consecrated, as well as his sons and his sons' garments with him. (Exodus 29: 12-14, 20-21)
  The ordination offering also required that anointing oil, and blood be placed on the right ear, thumb and toe of the priest.
  - Blood. Blood came on His head, hands and feet by the spikes of the crown of thorns and the nails.
  - Oil. Expensive oil for anointing kings and the high priest was poured out on His hands and feet by Mary. It must have touched His hands.
  - Water and Salt. Mary also washed His feet with Her tears as she was washing the offering. The offering must be washed and sprinkled with salt.
  This offering was disposed of outside the city and the ordained priests wait outside the temple for seven days because the priests that would populate this city and sanctuary would come from another place outside the eternal city and sanctuary.
  Covenant Offering. This offering was made only one time. It is not found among the ceremonial laws because it had already been made over two thousand years before when God established the covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15: 9-18). It is discussed below.

How The Offering Was Cut Up.
Both the cutting up of the animal and the disassembly of the tabernacle illustrated the same events. The four sons from the tribe of Levi who camped around the sanctuary were responsible for disassembling the sanctuary.

1. East: Aaron ("Selected Lamb"). The chief priests betrayed and condemned Him.
2. South: Kohath ("Internal Organs"). His affliction and suffering after His arrest.
3. North: Merari ("External Carcass"). His crucifixion and death outside the city.
4. West: Gershon ("Roof, Fence, Curtain").The curtain was torn in two to give us access to heaven.

The sons of Aaron were responsible for cutting up the animal.

The Order Of Cutting (From The Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud)
Christ | Priest and Body Part | Cut (Quote From The Talmud) | The Pieces Of The Offering
--- | --- | --- | ---
Gethsemane | - | Blood | The throat was cut and the blood was drained and sprinkled around the altar
Romans: Skinned and Dismembered and Drained His Heart |
Arrested, Bound | - | Limbs held | The priests who drew the lots for the limbs held them and strung its legs together
Nail Holes | - | Legs strung, tied and hung | He did not break the leg, but he made a hole in it at the joint and suspended it from there
Beaten, Torn | - | Flayed | He then began to flay it and went on until he came to the breast then he cut off the head. On completing the flaying he tore out the heart and squeezed out the blood in it
Golgotha ("Skull") | 1 | Head
Heart Pierced | - | Heart torn out Blood drained
Laid out on the cross | 2 | Fore legs, shoulders | He then cut off the fore legs
1 | Back right leg | He then went back to the right leg and cut it off ...
Mary Given to John. Jesus is weaned | 1 | Testicles | ... and the two testicles with it
- | Udder | In females, the udder is cut open and the milk is squeezed out at this point
Life | 1 | Fat | He took the fat and put it on top of the place where the head had been severed
Priests: Disemboweled
He then tore open the carcass so that it was all exposed before him
Trial | 6 | Stomach | The stomach was washed very thoroughly in the washing chamber
Peter Denied Him 3 Times | 6 | Entrails | The intestines were washed at least three times on marble tables which stood between the pillars
Remained Silent | - | Lungs, Liver | He then took a knife and separated the lung from the liver and the finger of the liver from the liver, but without removing it from its place
People: Torn Apart
12 Tribes | 4 | Breast | He hollowed out the breast and gave it to the one to whose lot it had fallen
Jews | 5 | Right flank (side), liver | He came to the right flank and cut into it as far as the spine, without touching the spine until he came to the place between two small ribs ... with the liver attached
Jesus Dies | 4 | Neck, windpipe, heart, lungs | He then came to the neck, and leaving two ribs on each side of it he cut it off and gave it to the one to whose lot it had fallen, with the windpipe and the heart and the lung attached to it
Sword in Side. Christians | 5 | Left flank, spine, milt (spleen) | He then came to the left flank in which he left two thin ribs above and two thin ribs below; And he had done similarly with the other flank. Thus he left two on each side above and two on each side below ... and the spine with it and the milt attached to it
Forsaken | 3 | Tail bone, kidney | ... along with the tail, the finger of the liver and the two kidneys
Taken off the Cross | 3 | Left Hind Leg | He then took the left leg and cut it off
Burial All Prayers | All | SHEMA | ... and salted them and came down and went to the chamber of hewn stone to recite the shema

The Mishnah (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Tamid 30b-31b), gave the rules on how to cut up the offering.
"Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head. (Exodus 29: 17)
The law also states that the bones should not be broken (John 19: 36; Psalm 34: 20).
They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it. (Numbers 9: 12)
It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it. (Exodus 12: 46)
So, how did they cut up the offering into its pieces without breaking its bones?

- Priests Cast Lots. They cast lots to determine who would get each portion of the sacrifice.
- Animal Killed. The morning sacrifice was killed by the north western corner of the altar at the second ring, while the evening sacrifice was killed by the north eastern corner at the second ring. The priest cut the windpipe and the gullet.
  » Silence. When Jesus refused to speak to defend Himself, this was the signal that the windpipe had been cut.
- Blood. The slaughtering began when the gate was opened. The neck was cut, the blood drained and collected. Then it was splattered on the north east and south west corners. The remaining blood was poured out at the southern base of the altar.

  > Gate Opened. ... the slaughterer did not kill until he heard the sound of the great gate being opened.
  > Mishnah. Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Tamid 30b Soncino 1961 Edition, pages 19-20

  The veil was His body, but the gates were His pores. After His pores were opened and blood drained in the Garden of Gethsemane, then the priests came to hand Him over for slaughter.

  > Blood Sprinkled. ... while one slaughtered another received the blood. The latter proceed to the north-eastern corner and cast the blood on the eastern and northern sides; he then proceeded to the south-western corner and cast the blood on the western and southern sides. The remnant of blood he poured out at the southern base of the altar.
  > Mishnah. Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Tamid 30b Soncino 1961 Edition, page 22

  The blood poured out in Gethsemane belonged to God. Then His body was handed over to the priests.

  > Bird Sacrifices. He pinched off its head close by its neck, but did not sever it, and he sprinkled its blood on the wall of the altar; the residue of the blood was drained out on the base. Only the blood belonged to the altar, while the whole of it belonged to the priests.
  > zebahim 64b

  Jesus was slaughtered as the sin offering in the north with blood applied at the four horns through the four nails in His hands and feet.

  > Sin Offerings ( The He-Goats of New Moons and Festivals). Public and private sin offerings are slaughtered in the north, and their blood is received in a service vessel in the north, and their blood requires four applications on the four horns.
  > Mishnah. Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Zebahim 52b Soncino 1961 Edition, page 266

- Hole. They drilled a hole in the joint of its arms to hang up the carcass. This is where Jesus was nailed.
- Joints Separated. They did not break the bones, but separated them at the joints and cut out the heart and squeezed out the blood.
  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It is melted within me. I can count all My bones, they look, they stare at Me. (Psalm 22: 14, 17)
- Flayed or Skinned. The offering was first flayed. The word "Flay" means to whip or to lash and to cut off the skin or outer covering. It also means to assail with stinging criticism.
  He shall then skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. (Leviticus 1: 6)
  Jesus was beaten severely and they literally removed His outer covering when they tore His skin. He was also insulted with stinging criticism at the cross.
  Curtains Removed. The curtains and ceiling were taken down and moved by Gershon.
- Dismembered ("Cut Up"). Jesus was the favorite son of God Who became the staff Who was cut up in pieces to keep the covenant.
  I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. (Zechariah 11: 10, 14)
  The Covenant Offering. When the covenant was made with Abraham, God passed between the pieces of the divided offering.
  So He said to him, "Bring Me a three year old heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon." Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds. Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him. It came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces. On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: (Genesis 15: 9-10, 12, 17-18)
  The vow also symbolized that "may I be torn in pieces like this offering if I do not keep my promises". The priests carrying the cut up pieces in both hands represents this splitting in two on the right and left.
  - Three Years Old. God kept the covenant three years after Christ began His ministry when He poured out His wrath on Jesus as He was hung up and split in the darkness. He also suffered the last three days.
  - Birds. They were not split in two. They must represent the Father and the Holy Spirit who were not split in two at the crucifixion just as the top and bottom matzah were not split. God did not break the covenant so He was never divided.
  - Ram. This is Christ who was the only member of the godhead to be split in two. Although He was also faithful to the covenant, yet He offered Himself to pay for our unfaithfulness
  - Heifer and Female Goat. This is Christ dying as the woman (the church). The goat is for the living sinners and the heifer is for the dead. Everyone was represented in the covenant.
  - Sun Goes Down. The three hours of darkness.
  - The Deep Sleep. Christ died after it became dark.
  - Smoking Oven and Flaming Torch. This must represent a cosmic event that occurred after Christ died. God came and accepted the burnt offering. The Father is the oven and the Spirit is the torch. Christ is the roasted offering cut in pieces.
  » Splitting the Middle Matzah. In the Passover Seder, the breaking of the middle matzah in two signified the moment Christ was broken and His divinity was separated from His humanity. He accomplished two things.
  - New Covenant. He established the new covenant by giving Himself as the offering.
  - Old Covenant. He paid the price for breaking the covenant by being split in two.
  Priests Prepared the Offering. Aaron cut up the offering and covered the Ark with the veil.
- Disemboweled. After cutting off the pieces, the belly was opened and the insides removed.
  The Insides of the Sanctuary Removed. Kohath moved the furniture and the inner veil.
- Nine Priests. In the lesson on the twelve tribes we showed that nine of the twelve were symbolized as making the offering, and the last three showed His triumphant stages. Nine priests took the pieces of the offering to the ramp on the south side of the altar and salted them before they were burnt.

  > They went and placed them on the lower half of the ascent on its western side, and salted them and came down and went to the chamber of hewn stone to recite the shema.

  Shema. Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (Deuteronomy 6: 4-5)
  There is great irony in the fact that they recited the SHEMA. Only Jesus obeyed the SHEMA that day.
  - One God. The LORD was no longer "One". They had cut Him up, divided Him and torn Him to pieces.
  - Love God. They hated Him.
  » The Prayer in Gethsemane. Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane on the south side of the city to begin His ascent to Heaven. First, He would submit to God and obey the SHEMA. It was from the south that the priests and mob would capture Him and He would begin the exodus journey that would include being the sacrifice before completing His ascent.
  The Structure Removed. Merari moved the boards and fence and the priests carried the cut up body.
  » Casting Lots. The priests cast lots to see who would receive the pieces of the offering. The soldiers cast lots to see who would get His torn clothes (a symbol of His body).
  A maximum of thirteen priests had the right to do service. Lots were cast to determine what each would perform. Such as, who takes ashes from altar, slaughters, tosses blood, clears ashes from inner altar, clears ashes from the menorah, the nine priests who carried the pieces of the offering, fine flour, baked cakes and wine. Normally, only nine carried the offerings, but on Tabernacles a tenth priest carried the water offering. On Sabbath two carried the frankincense for the show bread and at dusk two carried wood.
  Even in this we see a symbol of Jesus and Simon of Cyrene carrying the wooden cross, before the darkness.
  » The Nine Priests. When the offering was cut up the priests held a piece in each hand.
  1. Head, Fat, Right Leg, Testicles. This is the offering He made to keep the vow (the covenant of peace).
     » The Ruler's Portion. They are the parts offered by the first priest and by the high priest on the seven days before Yom Kippur. He offered the incense, trim lamps, then offered the head and limbs, baked cakes and wine.
     » The Laying On Of Hands. These parts are also related to this practice. The right leg is the place to lay the hands for a vow. The head is the place to lay on hands to transfer responsibility. The reproductive organs are the place to lay hands to cut off the foreskin as a sign that one intends to keep the covenant.

     The Nine Priests
     # | Event | Right Hand | Left Hand
     --- | --- | --- | ---
     1 | Golgotha | Head turned up, fat covering the place where the head was cut | Right hind leg, testicles
     2 | Crucifixion | Right foreleg and shoulder | Left foreleg and shoulder
     3 | Abandoned | Tail bone, two kidneys, finger of the liver | Left hind leg
     4 | 12 Tribes | Breast | Neck, heart, lungs, windpipe
     5 | Two Thieves | Right flank (rump and side between rib and hip bone), liver | Left flank, spine, milt
     6 | Gethsemane | Insides on a platter, knees on top
     7 | Body | Fine flour
     8 | Body | Griddle cakes
     9 | Blood | Wine

     » Seal of God. Notice that these are also places for the mark of allegiance, the limb and forehead.
  2. Forelegs. He was tied up and beaten, carried the cross, nailed and then strung up.
  3. Tail, Left Leg, Kidney. At the end, when He felt abandoned. He was now the tail and not the head. God was no longer on his right hand. God did not seem to be keeping the vow on the right thigh.
     » Finger of the Liver ("Extreme Grief"). My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?
     » Kidney ("Wisdom"). Jesus had to rely on His faith in God. He had to remember the SHMA. He had to stand on His one leg. He had to stand alone.
     » Left Leg Cut Off. This was the last cut made before they took the pieces to recite the SHEMA. The Romans normally placed the left foot on top of the right foot and then nailed the two feet to the cross. Therefore, to free the feet from the cross they had to take the nail out of the left foot. This freedom of the left foot is symbolized in this final cut.
  4. Breast. This is the breastplate that lifted up the twelve tribes who were on His heart. But the disciples and the nation were separated from Him as the rib cage was separated from the lungs and heart.
     » Neck, Windpipe, Lungs and Heart. This part of the offering signaled the final moments of His sacrifice. He bowed His head at the neck. He cried out with a loud voice, "It is finished", declaring the recreation complete then He breathed His last.
     Windpipe and Lungs. And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed His last. (Mark 15: 37)
     Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!"
     Neck. And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
     Heart. But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. (John 19: 30, 34)
     When His side was pierced it punctured His lungs and heart and all the blood drained out of it.
  5. Flank ("Sides"). These were taken off hard by the backbone and symbolized His severe beating. But He was wounded for the two branches of the church who would emerge that day, Jews and Christians. They were also symbolized by the sinners who were crucified with Jesus.
     » Liver ("Anger"). The Jews retained their anger but the founders of the Christian church repented.
     » Between The Floating Ribs. The description suggests that when the priest cut off the left flank he cut between the two floating ribs, leaving eleven pairs of ribs above and one pair of ribs with the left flank. What does this separation of the tribes into eleven pairs and one pair represent?
     - Judas. He is the only one of the twelve that was separated.
     - Dan. He is the only one of the twelve that will be missing from heaven.
     - Two Thieves. The separated pair represents the two thieves on either side of the spine.
  6. Gethsemane and the Trials ("Insides and Knees"). This is the offering made in Gethsemane when Jesus knelt down to pray in such great anguish that He sweat blood. The insides are a symbol of His great emotions and the knees are a symbol of His kneeling in prayer.
     » Peter Denies Him. Peter also denied Him three times. The last time he did this was while he was standing at the gate outside the court yard. He was between the pillars on the marble stones.

     > The stomach was washed very thoroughly in the washing chamber, while the entrails were washed at least three times on marble tables which stood between the pillars.

     » Washed Three Times. The washing chamber was the court of the priests. The intestines were washed three times to symbolize the three times that He asked His disciples to pray with Him and they fell asleep. It is also the three times Peter denied Him.
  7. Fine Flour. His body returned to the dust as He was symbolically reduced to ashes.
  8. Griddle Cakes. This is a symbol of Him being cooked and grilled.
  9. Wine. His blood.

Jesus As The Lamb Of God. An analysis of the order of the cutting of the animal and the pieces held by the nine priests do not show a sequence of events. Instead, the cutting order shows the assignment of responsibility for the death of Christ to three groups of people.

Dismantling The Temple And The Lamb
Inside (Kohath) | Outside (Merari)
--- | ---
Gethsemane and Arrest
Furniture | Body Part
--- | ---
Altar of Sacrifice | Stomach
4 Horns | Hands, feet
Ashes | Refuse
Laver | Fluids
Table of Shewbread | Blood, body
Trial and Mocking
Furniture | Body Part
--- | ---
Menorah | Head, heart, eyes
Altar of Incense | Fat, nose, ears, lungs
Liver, kidney, spleen
Both Veils, Tent | Skin
Ark of the Covenant | Divinity, Brain
Crucifixion (Romans)
Furniture | Body Part
--- | ---
Boards | Arms, legs, bones
Bars | Entrails
Curtains | Clothes
Cords, Pegs | Life (Job 4: 21)
Hooks | Nails, crown of thorns

- Romans ("External Carcass"). The Romans arrested, flayed and disposed of the carcass on Golgotha. They dismembered Him by stretching His bones out of their joint on the cross. They placed the cross on His shoulders and nailed Him to it.
- Priests ("Internal Emotions"). The priests were responsible for His betrayal, unjust trial and humiliation.
- People ("Consuming"). The people, including the priests and Gentiles, were responsible for tearing Him to pieces and eating Him. They were the twelve tribes who abandoned Him. They were the two branches of the church who stood on either side and cursed Him.
  - Right Hand ("Jews"). They had the signs of the seal (right hand and forehead), and the 12 tribes.
  - Left Hand ("Christians"). They are entrusted with the covenant, the seed and growing of the Church.
  - Both Hands ("Both Churches"). Both are entrusted with prayer, the broken body and blood of Christ.
  » On the Right Hand of God. The symbols are clear. Those on the right hand caused emotional pain and those on the left would cause joy. However, the Jewish branch of the church still remains on the right hand of God because the Christian church is not a new branch, it will be joined to Israel.
  His Right Hand Was Cut Off. If your right hand makes you stumble [offends you], cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell. (Matthew 5: 30)

Jesus As The High Priest. One reason why the cutting order seems confusing is that the actions of Jesus as the High Priest also fulfilled the actions of the common priests that night. Jesus fulfilled his work as High Priest who performed this ritual from the final Passover supper until He said the prayers in Gethsemane. Then He went to submit Himself as the Lamb who underwent this same ritual.

- Flayed. He took off His clothes to wash the feet of the disciples.
  got up from supper and laid aside His garments and taking a towel, He girded Himself. (John 3: 4)
- Washed. He washed the feet of the disciples.
- Three Times. He only drank three of the four cups of wine.
- The Lot Falls On Judas. He became the one who caused the Lamb of God to be cut up.
  - Jesus Tosses Blood. Jesus shed His own blood in Gethsemane.
  - Judas Slaughters. Judas gave Jesus to Caiaphas the high priest who gave Him to Rome to be crucified.
  - John Removed Milk In The Udder Of The Female. John was the priest at the weaning. He received Mary to care for at the time the milk would have been removed from the sacrifice. At this point this came through.
    And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, "Behold this Child is appointed for the rise and fall of many in Israel, for a sign to be opposed - and a sword will pierce even your own soul - to the end that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed". (Luke 2: 34-35)
  - Peter Removes Ashes. Several priests removed ashes from the altar, inner altar and menorah. The ashes were removed at cock crow, when Peter denied Him at the end of the trial where He was grilled to ashes.
    » The Ashes. Simon of Cyrene helped Jesus to carry the cross after the all night trial.
  - Nine Priests Carry Pieces. We do not know what the other nine disciples did except that they scattered in all directions. In this act they ripped Him into pieces.
- Chamber Of Hewn Stone. He went to the Garden of Gethsemane before He went to the grave.
- Recite The SHEMA. Prayers in the Garden and His continuous work as the High Priest.

Pierced With A Sword. Jesus was pierced with a sword to fulfill the requirements of the curse.
A Sword. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. (Deuteronomy 28: 22)
Satan Will Suffer The Same. Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. (Ezekiel 28: 7)
Pierced. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. (Isaiah 14: 19)
The gospels do not record in which side Jesus was pierced. According to the experts on Roman culture, the sword was usually placed in the right side. However, since some things about the death of Jesus were contrary to the normal course of events we cannot assume that this was also normal.

- Died Quickly. He died much more quickly than expected.
- No Broken Legs. His legs did not have to be broken as was usual.

Crucifixion Anatomy and Physiology
Jews (Accusers) | Christians (Violent)
--- | ---
Right Hand | Left Hand

So let me argue for the possibility that the sword was thrust in His left side from a purely symbolic perspective. All these objects are symbolized on the left, so perhaps the sword is on the left.

- Source Of The Blood And Water. An upward thrust through the floating ribs would certainly pierce the heart and lungs and cause a flow of water and blood. Some sources argue that the "water" came from His kidneys, but I argue that because of God's meticulous attention to detail a source of waste matter would not represent the pure and perfect "Living Water" from His side. Rather, it was the accumulation of water in the lungs, the repository of the "Breath of Life" mixed with the "Living Water" to produce the "Water of Life" that represents the Holy Spirit.
  » Holy Spirit. He is both symbolized as "Wind or Breath" and Water. And only water in the lungs of God combines both symbols, not urine.
- Leaning Left. According to the Passover Seder, the men must lean left while eating the bread. As a symbol of being swallowed up in death, this leaning left could both be a symbol of turning towards the Gentile side at His death and leaning into the pain on the left side.
- Lungs, Heart, Windpipe. These organ were placed in the left hand of the priest, which we argue represents the Gentile division of the church, and they also represent the highly symbolic method by which He died.
  - Lungs. Gave up the Spirit or breath.
  - Windpipe. He breathed His last.
  - Heart. Heart failure (Psalm 22: 14; Psalm 69: 20; Psalm 38: 8,10) The heart is on the left side of the body.
- Ribs Over The Heart. The twelve ribs on the right are the Jews and the twelve ribs on the left over the heart are the Christians. Since the covenant is formally with the Christians the twelve disciples are the names over the heart of the High Priest.
- The Church With The Sword. In the prophecy of the twelve tribes, the Christian church on the left is symbolized as the violent church with the sword.
- A Roman Sword. It was the Gentiles, symbolized on His left, and a Gentile sword that was thrust into His side.
- Cutting The Left Flank. It is only when the priest made the cut between the two floating ribs on the left flank that he completed the separation of both flanks from the body. The sword must have been thrust between these two ribs on the left side up through the lungs and then the heart to finish the job. This was the last cut made into the body before the left leg was cut off.
- The Accusers On The Right. A Messianic prophecy describes Satan, standing on the right hand of the high priest with accusations as He was dressed in filthy clothes as He carried our sins. Although the Jews were His accusers, they are still on the right hand.
  The Accusation. Then He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. (Zechariah 3: 1)
- The Four Species (Lulav and Etrog). During the feast of Tabernacles, the people hold a lulav in the right hand and an up side down etrog (citron fruit) in the left hand. During the ceremony the etrog is turned right side up. All four species are brought together during the blessing and in the wavings during the hallel.
  The etrog represents the Gentiles who are at first upside down, and then are turned right side up during the feast. They are reunited with the Jews when we all learn to praise God.
- Ephraim: The Temporary Son Of The Right. Israel was dying as he blessed the sons of Joseph, but he crossed his hands to give the blessing of the right hand to the younger son. Notice that both Joseph and Israel placed Ephraim on the right hand.
  The Crossed Hands. Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand towards Israel's left, and Manasseh with his left hand towards Israel's right, and brought them close to him. But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn. (Genesis 48: 13-14)
  The nation of Israel was dying in sin as Jesus atoned for all sins in the Garden of Gethsemane. When He was finished, He left the Garden to pronounce the blessing. But He was arrested at the gates and His hands were bound. Binding the hands causes the right hand to be on the left side. In that position, the left side received the blessing of the right hand. The Gentiles temporarily received the blessing.
- The Lot For The Lord's Goat. According to Jewish tradition and history recorded in both the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud, for forty years after the crucifixion until the temple was destroyed, the lot for the Lord's goat always came up in the left hand. Before then it was a 50% chance that this lot would be in the right or the left hand, but one source said that the Lord's lot would always fall in the right hand. God had chosen to be on the left side.
- Ezekiel's Temple. When the Prince approaches the temple from the east, the priests of Zadok are on the left in the south and the Levites are on the right in the north. The duties assigned to each group matches those given to Jews and Christians.
- Crucifixion Diseases. In our science pages we show how Christ showed the symptoms of many diseases on the cross. One disease in particular that affects Jews, Familial Mediterranean Fever, shows that he would have pain in his left side.

Washed and Salted. The offering was washed and salted for taste and to symbolize preservation. Bread was also offered with frankincense to also symbolize this preservation or embalming process.

- The Covenant of Salt. All offerings were given with salt which represents a preservative and gives taste.
  Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt. (Leviticus 2:13)
  As a preservative it represents the promise or the covenant that God would not allow His body to undergo decay in death. When given with the grain offerings it reinforces the idea that the Seed would be preserved in death and it would spring back to life out of the dead earth.
  For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. (Psalm 16: 10)
  » The Salt of the Earth. So when Jesus said that we are the salt of the earth, it does not mean that we add flavor (Matthew 5: 13). Because of our presence, the earth is saved from death and destruction, just as God would have saved Sodom if He found ten righteous people.
- Wash with Water. The legs and internal organs were washed in water.
  Then Aaron's sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head and the suet over the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar. Its entrails, however, and its legs he shall wash with water ... (Leviticus 1: 8-9)
  After Jesus died, blood and water poured out of His side. That water from His lungs probably ran down His side and His legs and on the inside of His body where His liver and kidneys came in contact with it.
  Before He died, Mary washed His feet with her salty tears and with expensive perfume. She fulfilled both symbols of cleansing and preservation.

Presentation Of The Offering
The Heave Offering. The wave offering was swung back and forth to the right and left and the heave offering was moved up and down. Both were lifted up.

- Heave Offering. This offering was made when Jesus lifted up the heavy cross on His shoulders. The coss bar of the cross was tied to His shoulders like a yoke which was tied to the shoulders of an ox.
  Contributions such as the tithe, peace offering, right shoulder of the peace offering, consecration ram, gifts from the spoils of war were given as heave offering.
- Wave Offering. This offering was made when He stretched out His hands to be nailed on the cross. This offering consisted of the breast of all peace offerings, fat, breast and right shoulder of the consecration ram, left shoulder of the Nazarite's peace offering, first fruits of the barley and wheat harvest, jealousy offering and the trespass offering of a leper.

Wave Offering: Lifted Up And Stretched Out Arms (Wings).
The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the offering you may eat in a clean place ...
The thigh offering by lifting up and the breast offering by waving ... (Leviticus 10: 14-15).
Then the priest shall take the ram's shoulder after it has been boiled ... Then the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. It is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered by waving and the thigh offered by lifting up; and afterward the Nazarite may drink wine. (Numbers 6: 19-20).
The actions required for making the offerings foretold the position of the body of Christ.

- Breast Offering. His breast, shoulders and arms would be spread out like wings as if He were waving. Waving involves both the actions of "lifting up" and stretching out the arms like wings. Both the shoulder and the breast were presented as a wave offering.
  Several things were given as a wave offering.
  - Grain or Bread. Jesus was the first fruits of the barley harvest. The bread was His body.
  - Levites. (Numbers 8: 11) Jesus was a priest and a first born male who belonged to God.
  - Breast and Shoulder Offering. (Numbers 6: 20) This is the position of the sacrifice on the cross.
  - Nazarite Hair. (Numbers 6: 19-20) He was put to shame.
    The wine that the Nazarite will drink is the fourth cup of the Passover that Jesus will drink with us in the New Jerusalem. Until then He takes the Nazarite vow and does not drink wine.
  » Peace Offering. The priests also ate the breast offering and the right thigh for the peace offering.
  - Breast. This represents the twelve tribes of Israel who will be in heaven where the peace offerings are the only offering. Here is a remarkable coincidence. The ribs do not represent birth order of the nations, they represent how they are attached to the father. All ribs are attached to the backbone which represents the father Israel. The sternum under the breast, represents the legitimate mothers. Cartilage represents the concubines. The twelve pairs of ribs represent the twelve legitimate sons, eight belonged to the wives, four belonged to the concubines and there were two grandsons.. But it is the configuration in heaven that is represented by the rib cage.
    - 7 True Ribs. Attached to the sternum in front. These are seven of the sons of the legitimate wives.
    - 3 False Ribs. Attached to cartilage which is attached to the last rib. These are the three sons of the concubines who will inherit the kingdom. Dan, the fourth son, will be lost. Judas was lost.
    - 2 Floating Ribs. Attached only to the backbone. This is the inheritance of the eighth legitimate son. These are the two sons of Joseph who hold his double portion. They are not attached to the front because neither the wives nor concubines were their mothers. Their mother was a Gentile from Egypt. But by a vow Israel made himself their father, attaching them only to his backbone!
      Now your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh are mine, as Reuben and Simeon are mine. (Genesis 48: 5)
      » Spiritual Birth. These two represent the process of the true spiritual birth. The miracle of this birth is that we are born from a man, not a woman.
    Jesus actually held Israel in His breast on the cross, next to His heart as the High Priest Who carried the breastplate with the 12 stones on His heart.
    » No Broken Bones. Twelve tribes would be saved despite the fact that one would be lost.
    » The Missing Rib. Sometimes there are people who have eleven or thirteen ribs. There should have been thirteen tribes, but there are twelve. There should have been twelve sons, but there are eleven. If Dan had not been lost, there would have been thirteen ribs. Because Dan is lost there is only eleven surviving sons. But the genius of God created two sons from one by a vow. He compensated for the missing son and made a spare.

    Backbone and Ribs
    1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13
    --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
    Leah | Rachel | Concubines | Joseph | Dan
    Sternum | Cartiledge | Floating | Extra

    » Adam's Rib. There is no reason why Eve could not have been created by the voice of God like Adam. But in this little drama, God is demonstrating the special efforts that He would make to create the church (the woman) with His own outstretched hands. After Adam was put to sleep, Eve was created from one rib through a wound in his side. After death came to humans and after Jesus was put to sleep, a wound was opened in His side and the woman was created from the rib of the Man from the tribe of Judah. Blood and water came out of this wound made after His death. Both signify life and cleansing.
  - Right Thigh. The thigh was where Israel made his vow. It represents making the oath (Genesis 47: 29). The thigh was also where Jacob received his wound as he wrestled with God until he obtained the victory and the blessing (Genesis 32: 24-32). Jesus did not let go until He was victorious and He did lose omnipresence as He lay dead in the tomb. He was crippled.
- Thigh Offering. He would be "lifted up" as the thigh offering on the cross.
- Outstretched Arm. He delivers with an outstretched arm.
  And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror and with signs and wonders. (Deuteronomy 26: 8).
  When He delivered us from slavery to sin, His arms were stretched out on the pantibulum of the cross. The great terror was the wrath He suffered. The signs and wonders were the earthquake and the dark sun.
- Lulav ("Bouquet of Six Branches"). During the feast of Tabernacles, the lulav was lifted as a wave offering.
- The Nazarite Vow. Christ appears to take the Nazarite vow after the last supper.
  - Clean and Unclean. He separates the righteous and wicked.
  - Left Shoulder. The Nazarite makes peace with those on His left hand.
  - The Dead. He has no association with the dead because His mission is about raising the righteous.
  - Dedicated Hair. The hair is not cut until he is ready to end the vow. Hair growing out of the head is a symbol of people, like grass growing out of the earth. The hair of the Nazarite is the righteous people growing out of the one dedicated to God.
    » Cutting the Hair. This is a sign of the resurrection and circumcision. They are cut off and given to God.
  - No Wine. After we have been saved, then the vow ends.
- Ordained Priests. The priests were presented as a wave offering at their consecration.

The Four Wounds (Split Hands And Feet).
Whatever divides a hoof, so making split hoofs, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat. Leviticus 11: 3

- Whatever Divides The Hoof (Split Hoofs). Jesus' hands and feet were split by nails.
- Whatever Chews The Cud. Jesus was regurgitated (resurrected) after He lay down in the bowels of the earth.
- That You May Eat. Jesus was the Passover meal that they boiled, chewed, spit on and ate.

» Horns (Spiked Crown). Clean animals tend to have horns although this is not a requirement. The shape of the horns on the head are clearly a representation of the crown of thorns.
» The Inner Veil. Although the sword caused another wound after He died, He had only four wounds when the offering was completed and He said "It is finished". It took four wounds to fulfill the covenant. The wounds of the four nails are symbolized by the curtain on four hooks, four split hooves, blood on the four horns of the altar and the four boiling places in the four corners of Ezekiel's temple.
» The Torn Curtain. The inner veil was also torn at His death and a sword tore His body.
» Five Wounds Of The Outer Veil. However, the curtain between the outer court and the Holy place had five hooks. This might represent the five wounds that He received in the outer court as He was hung up on the cross. The fifth wound occurred after He died to fulfill the curse.

Consumption And Disposal Of The Offering.
Golgotha: The Place of the Feast.
He shall slay it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord, and Aaron's sons, the priests shall sprinkle its blood around the altar. (Leviticus 1: 11)
» North of the Altar. Jesus was crucified in the north outside the city, outside the Damascus gate.
» Around the Altar. The circuitous route that they took after His arrest to the six trials and to Golgotha actually encircled the sanctuary and the altar. See map of Old Jerusalem.

Mount Moriah. The same mountain where God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac was the same mountain where God provided His own son as the sacrifice for sin. The temple was built on Mount Moriah (2 Chronicles 3: 1).
God Gave His Son as the Meal. He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you." Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
God Provided the Lamb. Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together. Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. (Genesis 22: 2, 7-9)

Consuming The Offering. The offering or parts of it was consumed in several ways.

- The Fat and the Blood. It is a perpetual statute ... You shall not eat any fat or any blood. (Leviticus 3: 17)
  Both were not to be eaten but were given to God because God would return all of it. Only a particular type of fat was used. The fat around the body organs of the liver and kidneys were burned as an offering. In ancient times, the liver and kidneys were the seat of emotions.
  then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12: 7)
  » The Spirit is Life. So the promise of a life held by God and returned was portrayed by three symbols. Blood is our physical life. Fat is our emotional life. Salt is a covenant to preserve the physical body from decay. Fat represents abundance, and it also represents a particular portion of life that will be preserved. When we die, this important part of our selves that makes us unique is preserved by God. So all of it must go back to Him. God will restore our life and He will restore our personalities, feelings, memories and emotions and all that made us unique.
  » The Blood Atonement. Christ paid for our sins against God in the Garden of Gethsemane when He shed His blood voluntarily. It was the blood brought in the sanctuary that was needed for atonement. The burnt animal, eating of the offering and everything else did not make atonement for sin. The carcass was not brought in the sanctuary and placed before God. The priests and people ate that. Notice the law.
  Blood Cannot be Eaten. For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life. because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, "You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off." (Leviticus 17: 11, 14)
  While the carcass can be eaten the blood cannot. The true offering to God is not eaten. Eating symbolizes the torture that Christ endured as they spit on Him and gnashed at Him with their teeth and tore Him to pieces. God's requirement did not involve cruelty of any sort. So the true sacrifce cannot be eaten.
  The eating of the sacrifice, the killing and the joyful feasting over the death was Satan's cruel celebration at the death. It was the ransom paid to Satan to win back dominion over the earth. But the price paid for eternal life was made in Gethsemane when God gave the gift of life by giving blood.
  Blood. The blood was applied in these places.
  - Poured out on the Ground. The blood atonement was made at the altar of incense in the garden of Gethsemane when He sweat blood and it fell to the ground.
  - Four Horns. The four nails that pierced His body.
  - Right (Ear, Thumb, Big Toe) of Priest. The blood of the guilt offering was placed on the priest. He would give His blood. Jesus was the right arm of God who would hear, go and do the will of God. He would be the atoning sacrifice for sin and the right arm of God.
    This application of the offering was done to cleanse the leper on the eighth day and to ordain the priest. The symbols of this offering are fulfilled when He executes vengeance on the wicked.
    - Ear. He will not hear the wicked on the day of judgment.
    - Thumb. His right arm is no longer stretched out to save.
    - Toe. He will trample the wicked under His feet.
    When applied to His work as High Priest for the righteous, this anointing is life. When the leper was cleansed, both oil and blood were applied to these three places. It represents the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit since His inauguration as High Priest.
    - Ear. He will hear the prayers of the righteous and the Spirit will help us to pray.
    - Thumb. His right arm is stretched out to save. We will reach out to accept His offer.
    - Toe. He will make earth His resting place. We will go where He sends us.
  » On the Right Hand. The world is divided into two groups. The righteous are on the side of God where He will hear them and has atoned for their sins and have cleansed their leprosy. God is deaf to those on His left.
- Eating. Any offering that was eaten symbolized His death and burial. The grain offering was also eaten to symbolize the Seed of Life falling into the ground to die and having the power to sprout to life. Three groups of people consumed the offering in varying proportions. The amount of consumption indicates some degree of participation or responsibility.
  - God Only. The burnt offering (continual), red heifer, blood and fat were given entirely to God. Neither the priests or people ate any of it. God will be totally responsible for providing continual atonement and for preserving our lives and personalities until the resurrection. This offering is entirely a gift from God. This offering did not kill Him physically. Jesus completed this offering after the trials and before the crucifixion.
  - Priests. God ate the blood and fat of the sin, guilt and grain offering. The priests ate the remainder. Since we are all priests at this phase, this participation applies to us. God has paid the price for our sin and guilt. Therefore we do not need to sacrifice a new offering. We just need to consume, eat or accept the offering that was made. So we are responsible for coming to God when we realize that we have sin or guilt and ask for forgiveness and accept this forgiveness. Forgiveness is a meal!
  - All People. The people ate only the peace offerings. These are for fellowship (shelamin), free will (nedabah), votive (neder) and thank (towdah). None of these provided atonement for sin. The priests ate the right foreleg and breast. The people ate the rest. The thigh is used to make a vow. It is our responsibility to choose to go into a covenant relationship with Him. The covenant is based on peace and security. We vow to be His people and He promises to provide us security. This offering will always exist in the new earth.

The Seed Eaten And Vomited From The Bowels Of The Earth

The Innocent Passover Lamb | The Sin Offering | The Wavesheaf Offering
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- | Hour (3 to 6) (9 A.M. to 12 ) | Darkness in Hour (6 to 9) (12 to 3 PM) | After Hour 9 (3 PM) | 6 PM | Sunday
Trial | Crucified (Nailed) | Clothes Torn | Mocked | Mother | Forsaken | Thirsty | Vinegar |  | Veil Torn | Died | Earth quake | Sword | Buried | Resurrected
Boil | Eat and Chew | Swallow | Vomit
Night | Day 1 (Friday) | Night | Day | Night | Day 3

The animal that chews the cud adequately represents the resurrection. This is because the animal eats the seed and grass and vomits it up from its stomach.
Jesus compared His time during this period to the ordeal of Jonah in the belly of the fish and also to a seed dying. This was because He was the promised seed that would die. He was to be in the "bowels of the earth" for three days and He would escape from the grave, literally vomited out of the grave.
for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Matthew 12: 40)
• Buried in the Bowels. And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish for three days and three nights. (Jonah 1: 17)
• Vomited from the Bowels. The Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land. (Jonah 2: 10)
• The Resurrected Seed. Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. (John 12: 24)
The preparation of the offering showed the stages of suffering that Christ would endure for three days through the symbolism of cooking and eating.

- Seed. He was the Seed promised to Eve and the Lamb of God given for the sins of the world.
- Boiled. He was boiled from the time He was in the Garden until his beating and trial and rejection.
- Eaten. He was eaten and chewed up as the offering with the spitting, mocking and verbal abuse.
- Swallowed. He was swallowed into the grave when He was buried.
- Vomit. He was regurgitated from the grave at the resurrection and regurgitated from the earth at the ascension.

It is a fulfillment of the words of Moses. They would cannibalize their own children sent by God when He sent the curse.
Christ is the Son that was Eaten. So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
Then you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and distress by which your enemy will oppress you. (Deuteronomy 28: 45, 53)
So they ate Christ, the Son who was given to them.
Christ is the Son Who is God. For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and this government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9: 6)

Separating The Young Goat From His Mother.
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. (Exodus 34: 26)
Christ was given to us through Mary. He remained with her until it was time for Him to be eaten. Jesus became the sin offering after He formally separated or was spiritually weaned from His mother.
In the prophecies of the Messiah we explained that the ritual to cleanse a woman after she give birth to a male child was a prophecy about the age of Christ when He would become the offering. He would be thirty three years old.
In this law of the young goat, we find some supporting evidence about his age when He was offered. Jesus was not to become the sin offering until He left His mother. God did not have a problem viewing Christ as the innocent Lamb from birth. However, He was not to be viewed as the sin offering when He was a child. Only after He separated from His mother could He formally become the sin offering. He was thirty three years old.
When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, "Woman, see, your son!". Then He said to the disciple "See, your mother!". From that hour the disciple took her into his own home. (John 19: 26-27)
He suffered for three days and nights as the offering. He became the sin offering for three hours.
» Removes Milk (The Weaning of Jesus). When a female was slaughtered the udder was cut open and the milk was squeezed out. This occurred around the time the genitals, testicles and thigh were removed in the male. This was when Jesus gave Mary to John so that He could fulfill the law that the goat should not be cooked in its mother's milk.
Think about this. From Isaiah 65: 20 we learn that in heaven a person is still a child at 100 years old. This is at most the age of 12. Therefore, at the age of 33 Jesus was still under four years old on the eternal scale. From the law about the age of the Passover lamb, we learn that He must be one year old. So 33 human years is about one year on the eternal scale. He was still a baby who was forcibly weaned by removing the breasts of His mother.

Disposal Of The Waste. His sacrifice on the wooden cross outside the north of the city was the disposal of the ashes, head, legs, skin and carcass of the offering. (Leviticus 4: 3, 11-12)

- Outside the City and In the North. Christ was crucified outside the north gate of the city in Golgotha. It was here that they disposed of the ashes and the carcass.
  He shall lay it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord, and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle His blood around the altar. (Leviticus 1: 11)
- The Carcass. After taking out the insides, they must take the head, legs, outer body and dung outside the camp to be burned on wood.
  But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, you shall burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering. (Exodus 29: 14)
  But the hide of the bull and all its flesh with its head and its legs and its entrails and its refuse, that is, all the rest of the bull, he is to bring out to a clean place outside the camp where the ashes are poured out,
  Wood. and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned. (Leviticus 4: 11-12)
  » The Wood. The cross is the wood on which Christ was killed.
  » A Clean Place. Jesus was crucified outside the gates in the north at the opposite end and He was buried in a new tomb. The garbage dump was in the valley of Hinnon in the south where they had dead bodies and crucified criminals. He must have been brought to this place because they wanted to see this public spectacle and the garbage dump in the valley of Gehenna was not a suitable place for the priests and the crowd who wanted to stay and mock.
  » Burn the Leftovers. The bread and the flesh represent His broken body.
  The remainder of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn in fire. (Leviticus 8: 32)
  » Dung. Christ hid every person in Himself at the cross. When we accept Him then we are assimilated into His body, When we reject Him we will be excreted as dung and burned to death in hell fire outside the New Jerusalem. When we are not really committed to Him, He cannot assimilate us because we cannot withstand the fiery trials of being in Him. So He vomits us out of His mouth. If we choose to commit he will swallow us again, otherwise He will spit us out on the ground where we will share the same fate as the dung.
- Remove the Ashes. It was also the custom to remove the ashes from the altar at cockcrow. Peter denied Him for the third time as the cock crowed. His emotions must have hit rock bottom at the end of His fiery trials.
  » Altar Draped in Purple. The ashes were removed and the altar was covered in purple before it was moved.
  Then they shall take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it. (Numbers 4: 13)
  » Change His Clothes. The priest changed his clothes before taking the ashes outside the city.
  Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. (Leviticus 6: 11)
  » Jesus Dressed in Purple. They dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him; and they began to acclaim Him, "Hail king of the Jews!" They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him. (Mark 15: 17-19 also John 19: 2 and Matthew 27: 28-31)
  They dressed Him in purple because purple was the color of riches and royalty and they were mocking Him as king. Jesus was also the priest. So He was required to change His clothes before going outside the city with His own ashes. When they took off His clothes to dress Him in purple and then changed His clothes again, they fulfilled two laws. He changed His clothes and He was covered in purple after His ashes were left.
- Before Night. The ancient Israelites stoned idolaters and blasphemers to death, then they were hung on trees to show that they were accursed by God. But the Law forbid the corpses to remain on the tree overnight.
  If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance. (Deuteronomy 21: 22-23)
  So Jesus died the same day, hanging on a cross of wood and He was buried before sunset.

The Sacrifice Of Christ.

Burnt Offering and Sin Offering
The Innocent Lamb The Submissive Bull The Sinful Goat The Donkey Who Bears Burdens The Snake Lifted Up on the Cross

Several animals were used to represent different phases of the offering. The paradox is that as an innocent man, Christ must carry our sin and guilt as He is being offered. God represented these facts and the paradox of an innocent man dying for the guilty by using different animals. Christ was the ashes, the burnt offering and the sin offering that was killed in the same place outside the city.
In the place where the burnt offering is slain, the sin offering shall be slain before the Lord. It is most holy. (Leviticus 6: 25)

- Bull (All Offerings). The bull is the only one of these animals that was represented as a part of the cherubim. It was the only animal in the cherubim that could qualify as an offering. Therefore, it represents the powerful God submitting Himself to be killed. He became the bull offering when He carried the cross on His back like an ox with a yoke.
  If you look at the number of offerings given during the essential feasts you will notice that the innocent lamb dominates. But you will also notice that the bull became a prevalent offering during the feast of tabernacles. This is when God would assert His role as a conquering king with power for the planet Earth to see.
  The bull was also used as a sin offering in situations of innocence or sins of the priest. Therefore, when our sin is not intentional and they cannot be attributed to Satan, God Himself takes responsibility so that He can atone for all sin. Because He bore our sins as the Priest, He paid for His "sins" with His own life as the Bull offering.
- Lamb (Burnt Offering). This clearly represents the pure, innocent, obedient Christ who was killed. The white color also adds to this picture. The continual burnt offering was the substitute for our eternal burning. How did Christ represent the burnt offering when He was not cremated and His body was not allowed to decompose? This is where the mortal animal, like the mortal Levitical priesthood, could not represent Christ. On the altar, there was an eternal flame which was never put out. The representation of a continual offering was symbolized by constantly burning a mortal lamb. This required two lambs every day. The eternal nature of the fire was represented by constantly keeping it supplied with fuel and not allowing it to be extinguished.
  » Who can live in the Eternal Fire? When Christ died as the Lamb of God and went before the Father after His resurrection, He went into the presence of the eternal fires of God and, like Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego, He was not burned up.
  He is constantly in the presence of the eternal fires and He is not consumed because He is righteous. Satan and the wicked will be consumed by this fire when they stand before God. So the sons of Levi died, the lambs died but this new High Priest is eternal and He can live in the eternal fires.
- Goat (Sin Offering).

  The Christ As The Sin Offering
  Of all the animals that represent the sacrifice of Christ, the goat which is used as a sin and guilt offering most represents the mission of the Messiah (Christ). He shall save people from their sins. Therefore, in the drama of Yom Kippur we can see the contrast between the Lord's Goat and the Scapegoat as the contrast between the Christ and the Antichrist. One saves people from sin, the other is the cause of sin.

  While other animals were used as a sin offering, the goat was generally the sin offering that was used in the critical ceremonies as an atonement. God uses several negative images to represent Christ on the cross. Both the snake and the goat are symbols of Satan that were also used for Christ.
  But the paradox is that the snake would cure and the goat would be given for sin.
  How can this be so?
  It is because, this was the image of Christ that became sin and was ultimately rejected by God on the cross. They represent the moment at which Christ literally became as abhorrent as Satan and He had to be rejected by God. At that moment He looked like Satan. At that moment He was full of sin. Our sins. At that moment the symbols of a snake and a goat are ideal. This is why those symbols were used to represent that phase of His time as the offering.
  We do not know the extent to which God suffered. We think of these offerings as symbols without substance, an intellectual exercise by God. But God really suffered. He was really rejected. He really carried our sins.
  The Paradox. He was the innocent One who was treated as a sinner and became the symbol of sin.
  Became Sin. He made Him who knew no sin to became sin for us. (2 Corinthians 5: 21)
  Became A Curse. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us - for it is written, "cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree". (Galatians 3: 13)
  These negative images were Christ as the innocent sin offering who bore sin. Although Jesus bore our curses, He was not cursed nor was He defiled by our sins.
  Yet He Was Not Cursed. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. (1 Corinthians 12: 3)
  - The Snake On The Cross. In Eden, we were snake bitten by Satan, but Christ swallowed up Satan.
    As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. so that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life. (John 3: 14-15)

    The Defeat of Satan
    The traditional understanding of this symbol is that Christ killed the serpent at the cross. However, we ignored the fact that the serpent healed their diseases.

    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about that everyone who is bitten will live when he looks at it". (Numbers 21: 8)
    A banner is generally not placed on a flag pole. A "standard" that is used to hang a banner or flag is usually shaped like a cross. The upright post is planted in the ground. The cross bar is used to hold the banner flat so that the emblem can be seen.
    Because Christ was also innocent He could free us from sin. Therefore, the one who momentarily became a snake could give eternal life. Israel was pierced by the serpent in the desert and they died. In the future, Israel pierced their Messiah as a despicable serpent and His death made them live.
    » The Sinful Messiah. For this reason, the Torah sometimes pictures the Messiah as a sinner. He never sinned. Since He bore our sins He was treated as a sinner. He was even treated as Satan, the worst sinner.
  - The Serpent Holder. Jesus is truly King of kings, putting all principalities and power beneath Him. When He conquered the snake by becoming a snake, He also became the king of the serpents when He conquered their domain. He conquered death and hell by going to sheol, the land of the dead. When the dead staff rose to life He became the serpent holder who will swallow up Satan. Moses shows that picture of Christ at the first miracle he performed to lead the people in the great exodus.
    The Serpent King. ... and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a serpent. For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. (Exodus 7: 10, 12)
    - Swallows Death. The King of serpents swallows up the serpents of death and the grave.
      "So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?" (1 Corinthians 15: 54-55)
    - Swallows the Serpent. He holds the serpent in the abyss of His stomach. Revelation 20: 1-2.
  - The Demon Goat (Scapegoat). The goat has always been symbolic of Satan or his people. Therefore, it is logical that the "sin offering" should represent the source of sin and the sinful people. (Matthew 25: 32-33)
    Therefore, the one who momentarily became a goat would carry the sins of the goat people.
  The Millennium.
  Only a sacrificed animal represents Christ. Therefore, the sin offerings represent Christ. However, on the Day of Atonement there was a second goat that was not killed. The priests cast lots to see which goat would be the Lord's goat and which was the scapegoat. The sins of the congregation were spoken in his presence as the priest laid his hands on the head of the scapegoat. Then it was taken to wander in the desert by a strong man and thrown off a cliff. This clearly represents the moment when God would tell Satan what he had done and confine him to the broken earth. He will be forced to see the result of his error and contemplate the words of God and his future death. Ultimately, Satan will die.
  - The Lord's Goat. This goat was sacrificed for sin. It represents Jesus Christ.

    Christ As The Scapegoat
    Just as Christ is seen as the serpent when He became the curse, He can also be seen as the scapegoat. » Confess On His Head. Our sins were put on His mind and heart. When we pray to Him for forgiveness, we put them on His head. » Led Away. He took away our sins. » Led Away by A Gentile. The Romans and Simon of Cyrene. » Taken Outside The City. He was crucified and buried outside the north wall. » Wilderness. He was in the land of death. » Thrown Off a Cliff. He was the disgraced Son of God.

    One male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and their drink offering. (Numbers 29: 11)
    Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering which is for the people ... (Leviticus 16: 15)
  - The Scape Goat. This goat was not sacrificed, therefore it does not represent Christ. During the millennium, the scape goat will be wandering in the wilderness when the Day of Atonement ends. God will put all our sins on his head. He will literally make Satan remember all the wrong that he has done. Satan will experience guilt. For one thousand years he will be conscious of his guilt. His surroundings will also be a constant reminder of the destruction he created. At the end he is thrown off a cliff. He loses his exalted position forever and he will be humiliated before the entire universe.
    The rules for the sin and guilt offering were the same. While Jesus suffered sin and guilt for us, Satan will suffer for his sin and guilt. As part of this, he must be reminded of what his rebellion has done to the earth and the people.
    Then Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and he shall lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands in readiness. The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a solitary land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness. (Leviticus 16: 21-22)
    Satan will bear his own sins outside the camp of heaven because he cursed God.
    "Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then let all the congregation stone him. You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, "If anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin". (Leviticus 24: 14-15)
  - The Serpent. Satan is the serpent and the scapegoat. He will be given time out to consider his crimes.
    Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he took hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. (Revelation 20: 1-2)
  In another lesson we demonstrate how Christ suffered the same punishment as Satan.
- Dove. The dove was never used as a corporate offering. It was brought by the poor so that they could participate. This participation of the sinner is a reminder that they are the ultimate reason for this sacrifice. In using a bird as the offering for the poor, God is saying that when we cannot provide an offering, Heaven provides one for us.
  Ultimately, we are all poor. We cannot provide our own offering. So, He provides Himself in the form of Christ as the offering. And, God also sends us a dove, the Holy Spirit as another Gift from Heaven.
  Jesus is the poor son of God who was presented as the offering by the Dove (the Holy Spirit). He gave the Dove as His offering to all those who realize that they are "poor in Spirit" and need the Holy Spirit.
  » Beheaded in Golgotha. Bird offerings were killed by wringing off their necks. This conflicts with the requirement that His bones should not be broken. How? The place where He was crucified was identified as a skull! It may also reflect the separation of the divine and human. He could not sense the presence of the Father.

Christ As The Leper Messiah.
The rabbis and Jewish scholars used to apply Isaiah 53 exclusively to the Messiah. In particular, Isaiah 53: 4 is interpreted as the Messiah who is so scorned that He is treated like a leper. Unable to answer the dilemma of recognizing the suffering Messiah as well as the conquering Messiah, modern scholars have begun to apply Isaiah 53 to the suffering of the people of Israel only. But even in this misdirection they are not wrong. The people of God and this planet are treated like lepers. But the Messiah will also be treated like a leper and He is one of the suffering people of Israel.
Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him a leper [stricken], smitten of God, and afflicted. (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 98b on Isaiah 53: 4)
In Leviticus 14, the procedure to cleanse a leper is similar to the services on the Day of Atonement: But while the second bird is set free, the scapegoat is thrown off a cliff.

- Christ came to earth as a leper who lives outside the camp separate from the clean people of heaven.
- The priest comes to visit the leper and if the leper is clean then he should perform the following ceremony.
  - Cross, Blood. Takes two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet string and hyssop.
  - Altar of Earth. One bird is killed in an earthenware vessel over running water. Christ is killed on earth.
  - The living bird, the wood, scarlet string and hyssop are dipped in the blood of the dead bird. The wood is the cross, the scarlet string is the blood of Christ, the dead bird is Christ and the living bird is the saints.
    Jewish tradition says that a scarlet string is also used on Yom Kippur. A red strip of cloth was tied to Azazel on Yom Kippur and a piece was also tied to the temple door. The red strip on the door became white when the atonement was accepted.
  - 7 Days. The leper is sprinkled seven times. During seven days, Christ made His exodus from the earth.
  - Atonement. The living bird is set free over the open land. Humans are set free by the death of Christ.
  - Ordination. The leper can enter the camp but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.
    Christ enters heaven after the resurrection, but He must wait seven days for His inauguration.
  - Washed. On the seventh day, the leper washes his clothes, shaves his hair and bathes.
    Shaving His hair represents His death. The rest represents His righteousness and purity.
  - Presentation. On the eighth day, the priest who pronounced him clean shall present the leper, two male lambs, one ewe, oil and grain offering before the Lord at the doorway of the tent.
    On the day of His resurrection, Christ is the priest who presented Himself to heaven as the wave offering with the barley harvest or sample of His church (the ewe).

The Gender Of The Sacrifice.
All sacrifices represented Christ and Christ made every sacrifice when He died. However, in a few cases the animal could be female. The distinction seems to be based on the difference between the sins of Adam and Eve, although Eve flirted with temptation she was tricked into sinning and her sin was unintentional. On the other hand, Adam knew what he was doing when he ate the fruit.

- Male ("Intentional Sin"). This shows that the Christ would be a human male when He died for our sins as a gift.
- Female ("Unintentional Sin"). Just as we explained how Christ became like the serpent when He became sin, we now show that He became the church (the woman) when He stands in our place before God.
  » The Dilemma. A woman cannot die for our sins, but the woman must die for her sins. A woman always represents the church, yet only Christ can be a sacrifice. How do we resolve this paradox? Christ solves this dilemma by becoming Israel, the woman. He was both the innocent Man who died to save the woman, and the woman who deserved to die and satisfy the requirement for the wages of sin. So, legally, the woman also died and paid her debt when the female sacrifice died. In his love for the woman, Adam also sinned. In His love for the woman, Christ took her place and became sin.
  Only certain types of sacrifices could be female. The sacrifice for unintentional sin and for the person who needs cleansing from contact with the dead, such as all humans.
  - Goat ("Our Sins as Leaders"). This could be either male or female. Both Satan and the church are guilty of sin. When Christ became sin, or became the goat He also identified with the woman who was just as guilty as the goat. So He became both Satan and the woman in order to identify with us. He became the only faithful member of the church or the only faithful woman of Israel.
    If the sin which he has committed is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female goat without defect ... (Leviticus 4: 28)
    The female goat was used as an offering for unintentional sin by the common people. A male goat was used for a leader (verses 22-23). As those who were once common people, we are all destined to be priests and leaders. A priest must always make sacrifices for himself before he makes the sacrifice for the people. So, all bases are covered for all our phases. In the final days of the world when we are without an intercessor, we have an advocate who has already paid for our unintentional sins. After a certain point, the final church will never sin intentionally.
  - Lamb ("Our Sins"). This was also an offering for unintentional sin among the common people.
    But if he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring it, a female without defect. (Leviticus 4: 32)
    In the specific case of unintentional sin, it shows that God "winks at" or overlooks the sins done in ignorance (Acts 17: 30). This means that where there is no knowledge of sin, sin will not be attributed to us and the male does not need to die, but the woman will die to sin when she discovers it.
  - Red Heifer (Female Cow) ("Our Death"). This was used to cleanse those who had come in contact with death (Numbers 19). The water used in the ritual clearly represents the Holy Spirit who also cleanses us from sin. He could only come after the sacrifice was killed. This animal represents the church who needs to be saved from death at the Second Coming.
  - Ewe (Female Lamb) ("Our Separation"). This was presented on the eighth day of the cleansing of a leper. This is the church whom Christ presents to God after He has been resurrected.
  - Heifer ("Blood Guiltiness"). When a dead person is found and the guilty person is unknown then this offering was made by the elders of the city.
    If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has struck him, All the elders of the city shall which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. and they shall answer you and say, "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it". (Deuteronomy 21: 1, 6-7)
  - Heifer And A Female Goat. Two of the animals in the offering to establish the covenant. Because of us, He was split in two for breaking the covenant (Genesis 15: 9-18). He freed us from death and sin.
  The thirty pieces of silver that was paid for Jesus was not only the price of a slave but also the ransom price for a woman between twenty and sixty years old. (Leviticus 27: 3-4)

Sacrificed For The Curse
The sacrifice also fulfilled the curses given to the sinners in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3: 14-18).

- Male ("Hard Labor, Thorns, Sweat"). Jesus sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane. He wore a crown of thorns and had four nails and a sword stuck through His body. Hard labor came in His efforts to breate and carrying the heavy cross until he fainted.
- Female ("Submission, Labor Pains"). Jesus submitted to the Father, accepting death on the cross by submitting into the hands of His enemies. His torture and death gave birth to the church.
- Satan ("Death, Crawl In The Dust"). Jesus fell in the dust and died, condemned as a serpent and a wicked man.

Ransomed And Made Holy
Jesus was also counted among the animals, that is why He was born in a stable and represented by a beast of burden (donkey and ox) in His final week. A first born human could be ransomed, but not an animal. As the lamb of God and the first born of Mary and one dedicated to God, Jesus could not be ransomed. He could only be put to death.
However, a first born among animals, which as a first born belongs to the Lord, no man may consecrate it, whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord's. ... Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the Lord out of all that he has of man or animal or of the field of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the Lord. No one who may have been set apart among men shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death. (Leviticus 27: 26, 28-29)
» Exchanging The Just For The Unjust. Now here is a law which shows how we became holy by His sacrifice.
Now if it is an animal of the kind which men can present as an offering to the Lord, any such that one gives to the Lord shall be holy. He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange an animal for an animal, then both it and the substitute shall become holy. (Leviticus 27: 9-10)
Only even exchanges can be made and then both become holy. So God did not exchange bad people for a good Man. If He did, then He would have to populate heaven with sinners. The blood of Jesus made us clean. After the cleansing offering, the exchange and ransom was made for us. Good for good. Inherent Good for acquired good. Are we as holy as Christ? Of course not. It is only because His blood covers us that it makes us look as holy in the eyes of God.
But how did the just die for the unjust as the scriptures said in 1 Peter 3: 18? It is a matter of timing. Jesus, the just man, made sure that He covered us, the unjust woman, with His blood before the fair exchange or substitution was made.
For Christ also died for sins, once for all the just for the unjust so that He might bring us to God ... (1 Peter 3:18)
Practically this is what Christ did. He exchanged His righteousness for our sins. But legally, the exchange was made after He had cleansed us with His blood in Gethsemane so that it was an equal exchange.
So Jesus was evaluated as a first born son, a woman, an animal (lamb), Satan (goat) and a sinner.

No Righteousness By Works
All signs of human work and effort are eliminated from the sanctuary and the priests who enter there. Righteousness is a result of the works of God alone.

- Altar of Sacrifice. It is made of dirt and uncut stones. The sacrifice of Christ is from the kindness of God alone.
  Altar Made of Earth. You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause my name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
  Altar Made of Uncut Stone. If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it.
  No Stairs. And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness will not be exposed on it. (Exodus 20: 24-26)
  It must have a ramp but not stairs because steps are a sign of human hand work. In addition, if you make steps your nakedness will be exposed. This means that your works cannot cover your sins. Righteousness by our own efforts is nakedness. We must be covered by the righteousness of God.
  Only one Man could appear naked before God and live by His own works. Jesus was naked on the cross as He suffered the curse. But He had His own righteousness.
- Sweat. The priests must not wear garments of wool and linen that make them sweat. Wool makes them sweat which is a sign of work.
  Linen turbans shall be on their heads and linen undergarments shall be on their loins; They shall not gird themselves with anything that makes them sweat. (Ezekiel 44: 18)
  » Linen And Gold. However, the high priest can wear garments with gold and linen mixed together (Exodus 28). While we cannot have righteousness by works, we must first have righteousness through goodness and perfection interwoven in our pure character. It is then that our right characters will produce the righteous works that are precious to God. This type of righteousness is without effort. It is natural goodness that shines out.
- Barefoot. The priests enter the sanctuary barefoot because shoes are a sign of human hand work. Being barefoot is also a sign that He has paid the price of redemption.
  Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redemption and the exchange of land to confirm any matter: a man removed his sandal and gave it to another; and this was the manner of attestation in Israel. (Ruth 4: 7)
- Seamless Garment. The clothes worn next to the body must be seamless because seams are a sign of human work.

Kosher Dietary Laws
Most people agree that many of the dietary laws are based on health principles, but then there are some dietary laws that defy explanation. So people obey them simply because the Torah says so. We will look at all these laws to illustrate that the dietary restrictions were Messianic prophecies, even those based on health.
The Process Of Eating. Before we look at the laws we must understand the meaning of the stages of the food preparation and eating process.

- Boil, Roast and Cook. This is the time of His many trials before the priests, the Jewish rulers and the Roman rulers. It began from the moment He was arrested around midnight until He was handed over for crucifixion in the morning. God compared this experience to being roasted alive all night until only the ashes and the shell of a man remained in the morning.
  The Emotional Death. Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law for the burnt offering: The burnt offering itself shall remain on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire on the altar is to be kept burning on it. (Leviticus 6: 9)
  In the morning He carried the wooden cross outside to the north of the city where He was crucified.
  The Shell of A Man. if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer to the LORD a bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed. 'But the hide of the bull and all its flesh with its head and its legs and its entrails and its refuse, that is, all the rest of the bull, he is to bring out to a clean place outside the camp where the ashes are poured out,
  Cross. and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned. (Leviticus 4: 3, 11-12)
- Chew. During chewing, the saliva is mixed with the food. This was His time on the cross when they spit on Him and threw insults at Him.
  Insults. The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes at him with his teeth. (Psalm 37: 12).
  They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him, and three days later He will rise again. (Mark 10: 34).
- Swallow. The food going into the bowels is a symbol of the burial of the body in "the bowels of the earth".
- Regurgitate. This process is unique to animals that chew the cud. These animals have four stomachs. Food is processed in the first and second stomach. Then it is regurgitated from the second stomach and then swallowed back into the third stomach where it is processed and excreted as waste. It is a symbol of the resurrection or being vomited from the bowels of the earth.
  - First Death ("Stomach 1 and 2"). Everyone, good and evil will be resurrected from the first death.
  - Second Death ("Stomach 3 and 4"). Only the wicked will go back to the bowels of the earth where they are eliminated as waste or dung on the surface of the earth. There is no regurgitation in this phase.
  The Land And Sea Vomit Up The Wicked. Vomit is a symbol of resurrection.
  Land. For the land has become defiled; Therefore I brought its punishment upon it, so the land has vomited out all its inhabitants. (Leviticus 18: 25)
  Sea. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades [the grave] gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. (Revelation 20: 13)

Kosher Sacrifices. To understand the Messianic symbolism of the dietary laws one must also understand how the dietary laws impact the sacrifices.

- Clean and Unclean. We must define the biblical meaning of "unclean". It does not mean sinful, diseased or dirty or disgusting although those things are unclean.
  The principles were based on separating the clean from the unclean which is a model of the Plan of Salvation which separates the righteous from their sins. An analysis of what was unclean leads to an understanding that what was unclean would not exist in heaven. And, based on what caused the uncleanness, an object could be made clean again. So that an object is not "unclean in itself", but derives its uncleanness because of some aspect of its use or temporary condition caused by sin.
  - Animals. Only certain clean animals could be used as a sacrifice because they represent Christ.
    Clean Animals. Represent the Plan of Salvation.
    » Lamb. The innocent Lamb of God who died for our sins.
    » Goat. The one who is responsible for our sins and the clean one who takes responsibility for sin.
    » Bull. The strong, majestic creature who carries a yoke is both a sacrifice and one of the cherubim. The yoke on the shoulders of the bull is the yoke of the cross on the shoulders of Jesus.
    » Dove. It was also used for a sacrifice by the poor.
    Unclean Animals. They can never become clean in this regard because they cannot physically demonstrate the death and resurrection of Christ. However, some represent the treatment of Christ.
    » Donkey. It represents slavery and it represents the fact that God bent down to bear burdens on His shoulders as He became a slave to the cross to save us from our sins.
    You are to give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD. Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem every firstborn among your sons. In days to come, when your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' say to him, 'With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. (Exodus 13: 12-14) see Exodus 34: 19-21
    The donkey is redeemed at the same time as the lamb. And at this point it, like the Gentiles, is not unclean. Uncleanliness is not merely a way to separate food groups it is a method to separate righteous actions from sinful ones. This may point to the fact that even the animals are being redeemed along with the whole creation.
    For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. (Romans 8: 18-23)
    » Eagle. One of the four faces of the cherubim was an eagle. Revelation 4: 7
    » Lion. He is the lion of the tribe of Judah, King of man and king of beasts.
    » Serpent. The moment He became the sin offering who was sin, He looked like a serpent.
    » Wolf. The picture of Christ at the Second and Third Comings when He destroys the wicked and distributes the reward to the righteous.
    » Worm. His body was not eaten by worms when He died but He was treated as one.
    But I am a worm and not a man, a reproach of men and despised by the people. (Psalm 22: 6)
  - Gentiles. Those who do not know God are unclean because such people will not exist in heaven. But a Gentile can become clean if they learn about God.
  - Unclean Spirits. Those who rebelled against heaven. In heaven there will be no rebellion.

    Day | Process | Fertility | Purity
    --- | --- | --- | ---
    1-5 | Menstruation | Least Fertile | Unclean
    6-13 | Follicle matures
    14 | Ovulation | Most Fertile | Clean
    15-28 | Endometrium grows

  - Menstrual Cycle. A woman is clean during her most fertile days and unclean during her period and seven days after when she is most infertile. Infertility was uncleanness and represents the inability to be fruitful and multiply. So heaven must be a place where we are fruitful at will so that no eggs are wasted. All potential life is born.
    » The Desire of Women. But since the birth of the Messiah is a highly prized event, infertility can be seen as the most undesirable of all states, a waste of time, for those who wanted to be His mother. The birth of the Messiah signals the time when the whole world will be made clean, so the time when a woman is fertile and the Messiah could be conceived is the beginning of that clean time.
    » Seminal Discharge. A man is unclean if his discharge is blocked or if it spills outside his body. This is a reflection of precious seed that is killed. If the seed is not used for fertilization it is an unclean situation.
    Fertility was highly desired because the Messiah would be born from the seed of a woman.
  - Dead. Touching the dead causes us to be unclean. Since this is a process that has to be done, we now see an example where being unclean has nothing to do with being sinful but is related to a state of being that is contrary to the plan of God. Death will never exist in heaven. So the dead will never be clean until they are resurrected.
    This is the same reason why a killed egg or sperm makes a man or woman unclean. They have touched the dead, even though it is only a potential life. So no seeds of life will be wasted in heaven.
  - Leprosy. Besides the medical reason of disease transmission, signs of illness are unclean because they will not exist in heaven.
- Forbidden Animals. Certain animals, their milk and eggs cannot be eaten. While the dietary laws applied to all types of flesh, the sacrificial laws only applied to clean animals and doves.
  - Animals. Those with cloven hooves that chews their cud. Leviticus 11:3; Deuteronomy 14:6.
    The death of the Messiah is represented by these two distinguishing features.
    - Split Hooves ("Nailed Hands And Feet"). Jesus' body would be split the nails that caused four wounds in His hands and feet at the time of His death where He was crucified.
    - Chews Cud ("Resurrected"). Jesus is the Seed swallowed into the bowels of the earth who would be resurrected. This seed would also spring to life when it fell into the earth and died.
    - Does Not Die By Itself (Public Execution). Any animal eaten must be killed, it cannot be found dead. The death of Jesus could not be used for atonement if He committed suicide, or died of old age or died of an unknown source. He must be killed by the priest.
  - Birds. The rules are not as clear. There is a list of forbidden birds that seem to eliminate scavengers as food. They are unclean because they eat the dead. Leviticus 11:13-19; Deuteronomy 14:11-18
  Fish and insects cannot demonstrate the work of the Messiah, therefore all laws may be related to health. In addition, these animals are used to illustrate evil.
  Wicked people are symbolized by the raging sea, and Satan is symbolized by a serpent from the sea. The wicked are also symbolized by slimy, amphibious creatures who live in both water and on land.
  - Fish. Those with fins and scales were clean. Leviticus 11:9; Deuteronomy 14:9. But they could not be used for a sacrifice because they cannot model the death of Christ. Somehow the fins and scales of the clean fish must represent the righteous who must survive among the wicked. The early church used the fish as a symbol of their evangelistic efforts, with the disciples as fishermen. Leviathan is described as a monster with the head of a fish who controls the sea. Jesus rescues fish from the sea.
  - Insects. The rules are not as clear. Leviticus 11:22
  - Reptiles and Swarming Things. These are not to be eaten.
- Separation Of Meat And Dairy. Exodus 23:19; 34:26; Deuteronomy 14: 21. Of all the laws this is the one that does not seem to be based on any known logical reason. The law is now observed as a separation of all meat and dairy, but the original law is more specific. It is related only to a young goat and only the milk of its mother.
  You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. (Exodus 34: 26)
  The death of Jesus represented many types of offering. This is a prophesy about what would happen at the time He became the sin offering. Jesus became the sin offering during the three hours of darkness on the cross when the Father abandoned Him. He became the demon goat and the serpent on the cross because He became sin when He bore our sins.
  He made Him who knew no sin to became sin for us. (2 Corinthians 5: 21)
  But before He became the sin offering He separated Himself from His mother, like a child being weaned.
  When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, "Woman, see, your son!". Then He said to the disciple "See, your mother!". From that hour the disciple took her into his own home. (John 19: 26-27)

  Incense | Burnt Offering (Lamb) | - | The Sin Offering (Goat) | The Wavesheaf Offering (Grain)
  --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
  Seed | Seed Dies in the Ground | The Seed springs to Life
  - | - | Hour (3 to 6) | Darkness in Hour (6 to 9) | After Hour 9 | Sabbath | Sunday
  Gethsemane | Trial | Crucified (Nailed) | Mother | Forsaken |  | Veil Torn | Died | Earthquake | Sword | Buried | Resurrected
  ... still in Mother's Milk | Boil | Eat and Chew | Swallow | Vomit
  Night | Day 1 (Friday) | Night | Day | Night | Day 3

  The Sword. The sword in His side is symbolic of sticking a fork into the meat to see if it is done cooking.
  But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear and immediately blood and water came out. (John 19: 34).
- Slaughtering Method. The animals must be killed in a certain way. It must be without disease or did not die of natural causes or killed by another animal. Numbers 11:22; Deuteronomy 12:21; 14:21
  - Without Disease. Jesus must be perfect.
  - Cause of Death. Death must not be by natural causes or by another animal. The cause of death must be the sinner or the priest acting on their behalf. At His crucifixion it was the priests who initiated the plot to have Him killed. A natural cause of death would not indicate fault but might actually indicate the "hand of God". God was not responsible for sin. Death by another animal does not indicate fault. As the head of the world, it was the sin of Adam (Mankind) that eventually caused death on earth.
  - Without Torture. According to tradition, the animal must be killed as quickly and painlessly as possible by cutting the jugular vein. A dull or jagged knife, or a hesitation cut mark makes the animal ineligible as a sacrifice because these are indications that the suffering lingered longer than possible.
- Blood and Fat. Blood and fat that covers the internal organs is not to be eaten. (Leviticus 7:26-27; 17:10-14) Blood cannot be consumed and must be drained from the animal. Residual blood must be removed by soaking, salting or broiling within 72 hours of killing.
  - Blood. The life is in the blood and it is the blood that makes atonement for sin. Therefore it must all go back to God as a ransom and cannot be eaten. Eating would mean that humans take a part of it.
  - Fat. Fat is a symbol of being filled with life, specifically emotional life. Just as decay and shrinking are signs of death, fat is abundant life. Jesus was guaranteed that He would not decay. He was raised within 36 hours of death and within 72 hours of being handed over for slaughter.
  - Salt. Salt preserved the meat and it was a symbol of the promise that His body would not decay in death. (Psalm 16: 10)
- Grape Products. The grape was crushed to produce the juice, pulp and skin. The restrictions on grape products derive from the laws against using products of idolatry because wine was commonly used in the Pagan rituals.
  The handling of the grape was more important than any other fruit because the grape symbolized His death.
  - Crushed to Death. He would be crushed like a grape. His emotional suffering was symbolized as death along with His physical death.
  - Blood of Grapes. His death would provide the precious blood needed to atone for sin.
  - Drink Offering. His blood would be poured out on the ground like spilled wine.
- Grain, Fruit and Vegetables. They must have all non-kosher bugs removed.
  - Death. Animals can only represent the work of Christ to a certain point. They cannot represent life coming back from the dead.
  - Life. Grain and seeds represent life coming back from death and burial under the earth. This is why the grain offering (wavesheaf) represents the resurrection.
- Passover. Other special dietary rules applied to Passover. Passover was the feast during which Jesus became the offering for sin that would serve as a perpetual remedy for all sin. At His death Jesus paid the penalty for sin, so that no sin remained. The special rules of Passover symbolize the eradication of sin.
  - No Grain or Beans. The five major grains were, wheat, oats, rye, barley, spelt. When Christ died He became the only Seed of Eve to whom the promise was made. Therefore, at Passover no other seed but Christ must be the only Seed present at Passover because He was the only Seed that would fall in the earth and die for sin, and spring back to life from the dead.
  - No Leaven. Bread is a symbol of the body. Leaven is used to "puff up" the bread. Being "puffed up" is a symbol of pride which was the sin of Lucifer that caused the fall.
  - Bitter, Green Vegetables Dipped in Salt or Vinegar. They represent His bitter experience with tears.
  Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed He does not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ. For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise. (Galatians 3: 16, 18)
  "It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'AND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED'. (Acts 3: 25)
  In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice. (Genesis 22: 18)
- Nerves. The sciatic nerve and its blood vessels in the hind quarters are not eaten. It honored the events surrounding the renaming of Jacob to Israel. Jacob means ("following after", "taking by the heel", "supplanter", "swindler"). Israel means ("contender with God", "prince of God").
  A Crippling Injury. Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with Him until daybreak. When he saw that He had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so that the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him.
  Israel. He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed".
  Nerve. The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon. (Genesis 32: 24-25, 28,31-32)
  Jacob's experience copied the experience of the Messiah. Both would receive an injury that affected their walking. Eve was told that the promised Seed would be wounded in His heel. Jesus gave up His omnipresence when He came to earth and was confined to the region of Judea.
  And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel. (Genesis 3: 15)
- Food in the Sanctuary. Water, grain, nuts and fruit represent the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit after the crucifixion. Only the dead animal and its blood could represent the sacrifice.

  Ark of the Covenant
  Incense Altar
  Table of Shewbread
  Menorah
  Laver |
  Altar of Sacrifice
  Most Holy | Holy Place | Outer Court

  - Outer Court. Blood is not eaten but it is placed on the four horns of the altar of sacrifice and on the ground, representing His death on the Cross.
    - Meat. The death of the lamb on wood is the death of the Lamb of God on the cross.
    - Grain Offering. The Seed that would die.
    - Salt. The preservation of His body in death.
    - Olive Oil. The Holy Spirit.
    - Water. The sacrifice washes away our sin.
  - Holy Place. Blood is not eaten but it is placed on the four horns of the altar of incense, representing the blood He shed in the Garden of Gethsemane.
    - Bread. The broken body of Christ which we must take.
    - Grape (Wine). The atoning blood of Christ which we must take.
    - Olive Oil. The Holy Spirit provides light through understanding the word of God.
    - Spices. The sweet incense goes to God continually like prayer.
    - Veil. The torn body of Christ. Blood was sprinkled on the veil.
  - Most Holy Place. Blood is not eaten but it is placed on the four horns of the ark and on the veil.
    - Bread (Manna). The bread of life.
    - Almond. The wooden stick of Aaron is life that sprang from dead wood at the resurrection.
    - Tree of Life (12 Fruit). The righteous nations of God who have the fruit of the Spirit.
    - Water of Life. Eternal life with the Spirit of God.

Repetition and Enlargement

Type | Section | How Offered | When | Leviticus | Jesus | The Wicked
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Blood | On ground | Life is drained into the earth | Gethsemane | 4: 34 | Life would resurrect from the ground like a sprouting seed
On 4 horns | Placed on 4 horns | 4 Nails
Burnt | Whole | The "Continual". It burnt every hour, continually. | All night trials | 6: 9-13 | Suffered the eternal burning for us outside the city | Burnt with eternal fire, outside the city, the New Jerusalem
Ashes | Then the ashes were placed outside the city | Golgotha
Wood | Placed on wood | Cross
Peace | Breast | Wave | On the cross | 7: 11-21 | Jesus made peace with God, reconciling us to Him. We will be lifted up after the resurrection and wave palm branches at tabernacles | Became enemies of God. They do not make peace with Him. Instead they start a war.
Shoulder | Wave
Thigh | Lifted up
The thanksgiving offering was a peace offering. It was offered with unleavened cakes and oil. It must be eaten on the first day. | Father forgive them. We were reconciled to God during three days | 7: 12-15 | Jesus accepted His destiny in the Garden of Gethsemane on the first day He died | They reject the Holy Spirit and Jesus and refuse God's peace offer
The free will was a peace offering. It must be eaten by the third day. | 7: 16-19 | Jesus rose from the dead on the third day | They start a war
Fat | Organs | Burned | Preserved by God | 6: 12 | Emotions, memories | Self lost
Salt | Offering | Sprinkled | 2: 13 | Body would not decay | Eaten by worms
Sin | Whole | Eaten. Burned for atonement | Dead and buried | 6: 24-30 | Jesus died for our sins and guilt | Satan faces his sins and guilt in the millennium and is forced to remember them
Scape Goat | Released alive in the wilderness | 16:5,9-10
Guilt | Whole | Same rules as the sin offering | 7: 1-7
Drink | Juice | Like the grain offering | 23: 13 | His blood was spilled for us | Drink the cup of the wrath of God
Grain | Handful | Lifted up then burned in smoke as a memorial | 6: 14-23 | His body was broken for us | Will be broken by the Rock
Remainder | Eaten as unleavened cakes | 6: 16
First Fruits | Wave the sheaf of the harvest | Raised with others | 23: 9-12 | First resurrection | Second resurrection
Ordain | Thigh | Wave, then burned fat and thigh | High Priest | 8: 22-36 | They become priests and kings and are a wave offering that is presented to God | Cannot become priests because they married a prostitute and cursed God.
Breast | Wave, then eaten | 8: 29-31
Grain | Burned entirely | 6: 23
Blood | Put on right ear, hand, big toe | Son of the right hand | 8: 23-24
Oil | Head, clothes | 8: 30
Priests | Wave | Numbers 8:11
The Eternal Fires of Hell
This Continual Burnt Offering was reduced to ashes and removed to a place outside the city. The animal was burned up until it became ashes. It did not burn forever. It was the fire on the altar that was never to be extinguished, not the life of the burning animal. Jesus suffered this punishment of eternal burning for us. The wicked will suffer eternal burning, but they will not be burning forever. Their ashes will be outside the city of the New Jerusalem. Then the righteous will live in the eternal fire of God which will never go out.
Peace Offering. All the animals were used for a peace offering. It would take the symbolism of all of them to make peace between God and humans. It could be male or female. Atonement. Any offering that makes atonement by bringing the blood into the sanctuary shall be burned. It is not eaten. It must be male. The ashes must be taken to a clean place outside the camp. Sin Offering. In the ordination service, the calf or bull was used as the sin offering for the priest. (Leviticus 8: 2, 7). The goat was used as the sin offering for the people (Leviticus 16: 15). A bull was used for a sin offering if the people sinned unintentionally (Leviticus 4: 13-14). Since Christ was perfect, when He offered the sin offering for Himself He did not appear like a goat, He was a bull. He was divine. It appears that the goat represents all rebellious and deliberate sins. Wave Offering. All wave offerings belong to God and a portion of the grain offerings belong to the priests. Then God gives them back to serve the people. They are given as food for the priests or as people who serve in the temple of God. (Numbers 8: 13-19. Leviticus 7: 9, 34) Fat and Blood. Not consumed by Humans. The fat is burned, the blood is poured out into the earth. The atonement is made when the earth is burned up at the Third Coming and Satan is punished and the blood is burned.
The Offering of Christ. Jesus died for our sins, and guilt and to save us from the eternal fires of the second death. He was the sin offering, the guilt offering and the burnt offering. His body was broken as the grain offering. And his blood was poured out as the drink offering. He was the wave offering lifted up on display between heaven and earth with His arms stretched out and thighs lifted up. He was also the peace offering that reconciled us with God. The Catholic doctrine of sin and purgatory says that nothing that was done on the cross frees us from guilt or punishment from guilt. Therefore, everyone must experience purgatory so that they can be punished for their guilt. This view is clearly not supported by the many offerings that Jesus represented at the cross.

Christ came in the Outer Court to be sacrificed. This provided two streams, one for sin and the other for impurity.
We are now in the Holy Place. We do communion and baptism to remind us of what God has accomplished for us in the Outer Court. Now, we feed on the light from the Word of God and the Bread of Life. Prayer at the altar of incense is our access to God. Bible study, prayer and faith in the blood of the sacrificed Jesus is our religion.
After the Second Coming we will be in the Most Holy Place at the Ark of the Covenant, the throne of God.
In another lesson we will learn how the feasts combine with the sanctuary to fully represent the work of Christ and the history of salvation.
... all things written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. (Luke 24: 44)
You search the scriptures for you think that in them you have eternal life. It is these that testify about Me.
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. (John 5: 39, 46)
With one sacrifice Christ became the continual burnt offering, the sin and guilt offering, His body was the grain offering and His blood was the drink offering. He also became the peace offering for thanksgiving and free will and the first fruits of the wave sheaf. Then He was ordained as the High Priest, using Himself as the offerings.
These offerings met all the legal requirements of time and location and the manner in which they were presented. He was waved and lifted up and killed whole.
God considers the time that Jesus was praying to the time that He was killed as a part of the sacrificial period.

Study to show yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2: 15 | Time: 170 minutes Print: 32 pages
Copyright Updated : July 2006, May 2007, October 2009 Credits: Author: Laverna Patterson. Editor: Patterson (January 2008) Many original insights came because of the gift of knowledge. The gift appears to be centered around teaching me about Christ. Here are some examples. The Mother's milk and the young goat, the offering, the wave offering and the thigh offering lifted up, the split hooves and the four wounds, the gender the veil on four hooks, the shape of the cross, goat offering, vomited from the bowels, Christ as a serpent, the time prophecy in the curtains, the colors of God, blessings and curses, Christ suffers the curses, eligibility rules and the inauguration time line. Finally the SHMA and the five Jewish signs on July 10-11 2006. Completed writing on July 22. May 16-17, 2007. The Holy Spirit taught me about the camp positions of the tribes. 25 October 2009 - the crossed hands. I never read these concepts anywhere nor was I taught them. All images and page design created by Laverna Patterson and are the property of teachinghearts. The Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism. Why This, Not That? Volume 8. by Jacob Neusner. Global Publications, Binghamton University. How the offering was cut up. Mishnah (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Tamid 30b-31b) The Lot for the Lord's Goat. Jerusalem Talmud (Jacob Neusner, The Yerushalmi, page 156-157) and Babylonian Talmud (Soncino version, Yoma 39b)