Leviticus 6:24 ¶ And the
LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 25 Speak
unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering:
In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be
killed before the LORD: it is most holy. 26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat
it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the
congregation. 27 Whatsoever shall touch
the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood
thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the
holy place. 28 But the earthen vessel
wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it
shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water. 29
All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most
holy. 30 And no sin offering, whereof any
of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal
in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.
These are rules given in addition to what is required in chapter
4, verses 1 to 35. The burnt offering is holy to the Lord, as the offering of
Christ is holy. Remember the metaphor Jesus laid out comparing his body to
actual flesh to eat in John, chapter 6, when He said that He was the bread of
life come down from Heaven? There is a spiritual link to these sacrifices eaten
by the priests here.
Christ’s physical, earthly body was broken but His spiritual body
is forever and ever. This compares in our minds, for us to think about from
verse 28, the difference between our body of flesh and our resurrection body.
Blood, which I noted, was forbidden to be eaten before the Law,
under the Law, and after the Law might represent the temporal nature of our
flesh and bone bodies. It is no accident I think that blood is not mentioned in
regard to Adam and Eve before the Fall. Later, in regard to our fallen bodies
and the life we live in perpetual decay it will be noted that our life is in
our blood and it is only by the shedding of blood that sin is forgiven;
Christ’s blood.
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an
atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh
an atonement for the soul.
Hebrews 9:22 And almost
all things are by the law purged with blood;
and without shedding of blood is no remission.
It is
by Christ’s shed pure and sinless blood we enter into eternal life.
Acts 20:28 Take heed
therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost
hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased
with his own blood.
Hebrews 9:12 Neither by
the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us.
Hebrews 13:12 Wherefore
Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Revelation 1:5 And from
Jesus Christ, who is the
faithful witness, and the first
begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that
loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
If the blood of the offering was brought into the holy place then
the flesh could not be eaten but was to be burnt without the camp. Our fallen
bodies, which can be represented by the blood that carries biological life,
cannot enter the world of the spirit and eternity. Paul will say;
1Corinthians 15:35 ¶ But
some man will say, How are the
dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou
fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not
that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some
other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased
him, and to every
seed his own body. 39 All
flesh is not the same flesh:
but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh
of beasts, another of fishes, and
another of birds. 40 There are also celestial
bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There
is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another
glory of the stars: for one
star differeth from another
star in glory. 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It
is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in
glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual
body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was
made a living soul; the last Adam was
made a quickening spirit. 46
Howbeit that was not
first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which
is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second
man is the Lord from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are
they also that are earthy: and as is
the heavenly, such are they
also that are heavenly. 49 And as we
have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the
heavenly. 50 Now this I say, brethren,
that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption
inherit incorruption.
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