Altar and Sacrifice

It is my pleasure to present Neal as the guest writer for today’s post.

This text originally came to me as regular email correspondence. I so much enjoyed, I thought it would be perfect for a Monday Morning Devotional. I hope you enjoy it.

Altar and Sacrifice

by Wm. Neal Lewis

Christ is a “completing figure” since He is God and man in one. He is both sacrifice and altar.

The question is asked, “If the altar touches something does it make it pure?” Answer, “Yes it does.”

If the sacrifice touches something does it make it pure?”. Answer, “No it does not.” Yet the sacrifice is necessary to satisfy God’s righteous demands.

Therefore Christ, in touching the unclean and the sick makes them well since He is the altar, and in His death He is also the perfect sacrifice and so satisfies God’s righteousness.

Christ is also the Lion of Judah (His form when He returns to judge and to rule). And He is the Lamb (His sacrificial form when He was on the earth the first time).

This life, when looked at casually seems simple (and to a certain extent it is and can be comprehended by the simple and confounds the wise). Yet if we look at it closely, we see that there is no explanation of where we come from before we are (at birth) and there is no explanation of where we go to when we die. Yet both conditions of seeming non-existence are the reality of everyday life.

So, those who reject God have no answer to give to where we come from or to where we go. And the answers they try to give are ultimately more non-sense than to say there is an infinite God and that Christ is both God and man, Lion and Lamb, Altar and Sacrifice.