Daily Bible Readings YLT February 9th

All chapter 29 of Exodus points to Jesus and what he has done for us before God.In order to hallow us, for being priests to God, there had to be a sacrifice of a bull from the herd and two perfect rams. Jesus, in order to hallow us for being priests to God, gave himself, a man in his prime and perfect being, We lay our hands on the head of Jesus as Aaron and his sons did on the head of the bull and it was slaughtered before Jehovah. The blood is put on the horns of the altar and the rest poured out at the foundation of the altar.Surely this is pointing to, foreshadowing, the death of Jesus when his blood was on the cross and fell at the foot of the cross. The innards and liver and kidneys symbolise the emotions, the pain of rejection by man and God as Jesus carried our sins in his own body, and experienced the loneliness and isolation and mockery of the crowd and soldiers and the grief of Mary his mother and John who stayed beside him in his dying. But for the joy set before him he endured the shame of the cross and God saw the obedience of his perfect son and it was as a perfume, a sweet fragrance, acceptable to God, It is easy to think of this sacrifice as being like the sacrifices made by the peoples who did not know God, who sacrificed burnt offerings to Baal and to foreign gods, and who sacrificed their sons in the fire, a thing which God did not command nor did it come into his mind, Jeremiah 19:5. But this command to sacrifice the bull and the two perfect rams in order to hallow the priests was a foreshadowing of the sacrifice to come and the Son who died on the altar of the cross who gave himself to die: the sons of the sacrifices to Baal did not choose to die. It is hideous and horrific and sickening to think of the worship of these foreign Gods being appeased by the sacrifice of human sons. The Aztecs did likewise - it was not a thing done only in the deep in the far distant past. The suffering Jesus experienced in his flesh was as a burnt offering, searing burning physical agony as a burning with fire, and outside of Jerusalem as the bull's flesh and skin were burned with fire at the outside of the camp. For such a Saviour as this, should we not give our life, our soul, our all?