Title: Materials for the altar of burnt offering
Materials for the altar of burnt offering (Theory of Tabernacle 4)
The Lord God commanded Moses to make the altar of burnt offering of wood and bronze. He told them to make an altar for burnt offerings of carved wood and wrap them in bronze.
1. What kind of wood is chives? Let's see.
The cypress tree is a Siddim tree (acacia tree) that grows in the wilderness of Palestine. It is a tree that survives harsh winds and waves and grows. This tree was cut down, the thorns removed, the bark was peeled, and the burnt offering was made by putting the pieces together.
One). The sidtim tree, which makes the lumber, grew in a dry and windy wilderness, so it was tough and rough, and there were thorns. On the Sinai Peninsula, the only wood available, it grows to a height of 4-7 m and the wood is sturdy and does not rot easily. The Egyptians used it as a material for making ships. Let's think about comparing myself to the siddim tree (acacia tree) that makes carving wood. God uses this kind of life by shaping it.
2. This is how I interpret the carving wood.
It is interpreted in two ways.
1). One is seen as the humanity of Jesus Christ. In Isaiah 53:2, it is written of Jesus Christ, “He grows up before the Lord like a tender shoot, like a stem on dry ground, having no form or appearance, there is nothing beautiful in our sight that we should adore.” became.
Jesus Christ was born and raised in the harshest environment, and during the ministry of his public life, he suffered many afflictions and was ultimately crucified and died. Just as the Siddim tree survived harsh winds and waves in the wilderness and grew, cut and trimmed to be used as a material for the altar of burnt offering, Jesus Christ also came to this earth for mankind, overcoming poverty, temptation and persecution, and, like a lamb, Because he became a sacrifice on the cross for many humans, we see the carving wood as the humanity of Jesus Christ.
2). One views the carving wood as a human being abandoned because of sin.
We see him as a rough and harsh human being, united in sin, that cannot be saved except through the merits of the cross of Jesus Christ. It has thorns on the outside, has a rough and hard shell, overcomes the harsh sepa, and is seen as a human living hiding the inside. It is seen as a human form that cannot be used without refinement.
Global Village Network Missionary Missionary Mun-sik Park, when his mother fell ill with a fatal disease at the age of 8, performed a rite, received a god, became a shaman, and then became a Bodhisattva. I grew up with such a mother, but when I was in my second year of elementary school, it was difficult to understand and the most difficult to accept when a shaman was called a superstition. Because this man was suffering, his mother became a Bodhisattva.
Then, in the first year of high school, my mother fell ill, and the aunt Tosooni next door evangelized and went to church, believed in Jesus, and then died six months later. At that time, I borrowed a ricker from a hardware store and took my mother to church. Then I gave up going to church.
But when I was 20, I got a rented room, and I rented a house with a new church in that building. Then I drank alcohol and went into the church by mistake, and the evangelist who served at that church came and put his hands on his shoulders and prayed. Then, hot energy came up from below his navel, and the smell of rotting gutter came out and something seemed to be coming out. I started going to church as a person who never drank or smoked since I was alive. So, I had to worship in front of the church.
Then the church went to the prayer center to fast, but after a day and a half, I got angry and couldn't stand it, so I went to a restaurant and secretly ate. That day, the homeroom evangelist told us to go to the prayer cave and pray, and when we went into the prayer cave and dragged our knees to pray, 177 hymns that I didn't know came out, and tears and runny noses came out of me, and repentance came out. Then I thought of myself as an unhappy person, and after I repented, I thought I was the happiest person. After repenting and coming out of the prayer den, I thanked and praised God for how beautiful the leaves are.
3. He told us to make an altar of burnt offerings of carved wood and cover all the exteriors with bronze. What does the bronze symbolize?
One). We have already learned that bronze symbolizes the cross. As I said earlier in time, the cross is the place of judgment, the place of death, and the place of suffering. On this cross, Jesus Christ was crucified for sinners, died for sinners, and rose from the dead three days after being buried. So, for all who believe in Jesus Christ, the cross of Jesus Christ is the place of grace that achieved salvation, the place of atonement for which sins are forgiven, and the place of reconciliation where we can meet God. So it is a place of power for those who live by faith. The cross is the place where God accomplished human salvation.
2). The bronze also symbolizes the unchanging power, judgment, and love of God. It symbolizes the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God who came to this earth with humanity and divinity. For the salvation of human beings, He Himself came to this earth in human form and took upon Himself the curse and sin of mankind, and through suffering and death on the cross of suffering, He completed God's redemption for mankind with God's love. Similarly, the altar of burnt offering was made of carved wood, and the top of it was made of bronze. As a sinner, human beings cannot be saved by anything other than the grace of Jesus Christ on the cross.
(We will give hymn 405 together and pray with one accord.)