ATONEMENT VICTORY OVER ENEMIES

November 15, 2009 am
MF Blume


Leviticus 9:6-7 KJV  And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.  (7)  And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.

Leviticus 9:22-24 KJV  And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.  (23)  And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.  (24)  And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

Fire came from God and burnt the offering after the priest went into the most holy place and offered sacrificial blood for atonement.

Atonement was made once every year by the high priest.

This fire was preserved and never allowed to burn out.  

This fire was considered to be like salt in the sacrifice that seasoned it for God.

Mark 9:49 KJV  For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.


After this was done in Leviticus 9, Aaron's two sons ventured into the most holy place with fire that was not from the altar.

Leviticus 10:1-2 KJV  And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.  (2)  And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

Notice it was STRANGE FIRE they used.
After the death of these two sons, we read information given to Moses about HOW and WHEN to enter the most holy place.

Leviticus 16:1-2 KJV  And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;  (2)  And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.


They learned this could only be done once a year.

Leviticus 16:14 KJV  And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

And the blood was put on the mercy seat, the lid of the Ark of the covenant when they did go in.

For a whole year, Israel's sins were removed.

Hebrews 10:1-2 KJV  For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.  (2)  For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

But this had to occur every year.

Hebrews 10:12-14 KJV  But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;  (13)  From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.  (14)  For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Jesus' was done ONCE and not every year.

His offering COMPLETES us.

And that blood that was taken from the sacrificial altar where the sacrifice died, and brought into the most holy place onto the mercyseat that stood as God's throne in the earth, was all considered A SUBSTITUTIONARY DEATH for the offerer.

Numbers 19:2 KJV  This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

Hebrews 9:14 KJV  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Ephesians 5:25-27 KJV  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;  (26)  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,  (27)  That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Acts 22:16 KJV  And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Washing away sins is not done by the water on your flesh in baptism by the blood of Jesus in your soul in baptism.

And this is the washing of water by the word -- which means the water baptism experience is efficacious -- or effective -- only because of our faith in the Word of what His death does for us about our baptism or immersion into the death of Jesus Christ, where that death counts as our own deaths.

The sacrifice had to be without physical spot or anything physically crippling or damaged.

Romans 6:6-7 KJV  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.  (7)  For he that is dead is freed from sin.

We paid the death penalty for sin in a death penalty experience through Christ's death.

And seeing we came into union with Jesus when we died with Him, and Jesus went from the altar of sacrifice that was in the form of the cross, to the throne of God in heaven, then we are presently ON THE THRONE, too.

The MODEL OF THE THRONE OF GOD, the ark of the covenant, was the FOCAL POINT for the entire atonement ritual.

And Revelation 5:6-10 shows Jesus as a Lamb of sacrifice who died and stood again in Heaven above.

Hebrews 9:7 KJV  But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

Hebrews 9:24 KJV  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

And because GOD SPOKE from the ark which was the throne of God on earth which was the focal point of ATONEMENT, we are going to see MESSAGES that HAVE TO DO WITH THE KINGDOM OF GOD that are spoken from similar pictures of God speaking in a holy place from something similar to speaking from the ark.


When God spoke from the THRONE MODEL of the Ark it was from ATONEMENT perspective.

The branches of the burning bush show attached branches to a single unit that does not burn out.

The emphasis of the bush not burning out right when the time God spoke to Moses after Moses abandoned all hope of ever doing a work for God tells us a message.

Ephesians 6:10 MKJV  Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the powerof His might.


And God also spoke to JOSHUA ON HOLY GROUND from something that shows us something else ABOUT UNION TO KINGDOM GLORY.

Joshua 5:13-15 KJV  And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?  (14)  And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?  (15)  And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.

An angel of the Lord appears to Joshua, just like the angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in a burning bush that would not burn out.