Myrrh-A Fragrant Offering
Those Being Anointed for their Eternal Marriage!!
Those Who Will Open the Door to Their Lover!!
Those Who Receive the Greatest Love Offering From The God Who Laid Down His life In Love, Resting On His Death Bed Three Days, To Rise Again to Love Us Forever!
Say to the Israelites, This is to be my sacred anointing oil for the generations to come. Do not pour it on anyone else’s body and do not make any other oil using the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred. Exodus 30: 31-32
God outlined a specific mixture of oils with spices that He wants as His anointing oil.
That this oil, this perfume would be used at the temple.
That it was to be made of myrrh, fragrant cinnamon, fragrant calamus, and cassia, with olive oil.
That this oil mixture would be used to anoint all parts of the temple, the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant, the table, the lampstand, the altar, the basin and all the parts that go with each of those.
Myrrh was used as perfume.
I want to focus on myrrh because it is mentioned all over scripture and it was in the gifts the wise men gave to Jesus outlining one of His callings.
In scripture Myrrh is one of the anointing oils that Esther is coated with for six months, before she meets the King, to be his bride.
Myrrh is found on the door handle in Song of Solomon when daughter Jerusalem doesn’t answer the door to her lover, and he is gone missing.
And myrrh is found to anoint a bed in proverbs of a woman seeking love.
That myrrh in this mixture, God is using to point us to love, death, us meeting the King, and marriage.
Which all speaks of Jesus!
The wise men bring myrrh because it is what anoints people for marriage and for death.
For Jesus would offer His life in sacrifice, that offers us His perfect heart before God, offering us marriage to Him that we live with His good heart as ours, living in His perfection, His good behavior, that would fill us, cover us, and redeem us, today and for all time.
Esther was being prepared to meet the king and be married to Him.
But also, Esther was being prepared to sacrifice for Her people.
That she was being anointed to go to the King and make petition to save her people, being prepared for a loving sacrifice, offering herself in death before the King, that her people be saved.
Which is what Jesus did.
He offered Himself in sacrifice to the King of the Universe that all people have the option to be saved.
The myrrh on the door handle, for daughter Jerusalem, is to show us the love that Jesus, God has for us.
That He is seeking us like a lover knocking on the door that we let Him into our lives, that we let Him into our hearts.
But that the door of love was not opened to Jesus by the Jews of that day and that the myrrh left on the door handle is to show them that it was Him, Jesus.
For He was gone.
That He died for them.
That He is missing, now with the Gentiles, saving them/us.
That this would point all Jewish people to find their missing lover, through the one who sacrificed His life for them.
And the empty bed of love with the perfume, speaks of the missing Jewish Messiah too.
That He wasn’t in the empty bed covered with perfume, because He laid down in a grave bed, the tomb being the bed of love instead.
That He offered us His love in this way, the bed of love of His death, His sacrifice for all people to —that would buy us back from the world, that would save us, that we, all people would receive the deepest love for all time.
So myrrh, this ingredient in God’s sacred oil—that everything is covered with in His temple—speaks of Jesus, His unfathomable love, His offering, His sacrifice.
That Jesus, His love would permeate every part of the temple with Jesus’s fragrant love sacrifice from the cross.
That the sweet smell of our bridegroom offering of marriage to all people would infuse every pore of the air of the temple.
That His smell of delicious odor covers every part of the temple, was an offering to all people to take in, ingest, to breathe in.
For we become that temple when we receive Jesus Christ as Lord.
So God wants us to know that we can breathe in Jesus, that His love would fill us up, every part, every nook, every cranny.
May we know that we know that we know God is love.
May we know that we know that we know every one of these actions are to point us to Jesus’s (God’s) incredible love for us.
May we know that we know that we know God points all people to Jesus and His sacrifice that we receive what He is offering and live in this perfect love, receiving His perfect heart for us, that we have this offering today, tomorrow and forever, never to be parted from Him, and everything else He offers us who believe.
love kathlynn