Bronze Altar

Those Who Find Their Hope In the Only One Strong Enough!!
Those Who Will Never Go Hungry!!

Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and fire pans. Exodus 27: 3

All throughout the book of Exodus God is giving directions to Moses.
Here He is explaining every detail of the temple that God wants the Israelites to build.
And in every detail, we find more about God, more about our Savior, more about His plans and purposes for our lives.

We find first that God is detailed oriented.
We find that He cares about the little things.
Which makes us realize that He is working in the smallness of our lives.
That the little things deeply matter to Him.

In this scripture we find that God was outlining the use of bronze on the altar.
This altar is where the Israelites burned offering, their sacrifices to the Lord.
It is where the Priests of the Lord would receive their portion of food.
It’s where the sins of the people were cleansed, were washed away.

The altar is made up of horns and then the area to burn sacrifices.
Bronze is overlaid on this altar.
Horns in the Bible meant power, strength.
We see in a version of Jesus glorified that His feet are glowing bronze.
We see in Job that God speaks of the behemoth-a woolly mammoth or a dinosaur—that its bones are made of bronze.
So we see that God is showing us, that bronze speaks of fire, heat, strength, and Jesus.

That the altar of sacrifice, is a place of strength.
That the altar can take the heat.
That it can survive the constant fire of sin offerings being sacrificed on it.
That the bronze altar won’t burn up.
That it can absorb, keep taking our offerings.

The bronze altar speaks of Jesus.
Because Jesus can take all our sins, all our wrong choices, and burn them up as if they were nothing.
Because Jesus can bear the weight of the constant refining fire, that took all peoples sins and washed them away.
Because Jesus—who’s feet looked like fire— refines wherever His feet have gone, whatever His feet have touched.
Because Jesus is strong enough to bear all the sins of the world, and not be harmed for He is God.

The Priests of The Lord found their portion, their food there at the bronze altar.
Because God was showing us that Jesus—would and did— found fulfillment, in His purpose, by offering all people freedom from our sins.
That His sacrifice, the one on the cross, fed Him, completed His purpose, saving all mankind from our sinful nature.
That His sacrifice was the burnt offering, that would refine everyone and anyone who receives Him as Lord.

That this constant refining bronze altar, fed all the Priests of the Lord back then-with food, meat that came from the sacrifice.
Because it was showing us that it would give all priests, pastors, and everyone who believes, our food, our purposes—to tell everyone about the Lord Jesus and His sacrifice, His offering that fulfilled, completed all the offerings.

And this bronze altar, this sacrifice, would feed all people.
That we would receive the food from Heaven, meat of completeness, that our sinful nature is washed away, the sins burnt away and yet providing us the meat, this meat would feed us all people, the meat of eternal life, living forever in Jesus’s Kingdom.

May we know that we know that we know every detail God gives us in the Bible has a purpose and meaning to lead us to best path and as we spend time with the Lord, He will reveal these purposes and meanings to us.

May we know that we know that we know the Love from our Father, who spent so much time to give us these details, to reveal Jesus His Son, to us, through everything, that we believe and receive what He offers.

May we know that we know that we know what He offers, feeds us everything we need and find that we will want, Him, His perfect heart, His sinless nature, His Kingdom, His Lordship, His ways of life, His self-sacrificing Love, and His perpetual strength that can bear all things and save us from everything for eternal life.

love kathlynn