The Offering On The Tent Of Meeting

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you an offering?

Yes. A living sacrifice before the LORD.

Romans 12:1-2 (Amplified Bible)

I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.

Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers/unbelievers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that our hands (through, in and by the LORD JESUS) was laid on the Offering: JESUS CHRIST and the LORD JESUS CHRIST blood sprinkled in our hearts.

IV. TEXT:

Leviticus 3:13 (Amplified Bible)

And lay his hands upon its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the altar round about.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You have laid Your hands on me, so that my sin are transferred on You and Your Holiness transferred to and on me, and I'm always forgiven because Your blood was sprinkled and always washes me from all my sins and unrighteousness.

Hebrews 9:19 (Amplified Bible)

For when every command of the Law had been read out by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of slain calves and goats, together with water and scarlet wool and with a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled both the Book (the roll of the Law and covenant) itself and all the people,

VI. TITLE:

The offering on the Tent of Meeting

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Moses

B. Keywords: Access and Holiness

C. Name: derived from tribe of Levi

D. Central Person: high priest

E. Subject Matter: Digest of Divine Laws

F. Central Theme: Holy (mentioned 80 times (NIV)

G. Companion Book: Hebrews

H. Date of Writing: 1490 B.C.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Leviticus 3:13 (Amplified Bible)

And lay his hands upon its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the altar round about.

Leviticus 3:13 (King James Version)

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

A. Our hands laid on JESUS and He was killed before us

"And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation:"

Lay or "samak" in Hebrew meaning: to prop, to lean upon, or to take hold, bear up, establish, (up-) hold, lay, lean, lie hard, put, rest self, set self, stand fast, stay (self), sustain.

Our hands laid, even that action or effort is done by the LORD JESUS CHRIST in and through us by His Presence and anointing.

The ALEPH-TAV or ALPHA AND OMEGA signature was placed after the word "lay" giving it special meaning because of the LORD JESUS's Presence on it.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (Amplified Bible)

For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].

1 Peter 2:24 (Amplified Bible)

He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.

1 Peter 3:18 (Amplified Bible)

For Christ [the Messiah Himself] died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous (the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty), that He might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the spirit,

Tabernacle or "ohel" in Hebrew meaning: a tent. In the new testament, it's our bodies where the LORD JESUS dwells permanently. Originally, it's the body of the LORD JESUS, but now every beliver's body is a temple or a tabernacle where worship acts are being made continually as individuals and as a group or organization, a gathering of believers called the church.

Colossians 1:27 (Amplified Bible)