OUR FATHER WHO VISITS HIS PEOPLE

The book of Leviticus chapter 9 verse 13 says this;

Then say to the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without defect—for a burnt offering,

This verse records two instructions that Moses commanded Aaron the priest to convey.to the the Israelite.

The first was to take a male goat for a sin offering and the second was to take a calf and a lamb, both one year old and without defect for a burnt offering.

Continuing with verse 4, they were also to take  two additional animals for a fellowship sacrifice along with a grain offering mixed with olive oil.

and an ox and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the Lord, together with a grain offering mixed with olive oil.

Thus they had five animals and a grain offering to prepare in order to be ready for the appearance of the Lord.

When the sacrifices were meticulously prepared and placed on the altar before the Lord, the glory of the Lord appeared before all the people and they shouted with joy and fell to the ground.

This pattern is a model for preparation that a believer can follow to make way for an encounter with the Lord.

We must attend to the atonement and cleansing of sin through the appropriation by faith of the blood shed by the Lord Jesus.

Then we must press further towards the purging of the influence of the flesh from our lives by giving no quarter to the flesh and burning away any parts  of our lives that are being dictated by the flesh.

Then, in all sincerity and earnest, we must set aside a fellowship offering comprised of the resources of time, worship, obedience and reverence needed to appropriately welcome the Lord as Abram, our progenitor in faith, did when the Lord visited him at the oaks of Mamre.

Amen.

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