DAY 141 Read 2 Chronicles 2 through 5.
Today's reading: We cover essentially the same subject as yesterday's, with some different details. Try to visualize the beauty of the marvelous building and its furnishings.
Memory gem: "The house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods" (2 Chronicles 2:5.)
Thought for today:
Notice that the arraignment of the articles of furniture in the temple formed a cross, with the foot at the great altar outside, the head at the ark in the most holy place, and the crossbeams reaching from the golden table to shewbread to the golden candlestick. And well this was, for the services of the sanctuary pointed forward to man's salvation through the Redeemer-Messiah who was to come.
Those who had broken God's law--in other words, those who were sinners--brought their sacrifice, usually a lamb, to the great altar. There it was slain, and the blood, which represented its life, was shed. Some of the flesh of the offering was burned upon the altar. Sometimes the blood of the victim was carried inside the holy place and sprinkled before the veil. In other cases the flesh was eaten by the prients.
All through the year the various sacrifices offered daily in the temple pointed forward to a Redeemer who would come and give His life as a sacrifice for men. Each sacrifice was a sort of enacted prophecy of the coming Redeemer.
There was a yearly round of service, closing with the service called the "cleansing of the sanctuary," in which the high priest alone entered the most holy place with the blood of a sacrifice which he sprinkled upon the mercy seat of the very ark of God itself. How appropriate this appears when we read in the Scriptures that the transgression of God's law is sin. These sacrifices, with the shed blood of the victims, pointed forward to the Redeemer, who would come and die for the sins of the world.
Today's reading: We cover essentially the same subject as yesterday's, with some different details. Try to visualize the beauty of the marvelous building and its furnishings.
Memory gem: "The house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods" (2 Chronicles 2:5.)
Thought for today:
Notice that the arraignment of the articles of furniture in the temple formed a cross, with the foot at the great altar outside, the head at the ark in the most holy place, and the crossbeams reaching from the golden table to shewbread to the golden candlestick. And well this was, for the services of the sanctuary pointed forward to man's salvation through the Redeemer-Messiah who was to come.
Those who had broken God's law--in other words, those who were sinners--brought their sacrifice, usually a lamb, to the great altar. There it was slain, and the blood, which represented its life, was shed. Some of the flesh of the offering was burned upon the altar. Sometimes the blood of the victim was carried inside the holy place and sprinkled before the veil. In other cases the flesh was eaten by the prients.
All through the year the various sacrifices offered daily in the temple pointed forward to a Redeemer who would come and give His life as a sacrifice for men. Each sacrifice was a sort of enacted prophecy of the coming Redeemer.
There was a yearly round of service, closing with the service called the "cleansing of the sanctuary," in which the high priest alone entered the most holy place with the blood of a sacrifice which he sprinkled upon the mercy seat of the very ark of God itself. How appropriate this appears when we read in the Scriptures that the transgression of God's law is sin. These sacrifices, with the shed blood of the victims, pointed forward to the Redeemer, who would come and die for the sins of the world.
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