You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:5.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
In our last Life Lesson we began to consider the sacred mandate and holy calling that is upon you as My royal priesthood washed in the eternal blood of Jesus and anointed and appointed with His anointing as priests forever according to the order of Melchizedek. And I repeat, I did not give you that holy calling so that you would do nothing with it. It is time you took your place with Jesus your High Priest in the Holy of holies at My throne of grace praying effective New Covenant prayers to accomplish My Will, win Souls, and take territory for My Kingdom on earth.
And today we shall begin to see the parallel to your prayers of spiritual sacrifice and the five sacrifices I instituted in the Tabernacle of Moses. Jesus fulfills all five of them and you can offer all five spiritually and in the communion meal of the New Covenant which makes the Passover remembrance, as realized in Jesus, an eternal memorial.
The Levitical priesthood was set apart and consecrated to offer the sacrifices to make atonement for the people, themselves and the nation so they could be forgiven and accepted by God and receive his favor by imputing their sin to a spotless lamb, bull or goat, and using its blood for atonement on the altar. And the offerings set forth for the priests to make were the following. I gave Moses these instructions and they are listed in the Book of the Bible you call “Leviticus,” but in Hebrew is called Vayikra (וַיִּקְרָא). This name is derived from the first words of the book in Hebrew, which means “He called,” meaning I called Moses at the tent of the meeting.
Moses wrote the first five book so the Bible and each book is named in Hebrew after its opening words: Bereshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית) for Genesis, from the words “In the beginning,” Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) for Exodus, from the words “These names,” Vayikra (וַיִּקְרָא) for Leviticus, from the word “God called,” Bemidbar (בְּמִדְבַּר) for Numbers, from the word “In the wilderness,” and Devarim (דְּבָרִים), from “these are the words.” Do you see the sentence? In the beginning, these names, God called in the wilderness, and these are the Words. And the last word in the book of Deuteronomy is Israel (יִשְׂרָאֵֽל) which is the nation I formed in those five books.
The first sacrificial offering I instructed Moses about was the Burnt Offering: (holocaust), in Hebrew it is (עֹלָ֑ה) which is pronounced “olah” and it actually means “ascent” or go up. This offering goes up entirely in smoke. It is totally consumed by the fire upon the grid of the altar that it is offered upon. It is offered upon the bronze altar at the door of the meeting tent. Bronze is the metal representing judgment. When a sinner brought the unblemished bull or lamb of the burnt offering, he laid his hand on its head that it would be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf, Leviticus 1:4, and then slaughtered it and the priest laid it on the bronze alter and let the fire consume it entirely until nothing was left but ashes, representing the execution of God’s justice and God’s wrath upon the sin, and the sinner was then forgiven for his sin had been atoned for before God. Leviticus 1:4. The burnt offering turned your sins into a pile of ash and then the priest put on linen garments and put the ashes on the east side beside the altar. Leviticus 1:16. And later, after he had changed his garments, he carried the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. Leviticus 6:11. Jesus died outside the camp and cleansed that place by His blood. Hebrews 13:11-13.
Romans 5:8-9: But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
Isaiah 61:3: To console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Psalm 113:7-8: He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes, with the princes of His people.
Ephesians 2:4-7: But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Malachi 3:20-21 (4:2-3): But for you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in His wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the LORD of hosts.
The next offering is the Grain offering where unleavened bread was offered and broken to bits in atonement. Leviticus 2:6. For the healing of the sinner. Leviticus 14:2. And the priests were given to eat the portion that did not go up in smoke. And every morning, and every evening without ceasing the priest was to offer up a burnt offering of a year old unblemished male lamb along with a grain offering of unleavened bread and a drink offering of a hin of wine. Exodus 29:39-45; Numbers 28:3-8.
Leviticus 6:14-19: Now this is the law of the grain offering: the sons of Aaron shall present it before the LORD in front of the altar. Then one of them shall lift up from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, with its oil and all the incense that is on the grain offering, and he shall offer it up in smoke on the altar, a soothing aroma, as its memorial offering to the Lord. What is left of it Aaron and his sons are to eat. It shall be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place; they are to eat it in the court of the tent of meeting. It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it; it is a permanent ordinance throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to the Lord. Whoever touches them will become consecrated.
John 6:51: I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
1 Corinthians 11:23-26: For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
1 Peter 2:24: And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
The third offering is the Peace offering: the sinner was reconciled with Me by the atoning blood of the lamb of sacrifice, and the wave (waving the breast horizontally) and heave offering (raising the thigh vertically) were then offered forming the sign of the cross. Exodus 29:26-28; Leviticus 10:15: Numbers 6:20.
Colossians 1:19-20: For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Isaiah 53:5: But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace (shalom) fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed.
The fourth offering is the Sin Offering: where sin was atoned for and forgiven by the blood of the sacrifice, not by the penitential actions of the sinner. Leviticus 4:20. The penances of the sinner to justify himself meant nothing, only the prescribed atoning sacrifice of the blood of the lamb or bull or goat would do. Leviticus 4:35.
2 Corinthians 5:21: He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Ephesians 1:7: In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us.
1 Corinthians 15:3: For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.
Isaiah 53:6: All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
The fifth offering is the Guilt (Trespass, Shame) Offering: offering by which your debt due to Me for your transgressions (acts and/or omissions) was paid, Leviticus 5:16, and your debt due to other men whom you had stolen from or cheated was paid and restored. Leviticus 6:4-7.
Colossians 2:13-14: When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
Isaiah 53:10: But the Lord was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief; if He would render Himself as a guilt (trespass) offering. Isaiah 53:10.
Psalm 69:4: “What I did not steal, I then have to restore.”
When in prayer you offer Jesus, the one true unblemished sacrifice (Lamb), who died once for all for all time unto Me, this is the spiritual fulfillment of all the physical sacrifices offered by the priests of the Old Covenant. The spiritual fulfillment of the physical, for the physical comes first and then the spiritual.
1 Corinthians 15:46-49: However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.
2 Corinthians 4:18: While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Jesus is your true offering to Me that takes away your sins and bears all My just wrath for sin in your place. So how do you make this offering unto Me?
You bring the Lamb. He is with you always. Matthew 28:20.
Isaiah 16:1: Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
You come with confidence to the Throne of Grace, Hebrews 4:14-16, not on our own merits, but on the infinite merits of Christ, and that is what it means to pray in the Name of Jesus. Not because of your own righteousness, but with His that has been imputed to you who believe. The success of your prayers and your acceptance before Me does not depend on your merits and penances, but on the quality of your Lamb. And He is perfect, and by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified and you have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Hebrews 10:14, 10. For not through the blood of goats and bulls but through His own Blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. Hebrews 9:12. His Blood is eternal. As God, it is outside time and is ever new. The Blood applies to atone for your sin on the Propitiatory in Heaven and plead for your redemption NOW as if it was happening when you sin. His Blood continually cleanses you of all unrighteousness as you walk in the Light. 1 John 1:7.
As a Priest unto Me, you come with confidence to enter the holy place by the Blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for you and, as the priests of Old did physically, you, as His priest of the New, do spiritually: You come before Me in prayer offering Me Jesus as your burnt offering, and you put your sin, the sins of your straying loved ones, the sins of the nation that deserve My wrath on Him and you shield them from the wrath by pouring out spiritually the Blood of the Lamb on the altar before Me and then you pour it upon the person or nation you are praying for and shield them, cleanse them, and do a deep work in them to sanctify them. And do this all only unto Me in secret, and I who see what is done in secret, will reward you. Matthew 6:6.
Then you bring the body of Christ as your grain offering, and offer His broken body that bore your infirmities for the sick, for healing of all. He gave His flesh for the life of the world and by His bloody scourging you are healed. Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24.
Then you offer Jesus as your peace offering and atone for and make peace by the Blood of the Cross for all those who are rebelling against Me. And as you put the Blood over them, in the spirit do the wave and heave offering, that is, sign them with the sign of the Cross from your secret place (you can also trace this sign with your thumb on the forehead of your young children before they go out), and bless them with the priestly prayer of Numbers 6:24-26.
Next you offer Jesus as the sin offering and put all sins of yourself, your family and loved ones, co-workers, your city, your state, your nation on Him and pour His precious Blood on the altar before My throne and then pour it on all for whom you are praying, and be globally not just locally minded. And remember all whom you touch this with in spirit will be consecrated and those you spiritually pour the Blood on will be washed by Me in the holy of holies.
Leviticus 6:26-27: The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it (Communion is the fulfillment of this). It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting. Anyone who touches its flesh will become consecrated; and when any of its blood splashes on a garment, in a holy place you shall wash what was splashed on.
And then offer your trespass offering and let Me restore to you all the devil stole and all you lost from your own mistakes. And do not forget to bring the national debt unto Me. And thank Me that your debt to divine justice has been paid in full. Here pray for the payment of your own financial debts as well. Be sure you bring your tithes and offerings before Me as you then give them for the work of the church and all its ministries.
Learn from the physical in the Old Covenant and apply it to the spiritual for your prayers as you fight the winning battle for your loved ones, your political leaders and your nation:
Exodus 20:24: The LORD told Moses after giving the Ten Commandments: “You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.”
Exodus 24:4-11: “Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Then he arose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. He sent young men of the sons of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the Lord. Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!” So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.” Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they saw God, and they ate and drank.”
First in your prayer for yourself and/or others, you bring the Blood of Jesus before Me and put it on the altar before My throne, for the offering and sacrifice of Jesus to the Father is as a fragrant aroma. Ephesians 5:2. And then you sprinkle, pour, put the Blood spiritually on those you are interceding for before Me by the fruit of your lips.
Hosea 14:2: Take words with you and return to the LORD and say to Him, “Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the bulls (yes, the original word here in Hebrew is parim, the plural of par, which is the bull of the burnt offering, the peace offering and the sin offering) of our lips.”
This is the spiritual sacrifices of the New Covenant, because Jesus only needed to die once for all and it is eternal redemption so now to activate it you need only bring Me remembrance of it by the words of your prayer, the offering of your lips, and it is as if it were happening right then that He is shedding His blood for you or the one you are praying for and it is speaking to Me on the alter for forgiveness and mercy. Hebrews 12:24.
And then you by your words take the Blood from the second bowl and sprinkle it, splash it, pour it, put it, on and over yourself and/or the ones you are praying for, including cities, states, countries and nations, even continents! Why not the world that I so love that I gave My only begotten Son to you?
Be My priests, do not come to Me empty handed, I have given you the Lamb and His precious Blood. Are you carrying your bowls during the day to sprinkle in spirit everyone you see or meet? At the market in line? On the highway over all the drivers and passengers? At your workplace? And as you go down the hall of your apartment house, or down the block before each home’s door imagine yourself reaching with the branch of hyssop into your bowl of the Blood of Jesus and painting it on the lintel and doorposts of that home or apartment and praying for protection and salvation for all therein and for the Blood to do a deep work in the hearts of all who dwell therein. Make someone from a sinner to a saint by pleading and splashing the Blood over them to do a deep work in their life. And don’t forget to put the fat on the altar. It belongs to Me and I consume it with fire from on High (the encumbrances of sin and addiction, excess baggage). Leviticus 9:24.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18: Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Isaiah 62:6-7: “On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest.”
And as My priests what and who should you be praying for to fulfill My Will?
1 Timothy 2-6: First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.
And what is your testimony? The same as John the Baptist: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” John 1:29. This is good news of salvation. The Word became flesh, the imperishable seed born by the Virgin Mary that takes the devil down every time. For it was what crushed his head (his authority on earth). Genesis 3:15.
The Testimony of the Holy Spirit under the New Covenant is: “You sins and lawless deeds I remember no more.” Hebrews 10:15-17. Jesus took them on Himself and you are free. Released by the Blood of the Lamb. The snare is broken now and you are free, Psalm124:7, and the one whom the Son sets free is free indeed. John 8:36.
And as priests you are to bless the people.
Numbers 6:22-27: Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: “The LORD bless you, and keep you. The LORD make His face shine on you, and give you His grace. The LORD smile upon you, and give you shalom.” So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I will bless them.”
You need to be fulfilling your priestly vocation and blessing your children, your siblings, your parents, your co-workers, your neighbors, your friends, your city, state, nation and all the nations. Sing this blessing with raised hands every morning and every evening over all the nations and especially your own household and city. And remember the shalom of Jerusalem too.
Do not ignore so sacred a charge. I have blessed you to be a blessing. Give Me the authority to bless everyone and everywhere you speak the blessing over and upon. And you can do it from your secret place of prayer. But speak the words for your children to hear each day as you bless them.
Ephesians 1:3-4: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.
In Jesus, I have blessed you with every spiritual blessing in Heaven. Will you not call upon that blessing and bring it down to the earth?
When Jesus ascended into Heaven to return to Me, the last thing He did was lift up His hands and bless the disciples, and while He was blessing them He departed from the earth and was carried up into Heaven. Luke 14:50-51. Now you are to do the works He did and greater by the Holy Spirit in you and Jesus interceding for you as your High Priest forever at My right hand. He still has His hands lifted over you in blessing as your great High Priest.
Galatians 3:13-14: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Jesus died to give you the Blessing, will you not release it into the world?
Never curse your life or that of others. If you curse you risk the fires of Hell. If you call your bother “a fool”, Jesus told you that you shall be guilty of the fire of hell. Do not be releasing the curse over you, your children or your family, do not tell your children they are stupid or foolish, correct but do not curse.
If you want to be blessed, do not beg Me for it like you do not have it. I have already blessed you with every spiritual blessing in the Heavens. You must speak it out of your mouth. As you received Christ as Lord, so live in Him. And you did that by confessing Him with your mouth and believing in your heart. And that is the spirit of faith. And I cannot change, I blessed man from the very beginning, it is My Will to bless and I will always bless if you pray for Me to do so.
And remember, you have an adversary that is looking for someone to devour, do not be caught off guard. For your struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness that are deceiving your loved ones, your children, and your nation. Ephesians 6:12.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 2 Corinthians 10:3-4.
Who is the adversary?
And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Revelation 12:9.
What are the divinely powerful weapons that give you the victory over the devil, his demons and their tactics?
Revelation 12:11: They triumphed (had the victory) over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.
There is only one way to fight evil and win every time: the Blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony. You are not fighting your loved ones, your enemies and your neighbors, you are fighting the one who has blinded their eyes and ensnared them. Know the real enemy and how to fight and then you can win every time.
And remember in your prayers, when you pray according to My Will, which is My Word, I hear you, and when I hear you, you know that what you have asked for is yours. 1 John 5:14-15.
I love you and love to have you come before Me with the sacrifice of My Son. Question: “Are you performing your vocation as a royal priest? And if you recall besides offering the sacrifices for themselves, the people and the nation, they were the ones who played the trumpets, cymbals, tambourines, timbrels, lyres, harps and stringed instruments before the LORD in songs of praise and thanksgiving. 1 Chronicles 25. As you come to offer the Blood and the spiritual sacrifices, sing your prayers and songs of praise and enthrone Me in your heart. Make melody in your heart with spiritual songs—songs of the Spirit, new songs that well up in your heart as you pray. Prayer is a time for intimate fellowship with Me, never forget that. And know I will grant your prayers for it is My Will that all are saved and come to know the truth and that you all prosper and be in good health, even as your soul prospers by walking in the truth that sets you fee.