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Category Archives: atonement
Rescue Requires a Clean Sacrifice
Genesis 6:18 – 7:7 18 Now I will build my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, … Continue reading
consecration week
Ezekiel 43 The altar in the new temple required a week of consecration before the worship sacrifices could begin. Atonement always precedes worship. The cross always precedes worship. Someone had to pay the price for our sins before we could … Continue reading
abandoned and restored
Ezekiel 16 Through this long allegory, the LORD explains his relationship with his people. It was an act of grace by which the LORD rescued Israel as an abandoned infant, and brought her up, removing her shame. He brought her … Continue reading
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Tagged Ezekiel 16
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house privileges
Jeremiah 11:1-17 The LORD’s covenant was a covenant of freedom, but the people, once freed, sought bondage again by pursuing the gods of the nations. Therefore, the LORD intends to bring disaster upon them, because he must keep his … Continue reading
bloody garments
Isaiah 63-64 There is only one Messiah. He is a fearful king, whose coming will mean such slaughter of God’s enemies that he is pictured as having his robe covered in their lifeblood. Yet, this same Messiah is the only … Continue reading
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Tagged Isaiah 63, Isaiah 64
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celebrating rescue
Psalm 118 What day should we be rejoicing over? The popular chorus has us rejoicing merely because it is today. To me, that is just taking words out of their context. The text appears to give us two other options. … Continue reading
come and see, come and hear
Psalm 66 Sacrifices and offerings at the temple were an occasion for people to “come and see what God has done.” Each such event was an opportunity for people to tell how God allowed them to be tested and then … Continue reading
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looking back, looking forward
2 Chronicles 35:1-19 In the same year that Josiah rediscovered the Book of the Law, he reinstituted the Passover, and celebrated it as none had ever done in his lifetime. It was a tremendous celebration of God’s grace, which looked … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Chronicles 35
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a costly deliverance
2 Samuel 17:24-18:33 The good news which these runners brought to David that day was bittersweet. He had been delivered from the rebellion that had temporarily cost him his throne. But his deliverance came at the cost of the death … Continue reading
blameless devotion
Leviticus 5:14-6:7 These are not the words of a God who ignores sin and guilt. These are the words of the LORD, who punishes the guilty. But he does not want to. It is not God’s desire that any perish, … Continue reading
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Tagged Leviticus 5, Leviticus 6
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