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Subject: The Consecration Offering - Part II
From: Mark Wilson
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Subject: The Consecration Offering - Part II
THE CONSECRATION OFFERING
First, they brought "the sacrifice" to the altar and killed it.
The sacrifice speaks of Jesus but also of us. This is a picture for us of
our death to our own plans, of our own will, our own ambitions and
desires and brings our past to a final conclusion. This settles our
living for ourselves in the future. If we serve God after consecration,
it must be in resurrection life and not in the old natural life and
ambitions.
Then the officiating priest took the "Machaira", which was a very
strong, very sharp two edged knife that could cut and separate the
joints and skinned and removed the hide from the sacrifice. The hide
was laid aside. This speaks about all the distinctions that hinder us
from doing the will of God. Regardless of what color the sacrifice was,
once it was skinned it was just meat and all looked alike. God is
showing us that all distinctions must be laid aside if we are going to
do the whole will of God.
COL 3:11 --{a renewal} in which there is no
{distinction between} Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised,
barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.
Some of the distinctions are listed here. First a racial distinction
between Greek and Jew. Now there are numerous racial distinctions
because we live in a completely mixed society. If there is some race
you can't accept, that will be the first group that God will send you.
If we are going to do the will of God, we can't have racial
distinctions. Then religious distinctions between the circumcised and
the uncircumcised. The religious distinctions are the most complicated
and the most common. There are religious distinctions between one
baptist church and another and one pentecostal church and another. Even
between churches that believe basically the same. Many of us don't even
want to speak to someone who is in a cult. Most of us have cultural
distinctions similar to those between the barbarian and the Scythian. I
had a friend that pastored a church in Texas when the people from El
Salvador began to flood across the border. Many in the church thought
they were too highly refined to fellowship with the ignorant and
unlearned. The barbarian lacked cultural manners and etiquette while
the Scythian was quite cultured and proper. This type of discrimination
will keep us from doing the will of God. Then there is the economic
distinction between the slave and the free man. The slave had nothing
of his own while the free man had no limitations upon what he could do.
Some groups do economic surveys to see if an area can support a church.
This would limit our ability to serve God, if He called us to a poor
country or area. Those who only want to serve the rich are severely
limited. In Gal 3:28 we see sexual distinctions. What ever the
distinction, it will hinder us from doing the whole will of God.
Therefore this problem must be quickly solved in our consecration.
Next, they took the " Machaira" and cut off the head and placed it on
the fire in the whole burnt offering. This is essential to the will of
God because it is in the head that we form all our traditions, concepts,
opinions, debates and our arguments with God. It is here that we
develop a system of procrastination and systems of service that
interfere with God's plans and His ability to direct our life.
Therefore one of the first things that God must deal with is the Head.
Within the head is the brain, the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and lips.
God's desire is to have these for Himself. A consecrated brain is a
great help in serving God. Also a renewed mind. Unconsecrated brains
develop strange ideas. Consecrated eyes are for seeing into the plans
and purpose of God. Jesus said " I only do what I see the Father
doing". If unconsecrated eyes are not seeing they will need eyesalve.
What we used to look at is no longer lawful for us. Jesus said " I
speak what I hear". The ears are given to God, for us to hear His
voice, not to listen to unclean things. Therefore, they must be
consecrated. God ordained that blood should be put upon the right ear
of the consecrated priest. This is important to hear the commandments
of God. Without blood we may hear all kinds of voices.
The nose is to discern what smells right from what smells wrong. The
unconsecrated nose is confused. We all know the problem with the
mouth. A consecrated mouth is to speak for God while an unconsecrated
mouth will speak foolishness. JAM 3:2 For we all stumble in many
{ways.} If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man,
able to bridle the whole body as well. JAM 3:8 But no one can tame the
tongue; {it is} a restless evil {and} full of deadly poison.
Then the priest took the "Machaira" and removed the front legs. This
was a very strong knife that was able to pry the joints apart and cut
the tendons. This speaks about all our doing for God. We are busy
doing all kind of things that God never told us to do. They may be
"good things" but not consecrated things. Our hands must be reserved to
work when He says to work and what He says to do. We can't be
consecrated and be doing our own things, even if they are religious
things. Blood was put upon the thumb of the right hand.
Following that, the back legs were removed. This speaks about our walk
with God. Not just how we walk but also where we walk. We can't have
consecrated legs in the U.S.A. if God is telling us to go somewhere
else. Of course, we can't go somewhere else if God hasn't sent us.
Consecrated legs will always walk uprightly, with integrity and into
God's purpose. Unconsecrated legs will sit in a pew and act religious.
Blood was put upon the big toe of the right foot.
Now, most people will think we are ready to serve God with all our
heart. We are dead to our own plans. We have laid aside all our
distinctions. Our head is being consumed, with all our arguments with
God. ( Heads don't burn up like gasoline. They burn very slowly). Our
hands are given to do the whole will of God and our feet are consecrated
to walk where God says to walk and how God says to walk. Surely now we
are ready! NOT YET! This is a whole burnt offering. That means that
God is dealing with every part and aspect.
Next, the trunk of the body must be opened with the " Machaira" from
where the head was to the rear because many hidden parts remain. These
things can spoil our consecration.
The entrails are a very important part of our consecration because they
represent all the hidden things in our lives that only God and us know
about. Even the hidden things have to be exposed to the light of God.
What remains in darkness can soon cause trouble. The T.V. scandals are
an example. The belly was opened and the entrails were brought out into
the light and separated. This aspect is seen in Lev.8:21. The entrails
and the legs were washed with water. This shows us the washing of the
hidden things must be done according to God's word. ( Washing of water
with the word). Exposing these things to the wrong people can be
disastrous. The entrails were not dragged around the camp for all to
see but put upon the fire and burnt and went up in smoke. The entrails
were an offering to the Lord.
One aspect of the fat in Lev.8:25 is the leisure time we take for
ourselves. ( The couch potato syndrome) God ordains Sabbath Rest not
slothfulness. God said "All The fat belongs to me". Why? Because He
has the full right to demand it!
Now most people want to immediately set out to serve God and at least
preserve something for themselves. Surely we can hold on to the rest of
the carcass! No! This is a whole burnt offering. The carcass was
divided with the " Machaira" and cut into pieces. Everything must go on
the fire to be consumed, offered up in smoke and turned to ashes. Then
the sacrifice itself was complete.
If we looked at the sacrifice now what would we see? Nothing but a few
ashes. The sacrifice has become transparent. This is how God is
preparing priests for the New Jerusalem, which is the bride of Christ.
REV 21:10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high
mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven from God, REV 21:11 having the glory of God. Her brilliance was
like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper. REV 21:21
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was a
single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent
glass. How did this city, which is the bride, get transparent so that
the light of God shines right through her to illuminate the nations of
the new earth? By the consecration offering. REV 22:3 And there shall
no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be
in it, and His bond-servants shall serve Him; REV 22:4 and they shall
see His face, and His name {shall be} on their foreheads. REV 22:5 And
there shall no longer be {any} night; and they shall not have need of
the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall
illumine them; and they shall reign forever and ever.
To teach that every born again child of God is going to stand alongside
the bond-servants is misleading. This error is part of "the gospel of
the giveaways", "the gospel of the bargains and the half priced sale".
The law of the bond-servant is quite clear. EXO 21:2 "If you buy a
Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall
go out as a free man without payment. EXO 21:3 "If he comes alone, he
shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall
go out with him. EXO 21:4 "If his master gives him a wife, and she bears
him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her
master, and he shall go out alone. EXO 21:5 "But if the slave plainly
says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a
free man,' EXO 21:6 then his master shall bring him to God, then he
shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce
his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
DEU 15:12
"If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall
serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him free. DEU
15:13 "And when you set him free, you shall not send him away
empty-handed. DEU 15:14 "You shall furnish him liberally from your flock
and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to
him as the Lord your God has blessed you. DEU 15:15 "And you shall
remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your
God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. DEU 15:16 "And it
shall come about if he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,'
because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you;
DEU 15:17 then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into
the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also you shall do
likewise to your maidservant.
Every child of God who has been purchased off the auction block as a
slave in redemption, must serve God with twice the labor of a hired
man. If he serves for six years he may go free. Of course becoming a
bond-servant is not required and all may take their freedom in Christ.
God will also give you liberally from the flock, from the threshing
floor and from the wine vat. PSA 40:6 Sacrifice and meal offering Thou
hast not desired; My ears Thou hast opened; ( Margin dug or pierced )
This is speaking of the bond-servant. To participate in Rev. 22 we need
to become bond-servants. It would be nice if the whole church were
bond-servants.
TIT 1:1 Paul, a bond-servant of God, and an apostle of
Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of
the truth which is according to godliness, It would be nice if the
whole church just served God with twice the labor of a hired man and
then went free.
DEU 15:18 "It shall not seem hard to you when you set
him free, for he has given you six years {with} double the service of a
hired man; so the Lord your God will bless you in whatever you do.
Sometimes it would be nice to have a church that just worked like a
hired man. Even if they ran away when the wolf came.
REV 3:18 I advise
you to buy from Me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich, and
white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and { that} the shame of
your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes,
that you may see. This city is made of Gold that is not free. Some
things are free and some things we have to buy. This city is the Most
Holy Place in the Tabernacle of God where the throne is. The lukewarm
shall never see that place.
HEB 12:29 for our God is a consuming fire. Uncooked meat cannot be in
His presence. ISA 33:14 Sinners in Zion are terrified; Trembling has
seized the godless. " Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who
among us can live with continual burning? The answer is: Those who
are already burned up and are transparent!
Then we come to the final part of the consecration offering. This is
the key to understand the powerless "believers". LEV 8:25 And he took
the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and
the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right
thigh. LEV 8:26 And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before
the Lord, he took one unleavened cake and one cake of bread {mixed with}
oil and one wafer, and placed {them} on the portions of fat and on the
right thigh. LEV 8:27 He then put all {these} on the hands of Aaron and
on the hands of his sons, and presented them as a wave offering before
the Lord. This is how they "ordained" the priests. To ordain literally
mean to fill the hands. (Lev 8:33 N.A.S.B. margin.) If we have truly
been "ordained" it means we no longer have empty hands. This may
explain why so many are laying empty hands on the needy and they receive
nothing because there is nothing there. God fills our hands as the
final part of our consecration.
This ordination is for "seven Days" which is one complete time period.
This represents the rest of our time here on this earth. The warning is
"don't go out of the doorway of the tent of meeting lest you die". Heb
6 & 10 are similar warnings. Once you put your hand to the plow, don't
look back. There is more than a crooked furrow in view here.
When the consecration offering was complete, God was watching and took
note.
LEV 9:22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and
blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the
burnt offering and the peace offerings. LEV 9:23 And Moses and Aaron
went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the
people, the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. LEV 9:24 Then
fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and
the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw {it}, they
shouted and fell on their faces. God doesn't let the sacrifice rot on
the altar. He is a consuming fire.
CONCLUSION: The next experience after the consecration is the second
veil that separates the outer court from the Holy Place. This veil is
still intact. The third veil was torn when Jesus was crucified. It is
a mistake to ignore the second veil which is a picture of Jesus Christ
the Truth (REALITY). Consecration is our total commitment to do the
whole will of God, whatever it costs, wherever it takes us. The
revelations of the Shewbread, the functioning Lampstand and the
operation of the Altar of Incense all depend upon us doing the will of
God. It is difficult to conceive of a pure gold Lampstand that is
hammered out of one piece of Gold that has parts stuck on that are just
bronze. It is difficult to conceive of a lampstand Church that does not
do the will of God. It is difficult to place the pure gold lampstand in
the outer court where God didn't want it. Can the body refuse to do the
will of the head? In every case, where the consecration is lacking, the
church will be in want.
REV 2:5 'Remember therefore from where you have
fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am
coming to you, and will remove your lampstand out of its place-- unless
you repent.
There is only one seat in the Tabernacle of Moses and that is the mercy
seat. There is just no place to stop and sit down until we get to the
throne of God. It would be comforting if there were pews in the outer
court. Too many are trying to enter into Sabbath rest in the
wilderness. Some are not even wandering but are meditating upon the
sand and thinking about building.
After the priests were consecrated, every time they passed the laver
they had to stop and wash their hands and their feet.
EXO 30:18 "You
shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing;
and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you
shall put water in it. EXO 30:19 "And Aaron and his sons shall wash
their hands and their feet from it; EXO 30:20 when they enter the tent
of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when
they approach the altar to minister, by offering up in smoke a fire
{sacrifice} to the Lord. EXO 30:21 "So they shall wash their hands and
their feet, that they may not die; and it shall be a perpetual statute
for them, for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations."
After the initial washing, there was the continual washing. When the
consecrated priests went from the Holy Place to the altar they had to
stop to wash. When the consecrated priests went from the altar to the
Holy Place they had to stop to wash. These times just their hands and
their feet.
JOH 13:9 Simon Peter *said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only,
but also my hands and my head." JOH 13:10 Jesus *said to him, "He who
has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you
are clean, but not all {of you.}"
EPH 5:25 Husbands, love your wives,
just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her; EPH
5:26 that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of
water with the word, EPH 5:27 that He might present to Himself the
church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing;
but that she should be holy and blameless.
Jesus said there was a requirement in order to comprehend His
teaching. JOH 7:17 "If any man is willing to do His will, he shall know
of the teaching, whether it is of God, or {whether} I speak from
Myself. Living our own life to do our own thing is the source of much
confusion about what is valid doctrine and what is strange. If we are
not willing to do the will of God, how will the Holy Spirit, who is
speaking, get our attention? ROM 8:27 and He who searches the hearts
knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the
saints according to {the will of} God. If we are not willing to do the
will of God how will He intercede for us?
1PE 4:1 Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm
yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in
the flesh has ceased from sin, 1PE 4:2 so as to live the rest of the
time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of
God.
EPH 6:5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to
the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as
to Christ; EPH 6:6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as
slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. The New
Covenant priests will not be able to participate in the Holy Place life
and ministry without fully doing the whole will of God. Are we
preparing priests or are we caretakers of some "believers"?
HEB 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any
two-edged ( MACHAIRA ) and piercing as far as the division of soul and
spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and
intentions of the heart. HEB 4:13 And there is no creature hidden from
His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with
whom we have to do.
If God continues to restore according to the pattern of the Tabernacle of
Moses, the next few years will be very interesting. Will the bride be
fully committed or just sleep around?
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