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The altar of burnt
offering, measuring 2.25 m (7.4 feet) in both length and width and
1.35 m (4.5 feet) in height, was made of acacia wood and overlaid
by bronze. Whenever the Israelites looked at this altar of burnt
offering, they came to recognize that they were the ones who had
been locked in their judgment and unable to avoid their condemnation.
And just as the sacrificial animal was put to death, they also realized
that they, too, had to die because of their sins. But they also
came to believe that the Messiah would come to this earth and blot
out their sins by being condemned and put to death like the sacrificial
offering because of their sins.
The altar of burnt
offering was a shadow of Jesus Christ our Savior. As the unblemished
animals were sacrificed with the laying on of hands and the shedding
of its blood, Jesus Christ came to us as the Son of God and bore
the condemnation of all our sins. Just as the sacrificial offerings
of the Old Testament had to accept all sins through the laying on
of hands and shed their blood, He accepted all the sins of the world
passed onto Him by being baptized by John, and bore the condemnation
of these sins by shedding His blood on the Cross.
In this way, the altar
of burnt offering shows us that Jesus Christ took all our sins upon
Himself with His baptism, died on the Cross, rose form the dead
again, and has thereby saved us.
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