| A. Under the law in the Old Testament, everything connected with the tabernacle was sprinkled with blood. Every aspect of remission (forgiveness) under the Jewish covenant could only be on the basis of an animal’s life being taken and its blood shed. However, there was an exception for a poor Israelite to bring a meal or “meat offering,” Which had no blood. “Then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering. Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord: it is a sin offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest’s, as a meat offering” (Leviticus 5:11-13). (Continued next month.) |
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