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The Tabmuiclt ment, he went into the very throne-room, the Holiest of All, to represent his people before the Shekinah Glory. The altar was thus associated with all the vessels in the sanctuary. Before we may talk to God in prayer, before we may know Him as the Light of the World and the Bread of Life, we must meet Him at the foot of the cross, where His blood was shed. The light for the golden candlestick was taken from the altar of burnt offering. The fire for the golden-covered altar of incense was taken from off the brazen altar. Nadab and Abihu took "strange fire" before the Lord; they refused the way of the cross; there- fore, they died by devouring fire from God. God is "the light and life of men" only as men put their faith in the Sin-Offering upon Calvary's altar. God hears the prayers of men only as they go to Him in the name of His only begotten Son! "He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him"-Jesus! (Heb. 7:25). But first the sinner must approach the Father in the name of the Son. There was no other altar of burnt offering in Israel. And "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" but by the name of Jesus (Acts 4: 12). "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach."
Chapter VI THE OFFERINGS UPON THE BRAZEN ALTAR Christ--Our Offering on Calvary's Cross Leviticus 1:1-7:38 The brazen altar just inside the tabernacle gate would have been of no avail without the offerings presented to God upon it, just as the cross of Jesus would have served no purpose without the wondrous Sacrifice who was nailed there as our Substitute. We turn to the first seven chapters of Leviticus for God's instructions concerning the offerings connected with the brazen altar; and as we read these sacred pages, in the light of the book of He- brews, which interprets their meaning, we bow in rever- ence and awe before Him who "loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us a king- dom, priests (R. V.), unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." (Rev. 1: 5, 6). When Israel le£t Egypt on that first passover night, she turned her face toward the land of promise. She was saved by the sheltering blood that pointed on to Christ. She was delivered from the enemy by the mighty hand of God. But little did she know her own weakness, her own frailty. Little did she realize that before her lay forty years of sinning and wandering and murmuring against God and His servant, Moses, before she should possess the land promised to Abraham. In the offerings and the sacrifices presented unto God at the brazen altar Israel's God was teaching her that there had to be a full atone- ment for sin, and that in the promised Saviour every need of the sinner was met. [1881
"The Brazen Altar smokes no more, On which the Victim lay, Where sin's unmeasured doom He bore When I had naught to pay."
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