| LESSON F2 | SEPTEMBER 21, 2026 ETHANIM 10, 5787 |
This tenth day of the seventh month is the day of atonement: it is a holy convocation and a sabbath of rest. We celebrate this sabbath. and afflict our souls beginning on the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even (Leviticus 23:27,32). Observance of this day required that multiple sacrifices be made for sin. The blood of lambs, a goat, a bullock, and a ram were shed for the burnt offering and sin offering made by fire unto the Lord (Leviticus 16, Numbers 29). The altar was the place of sacrifice, and even it had to be hallowed and cleansed by the blood which was shed. The high priest was to go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel (Leviticus 16:18-19).
John 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
Altars were made throughout Scripture as a place of sacrifice and worship unto the Lord. In Genesis 6:7, the Lord determined to destroy man from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air. Noah and his family, as well as the animals that were on the ark, were spared. Scripture records that first thing Noah did after leaving the ark was builded an altar unto the Lord. He took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar (Genesis 8:20). God called Abraham to leave his country, his kindred, his father's house, and go unto a land that he would show him (Genesis 12:1). Upon arriving in Canaan, Abraham builded he an altar unto the Lord (Genesis 12:7). After moving to a mountain east of Bethel, Abraham built another altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord (Genesis 12:8). The most significant altar made by Abraham was the one in which Abraham bound his son to the wood, which was a shadow of the sacrifice of God’s only begotten son (Genesis 22:9). As we examine some of the altars in Scripture, may we realize that the most important altar was the cross where Jesus Christ was sacrificed. Glory to God, that Jesus, the perfect and sinless Son of God, was cursed for us when he was hanged on a tree (Galatians 3:13). The altar of sacrifice used on the Day of Atonement is no longer needed. Jesus Christ fulfilled the sacrificial requirements for this day once and for all. We celebrate this day and keep the statute in recognition of him.
Altars were places of sacrifice. Leviticus 16:15-19; Genesis 8:2 12:1-9, 22:1-14, 26:23-25.
The crosss became the altar. John 19:16-37.
We have an altar. Hebrews 13:1-14.
Are you offering a sacrifice that is holy and acceptable to God on the altar of life? Isaiah 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
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