Teachinghearts	The Sanctuary The Gospel Activities in Pictures "Explore the Word. Change the World"	Lesson 6a: Time: 200 minutes Print: 32 pages

Pray First Navigation 12 Tribes Colors Resources Lessons Symbols Glossary Maps Daniel Revelation Build a Model Study Help Exodus Numbers The Curses Feasts Prayer Christ Topics Building Roof Offering 5 Signs Texts Exodus 36-40 North Dan (Levi) Asher Napthali Merari West 50                 100                 East Benjamin Manasseh Ephraim (Joseph) Ark of the Covenant Table of Shewbread Incense Menorah Sacrifice 8 tables for cutting 8 skinning posts 24 rings for slaughter Laver Altar of Sacrifice Ramp Most Holy Place Holy Place Outer Court 9 cubits 21 cubits 70 cubits Judah Issachar Zebulun Gershon Moses and Aaron                                         Sanctuary Complex and Tribe Camp Sites Kohath Gad Simeon Reuben South Blessing: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin stood on Mount Gerizim. Curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali said the curses from Mount Ebal. Leader: These are the leading tribes who went ahead when they moved. (Numbers 2) The sanctuary had three sections each having different types of furniture for different ceremonies. Only certain people could enter each part of the sanctuary. Outer Court. It represents the earth, the place where sinners live and first participate in the plan of salvation. The "continual" or daily sacrifice was given here every day, two times each day. People. All people (sinners and priests) can enter every day. Furniture. Altar of sacrifice and the laver. The sinner killed the lamb on the altar and the priests carried the blood into the temple. But the priest washes himself in the laver before entering the Holy Place. The altar had three fires. Fire used for the burnt offering. Fire used to light the menorah. Eternal fire. This never went out. It was used to start all the other fires. Ceremonies and Feasts. Passover and all feasts. Door (East Gate). It is significant that the tribe of Judah (the kings) and the branch of Levi (Moses and Aaron) which were to serve as priests all camped on this side. Revelation describes deliverance for God's people as coming from the east. Jesus Christ is described as both a king and a priest and He describes Himself as the Door, and the Shepherd and the Lamb. But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. So Jesus said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. (John 10: 2, 7) Holy Place. It represents the work of the church as the body of Christ. Eternal flame Lit at night Lit in the day 1 Lamp 4 Lamps 2 Lamps Western Lamp - Eastern Lamps People. Only priests could enter every day. Furniture. Menorah, table of shewbread and the altar of incense. The menorah was a seven branched candle stick designed like an almond branch. It was on the south wall. The western branch never went out and was used as the eternal flame. The four in the center were light at night. The two on the eastern side were lit in the day and relit at night. In the real sanctuary there were seven menorahs. The table of shewbread faced the menorah, it contained twelve loaves of bread separated into two stacks. It also contained the drink offering. The altar of incense was before the second veil. It is where the priest prayed. Prayer, or talking directly to God, is the only activity that will remain forever. Ceremonies and Feasts. All feasts Door (First Veil). A curtain, hung on five hooks separated the outer court from the Holy place. Most Holy Place (Kodesh Kodashim). It represents heaven, the place where God physically exists. The new earth will one day become the Most Holy Place. People. Only the high priest could enter once each year on the Day of Atonement. Furniture. The Ark of the Covenant is the throne of God. It has two angels on the mercy seat. They cover the Shekinah glory of God which was seen as a bright light. In the real sanctuary there were four cherubim and a river of life flows from the throne of God. Inside the ark were the ten commandments, a jar of manna and Aaron's stick that budded (Hebrews 9). This stick was used to select the tribe of Levi and Aaron, the first high priest (Numbers 17). Ceremonies and Feasts. Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) Door (Second Veil). A curtain, hung on four hooks, separated the Holy place from the Most Holy place. The body of Christ was represented by this veil. After His death, when the veil was torn, the way to the Most Holy Place was open to every person to come boldly to the throne of God. (Matthew 27: 51) The tearing of the veil also symbolized the beginning of the day of atonement. The Sanctuary in Heaven. This sanctuary has other features which are not clearly represented in the earthly sanctuary. All the symbols represent life. Water of Life. River of life flows out of the throne of God. (Water used on the Feast of Tabernacles) Tree of life. It has twelve fruits. (Aaron's rod that budded is the resurrection of the tribes. Bread of life. Bowl of manna. Christ is the bread. Book of life. The ten commandments containing the words of life. Breath of life. The glory of God. The Camp Sites. Outside the sanctuary complex was the campsite of the tribes. Their positions and names of the sons are a prophecy about the events of the final week in the life of Jesus. This is explained in the lesson on The Twelve Tribes of Israel. East. Judah, Issachar and Zebulun. They symbolically represent Jesus' final entrance into Jerusalem to offer Himself as the sacrifice that would make Him our permanent High Priest. South. Reuben, Simeon and Gad. They represent Jesus' suffering and humiliation. North. Dan, Asher, Napthali. They represent the darkest hours of Jesus' suffering and His death. West. Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin. The children of Rachel, the beloved wife, represent the glory of Christ after the resurrection. Between the Sanctuary and the Camp. Different groups of the tribes of Levi camped next to the sanctuary in different directions. They represent what happened to the body of Christ in the final week. East. The tribe of Moses and Aaron who served as priests. The chief priests betrayed Him. South. The tribe of Kohath who carried the furniture. They confined and disemboweled Him. North. The tribe of Merari who carried the sanctuary structure. They took His carcass to Golgotha. West. The tribe of Gershon who carried the fabric coverings. Jesus was raptured to heaven. The three sections have elements that are similar. On further analysis, it appears that they are meant to represent the same events. But as we progress from the outer court, the images become clearer. We progress from images of death, sin and corruption to images of purity and life. And, in each stage the same symbols are used. Symbol Outer Court Holy Place Most Holy Place Blood cleansing Blood of the lamb Wine. Blood sprinkled on the altar. Christ. Blood sprinkled on the altar. Yom Kippur Water cleansing Laver Cloud of the incense is the prayer for forgiveness Holy Spirit. River of life. Mercy seat Meal Lamb and grain offering Bread and wine Manna (Bread of life) Light Eternal fire Menorah Shekinah Glory of God Cloud Smoke Smoke from the incense God in the cloud Law Sin. Broken law Blue veil separates us from God Ten commandments on blue stone Holy Nation Sinful People Twelve loaves of bread. Priest has twelve stones with the names of each tribe Twelve tribes of priests dressed in white Resurrection Wavesheaf offering Incense rising Aaron's rod Door East Gate, Sheep Gate First Veil Second Veil

The House of God
The sanctuary was designed from a pattern of a real one that exists in heaven. In it the Most Holy Place is a cube.

• The Temple in the Desert. The first sanctuary on earth was the portable sanctuary (mishkan) used by the Israelites in the desert. The Most Holy Place in the mishkan was a perfect cube of 9 cubits. The six boards were 1.5 cubits each. The height of the boards was ten cubits, but that included the base. This made the ten foot poles of the ark extend to the curtains and the divisions in the curtains above align at the ten cubit mark.
  The Sanctuary is used by God in the following ways:
  1. Israel. To give His people rest from sin
  2. House of God. It is a design of the house of God. It shows where His people live and worship with Him.
  3. Plan of Salvation. It demonstrates the work of Christ in the salvation or recreation of human beings.
  4. Schedule. With the feast, it shows a schedule of God's actions in saving humanity.
  5. Pattern of Salvation. A pattern of God's actions emerges. We see this pattern in the events of creation, in our recreation (salvation), in the nation of Israel and the church.
• Solomon's Temple. Many years later King Solomon built an elaborate structure which was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Most Holy Place in the temple built by Solomon was a perfect cube of 20 cubits (1 Kings 6: 20).
• Herod's Temple. Finally, a smaller structure was built after their release from Babylon. Herod took 46 years to renovate it. This was the building that the Messiah would visit. This building was destroyed by the Romans in 70. A.D. All that remains of the sanctuary compound is the wailing wall in Jerusalem. The site of the original temple is now occupied by a Moslem temple.
• Ezekiel's Temple. Ezekiel describes a future temple that is smaller than the temple described by Revelation. This temple describes a time when sinners still exist and animal sacrifices are still made. Some speculate that it is the temple that will be rebuilt before the Second Coming. It is not. God cannot build a sanctuary in His name and restart animal sacrifices. Christ is the permanent sacrifice.
  It is a description of how Christ interacts with His imperfect church as the High Priest between the first and second coming. It is a spiritual temple.
• The New Jerusalem. This city is also described as a perfect cube which is 375 miles in each direction. The city will become the new Most Holy Place. It is God's plan to move His throne to this earth so that He can physically live with us. What an honor!
  This temple is no longer a building. God is the temple that we come to see face to face and the people are its priests.

The Priests
The actions and garments of the priests are also reflected in the sanctuary (Exodus 29). This knowledge becomes important in understanding the ultimate goal of God. We will be priests. It also helps us to understand Heaven. There will be no more sanctuary.
God is the sanctuary. Finally, the place becomes a Person. What will remain is God, the city and the nation of priests.
Below, we will demonstrate the similarity between the high priest and the sanctuary. As the priest does his work, he becomes the portable part of the sanctuary that fills in all the missing elements. Even the city of the New Jerusalem appears to follow this construction pattern.

Sanctuary		Priest	City	Comment
Lamb		Eats the lamb	God is the lamb	The offering becomes a part of the priest when he eats it.
Altar, 4 horns. Wood on the altar		Applied blood	Christ's 4 nail marks remain	The four wounds received while the cross was on the ground. The cross is the wood lying on the altar of earth and stone
Laver		White robe (Ketonet)	Clear, river of life	Washes himself clean. White represents purity
Veil		Priest	Nation of Priests	Only priests can enter beyond this point
Table of Shewbread		Breastplate (Chosen)	Twelve gates. Twelve tribes	They represent the twelve tribes. The breastplate has four rows with three stones. The city has four walls with three gates.
The thread used to make the breastplate and ephod was 28 ply. 6 ply each of (sky blue, purple, crimson and white twisted linen). 4 ply of gold.
»	Twelve loaves	Ephod (Apron with breastplates)	Two trees with twelve fruit	The table has two stacks of six loaves. The ephod has two stones with six names. The city has two trees with twelve fruit
»	Drink offering	Drinks wine	Water of life	We will celebrate the communion in heaven
Menorah		Robe of the Ephod (Me'il)	God is the light. The tree of life	The blue robe has 72 red pomegranates and 72 gold bells on the hem (Jewish Tradition). The menorah is decorated like a tree. The cups resemble the bells of the robe. The blue color represents the law and the word which is a light. Red is blood
Sound of the People who experienced great tribulation		72 bells, 72 pomegranates	People 144,000
Incense altar		Prays	Continual praise	Cloud of the incense represents His prayer going up to God
»	Spring Feasts	Passover	God is the Lamb	The crucifixion.
»		Wavesheaf	Resurrection	The proof of resurrection and eternal life.
»		Pentecost	God with us	The Holy Spirit writes the law in our hearts.
Veil		High Priest (Kohen Gadol)	Nation of Priests	Only the high priest can enter beyond this point. But Christ opened the way to priests after the crucifixion
Ark of the Covenant		Perfect	Throne of God	The presence of God
»	Mercy seat	Forgiveness	Gates always open	Represents the welcoming nature of the grace of God that covers us.
»	Crown or border	Turban (Mitznefet). Crown (Tzitz)	Wall	The words " Holiness to the Lord" is written on the crown. The people and the city are called holy. The name of God is written on their foreheads.
»	Commandments	Law in his heart	Law keepers	The blue is woven throughout everything.	Lapis Lazuli The ten commandments were carved from this blue stone
»	Manna	Eats	God provides	God provides the bread of Life. He gave us Christ and eternal life. He supplies all our needs.
»	Aaron's rod	Resurrected	Recreated	The dead wood that sprang to life represents the resurrection, recreation and tree of life
»	Most Holy Place	Breastplate	Dimensions	The city and the most Holy place are a perfect cube. The length, width and height are the same. On the four walls are gates for three tribes. The breastplate is a square when folded double. On the surface is four rows of three stones. The part that is folded, represents the height of the third dimension.
»	Fall Feasts	Tabernacles	Eternal rest	The feast of tabernacles represents the eternal Sabbath with God. So the Most Holy Place becomes a place, a person and a symbol of rest.

The Inauguration of the High Priest
A special ceremony was performed when a new high priest was installed.

Breastplate in Birth Order
Emerald Levi Topaz Simeon Ruby Reuben Diamond Naphtali Sapphire Dan Turquoise Judah Amethyst Issachar Agate Asher Jacinth Gad Jasper Benjamin Onyx Joseph Beryl Zebulun
The Jews read from right to left

A wave offering was given and it was followed by a ceremony which lasted seven days.
Then you shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of ordination and wave it as a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be your portion. So you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you shall ordain them through seven days.
... For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. (Exodus 29: 26, 35, 37)

The Inauguration of Jesus Christ.
Sunday Morning. After Jesus was resurrected, He saw Mary that Sunday morning and then presented Himself as the wave offering. When He saw her, He told her not to touch Him because He had not yet ascended to the father. One reason for this is that in embalming His body on Friday evening, she had touched the dead. Therefore, she would be unclean for seven days.
Sunday Evening. In the evening He saw all of His disciples, except Thomas.
So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said "Peace be with you". (John 20: 19)
After Eight Days. Eight days later, He came back and Thomas was with them. He must have been at His inauguration in heaven for the seven days. He could not leave the sanctuary for seven days according to the ordination instructions.
The Legal Period of Ordination. You shall not go outside the doorway of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day that the period of your ordination is fulfilled; for He will ordain you through seven days. (Leviticus 8: 33)
The Time of Jesus' Absence. After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors had been shut and stood among them and said "Peace be with you". (John 20: 26).
He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over the period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. (Acts 1: 3).

Thursday			Friday		Saturday		Sunday					Monday	Sunday	Friday	Sunday
Day	Night 1		Day 1	Night 2	Day 2	Night 3	Day 3				Night	Day	Nisan		Pentecost
13	Nisan 14			Nisan 15		Nisan 16					Nisan 17		Nisan 23	Iyar 26	Sivan 5
-	Passover Gethsemane	Trial		In the grave				Mary	Wave sheaf	Disciples John 20:19	Inauguration (7 days)		Saw Thomas (John 20:26)
-	Three days and nights in the " bowels of the earth "									Appeared on earth for 40 days					9 days

Israel - The Twelve Tribes
Just as Israel was built on the foundation of the twelve sons of Jacob, in the same way Christ built His church on the foundation of the twelve disciples. Significantly, one son (Dan) is not represented in the New Jerusalem and one disciple (Judas) is no longer counted with the twelve (Matthew 10: 1-4).
The arrangement of the campsites around the mishkan is also different from the New Jerusalem. The priests from the tribe of Levi were to camp on all four sides next to the portable temple. They were not counted as one of the twelve. The two sons of Joseph made up the twelve tribes.

Thirteen Tribes. Therefore, there were technically thirteen tribes. Levi was not counted and Joseph is counted twice.
Tribes of Priests. In the New Jerusalem, all tribes are destined to be priests who represent God.

-	Dan		Asher	Napthali		-
Benjamin	Philip		Matthew	Bartholomew		Judah
	Judas [Matthias]	Levi	The Thirteen Tribes	Jesus Christ	John
Manasseh	Simon (Zealot)				James (Alphaeus)	Issachar
Ephraim (Joseph)	James (Zebedee)				Thaddaeus	Zebulun
	Thomas		Andrew	Peter
-	Gad		Simeon	Reuben		-

The High Priest. He wore the ephod which had twelve precious stones. The names of the twelve tribes were written on the stones. He wore this garment over his heart as he prayed on behalf of the people. Your name is continually before God.
Eligibility. There are several things that can make someone unclean so that they cannot enter the sanctuary or make them ineligible to enter.

• Priest. Only priests could enter the Holy Place. This is why we must all become priests.
• High Priest. Only the High Priest could enter the Most Holy Place and only on one day of the year - Yom Kippur. Significantly, Christ removed the veil to the Most Holy Place when He died. This allowed access by ordinary priests. Now they can enter the Most Holy Place.
  This brings us back to the original plan of God on Mount Sinai. Originally, He had invited the whole nation to come up the mountain. But because they were afraid, they asked Moses to go for them. God wants us to approach His throne with boldness and without fear.
• People. Only those who were clean could enter the Outer Court and participate in the sacrifice (Leviticus 15: 31). The wicked will die if they enter the sanctuary unclean.

The Sanctuary as Prophecy
The previous section gives enough information about the sanctuary to understand its use as a symbol in prophecy. Most prophecies only require that you understand the three sections, the furniture, the priests and the people.
The following section discusses in detail the sanctuary and its services as a prophecy about the work of the Messiah.

Schedule
Several components in the sanctuary hint at a schedule of events. Some of these events occur one time in history. Others show a pattern of cyclic events that must be completed in a designated amount of time.

The Building and Fence
The Curtains
This is a view of fabric coverings from the inside out. 1 40 x 28 Cubits. The first layer was linen (red, blue, purple). 10 panels, 4 x 28 cubits. It was decorated with angels. 30 x 28 Cubits. The top (end to end). 2 44 x 30 Cubits. The second layer was goat's hair. 11 panels, 4 x 30 cubits. 42 x 30 Cubits. The last panel was shortened by folding in half. 32 x 30 Cubits. The top (end to end) with fold. 3 The third layer was lamb's wool dyed red. The dimensions were not given. 4 52 x 30 Cubits. The fourth layer was leather, porpoise skin. The dimensions were not given. But 52 cubits is the total length from back to front fully covered the building because that is the length of the sanctuary covering back to front. 5 30 x 9 x 10 Cubits. The length, width and height of the sanctuary

Building. The sanctuary represents three periods in history. Understanding these times will help us to understand the feasts that are performed in each section.

• The outer court is the time before Christ came to the world. He was sacrificed in the outer court during the Passover feast.
• The Holy Place is our history after the crucifixion and the Gift of the Holy Spirit. We are all to be priests of God, because only priests can enter into the Holy Place.
• The Most Holy Place is our future after the Second Coming. It is the time when we go to live in the presence of God forever. As the High Priest, Christ has opened the way to the Most Holy Place for us to enter.

Blue Veil Curtains. There were three blue veils covering the doorways. They all represent Jesus. He was the door to everything and He has the keys to all doors.

• East Gate. Israel was the way to salvation through a man from the tribe of Judah on the east.
• Holy Place. The living body of Christ.
• Most Holy Place. The human body of Christ which shielded His divinity and shields us from the wrath of God. It was torn for us.

Coverings (Roof). Some of the curtains also demonstrated a time pattern.
Each time, a group of people experienced an appointed time for dominance or trial they experienced it in a specific length of time.

• Blue Veil (28 x 40) Ten panels in blue, red and purple, decorated with angels.
  » Time of the Righteous (Lunar Time). The combined panels were 28 cubits long and 40 wide, representing 28 days and forty periods of time. There are 28 days in a lunar month.
  Moses, Noah and Jesus all spent a period of forty days and nights in the presence of God or in trial. Israel spent 40 years in the desert and 40 years from the crucifixion to the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D.
  » Ten Panels. The covenant of life for the righteous is the ten commandments.
• Goat's Hair (30 x 42) This is equivalent to the sin offering.
  » Time of the Wicked (Solar Time). The combined panels were 30 cubits long and 42 wide (44 cubits when the last panel was not folded in half). There are 30 days in a solar month. The beast was given 42 months to operate. During the 40 years of punishment in the desert, Israel moved 42 times.
  
  » Fifty Rings (Jubilee). Both of these curtains were separated by 50 loops and rings at the location where the Holy Place meets the Most Holy Place. Year fifty was the year of the jubilee when every debt was forgiven people received their land and could start over.
  The total number of times Israel (physical and global) is forced to move would be fifty times. The last move will be to the New Jerusalem, when we cross over to the Most Holy Place and celebrate the jubilee.
  
• Ram's Skin Dyed Red The dimensions were not given. But it represents the covering by the blood of Christ throughout all time. This is equivalent to the burnt offering.
• Porpoise Skin The dimensions were not given but it was the outer covering and served as a water proof protection.

The Structure. We know that the structure represents His body.

• The Boards. They were 48 boards, ten cubits long and 1.5 cubits wide (Exodus 26: 16).
  • Sanctuary Width. 9 or 10 cubits wide (6 boards plus two in the corner).
  • Sanctuary Length (without Columns). 30 cubits long (20 boards).
  • Sanctuary Length (with Columns). 30-32 cubits wide. We know that the front columns extended the length about 2 more cubits because the goat's hair covering extended two cubits further than the linen covering.
• The Five Supporting Bars. The front had five columns and the sides of the building had boards which were held together by five bars. Four were supported by rings in the boards. The fifth passed through the center of the boards. When the bars were removed, the structure would collapse. The fifth bar is the wrath of God.
  We find this pattern of five in the double knots of the tzitzit and in the curses of Leviticus 26. On the fifth chance or cycle of disobedience, the sanctuary was destroyed. This also demonstrates a schedule of judgment. This schedule is based on a cycle of warnings, mercy and disobedience.
• The Nine Columns. The five columns at the entrance to the Holy Place probably represent the same thing as the five supporting bars. The five cycles of covenant curses that engulfed Christ as He moved from the Outer Court.
  The four columns at the entrance to the Most Holy Place probably represent the four pillars of the covenant blessings. The first four commandments. It is only total respect for God that will keep us in the Most Holy Place. It is because we have the law written in our hearts that we will become pillars in the house of God. It definitely represents the four points at which Christ would be pierced (two hands and two feet) as He upheld the pillars of God.
• The Fence (60 Columns). The fence was made of white linen fabric five cubits high (Exodus 38: 9-18). The pillars were made of bronze with silver hooks to hang the curtains.
  The north and south side were each 100 cubits. They each had twenty bronze pillars and sockets.
  The west and east sides were each 50 cubits. They each had ten bronze pillars and sockets.
  It had one gate on the east side which was twenty cubits wide. It was made of blue, red and purple. Together these were 60 columns and six sets of fifty cubits which may represent six millennia of time.

The Times of the Human Existence of the Messiah.

41-42 Weeks				33½ Years				3½ Days
40 Weeks (10 months)		8 Days		30 Years	3½ Years			3 Days			½ Day
Incarnation	Womb	Birth	Circumcised	Ordinary Life	Baptized	Tempted	Messiah	Death	Tomb	Raised	Disciples

• Joined the Covenant (42 weeks). Circumcized on the eighth day, it was the first day of week 42 of His life.
• 40 Periods of Separation. He spent 40 weeks buried in the womb and 40 hours buried in the tomb. 40 days of hunger then He was tempted by Satan.
• 28 Years Safe. Herod was dead in 1 BC. He returned to live in Israel until He became the Messiah.
• 30 Years. Lived an ordinary life as a covenant Jew until He became the Messiah.
• 31 Years. Total life as a human from incarnation to baptism when He was anointed as the Messiah.
• 32 Years. After the temptation, He began His life as the Messiah at the start of year 32 since His incarnation.
  The Incarnation. Therefore, when He comes into the world He says, sacrifice and offering You have not desired, but a body You have prepared for Me; In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure. Then I said, look I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God. (Hebrews 10: 5-7)
• 33 Years. Total life as a human from birth to death.
• 34 Years. Total life as a human from incarnation to death.

The Offerings
Only certain clean animals could be used for an offering. The characterictics and the type of animal represented what would happen to Christ when He died for our sins.

Characteristics of the Clean Animals.

Rules for Clean Animals				Ruminant Stomach
Creature	Clean	Use	Christ	First Death. Stomach 1 and 2. Vomit. Second Death. Stomach 3 and 4. No resurrection (regurgitation or vomit).
Animal	Split hooves	Food, sacrifice	Represents the pierced hands and feet
	Chews cud		Vegetarian animals eat the seed or the green grass. Green grass represents people. The seed is the Promised Seed resurrected or coming up from the bowels of the grave and then dying to sin
Bird	No scavengers	Food, sacrifice	They feed their young by regurgitation. Rapture is represented by wings which can lift them high and can represent the arms stretched out
Insects	Jump in the air. Four legs	Food	Lifted up in the air. No crawling creature can represent this. Insects with many feet cannot represent Him
Fish	Scales and fins	Food	Sea creatures without fins and scales have the characteristics of the snake who represents the enemy. But since the sea is symbolically the enemy, no sea creature can be used as a sacrifice.	Chewing the Cud. Food goes from the mouth to the first stomach, then to the second stomach and back up to the mouth. Then it goes from the mouth to the third and fourth stomach then to dung where it becomes earth

Unclean animals and scavengers cannot represent Christ because they take life and drink blood and they cannot demonstrate the wounds on the body of Christ.

The Type of Sacrificed Animals.
While all clean animals could be used for food only certain clean animals were used for sacrifice.

Offerings							Cherubim
Goat	Dove	Lamb	Ram		Heifer	Bull		Man	Lion	Eagle
Sin, Guilt	Burnt, Peace				Death	Sin, Guilt	Ordination	Son of Man	King	Avenger
God Judges the Righteous							God Judges the Wicked

Animal Offerings						The Mussaf Offerings (Numbers 28-29)
Creature		Age (Months)		Offering	Symbol	Feast Bull Ram Lamb Goat Daily 0 0 2 0 Sabbath 0 0 2 0 Rosh Chodesh (Monthly) 2 1 7 1 Passover 2 1 7 1 Shavous (Pentecost) 2 1 7 1 Rosh Hashannah 1 1 7 1 Yom Kippur 1 1 7 2 Succos 1 13 2 14 1 Succos 2 12 2 14 1 Succos 3 11 2 14 1 Succos 4 10 2 14 1 Succos 5 9 2 14 1 Succos 6 8 2 14 1 Succos (Hosana Raba) 7 7 2 14 1 Shemini Atzeres 8 1 1 7 1
	Lamb	8	12	Burnt offering (Elevated offering) (Olah)	The white color represents purity and innocence
	Ram	14	24
	Calf	8	24		Strength, conquering. It is Christ as the king bearing burdens
	Bull	12	36
	Cattle	8	36	Burnt
	Kid	8	12	Sin and Guilt (Chatas and Asham)	Abomination. It represents the point at which Christ became sin, or Satan. The goat also represents Satan. He is the goat not killed on Yom Kippur.
	Goat	8	24
	Red Heifer	8	24	Cleansing from death	The red blood of Christ cleanses us from death at the Second Coming resurrection
	Dove	The white color represents purity. This offering for the poor was provided by heaven, in the form of a creature from heaven.

The animals were chosen because it represents someone who would be responsible for sin.

• Lamb ("Christ"). It is God who makes peace with us by offering Himself as a whole burnt offering.
• Dove ("Holy Spirit"). God helps us to make peace with Him by giving us the Holy Spirit.
• Heifer ("Church"). God even makes atonement for the dead.
• Goat ("Satan"). He is guilty but he cannot atone for sin. Only when Christ became like a goat did He officially become the sin offering.
• Bull ("God"). The only clean animal of the cherubim, God gives Himself for His people and His ordained priests.

The Age of the Sacrifice.

2000 Years							1000 Years		Eternity
12 Months Old				14 Months Old			24 Months Old		36 Months
The Time of Satan				The New Year (God Takes Over)					Eternity
Crucifixion		Shavous	Rosh Chodesh	Yom Kippur			Second Coming	Tabernacles	Third Coming
Lamb	Kid	Lamb	Lamb	Ram	Kid	Scapegoat	Red Heifer	Scapegoat	Bull
The scapegoat is condemned during Yom Kippur. Then he is set free in the wilderness to die. The global Yom Kippur started in 1844. Tabernacles will start at the Second Coming. Satan, the scapegoat, will be wandering the broken earth for 1000 years. Then he will die.

There seems to be a relationship between the maximum age of the offering and historical time. If the ceremonial year to put away sin started with the baptism or crucifixion of Christ, then the maximum age and type of animal offered is related to the stage of time and the feast.
The sacrifice was made once at the crucifixion at the age of one year and is effective for all time. As each feast is fulfilled throughout time notice that the animal could also be older. In this time table, every year is approximately 1000 years.
The offering made to establish the covenant was also three years old. While Christ made this offering in the third year of the ministry, it also points to the fact that when a new heaven and earth is made, the covenant will be renewed using the blood that was shed three thousand years before.

The Lamb with Split Hooves The Torn Veil Hung on Four Hooks The Blood Sprinkled on Four Horns
The Breast Offering is Waving The Shoulder Offering is Waving The Thigh Offering is Lifted Up The Wings of the Tzitzit

The Offering on the Cross
You shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God at the place where He chooses to establish His name. (Deuteronomy 14: 23)
Christ must die in the following way to satisfy the legal requirements.

• Qualifications. Ready to be picked.
  • Perfect and clean or sinless.
  • At a certain age (33).
  • After 3.5 years of ministry. In the fourth year (Leviticus 19: 23-25).
• Preparation.
  • Tenderized (beaten and pounded).
  • At the hands of the priests.
  • Skinned, cut up, disemboweled.
  • Cut in two.
  • Washed and salted.
  • Cooked (boiled, baked, roasted).
  • Prayer (SHEMA).
• Presentation.
  • Hands and feet pierced.
  • Lifted up in the air.
  • Arms stretched out and bound.
  • Lying on wood.
• Consumption and Disposal.
  • Eaten up by the people.
  • Carcass thrown outside the north of the city.
  • Resurrected or vomited from the bowels of the earth.

The offerings demonstrated that He would be lifted up with his arms stretched out like wings on the cross and His hands and feet would have four splits when He redeemed us.
His ordeal was patterned after the stages of Judgment which was also prophesied in Zechariah 11.

• Judgment Rendered ("Mene, Mene - Counted, Counted"). He was counted among the sinners (Mark 15: 28). He counted His bones (Psalm 22: 14, 17).
• Judgment Sealed ("Tekel - Weighed"). They weighed 30 shekels of silver to bribe the traitor.
• Judgment Delivered ("Upharsin - Divided"). Jesus was cut up as the offering. The process is still not complete after this point.
  » Salted. Preserved for judgment. The people judged and mocked Him on the cross. (Leviticus 2: 13)
  » Burnt. Jesus goes before the scorching treatment of the world and the eternal flames of the Father. The wicked are burned up after the third coming when they come before the Father, but Christ lives through the burning.

Preparation of the Offering.
Atonement was being made from the Garden of Gethsemane when God shed His own blood!

Gethsemane	12:00 AM	Trial by the Priests	6 AM	Trial by the Government		9 AM	Crucified on Golgotha
Incense Offering		Bull Offering		Bull Offering		Covenant	Lord's Goat		Lamb
The Altar of Incense		Burnt offering on the altar			Altar in Purple	Nailed	Sin Offering outside city
Blood on the ground		Roasted and burnt		Ashes	Given purple clothes	Wood	Ashes	-	Carcass
Fat	Liver and Kidney					Head, body, legs ...
Insides Removed						Outside Removed
South (Kohath) Furniture Removed						North (Merari) Tent Removed

Beaten and Skinned. The beating and pounding He was given by the Roman soldiers was symbolized in the process of making bread. The bread is His broken body. He was beaten, pounded, marked with lines (stripes) and poked with holes by the flagellum. When the bread is eaten, it is also broken and torn again. Then we gnash at it with our teeth and spit on it as we chew.

Disassembling the Offering.
Jesus was not burned to death or cremated. So how did He become the burnt offering?
God considered this emotional suffering to be worthy of its own prophetic memorial. It was symbolized as His burning. The ashes that remained were His demoralized emotional state after the trials. What remained was also symbolized in the offering as His external carcass which was destroyed on the wood of the cross. The offerings were made in this order by the tribe of priests who had a specific duty in the disassembly of the sanctuary.

• Offered by the Priests ("Purchased"). They bribed Judas to betray Him with 30 shekels of silver and plotted with the Romans to kill Him. They are guilty of His death.
  ... you and your sons ... shall bear the guilt in connection with the sanctuary and ... in connection with your priesthood. (Numbers 18: 1)
• The Altar of Incense ("Incense Offering"). The altar of fragrant incense was the prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. The rest of the blood poured out at the base of the altar was the blood that came out of the pores of His body and fell to the ground.
  And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the LORD which is in the tent of meeting, and the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the door of the tent of meeting. (Leviticus 4: 7)
  Jesus began to fulfill this offering in the Garden of Gethsemane as He sweat blood on the ground.
  And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground. (Luke 22: 44)
• Disemboweled: Insides Removed ("Burnt Offering and Peace Offering"). He was emotionally disassembled at the trial. The internal organs were a symbol of the extreme emotions.
  Peace Offerings. The peace offerings had time limitations. These were the only offerings eaten by the people.
  And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD;
  Hard by the Backbone. the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone;
  Insides. and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD. (Leviticus 3: 9-11)
  There were three types of peace offerings.
  • Thank Offering. Given for unexpected blessing. Eaten on the first day. Jesus was killed on the first day. All these offerings were made on the first day, after sunset on Thursday and before sunset on Friday. Jesus made this peace offering when He unexpectedly healed the ear of the high priest's servant during His arrest. He healed those who were there to kill Him.
  • Votive Offering. Given to ask a request. Jesus prayed for their forgiveness on the cross.
  • Free Will Offering. Eaten by the third day. Jesus presented Himself as the wavesheaf on the third day, Sunday. All activities associated with the offerings were presented within three days, from Thursday evening to Saturday evening. Given out of love, it is not related to any request or blessing received. Jesus chose to forget our sins and what we had done to Him. This is His freewill offering.
  
  » Skinned (Take off Hard by the Backbone). He was beaten as required by the peace offering. This was a description of His pain and suffering as He was severely beaten on His back, legs and rump by the Roman soldiers with the flagellum.
  ... The chastisement of our peace fell on Him and with His scourging we are healed. (Isaiah 53: 5)
  

  The Importance of the Mind For many centuries, the burnt offering was the only offering known. From this lesson we see that the burnt offering was made without a physical death. This highlights the fact that God considers mental suffering as being extremely important and that it much more devastating than physical suffering. "I am hated and unloved!" The cry of Simeon is memorialized as a burnt, fat offering of this anguish of Jesus. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" (Matthew 27: 46) "I have Nothing. I am Nothing!" This is the cry of the weeping willow.

  
  Sin Offering. This offering was also disemboweled. In addition, it was disposed of outside the city because sinners will be placed outside the City of God and destroyed.
  Blood around the Altar. And you shall take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
  Internal Organs. And you shall take all the fat that covers the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
  External Carcass. But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, you shall burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering. (Exodus 29: 12-14)
  • Removing The Insides (Disemboweled). The inner organs such as the kidney and liver and the blood and the fat were taken out and burned on the altar. This is the tribe of Kohath removing all the furniture on the inside of the sanctuary.
    The liver and kidneys were the seat of emotions in ancient times. In the same way, we use "heart" today. Therefore the words for liver and kidney are now translated as "heart" or "reins".
    » Liver. They are associated with anger, grief, intense suffering and deep sorrow (Lamentations 2: 11).
    » Kidneys. Associated with emotions, conscience and wisdom (Lamentations 3:13; Proverbs 23:16; Psalm 16: 7; Jeremiah 17: 10).
    » Fat on the Liver and Kidney. His entire emotional suffering and pain.
    » Spleen (Milt). The organ that controls laughter. All joy was gone from Him.
    All of this symbolizes the mocking and fiery trial of Jesus and His mental or internal anguish.
    Salvation Science. It is a medical fact that fat around the belly is associated with stress. Therefore the ancients are correct, these internal organs and their fat are somehow connected to emotional memory through some mechanism that we have previously associated exclusively to the brain.
  • The Outside. This is His external disassembly. The building structure was moved by the tribe of Merari. The outer portion of the offering (the head, legs, skin and entrails) were moved in the morning to the outside of the city and burned. After an all night trial, Jesus was sent to be crucified at about 9:00 AM.
  
  The Priest and His Sin Offering. If the priests cause the congregation to sin, then he must offer a bull as a sin offering. Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin had sinned and caused the people to sin.
  if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer to the LORD a bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed. (Leviticus 4: 3)
  So after He was reduced to ashes, Jesus became the bull offering, carrying the yoke of the wooden cross on His shoulders to the outside of the city where He was killed. Jesus counted this as unintentional sin, because He forgave them.
  But Jesus was saying, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing" ... (Luke 23: 34)
  
  Burnt Offering. Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law for the burnt offering: The burnt offering itself shall remain on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire on the altar is to be kept burning on it. (Leviticus 6: 9)
  » Fiery Trials ("Grilled All Night"). His all night trial by the sanhedrin and the chief priests was the burning of the insides of the offering until the morning (John 18: 27-28). At 6:00 AM in the morning they gave Him to the government to be tried again so the Gentiles could also keep the fires burning with their civil trials.
  » Awake All Night. On the day of atonement it was the duty of the other priests to make sure that the high priest does not fall asleep from sunset until it was time to give the offerings. He might become unclean by having a nocturnal emission and could not possibly become clean again until the evening. So they made him walk barefeet on the cold surface and questioned him all night. This was what was done to Jesus. He had no rest during their tribunals.
  
  Grain Offering. The grain offering represents the seed that would be buried and resurrected. It is presented as grain mixed with oil and is always given with a drink offering and oil. Together these all represent the sacrificed Christ with His blood offering. However, it represents something else that the meat offering could not. It represents the possibility of life coming from the dead ground. The ordination offering adds one more picture that is only seen with the three Passover Matzah. We have the trinity in the offering.
  and one cake of bread and one cake of bread mixed with oil and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread which is set before the LORD. (Exodus 29: 23)
  • Father. He is the one cake of bread.
  • Holy Spirit. He is the one cake of bread mixed with oil.
  • Son. He is the wafer from the basket of unleavened bread. The whole basket are humans. On Passover, Israel is the basket of wafers that has removed all traces of leaven from their homes. Jesus is the one sinless human chosen from that basket who was without the leaven of sin.
    The wafer is made by poking holes in it so that it will not rise. Christ had five holes poked into His body to kill Him.
  
  Ordination Offering. This offering that was made after the resurrection has all the requirements.
  Blood around the Altar. And you shall take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
  Internal Organs. And you shall take all the fat that covers the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
  External Carcass. But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, you shall burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
  Blood. "You shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the lobes of his sons' right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the rest of the blood around on the altar.
  Oil. "Then you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him; so he and his garments shall be consecrated, as well as his sons and his sons' garments with him. (Exodus 29: 12-14, 20-21)
  The ordination offering also required that anointing oil, and blood be placed on the right ear, thumb and toe of the priest.
  • Blood. Blood came on His head, hands and feet by the spikes of the crown of thorns and the nails.
  • Oil. Expensive oil for anointing kings and the high priest was poured out on His hands and feet by Mary. It must have touched His hands.
  • Water and Salt. Mary also washed His feet with Her tears as she was washing the offering. The offering must be washed and sprinkled with salt.
  This offering was disposed of outside the city and the ordained priests wait outside the temple for seven days because the priests that would populate this city and sanctuary would come from another place outside the eternal city and sanctuary.
  
  Covenant Offering. This offering was made only one time. It is not found among the ceremonial laws because it had already been made pver two thousand years before when God established the covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15: 9-18). It is discussed below.

How the Offering Was Cut Up.
Both the cutting up of the animal and the disassembly of the tabernacle illustrated the same events. The four sons from the tribe of Levi who camped around the sanctuary were responsible for a portion of this work.

1. East: Aaron ("Selected Lamb"). The chief priests betrayed and condemned Him.
2. South: Kohath ("Internal Organs"). His affliction and suffering after His arrest.
3. North: Merari ("External Carcass"). His crucifixion and death outside the city.
4. West: Gershon ("Roof, Fence, Curtain").The curtain was torn in two to give us access to heaven.

The Mishnah (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Tamid 30b-31b), gave the rules on how to cut up the offering.
"Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head. (Exodus 29: 17)
The law also states that the bones should not be broken (John 19: 36; Psalm 34: 20).
They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it. (Numbers 9: 12)
It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it. (Exodus 12: 46)
So, how did they cut up the offering into its pieces without breaking its bones?

• Priests Cast Lots. They cast lots to determine who would get each portion of the sacrifice.
• Animal Killed. The morning sacrifice was killed by the north western corner of the altar at the second ring, while the evening sacrifice was killed by the north eastern corner at the second ring. The priest cut the windpipe and the gullet.
• Blood. The neck was cut, the blood drained and collected. Then it was splattered on the north east and south west corners. The remaining blood was poured out at the southern base of the altar.
• Hole. They drilled a hole in the joint of its arms to hang up the carcass. This is where Jesus was nailed.
• Joints Separated. They did not break the bones, but separated them at the joints and cut out the heart and squeezed out the blood.
  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It is melted within me. I can count all My bones, they look, they stare at Me. (Psalm 22: 14, 17)
• Flayed or Skinned. The offering was first flayed. The word "Flay" means to whip or to lash and to cut off the skin or outer covering. It also means to assail with stinging criticism.
  He shall then skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. (Leviticus 1: 6)
  Jesus was beaten severely and they literally removed His outer covering when they tore His skin. He was also insulted with stinging criticism at the cross.
  Curtains Removed. The curtains and ceiling were taken down and moved by Gershon.
• Dismembered ("Cut Up"). Jesus was the favorite son of God Who became the staff Who was cut up in pieces to keep the covenant.
  I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. (Zechariah 11: 10, 14)
  
  The Covenant Offering. When the covenant was made with Abraham, God passed between the pieces of the divided offering.
  So He said to him, "Bring Me a three year old heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon." Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds. Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him. It came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces. On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: (Genesis 15: 9-10, 12, 17-18)
  The vow also symbolized that "may I be torn in pieces like this offering if I do not keep my promises". The priests carrying the cut up pieces in both hands represents this splitting in two on the right and left.
  • Three Years Old. God kept the covenant three years after Christ began His ministry when He poured out His wrath on Jesus as He was hung up and split in the darkness.
  • Birds. They were not split in two. They must represent the Father and the Holy Spirit who were not split in two at the crucifixion just as the top and bottom matzah were not split. God did not break the covenant so He was never divided.
  • Ram. This is Christ who was the only member of the godhead to be split in two. Although He was also faithful to the covenant, yet He offered Himself to pay for our unfaithfulness
  • Heifer and Female Goat. This is Christ dying as the woman (the church). The goat is for the living sinners and the heifer is for the dead. Everyone was represented in the covenant.
  • Sun Goes Down. The three hours of darkness.
  • The Deep Sleep. Christ died after it became dark.
  • Smoking Oven and Flaming Torch. This must represent a cosmic event that occurred after Christ died. God came and accepted the burnt offering. The Father is the oven and the Spirit is the torch.
  
  » Splitting the Middle Matzah. In the Passover Seder, the breaking of the middle matzah in two signified the moment Christ was broken and His divinity was separated from His humanity. He accomplished two things.
  • New Covenant. He established the new covenant by giving Himself as the offering.
  • Old Covenant. He paid the price for breaking the covenant by being split in two.
  
  Priests Prepared the Offering. Aaron cut up the offering and covered the Ark with the veil.
• Disemboweled. After cutting off the pieces, the belly was opened and the insides removed.
  The Insides of the Sanctuary Removed. Kohath moved the furniture and the inner veil.
• Nine Priests. In the lesson on the twelve tribes we showed that nine of the twelve were symbolized as making the offering, and the last three showed His triumphant stages. Nine priests took the pieces of the offering to the ramp on the south side of the altar and salted them before they were burnt.

  They went and placed them on the lower half of the ascent on its western side, and salted them and came down and went to the chamber of hewn stone to recite the shema.

  Shema. Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (Deuteronomy 6: 4-5)
  There is great irony in the fact that they recited the SHEMA. Only Jesus obeyed the SHEMA that day.
  • One God. The LORD was no longer "One". They had cut Him up, divided Him and torn Him to pieces.
  • Love God. They hated Him.
  
  The Prayer in Gethsemane. Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane on the south side of the city to begin His ascent to Heaven. First, He would submit to God and obey the SHEMA. It was from the south that the priests and mob would capture Him and He would begin the exodus journey that would include being the sacrifice before completing His ascent.
  The Structure Removed. Merari moved the boards and fence and the priests carried the cut up body.
  » Casting Lots. The priests cast lots to see who would receive the pieces of the offering. The soldiers cast lots to see who would get His torn clothes (a symbol of His body).
  A maximum of thirteen priests had the right to do service. Lots were cast to determine what each would perform. Such as, who takes ashes from altar, slaughters, tosses blood, clears ashes from inner altar, clears ashes from the menorah, the nine priests who carried the pieces of the offering, fine flour, baked cakes and wine. Normally, only nine carried the offerings, but on Tabernacles a tenth priest carried the water offering. On Sabbath two carried the frankinsense for the show bread and at dusk two carried wood.
  Even in this we see a symbol of Jesus and Simon of Cyrene carrying the wooden cross, before the darkness.

  The Nine Priests
  #	Event	Right Hand	Left Hand
  1	Golgotha	Head turned up, fat covering the place where the head was cut	Right hind leg, testicles
  2	Crucifixion	Right foreleg and shoulder	Left foreleg and shoulder
  3	Abandoned	Tail bone, two kidneys, finger of the liver	Left hind leg
  4	12 Tribes	Breast	Neck, heart, lungs, windpipe
  5	Two Thieves	Right flank (rump and side between rib and hip bone), liver	Left flank, spine, milt
  6	Gethsemane	Insides on a platter, knees on top
  7	Body	Fine flour
  8	Body	Griddle cakes
  9	Blood	Wine

  When the offering was cut up the priests held a piece in each hand.
  1. Head, Fat, Right Leg, Testicles. This is the offering He made to keep the vow (the covenant of peace).
     » The Ruler's Portion. They are the parts offered by the first priest and by the high priest on the seven days before Yom Kippur. He offered the incense, trim lamps, then offered the head and limbs, baked cakes and wine.
     » The Laying on of Hands. These parts are also related to this practice. The right leg is the place to lay the hands for a vow. The head is the place to lay on hands to transfer responsibility. The reproductive organs are the place to lay hands to cut off the foreskin as a sign that one intends to keep the covenant.
     » Seal of God. Notice that these are also places for the mark of allegiance, the limb and forehead.
  2. Forelegs. He was tied up and beaten, carried the cross, nailed and then strung up.
  3. Tail, Left Leg, Kidney. At the end, when He felt abandoned. He was now the tail and not the head. God was no longer on his right hand. God did not seem to be keeping the vow on the right thigh.
     » Finger of the Liver ("Extreme Grief"). My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?
     » Kidney ("Wisdom"). Jesus had to rely on His faith in God. He had to remember the SHMA. He had to stand on His one leg. He had to stand alone.
     » Left Leg Cut Off. This was the last cut made before they took the pieces to recite the SHEMA. The Romans normally placed the left foot on top of the right foot and then nailed the two feet to the cross. Therefore, to free the feet from the cross they had to take the nail out of the left foot. This freedom of the left foot is symbolized in this final cut.
  4. Breast. This is the breastplate that lifted up the twelve tribes who were on His heart. But the disciples and the nation were separated from Him as the rib cage was separated from the lungs and heart.
     
     » Neck, Windpipe, Lungs and Heart. This part of the offering signalled the final moments of His sacrifice. He bowed His head at the neck. He cried out with a loud voice, "It is finished", declaring the recreation complete then He breathed His last.
     Windpipe and Lungs. And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed His last. (Mark 15: 37)
     Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!"
     Neck. And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
     Heart. But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. (John 19: 30, 34)
     When His side was pierced it punctured His lungs and heart and all the blood drained out of it.
  5. Flank ("Sides"). These were taken off hard by the backbone and symbolized His severe beating. But He was wounded for the two branches of the church who would emerge that day, Jews and Christians. They were also symbolized by the sinners who were crucified with Jesus.
     » Liver ("Anger"). The Jews retained their anger but the founders of the Christian church repented.
     » Between The Floating Ribs. The description suggests that when the priest cut off the left flank he cut between the two floating ribs, leaving eleven pairs of ribs above and one pair of ribs with the left flank. What does this separation of the tribes into eleven pairs and one pair represent?
     • Judas. He is the only one of the twelve that was separated.
     • Dan. He is the only one of the twelve that will be missing from heaven.
     • Two Thieves. The separated pair represents the two thieves on either side of the spine.
  6. Gethsemane and the Trials ("Insides and Knees"). This is the offering made in Gethemane when Jesus knelt down to pray in such great anguish that He sweat blood. The insides are a symbol of His great emotions and the knees are a symbol of His kneeling in prayer.
     » Peter Denies Him. Peter also denied Him three times. The last time he did this was while he was standing at the gate outside the court yard. He was between the pillars on the marble stones.

     The stomach was washed very thoroughly in the washing chamber, while the entrails were washed at least three times on marble tables which stood between the pillars.

     » Washed Three Times. The washing chamber was the court of the priests. The intestines were washed three times to symbolize the three times that He asked His disciples to pray with Him and they fell asleep. It is also the three times Peter denied Him.
  7. Fine Flour. His body returned to the dust as He was symbolically reduced to ashes.
  8. Griddle Cakes. This is a symbol of Him being cooked and grilled.
  9. Wine. His blood.

The Order of Cutting (from the Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud)
Christ	Body Part		Cut (Quote from the Talmud)	The Pieces of the Offering
Romans: Skinned and Dismembered and Drained His Heart
Arrested, Bound	-	Limbs held	The priests who drew the lots for the limbs held them and strung its legs together
Nail Holes	-	Legs strung, tied and hung	He did not break the leg, but he made a hole in it at the joint and suspended it from there
Beaten, Torn	-	Flayed	He then began to flay it and went on until he came to the breast then he cut off the head. On completing the flaying he tore out the heart and squeezed out the blood in it
Golgotha ("Skull")	1	Head
Heart Pierced	-	Heart torn out Blood drained
Laid out on the cross	2	Fore legs, shoulders	He then cut off the fore legs
	1	Back right leg	He then went back to the right leg and cut it off ...
Mary Given to John	1	Testicles	... and the two testicles with it
	-	Udder	In females, the udder is cut open and the milk is squeezed out at this point
Life	1	Fat	He took the fat and put it on top of the place where the head had been severed
Priests: Disemboweled
He then tore open the carcase so that it was all exposed before him
Trial	6	Stomach	The stomach was washed very thoroughly in the washing chamber
Peter Denied Him 3 Times	6	Entrails	The intestines were washed at least three times on marble tables which stood between the pillars
Remained Silent	-	Lungs, Liver	He then took a knife and separated the lung from the liver and the finger of the liver from the liver, but without removing it from its place
People: Torn Apart
12 Tribes	4	Breast	He hollowed out the breast and gave it to the one to whose lot it had fallen
Jews	5	Right flank (side), liver	He came to the right flank and cut into it as far as the spine, without touching the spine until he came to the place between two small ribs ... with the liver attached
Jesus Dies	4	Neck, windpipe, heart, lungs	He then came to the neck, and leaving two ribs on each side of it he cut it off and gave it to the one to whose lot it had fallen, with the windpipe and the heart and the lung attached to it
Sword in Side. Christians	5	Left flank, spine, milt (spleen)	He then came to the left flank in which he left two thin ribs above and two thin ribs below; And he had done similarly with the other flank. Thus he left two on each side above and two on each side below ... and the spine with it and the milt attached to it.
Forsaken	3	Tail bone, kidney	... along with the tail, the finger of the liver and the two kidneys
Taken off the Cross	3	Left Hind Leg	He then took the left leg and cut it off
Gethsemane Prayers	All	SHEMA	... and salted them and came down and went to the chamber of hewn stone to recite the shema

Jesus as the Lamb of God. An analysis of the order of the cutting of the animal and the pieces held by the nine priests do not show a sequence of events. Instead, the cutting order shows the assignment of responsibility for the death of Christ to three groups of people.

• Romans ("External Carcass"). The Romans arrested, flayed and disposed of the carcass on Golgotha. They dismembered Him by stretching His bones out of their joint on the cross. They placed the cross on His shoulders and nailed Him to it.
• Priests ("Internal Emotions"). The priests were responsible for His betrayal, unjust trial and humiliation.
• People ("Consuming"). The people, including the priests and Gentiles, were responsible for tearing Him to pieces and eating Him. They were the twelve tribes who abandoned Him. They were the two branches of the church who stood on either side and cursed Him.
  • Right Hand ("Jews"). They had the signs of the seal (right hand and forehead), and the 12 tribes.
  • Left Hand ("Christians"). They are entrusted with the covenant, the seed and growing of the Church.
  • Both Hands ("Both Churches"). Both are entrusted with prayer, the broken body and blood of Christ.
  » On the Right Hand of God. The symbols are clear. Those on the right hand caused emotional pain and those on the left would cause joy. However, the Jewish branch of the church still remains on the right hand of God because the Christian church is not a new branch, it will be joined to Israel.
  His Right Hand Was Cut Off. If your right hand makes you stumble [offends you], cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell. (Matthew 5: 30)

Jesus as the High Priest. One reason why the cutting order seems confusing is that the actions of Jesus as the High Priest also fulfilled the actions of the common priests that night. Jesus fulfilled his work as High Priest who performed this ritual from the final Passover supper until He said the prayers in Gethsemane. Then He went to submit Himself as the Lamb who underwent this same ritual.

• Flayed. He took off His clothes to wash the feet of the disciples.
  got up from supper and laid aside His garments and taking a towel, He girded Himself. (John 3: 4)
• Washed. He washed the feet of the disciples.
• Three Times. He only drank three of the four cups of wine.
• The Lot Falls on Judas. He became the one who caused the Lamb of God to be cut up.
  • Jesus Tosses Blood. Jesus shed His own blood in Gethsemane.
  • Judas Slaughters. Judas gave Jesus to Caiaphas the high priest who gave Him to Rome to be crucified.
  • John Removed Milk in the Udder of the Female. John was the priest at the weaning. He received Mary to care for at the time the milk would have been removed from the sacrifice. At this point this came through.
    And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, "Behold this Child is appointed for the rise and fall of many in Israel, for a sign to be opposed - and a sword will pierce even your own soul - to the end that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed". (Luke 2: 34-35)
  • Peter Removes Ashes. Several priests removed ashes from the altar, inner altar and menorah. The ashes were removed at cock crow, when Peter denied Him at the end of the trial where He was grilled to ashes.
    » The Ashes. Simon of Cyrene helped Jesus after the all night trial.
  • Nine Priests Carry Pieces. We do not know what the other nine disciples did except that they scattered in all directions. In this act they ripped Him into pieces.
• Chamber of Hewn Stone. He went to the Garden of Gethsemane before He went to the grave.
• Recite the SHEMA. Prayers in the Garden

Pierced With A Sword. The gospels do not record in which side Jesus was pierced. According to the experts on Roman culture, the sword was usually placed in the right side. However, since some things about the death of Jesus were contrary to the normal course of events we cannot assume that this was also normal.

• Died Quickly. He died much more quickly than expected.
• No Broken Legs. His legs did not have to be broken as was usual.

Crucifixion Anatomy and Physiology Jews (Accusers) Christians (Violent) Right Hand Left Hand

So let me argue for the possibility that the sword was thrust in His left side from a purely symbolic perspective. All these objects are symbolized on the left, so perhaps the sword is on the left.

• Source of the Blood and Water. An upward thrust through the floating ribs would certainly pierce the heart and lungs and cause a flow of water and blood. Some sources argue that the "water" came from His kidneys, but I argue that because of God's meticulous attention to detail a source of waste matter would not represent the pure and perfect "Living Water" from His side. Rather, it was the accumulation of water in the lungs, the repository of the "Breath of Life" mixed with the "Living Water" to produce the "Water of Life" that represents the Holy Spirit.
  » Holy Spirit. He is both symbolized as "Wind or Breath" and Water. And only water in the lungs of God combines both symbols, not urine.
• Leaning Left. According to the Passover Seder, the men must lean left while eating the bread. As a symbol of being swallowed up in death, this leaning left could both be a symbol of turning towards the Gentile side at His death and leaning into the pain on the left side.
• Lungs, Heart, Windpipe. These organ were placed in the left hand of the priest, which we argue represents the Gentile division of the church, and they also represent the highly symbolic method by which He died.
  • Heart. Heart failure (Psalm 22: 14; Psalm 69: 20; Psalm 38: 8,10)
  • Lungs. Gave up the Spirit or breath.
  • Windpipe. He breathed His last.
• Ribs Over the Heart. The twelve ribs on the right are the Jews and the twelve ribs on the left over the heart are the Christians. Since the covenant is formally with the Christians the twelve disciples are the names over the heart of the High Priest.
• The Church with the Sword. In the prophecy of the twelve tribes, the Christian church on the left is symbolized as the violent church with the sword.
• A Roman Sword. It was the Gentiles, symbolized on His left, and a Gentile sword that was thrust into His side.
• Cutting The Left Flank. It is only when the priest made the cut between the two floating ribs on the left flank that he completed the separation of both flanks from the body. The sword must have been thrust between these two ribs on the left side up through the lungs and then the heart to finish the job. This was the last cut made into the body before the left leg was cut off.
• The Accusers on the Right. A Messianic prophecy describes Satan, standing on the right hand of the high priest with accusations as He was dressed in filthy clothes as He carried our sins. Although the Jews were His accusers, they are still on the right hand.
  The Accusation. Then He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. (Zechariah 3: 1)
• Ezekiel's Temple. When the Prince approaches the temple from the east, the priests of Zadok are on the left in the south and the Levites are on the right in the north. The duties assigned to each group matches those given to Jews and Christians.

Washed and Salted. The offering was washed and salted for taste and to symbolize preservation. Bread was also offered with frankinsence to also symbolize this preservation or embalming process.

• The Covenant of Salt. All offerings were given with salt which represents a preservative and gives taste.
  Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt. (Leviticus 2:13)
  As a preservative it represents the promise or the covenant that God would not allow His body to undergo decay in death. When given with the grain offerings it reinforces the idea that the Seed would be preserved in death and it would spring back to life out of the dead earth.
  For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. (Psalm 16: 10)
• Wash with Water. The legs and internal organs were washed in water.
  Then Aaron's sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head and the suet over the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar. Its entrail, however, and its legs he shall wash with water ... (Leviticus 1: 8-9)
  After Jesus died, blood and water poured out of His side. That water from His lungs probably ran down His side and His legs and on the inside of His body where His liver and kidneys came in contact with it.
  Before He died, Mary washed His feet with her salty tears and with expensive perfume. She fulfilled both symbols of cleansing and preservation.

Presentation of the Offering
The Heave Offering. The wave offering was swung back and forth to the right and left and the heave offering was moved up and down. Both were lifted up.

• Heave Offering. This offering was made when Jesus lifted up the heavy cross on His shoulders. The coss bar of the cross was tied to His shoulders like a yoke which was tied to the shoulders of an ox.
  Contributions such as the tithe, peace offering, right shoulder of the peace offering, consecration ram, gifts from the spoils of war were given as heave offering.
• Wave Offering. This offering was made when He stretched out His hands to be nailed on the cross. This offering consisted of the breast of all peace offerings, fat, breast and right shoulder of the consecration ram, left shoulder of the Nazarite's peace offering, first fruits of