An Altar: Elelohe Israel

KJV Jacob buy a field and buildeth an altar and called it Elelohe Israel.  Genesis 33:18-20 

People and Creatures Return to the Earth - Genesis 8:13-19

In the six hundred first year of Noah's life, on the first day of the first month, the flood had dried up. Noah opened the hatch of the ship and saw dry ground. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was completely dry.

God spoke to Noah: "Leave the ship, you and your wife and your sons and your sons wives. And take all the animals with you, the whole menagerie birds and mammals and crawling creatures, all that brimming prodigality of life, so they can reproduce and flourish on the earth."

Noah disembarked with his sons and wife and his sons wives. Then all the animals, crawling creatures, birds - every creature on the face off the earth - left the ship family by family. Noah built an altar to God. He selected clean animals and birds from every species and offered them as burnt offering on the altar. God smelled the sweet fragrance and thought to himself, I'll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I'll never again kill off everything living as I've just done.

Purpose - Love for God - Living for Jesus

Romans 12:1 & I Corinthians 15:58

When sacrificing an animal according to God's Law, a priest killed the animal, cut it in pieces, & placed it on the altar. Sacrifice was important, but even in the OT God make it clear that obedience from the heart was much more important. God wants us to offer ourselves, not animals, as living sacrifices - daily laying aside our own desires to follow him, putting all our energy & resources at his disposal & trusting him to guide us.

Paul said that because of the resurrection, nothing we do is wasted. But if we maintain a heavenly perspective, we understand that we don't see the good that results from our efforts. Do the good that you have opportunity to do, knowing your work will have eternal results.

Reference summary used from the KJV Life Application Bible, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois

Part II - Aaron & Sons, a Perpetual Priesthood - Exodus 40:13-18 -12/12/16

Verse 13 ...And thou shalt put Aa'ron him; on the holy garments, ...and anoint him, & sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

Exodus 28:41 ... (The garments for Aa'rons sons)And thou shalt put them upon Aa'ron thy brother, & his sons with him: & shalt anoint them, & (fill their hand) consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.


Exodus 40:14 ... And thou shalt bring his sons, & clothe them with coats:


Exodus 40:15 ... And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be ... an everlasting priesthood throughout their generation.


Exodus 40:16 ... Thus did Mo'ses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.


Exodus 40:17 ... And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the ... tabernacle was reared up.

Numbers 7:1 ... (The offering of the princes of the dedication of the tabernacle.) AND it came to pass on the day that Mo'ses had fully set up the tabernacle, & had anointed it, & sanctified it, & all the instruments thereof, both the altar & all the vessels thereof, & had anointed them, & sanctified them;


Exodus 40:18 ... And Mo'ses reared up the tabernacle, & fastened his sockets, & set up the boards thereof, & put in the bars thereof, & reared up his pillars.

Scripture reference used from The KJV Bible, SouthWestern Co., Nashville, TN

Part I - Monday - Aaron & Sons, a Perpetual Priesthood - Exodus 40:12 - 12/12/16

Verse 12 ... And thou shalt bring Aa'ron & his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, & wash them with water.

Leviticus 8:1-13 ... (Moses consecrated Aaron & his sons.) AND the LORD spake unto Mo'ses saying,

Take Aa'ron & his sons with him, & the garments, & the anointing oil, & a bullock for the sin offering, & two rams, & a basket of unleavened bread;

And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And Mo'ses did as the LORD commanded him: & the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And Mo'ses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done.

And Mo'ses brought Aa'ron & his sons, & washed them with water.

And he put upon him the coat, & girded him with the girdle, & clothed him with the robe, & put the ephod upon him, & he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, & bound it unto him there with.

And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate he U'rim & Thum'mim.

And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Mo'ses.

And Mo'ses took the anointing oil, & anointed the tabernacle & all that was therein, & sanctified them.

And he sprinkled thereof of upon the altar seven times, & anointed the altar & all his vessels, both the laver & his foot, to sanctify them.

And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aa'ron's head, & anointed him, to sanctify him.

And Mo'ses brought Aa'ron's sons, & put coats upon them, & girded them with girdles, & (bound) put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Mo'ses.

Scripture reference used from The KJV Bible, SouthWestern Co., Nashville, TN

Tuesday - Healing River Flows from the Temple - Ezekiel 47:1,2,12 - 11/15/16

The vision of the holy waters.

Verse 1 ... AFTERWARD he brought me again unto the door of the house; & behold, ... waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, & the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

Revelation 22:1 ... And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God & of the Lamb.


Ezekiel 47:2 ... Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, & led me about the way without unto the outer gate by the way that looketh eastward; &, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.


Ezekiel 47:12 ... And ...by the river up on the bank thereof, on this side & on that side,

Ezekiel 47:7 ... Now when I had returned, behold, at the at the bank (lip) of the river were many trees on the one side & on the other.

Ezekiel 47:12 ... shall (shall come up) grow all trees for meat, ... whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new (principal) according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: & the fruit thereof shall be for meat, ...

Psalm 1:3 ... But thou, O LORD, art a shield (about) for me; my glory, & he lifter up of mine head.


Ezekiel 47:12 ... & the leaf thereof (for bruises & sores) for medicine.


Scripture reference used from The KJV Bible, SouthWestern Co., Nashville, TN

Monday - God Will Dwell With Them - Exodus 29:42-46 - 10/31/16

The continual burnt offering. God's promise to dwell among the children of Israel.

Verse 42 ...This shall be ... continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD, ...

Verse 38 ... Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.


Verse 42 ... where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.

Exodus 25:22 ... And there I will meet with thee, & I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Is'ra-el.


Exodus 29:43 ... And there I will meet with the children of Is'ra-el, & the tabernacle... shall be sanctified by my glory.

Exodus 40:43 ... Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, & the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.


Exodus 29:44 ... And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, & the altar: I will ... sanctify also both Aa'ron & his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.

Leviticus 21:15 ... Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: For I the LORD sanctify him.


Exodus 29:45 ... And ... I will dwell among the children of Is'ra-el, & will be their God.

Exodus 25:8 ... And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.


Exodus 29:46 ... And they shall know that ... I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of E'gypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.

Exodus 20:2 ... I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of E'gypt, out of the house of (servants) bondage.


Scripture reference used from The KJV Bible, SouthWestern Co., Nashville, TN