There were many different sacrifices in the Old Testament. While some were to be eaten, those sacrifices whose blood was sprinkled in the holy place as an atonement for sin were never to be eaten. All that was left was to be taken outside the camp and consumed by fire, because they bore the uncleaness and shame of the sin of the people.
The altar of the Old Testament was but a type and shadow of our Savior at the Cross, and those sacrifices point to the body and blood of the Lord Jesus delivered up for our offenses. Our Lord Jesus bore our sins in His own body upon the tree. He took all our guiltiness and shame and reproach upon Himself.
Hebrews contrasts the Old Testament altar and the New Covenant altar of the Saints. Their altar bore repeated animal sacrifices that could never take away sin, or wipe away the reproach and guiltiness. Their altar provided no life, no hope, no forgiveness, and no food.
But our Altar is Christ; He is our sacrifice, and He is our great High Priest. Our Altar provides forgiveness and cleansing and life and hope and joy and rich food. We feed upon Christ and He provides all our life and hope and joy.
Our Sacrifice took away all our shame and reproach, and was delivered up outside the city walls at Calvary, but Praise be to God, Our Sacrifice is alive forevermore! He no longer bears our reproach and guilt, for He has forever discharged them completely by His blood!
The world may reproach our Savior, but we gladly gather round Him outside the city wall and outside the camp.
Our Lord Jesus no longer bears any reproach before His Father nor in the sight of His Redeemed ones. That is why we can never be ashamed of Him.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
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