Bible Study Seattle

Today I learned something.  I was unaware of the seventh day Baptists.  Here is a comparison of Seventh Day Baptists and Seventh Day Adventists:

http://seattlesdb.org/sda.htm

“Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.”  Genesis 22:6

Abraham took in his hand the fire?  Did he carry the fire?

When the tabernacle was built, there was a golden altar just outside the most holy place.  It had no fire burning on it, only the fire that the priest brought by censor.  There must have been something similar with Abraham.

After Abraham would slay Isaac with the knife, he would burn him up on the altar.  This whole story was a precursor to God offering his Son Jesus on the altar.  Some say that after Jesus was killed, the priests intended to burn him and the tree with fire so that all evidence of him would be removed.

If it’s correct that the presence of Jesus will be as the days of Noah, what does the dryness represent?  Just before Noah and family exited the ark to repopulate the earth, it is found dry from the flood.  In other places in the bible, people walk on dry ground to a new beginning.  What exactly that dryness of Noah’s flood represents future seems a mystery.  Will the population be seriously reduced?

“O Lord, who may abide in Your tent?
Who may dwell on Your holy hill?
He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness,
And speaks truth in his heart.
He does not slander with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
In whose eyes a reprobate is despised,
But who honors those who fear the Lord;
He swears to his own hurt and does not change;
He does not put out his money at interest,
Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will never be shaken.”  Psalm 15

This is a psalm of David, who will live again to see its fulfillment.  The tent was the tabernacle.  This will be fulfilled when all people have been resurrected and are required to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  None will be allowed to come near unless they are clean, not just outwardly but inwardly as well.  “Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.  “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”  Revelation 22:14-16

“When he finishes atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall offer the live goat.  Then Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and he shall lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands in readiness.  The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a solitary land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.”  Leviticus 16:20-22

Some have said that the two goats in the day of Atonement sacrifice are part of the same sacrifice and how could Satan be an offering?

“Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds which fly in midheaven, “Come, assemble for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all men, both free men and slaves, and small and great.”  And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.  And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.  And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.”  Revelation 19:17-21

Here we have a picture of an offering composed of evil kings and the commanders of mighty men. Jesus is pictured as the high priest in white linen but spotted with blood from the day of Atonement sacrifice:

“He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.  And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.  From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.”  Revelation 19:13-15

But how can it be that the offering in this sacrifice are evil kings?  Yet that’s what it is.  Satan is represented in the Azazel goat.  This goat could also represent Jesus taking our sin away, as far as east is from west.  Some Jewish commentary:  http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2203-azazel