And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
The verse directs the priest to burn the prescribed portions of the trespass offering, including the fat, upon the altar as an offering made by fire to the Lord. It belongs to the five distinct offerings — burnt, meal, peace, sin, and trespass — appointed for Israel in the opening chapters of Leviticus, each with its own purpose and manner, brought by individuals through the year in the daily ministration of the earthly sanctuary. Like the other sacrifices, it points in type to the sacrifice, life, and priestly work of Jesus Christ in the heavenly sanctuary, showing God's hatred of sin and that sin demands a penalty. A person bore his iniquity until in faith he brought and slew the offering, whose blood made atonement so he was forgiven and free, while in figure his forgiven sins were conveyed to the sanctuary and left before the ark until removed by the cleansing of the sanctuary on the Day of Atonement.
The Rite and Its Place
The priest is to burn the prescribed portions of the sacrifice upon the altar as an offering made by fire to the Lord, and the sacrifice so burned is identified as the trespass offering. The portion burned includes the fat, burned on the altar as holy. The trespass offering is one of five distinct kinds of offerings — burnt, meal, peace, sin, and trespass — set forth in the first seven or eight chapters of Leviticus as special instructions for Israel, each with its own purpose and manner to be clearly defined and compared.
It belongs among the particular, individual offerings that the people brought during the year as part of the priests' daily ministration in the earthly sanctuary. That ministration and service belonged to a yearly cycle and pattern. The laws of the offerings, which included sin, peace, and thank offerings, involved a real cost that varied according to the wealth or position of the offerer.
The instruction is part of the ceremonial law concerning offerings, which was instituted in consequence of sin. It stands in a list of offerings described as most holy, but that designation does not establish that they are holier than the Sabbath, since the two are not being compared.
What the Offering Foreshadows
The laws of sacrifice and offering find their fuller meaning in the sacrifice, life, and work of Jesus Christ. The special instructions for Israel's offerings in Leviticus 1-7 show God's hatred of sin and that sin demands a penalty, and they are shadows of their fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Each of the sacrifices described in Leviticus 1-8 points in type to the work of Jesus Christ.
The sanctuary services and offerings teach God's way and Christ's priestly work in the heavenly sanctuary. That earthly service belonged to the yearly pattern that typified Christ's ministry and priesthood, though it does not represent heavenly things perfectly. A person bore his iniquity until he brought and killed the offering, and after atonement was made with its blood he was forgiven and free from that iniquity. Offered in faith by the sinner, together with the daily offering, the individual offerings described in the first seven chapters of Leviticus transferred in figure through the blood of the sacrifice or the person of the priest the sins of the penitent to the sanctuary. When the blood was sprinkled upon the altar before the ark, the forgiven sins of the people of God were left there in figure, where they remained through the year until the cleansing of the sanctuary on the tenth day of the seventh month through the Day of Atonement services.
The system of offerings was brought by individuals burdened with sin to express faith in the Redeemer to come, and together with the other sacrifices formed part of the yearly cycle that pointed forward to Christ's sacrifice. Christ gave himself as an offering and his soul was made an offering for sin, bearing iniquities and justifying many. The fat burned on the altar as holy, also associated with oil used in anointing as a sign of the Spirit's gift, represents the grace of the Holy Spirit with which Jesus was anointed. Even in a deeply sinful person the remaining Spirit-given image of God is holy and need not be destroyed, but is to be renewed in God's image.
The verse directs the priest to burn the prescribed portions of the trespass offering, including the fat, upon the altar as an offering made by fire to the Lord. It belongs to the five distinct offerings — burnt, meal, peace, sin, and trespass — appointed for Israel in the opening chapters of Leviticus, each with its own purpose and manner, brought by individuals through the year in the daily ministration of the earthly sanctuary. Like the other sacrifices, it points in type to the sacrifice, life, and priestly work of Jesus Christ in the heavenly sanctuary, showing God's hatred of sin and that sin demands a penalty. A person bore his iniquity until in faith he brought and slew the offering, whose blood made atonement so he was forgiven and free, while in figure his forgiven sins were conveyed to the sanctuary and left before the ark until removed by the cleansing of the sanctuary on the Day of Atonement.
The Rite and Its Place
The priest is to burn the prescribed portions of the sacrifice upon the altar as an offering made by fire to the Lord, and the sacrifice so burned is identified as the trespass offering. The portion burned includes the fat, burned on the altar as holy. The trespass offering is one of five distinct kinds of offerings — burnt, meal, peace, sin, and trespass — set forth in the first seven or eight chapters of Leviticus as special instructions for Israel, each with its own purpose and manner to be clearly defined and compared.
It belongs among the particular, individual offerings that the people brought during the year as part of the priests' daily ministration in the earthly sanctuary. That ministration and service belonged to a yearly cycle and pattern. The laws of the offerings, which included sin, peace, and thank offerings, involved a real cost that varied according to the wealth or position of the offerer.
The instruction is part of the ceremonial law concerning offerings, which was instituted in consequence of sin. It stands in a list of offerings described as most holy, but that designation does not establish that they are holier than the Sabbath, since the two are not being compared.
What the Offering Foreshadows
The laws of sacrifice and offering find their fuller meaning in the sacrifice, life, and work of Jesus Christ. The special instructions for Israel's offerings in Leviticus 1-7 show God's hatred of sin and that sin demands a penalty, and they are shadows of their fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Each of the sacrifices described in Leviticus 1-8 points in type to the work of Jesus Christ.
The sanctuary services and offerings teach God's way and Christ's priestly work in the heavenly sanctuary. That earthly service belonged to the yearly pattern that typified Christ's ministry and priesthood, though it does not represent heavenly things perfectly. A person bore his iniquity until he brought and killed the offering, and after atonement was made with its blood he was forgiven and free from that iniquity. Offered in faith by the sinner, together with the daily offering, the individual offerings described in the first seven chapters of Leviticus transferred in figure through the blood of the sacrifice or the person of the priest the sins of the penitent to the sanctuary. When the blood was sprinkled upon the altar before the ark, the forgiven sins of the people of God were left there in figure, where they remained through the year until the cleansing of the sanctuary on the tenth day of the seventh month through the Day of Atonement services.
The system of offerings was brought by individuals burdened with sin to express faith in the Redeemer to come, and together with the other sacrifices formed part of the yearly cycle that pointed forward to Christ's sacrifice. Christ gave himself as an offering and his soul was made an offering for sin, bearing iniquities and justifying many. The fat burned on the altar as holy, also associated with oil used in anointing as a sign of the Spirit's gift, represents the grace of the Holy Spirit with which Jesus was anointed. Even in a deeply sinful person the remaining Spirit-given image of God is holy and need not be destroyed, but is to be renewed in God's image.