Tag: altar
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Worship in the Wrong Place – Genesis 33:19-20
Genesis 33:19-20And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money. And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel. Jacob does something here that sounds spiritual, and in one sense, it was. He…
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Fatness in Communion – Genesis 13:18
Genesis 13:18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord. Abram keeps moving in the right direction. Lot set his eyes toward Sodom. Abram moved toward Mamre and Hebron. Lot chose what looked rich. Abram chose what…
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Eyes Too Low – Genesis 13:10
Genesis 13:10 And Lot… … lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. There is a sharp contrast here between Abram…
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Back to Where It Was Real – Genesis 13:1-4
Genesis 13:1-4 And Abram went up out of Egypt… … he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his…
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Altared Before Anything Else – Genesis 8:20
Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord… and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. What was the first thing Noah did when he stepped into the new world? He built an altar. That tells me a lot about what had happened…
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The Cry of the Altar – Revelation 16:7
Revelation 16:7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. What a striking scene this is. John hears the altar speak. Whether that is literal or figurative, I cannot say with certainty. But this much is clear. The testimony comes from the altar.…
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Outside the Camp – Hebrews 13:10–11
There is something in us that likes visible religion. We like places we can point to, systems we can touch, rituals we can repeat. It feels solid to stand near an altar, watch the smoke rise, and say, “There it is. That is where God meets man.” The Jewish believer reading Hebrews would have understood…