tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post1038271379424284455..comments2023-10-09T03:39:02.388-06:00Comments on Expository Lutheran: The Passover, Then and NowBror Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913133289813136695noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post-64725539592381003162012-03-20T16:38:02.970-06:002012-03-20T16:38:02.970-06:00Pastor Macina emailed me this clarification earlie...Pastor Macina emailed me this clarification earlier today. <br />"I read the blog and have spent the rest of my time so far this morning looking at the Passover. Thanks for interrupting my day. (-: I enjoyed the article. However, just a few points of clarification...<br /> <br />Everything that is presented at the sanctuary in the Old Testament is an *offering*. The Passover (Heb. pesach) is the Passover Offering. The other offerings are, burnt offerings, cereal offerings, high priest's bread offering, drink offering, sin offering, guilt offering, ordination offering, peace offering. These are the basic offerings. Of the offerings, the peace offering and Passover offering are *also* called "sacrifices" (Heb. zebach). The sacrifices are eaten by the laity and the priests. The peace offerings actually have portions that go to all of the ritual agents … the LORD gets the fat portions burned on the altar and the blood splashed against the altar's four sides, the priests get a portion of the meat - the breast and right thigh - as well as the hide, and the laity get all the rest of the meat. With the Passover offering, apparently the only thing applied to the altar is the blood splashed against its sides, while the priests get the hide, and the laity get the entire rest of the animal. Furthermore, the priests alone eat the daily accompanying cereal offering, as well as the meat from the sin offering and guilt offering - while a token portion of the cereal offering and the fat parts of the sin and guilt offerings are burned on the altar (the laity never eat any portion of the cereal, sin, or guilt offering). So technically, all offerings are eaten by someone … it is just that the burnt offerings are only "eaten" by the LORD as they are consumed by his holy fire on the altar. The LORD always gets his share … the only exception being the Passover, where he only gets the blood. And of course there is great significance in all of this!<br /> <br />I hope this is helpful."<br />Not sure it changes a whole lot. Sacrifices are still eaten, while not every offering is, but sacrifices are also considered offerings. If I'm reading all this right. Passover was eaten. So Christ our Passover Lamb is still meant to be eaten. But I thank pastor Macina for his time and input. We could use more scholarship such as his.Bror Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06913133289813136695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post-6248611595115552872012-03-20T08:38:29.257-06:002012-03-20T08:38:29.257-06:00Wonderful words as we journey through Lent toward ...Wonderful words as we journey through Lent toward Good Friday and the Resurrection.Darrinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271643406088518622noreply@blogger.com