An altar is a place of sacrifice, covenant, and spiritual allegiance. Its where something dies so covenant relationship may live.
It symbolizes a place of worship
If you’re going to create an altar, prepare for the fire!
➡️An altar without fire is incomplete.
➡ Fire validates the offering
An altar always answers two questions:
- Who is being honored?
- What is being surrendered?
With that said, what happens when The Refiner’s Fire 🔥 comes in??
- The sacrifice is consumed and
- Separates pure from impure
Bc the altar is where immpurity is exposed, mixture is removed, authenticity is tested and motives are purified;
If an altar of Baal (false god) is created vs a holy altar sacrificed to God [one that produces a “sweet aroma”/worship to Him], IT WILL NOT ENDURE THE TESTING OF THE REFINER’S FIRE (Holyspirit/Yaweh)
“These men have set up their idols in their heart…” -Ezekiel 14:3
The physical structure of an altar & what’s placed on it and offered as a sacrifice, symbolizes our heart–the inner place of surrender, covenant, and worship. The Greek meaning for “heart” is inner self; conscience. It is the control center of allegiance and worship.
🔥The altar determined the spiritual condition of Israel.
🔥The heart determines the spiritual condition of a person.
Idolatry begins internally before it manifests externally. This is why The Fire of God is necessary & so powerful! Fire in the heart:
🔥Tests faith
🔥Burns away impurities and motives &
🔥Strengthens what is genuine
The altar of the heart must endure refining. What remains and endures the power of God, reveals purity. (1 Peter 1:7)
Leviticus 6:12-13 is a symbolism of how the continuous fire signifies constant, unceasing worship, atonement, and the perpetual presence of God, ALONE among His people–
When one set up an altar, it’s not just a structure, yall! It’s a prophetic picture of THE HEART!
The bow/kneeling to that physical altar mirrors the inner altar bc
➡️The altar of the heart determines the authenticity of worship.
➡️Whatever sits on the altar (table) of your heart, is what you truly worship‼️
📖“The true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth…”-John 4:23-24
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