The Book of Revelation - His Feet of Brass II
In John’s seeing of the Son of Man the sacrificial system is immediately brought into view. Jesus was described with a garment down to his foot, wearing a golden girdle, with feet of brass as they burned in the furnace. Immediately, our hearts should go to the Old Covenant and begin to look at the sacrificial system.
As Israel entered the Temple Courts the first piece of furniture to be encountered was the brass altar. Here was the sacrifice offered. Here the judgement took place. In a symbolic way the sins of the offeror were transferred to the sacrifice. Jesus our great lamb was where all sins of mankind was finally transferred. He offered himself once and for all, completing the requirements for the redemption of all mankind. Man would now simply have to respond to Christ’s offering. Whosoever calls on the name of the Lord is now saved through the work and effort of our Lord Jesus Christ who gave Himself for all men.
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans that if we confess with the mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in our hear that God raised Him from the dead we would be saved. I’ve heard it said many times that confession is good for the soul. Usually, that implies confessing our bad deeds. I want to preface this. I do believe you should confess to the Lord your sins. I do believe you need to believe unto Him for salvation. I do believe you must be born again. All of this I do strongly believe.
However, much of our confession after we are born again is not according to Christ’s work. Paul wrote in his epistles that we are the righteousness of God through Christ. Much of the time we do not confess this but confess our short comings. Consider with me that when we confess our short comings, we are not confessing the Lord Jesus. If I confess Him, I could say that through one offering for sin you have sanctified forever those who are saved (Hebrews 10). I could say that I have been made full or complete in Him (Colossians 2:10). I could confess I have been cleansed and made free through the blood of the Lamb, and that Jesus Christ now lives in me as He declared He would in John 14:20.
I could confess His work and reality in my life. That is what I could learn to confess and then boldly say that confession is good for my soul! Glory to God. I could say this is my judgement, the offering of the body of Jesus Christ and His resurrection. As God judged Israel’s sins through the offering of the animals. He has judged us in the offering of Christ, and through His resurrection He judges us complete in Him, having obtained the atonement.
The brass altar is a place of judgement, and is the entranceway into the Temple of God. No one comes to the Father but through the offering of Jesus. Jesus is now our entrance way and the only way to the Father. Here through his work, as we eat the lamb and come to know Him we will find that He has judged us righteous and complete. We will find that we now live in and through Him that loved us and saved us with His own precious life.
I hope you enjoy these podcasts as we follow the leading of the Spirit for the unraveling of the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. It is a privilege to share with you what the Lord is teaching and showing me. Glory to God in the Highest!!!
