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Sacrifice
To give up something for the sake of others is to freely give. The essence of charity and love is to give by individual freewill choice with no legal obligation applied.
As a noun
There are a number of different definitions of the word sacrifice as a noun and verb. One of those definitions might include:
- an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure.
- an animal, person, or object offered in a sacrifice.
synonyms: (votive) offering, burnt offering, gift, oblation
- an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy.
- "we must all be prepared to make sacrifices"
- synonyms: surrender, giving up, abandonment, renunciation, forfeiture, relinquishment, resignation, abdication
- "joining a federation may result in the sacrifice of sovereignty"
As a verb
As a verb: sacrifice; 3rd person present: sacrifices; past tense: sacrificed; past participle: sacrificed; gerund or present participle: sacrificing
- offer or kill as a religious sacrifice.
- give up (something important or valued) for the sake of other considerations.
To "give up" or "surrender" is to sacrifice.
Offerings and sacrifice
The offerings of Cain and Abel were called Minchah[2] meaning "gift, tribute, offering" and were given by Cain and Abel in some manner to God. The word was not used again until Jacob gave Esau his brother a gift.[3] We will see this word used again when Joseph's brothers bring him a gift to appease him.[4]
The first time we see the word burnt offering[5] used is when Noah brings an offering[6] to an altar.[7]. The term olah, translated burnt offering,[5] will be used again by Abraham and Isaac but also throughout Exodus and the Torah.
The word mizbeach is always translated altar[7] and is from Zabach meaning to sacrifice or offer.[8]
Sacrifices that are called burnt offerings have a purpose and a functional value within society.
Kinds of sacrifice
There are two kinds of sacrifices. There are those we are forced to make or force others to make and then there are those sacrifices we choose to make out of love for others.
Saved by the blood
The sacrifice of Christ was a voluntary sacrifice of Himself that others "might be saved".[1]
People often turn the "sacrifice of Christ" and "the blood of Jesus" into a repeated sound bite, a religious chant, just hollow words often used to merely conjure up an emotional feeling or mental verification of their own self-righteousness. But they do not understand the true meaning of His blood nor even have the conversation that they might be saved.[1]
They want you to repeat those favorite religious phrases because of the ideas they associate with them. That is often merely their faith in an idea or their ideology or a religious doctrine resulting from their private interpretation, but that may not be a Sound Doctrine.
If they did understand the true meaning of His blood sacrifice they would repent of their own selfish deeds of iniquity and covetous practices which have always made the word of God to none effect. They would repent and seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
But we do not see them doing that. They do not even want to have the conversation about what that looks like or what it does not include.
They do not become doers of the Word nor keepers of His commandments.[9]
Many modern Christians, instead of laying down their life daily like Christ taught, remain workers of iniquity, often biting one another, saying "Lord, Lord", but not doing what Christ said to do. They do not want to see the truth about themselves nor that voluntary sacrifice made by Christ so that they "might be saved"[1] but they only want to say the words, reciting their favorite religious phrases which have become a stumblingblock and a snare because those words and phrases are the idols of their false religion.
They say they accept the blood of Christ but in truth they are far from Him. They go to blind guides for they prefer the darkness over the light of truth.
They take His name in vain when they say they are Christian but choose to not do as he said. The sacrifice of Christ is real but their faith in it is false. We know this by what they do, by their covetous practices and by their hatred of the light of the truth.
Sacrifice the lie
Like the Pharisees who said they had Moses but who did not know him, the modern Christian says they trust in the blood of Christ but still won't let go of their Corban, their entitlements, and their cities of blood in order to attend to the weightier matters through the daily sacrifice by faith, hope and charity.
Can we give up the idolatry of modern religion to receive the truth of the gospel of the Kingdom of God and His righteousness?
Can we give up our will in order to do God's will?
Can we give up pride for humility?
Can we give up comfort and convenience for righteousness?
Many people give up rights in exchange for benefits and eat the dainties of rulers at his table which has always degenerated the masses and is a snare.
Blood is life
In some ancient cultures domestic animals were part of the life blood of society.
The phrase life blood of society is a metaphor that expresses the idea that owning domestic animals is an essential element to survival in society.
Were the Altars of ancient societies and the ritual killing of animals just an allegory and metaphor of customs that actually had a practical social purpose? Were the altars of Clay and Stone symbols of systems that provided a social service that bound society together?
This was understood by the Essenes who read the Torah. They understood the Sophistry of Sacrifice.
Even the sacrifice of the Red Heifer was merely a metaphor for foreign aid. The only true sovereign is God but God has given us choice from the beginning. We may eat from, or be guided by, one of two Trees. One is the Tree of Life and the other of our own Knowledge of Good and Evil. Gods are ruling judges. Will we wait upon the LORD or serve other gods by making Contracts, Covenants and Constitutions with them to obtain their Grace and Benefits?
If we join "a federation [which] may result in the sacrifice of sovereignty", our personal right to choose, or our liberty of choice we may be required to sacrifice or serve the gods many of the World. That service and allegiance comes in many forms including taxation, military service, and even service in civilian work projects.
Have we sacrificed our God-given liberty for the comfort and dainties provided by rulers - the wages of unrighteousness?
Have we looked to be Saved by Benefactors of the World and the Fathers of the earth who with One purse take from each of our neighbors bringing us closer to damnation as Merchandise through our Covetous Practices?
Have we returned to the Bondage of Egypt in a Corvee system through a Corban that makes the word of God to none effect like the pig returning to the mire?
Saved by
What are we really Saved by?
Christ died that we "might be saved"[1] but not without our repentance.
Do we have real Faith in Christ without Probity of The Way of Christ who came to serve and save others?
Are we gathering to save others or just ourselves?
Do we love others as much as ourselves? Do we value other people's life as much as we value our own?
Is not our Faith dead without the works of Jesus Christ in our life?
If we do not daily sacrifice for others in service of righteousness then we do not have true faith in Christ or The Way and we are not saved by His grace.
God will give
Exodus 6:4 "And I have also established my covenant with them, to give[10] them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers."
The word give[10] in verse 4 appears in a variety of forms throughout the Bible. In Deuteronomy 7:3 we see Marriages[11] is not ChetTavNun חָתַן chathan but is TavTavChetTavNun תִתְחַתֵּ֖ן ṯiṯ-ḥat-tên which is about making contracts, covenants and constitutions with them in Spirit and Truth because of the double Tav.
In Deuteronomy 7:5 we see a word for destroy but not from shamad ShinMemDalet[12] nor Abad AlefBeitDelat[13] nor charam ChetReishMem[14] which are the most common Hebrew words translated destroy.
Here the word destroy reated to altars nathats formed with the Hebrew letters NunTavTzadik.[15] But in the text we see tit-tō-ṣū (תִּתֹּ֔צוּ) formed with the letters TavTavTzadikVav, again containing the Double Tav which means to not just destroy the form of their altars with violence but with the "Spirit and Truth" which only comes with faith in The Way of God which is the way of righteousness.
In Mark 7:10-13 We see Corban, or (Sacrifice), should be a gift to God through charity as explained by John the Baptist, not by force like Herod and the Pharisees. Even King Saul foolishly thought he could obtain the sacrifices of the people by force and reap the same results; that is to say ( רצון לתת Ratzon La’Tet), "by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free of charge.” But Samuel told him that was foolish and for that reason his kingdom would not stand.
To take away the right of your neighbor to choose to give in the liberty of true charity is the foolishness and covetous practices that will entangle the people in the yoke of bondage.[16]
There are well over a hundred variations in the Hebrew text for this word give[10]. In Exodus 6:4 and 8 we see the word La’tet is written Lamed-Tav-Tav לתת, also with a double Tav and us said to mean to give which includes the will to receive on condition. We see the words I will give assigned the Strongs number 05414 which is normally nâthan, NunTavNun[10] but in the text of verse 8 we see a second variation of La’tet appear as wənāṯattî with the letters VavNunTavTavYod (וְנָתַתִּ֨י) with another double Tav which means that Israel must be willing to accept the gift on the conditions of their conformity to the righteousness of God in "Spirit and Truth".
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him "might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."
- John 5:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved."
- 1 Thessalonians 2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, ...: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost."
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
- ↑ 04503 ^החנמ^ minchah \@min-khaw’\@ MemNunChetHey from an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. bestow; n f; {See TWOT on 1214 @@ "1214a"} AV-offering 164, present 28, gift 7, oblation 6, sacrifice 5, meat 1; 211
- 1) gift, tribute, offering, present, oblation, sacrifice, meat offering
- 1a) gift, present
- 1b) tribute
- 1c) offering (to God)
- 1d) grain offering
- Many translations also translate this word as grain offering.
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
- ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
- 1) gift, tribute, offering, present, oblation, sacrifice, meat offering
- ↑ Genesis 32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present <minchah> for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. 16 And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee? 18 Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy servant Jacob’s; it [is] a present<minchah> sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he [is] behind us. 19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. 20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present<minchah> that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. 21 So went the present<minchah> over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
- ↑ Genesis 43:11 And their father Israel said unto them, If [it must be] so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present <minchah>, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 05930 (הלע) `olah \@o-law'\@ or ^hlwe^ `owlah \@o-law'\@ fact part of 05927 "to go up, ascend, climb"; n f; {See TWOT on 1624 @@ "1624c"} {See TWOT on 1624 @@ "1624d"} AV-burnt offering 264, burnt sacrifice 21, ascent 1, go up 1; 289
- 1) whole burnt offering
- 2) ascent, stairway, steps
- ↑ 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 <05930> on the altar.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 04196 מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach [miz-bay’-akh] MemZayinBeitChet from 02076; n m; [BDB-258a] [{See TWOT on 525 @@ "525b" }] AV-altar 402; 402
- 1) altar
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- זָ ז Zayin The "Crowned" head. The Service and Valor, cut and bread, war and nourish. [weapon.... Cut, to cut off, manacle] (Numeric value: 7)
- ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
- ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
- ↑ 02076 זָבַח zabach \@zaw-bakh’\@ a primitive root ZayinBeitChet; v; {See TWOT on 525} AV-sacrifice 85, offer 39, kill 5, slay 5; 134
- 1) to slaughter, kill, sacrifice, slaughter for sacrifice
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to slaughter for sacrifice
- 1a2) to slaughter for eating
- 1a3) to slaughter in divine judgment
- 1b) (Piel) to sacrifice, offer sacrifice
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1) to slaughter, kill, sacrifice, slaughter for sacrifice
- ↑ John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
- John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 05414 נָתַן nathan [naw-than’] a primitive root NunTavNun; v; [BDB-678a] [{See TWOT on 1443 }] AV-give 1078, put 191, deliver 174, made 107, set 99, up 26, lay 22, grant 21, suffer 18, yield 15, bring 15, cause 13, utter 12, laid 11, send 11, recompense 11, appoint 10, shew 7, misc 167; 2008
- 1) to give, put, set
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend
- 1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate
- 1a3) to make, constitute
- 1b) (Niphal)
- 1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned
- 1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted
- 1c) (Hophal)
- 1c1) to be given, be bestowed, be given up, be delivered up
- 1c2) to be put upon
- 1a) (Qal)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds or realms through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- 1) to give, put, set
- ↑ 02859 חָתַן chathan [khaw-than’] ChetTavNun a primitive root; v; [BDB-368a] [{See TWOT on 781 @@ "781b" }] AV-law 27, affinity 3, marriages 3; 33
- 1) to become a son-in-law, make oneself a daughter’s husband
- 1a) (Qal) wife’s father, wife’s mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law (participle)
- 1b) (Hithpael) to make oneself a daughter’s husband
- ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
- ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds or realms through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- 1) to become a son-in-law, make oneself a daughter’s husband
- ↑ 08045 שָׁמַד shamad ShinMemDalet [shaw-mad’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-1029a] [{See TWOT on 2406 }] AV-destroy 83, destruction 1, overthrown 1, perished 1, misc 4; 90
- 1) to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated
- 1a) (Niphal)
- 1a1) to be annihilated, be exterminated
- 1a2) to be destroyed, be devastated
- 1b) (Hiphil)
- 1b1) to annihilate, exterminate
- 1b2) to destroy
- ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
- ↑ 06 אָבַד ‘abad [aw-bad’] AlefBeitDalet a primitive root; v; [BDB-1a] [{See TWOT on 2 }] AV-perish 98, destroy 62, lose 10, fail 2, surely 2, utterly 2, broken 1, destruction 1, escape 1, flee 1, spendeth 1, take 1, undone 1, void 1; 184
- 1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) perish, die, be exterminated
- 1a2) perish, vanish (fig.)
- 1a3) be lost, strayed
- 1b) (Piel)
- 1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate
- 1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)
- 1b3) cause to stray, lose
- 1c) (Hiphil)
- 1c1) to destroy, put to death
- 1c1a) of divine judgment
- 1c2) object name of kings (fig.)
- 1c1) to destroy, put to death
- 1a) (Qal)
- א Alef Father-Son- begin- The Paradox: God and Man - (ox bull) [strength, leader, first] (Numeric value: 1)
- ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
- ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
- 1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed
- ↑ 02763 ^םרח^ charam \@khaw-ram’\@ a primitive root ChetReishMem; v; AV-destroy 34, utterly 10, devote 2, accursed 1, consecrate 1, forfeited 1, flat nose 1, utterly to make away 1, slay 1; 52 and is also a noun 02764 ^םרח^ cherem
- 1) to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate for destruction, exterminate
- 1a) (Hiphil)
- 1a1) to prohibit (for common use), ban
- 1a2) to consecrate, devote, dedicate for destruction
- 1a3) to exterminate, completely destroy
- 1b) (Hophal)
- 1b1) to be put under the ban, be devoted to destruction
- 1b2) to be devoted, be forfeited
- 1b3) to be completely destroyed
- 1a) (Hiphil)
- 2) to split, slit, mutilate (a part of the body)
- 2a) (Qal) to mutilate
- 2b) (Hiphil) to divide
- ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
- ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- 1) to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate for destruction, exterminate
- ↑ 05422 נָתַץ NunTavTzadik nathats [naw-thats’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-683a] [{See TWOT on 1446 }] AV-break down 22, throw down 5, destroy 5, cast down 3, beat down 3, pull down 2, break out 1, overthrow 1; 42
- 1) to pull down, break down, cast down, throw down, beat down, destroy, overthrow, break out (teeth)
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to pull down
- 1a2) to break down, break off
- 1b) (Niphal) to be pulled or broken down
- 1c) (Piel) to tear down
- 1d) (Pual) to be torn down
- 1e) (Hophal) to be broken, be broken down
- 1a) (Qal)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds or realms through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
- צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90) - to replace the Tzadik with a Kuf you get the word nathaq 05423. Which is defined "to pull or tear or draw off or away or apart, draw out."
- 1) to pull down, break down, cast down, throw down, beat down, destroy, overthrow, break out (teeth)
- ↑ Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.