EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/16/2024 11:23 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Perfect Propitiation”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1 John 2:2
Message of the verse: “and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.”
We begin a new section this evening and it has a
word it in that will need to be explained and understood as we go through this
section. Now Christ could never make His
case for the saints as their divine Defense Attorney if He were not also their Propitiator,
the One who completely turned God’s wrath from sinners to Himself, thus
removing all their guilt and condemnation.
John MacArthur writes “Propitiation through the death of Christ is one
of the critical doctrines of the Christian faith, at the very center of God’s
redemptive plan (Rom. 3:25; 5:1, 10-11; 1 Cor. 15:3; 2 Cor. 5:18-19; Col.
1:20-22; 1 Peter 1:18-20; cf. Lev. 10:17; 17:11; Matt. 26:28; Luke 24:47; Acts
20:28; Heb. 12:24; 13:20). An accurate
understanding of this truth is all its essential aspects is vital to salvation
and the pursuit of a life of holiness.
“The term propitiation, in definition and application, is
most notably a biblical and theological word.
It is a translation of hilasmos, which
means ‘appeasement,’ or ‘ satisfaction.’
Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross satisfied the demands of God’s
justice, thus appeasing His holy wrath against believer’s sins.
“Several related words provide additional understanding
of the nature of propitiation. The verb Hilasterion refers ‘to make satisfaction
for,’ occurs in Luke 18:13 and Hebrews 2:17.
Hilasterion refers to the
sacrifice of atonement required to placate God’s wrath (cf. Rom. 3:25). The translators of the Septuagint (LXX) used
this term to designate the mercy seat, which establishes propitiation’s link to
the Old Testament sacrificial system:
They
shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, and one and a
half cubits wide, and on and a half cubits high. You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside
and out you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding around it. You shall cast four gold rings for it and
fasten them on its four feet, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two
rings on the other side of it. You shall
make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. You shall put the poles into the rings on the
sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.
The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be
removed from it. You shall put into the
ark the testimony which I shall give you.
You shall make a mercy seat of
pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide. You shall make two cherubim of gold; make them
of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy
seat. Make one cherub at one end and
one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends. The cherubim shall have their wings spread
upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the
faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat. You shall put
the mercy seat on top of the ark, and
in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you. There I will meet with you; and from above
the mercy seat, from between the two
cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony; I will speak to you about all
that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel. (Ex. 25:10-22; emphases added to indicate
uses of hilasterion in LXX).
Lord willing we will
continue talking about the mercy seat as we begin the next SD on this vese.
9/16/2024 11:50 PM
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