My son, Shawn, wrote a paper about the relevance of offerings. It is very thorough and in-depth. I thought my Hebrew Roots friends might enjoy it. I am reading it several times so that I can absorb more of the information here.
One of the most enlightening things I learned from it was that “Ancient idolaters believed that animal-offerings were needed to assuage the anger of a judgmental, bloodthirsty god. This is totally foreign to Jewish belief. The Torah teaches us that offerings are a means to draw closer to Hashem – the Merciful God.”
I was also able to identify the ways that I make these types of offerings through the different kinds of prayers that I pray with the help and leading of the Holy Spirit.
I hope you enjoy this study of offerings and are able to see our God and His ways more clearly than ever before.
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"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
