THATS OFFAL CLOSE 3 Vayikra from Creation Gospel Workbook Three, Vayikra: OLAH: Going Up? The first type of sacrifice is the olah. This is sometimes called the elevation offering because the Hebrew word means to ascend. The olah offering elevates the person offering it because he is striving for a higher degree of holiness, even in his thought life. The olah is brought by a person who has sinned in his thoughts or failed to perform a required positive action, a sin of omission (Munk, 1992, p. 6). Yeshua taught that sinful thoughts may turn into sins of actions. The olah offering is a chance to acknowledge the sinful thought and to “nip it in the bud” by bringing it into the open; exposing the thought to the heat and Light early may prevent it from germinating easily into a sprout of the sinful act. Yeshua affirms this teaching of this olah sacrifice, that contemplating the sin IS sin in itself, and therefore requires atonement. The Brit refers to the olah when it states: “To him who knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin” (James 4:17). The olah offering is totally consumed in fire except for the hide, and no part of it may be eaten. The sin of pride can be confronted with the olah, for in order for the smoke of the olah to go up to Heaven, the nefesh of the person offering must go down. The one with a “high” look does not appear that way because he has spiritual vision. Quite the opposite. He’s high, but he’s high on himself. The olah can bring the heels down to earth where they belong, and only then will the eyes of spiritual vision lift. It is the broken spirit that is an offering to God (Psalm 51:17-19). “One who views himself as superior to others cannot really bring a proper offering.” (Lieber, 2002, p. 246). By designating the one who offers the sacrifice as “a man,” those who read the prescription can understand that any person can voluntarily bring the sacrifice of a broken spirit that is to accompany the physical sacrifice. This elevation of the ruach over the nefesh is hinted to in the language of the sacrifices. The smoke goes up as a “soothing aroma” (Leviticus 1:17) to Adonai. In Hebrew this term is reyach nichoach. The same root letters of ruach (spirit) are the root of an aroma, reyach. The same root as Noach (comfort) is in nichoach, soothing. Although an aroma is like the ruach, blown by the wind, it is tangible evidence of the original substance. The sacrifice may be offered for something not yet observable in the world, the person’s thought, but merely the offeror’s intention to change those thoughts is comforting to the Father.
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