Hebrews 13 v 10;

10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.


Thoughts and view points are welcome on this verse.

It would be helpful if this can be discussed in context of the Old Covenant where Priests were instructed on what they could do with offerings and sacrifices after the deed was done on the altar.

Thanks

OkCornel:
Hebrews 13 v 10;

10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.


Thoughts and view points are welcome on this verse. Thanks.

Hello.

This is a fuller context of that statement:

9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. 13 Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come. 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. 16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Heb 13:9 — Heb 13:16 (NKJV)

To begin, Paul is continuing his comparison of the New Testament and the Old. He is pointing out that just as the sin offering was not eaten under the Old Covenant, the New Testament is not concerned with food per se.

You will see from Leviticus 4, for example, that the sin offering is not eaten by the priests. It is wholly consumed by fire. Although the Lord Jesus did institute a memorial meal to keep us remembering His sacrifice so that we don't lose sight of our salvation, the highly ritualistic system of eating and drinking under the Law has now been removed for Christians.

This is what Paul is warning the Hebrew believers to beware of. They were no longer to get hung up on ceremonial feasts etc. The altar at which we worship now has nothing of that kind prescribed. Even the "Communion," as it has come to be known, is not ritualistic. It is merely a meal that we can individually or collectively have at any time of day on any day of the week according to any cuisine we like in memory of the Cross. The issue is not what we eat or how we eat it, but that the meal is used as an opportunity by us to remember that our eternal life was bought and paid for and sustained wholly by the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ just as the food we eat sustains our physical life in this world.

Paul urges these Hebrew believers and us who read these words today then to turn theirs and our attention away from this world and the material system of things to the world that is to come and to make a habit of praise, of offering thanks to God (as we most definitely should when we remember the great Price He paid for our Salvation) since that is what God prefers to ceremonial feasts.

Cheers.

Ihedinobi3:


Hello.

This is a fuller context of that statement:

9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. 13 Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come. 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. 16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Heb 13:9 — Heb 13:16 (NKJV)

To begin, Paul is continuing his comparison of the New Testament and the Old. He is pointing out that just as the sin offering was not eaten under the Old Covenant, the New Testament is not concerned with food per se.

You will see from Leviticus 4, for example, that the sin offering is not eaten by the priests. It is wholly consumed by fire. Although the Lord Jesus did institute a memorial meal to keep us remembering His sacrifice so that we don't lose sight of our salvation, the highly ritualistic system of eating and drinking under the Law has now been removed for Christians.

This is what Paul is warning the Hebrew believers to beware of. They were no longer to get hung up on ceremonial feasts etc. The altar at which we worship now has nothing of that kind prescribed. Even the "Communion," as it has come to be known, is not ritualistic. It is merely a meal that we can individually or collectively have at any time of day on any day of the week according to any cuisine we like in memory of the Cross. The issue is not what we eat or how we eat it, but that the meal is used as an opportunity by us to remember that our eternal life was bought and paid for and sustained wholly by the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ just as the food we eat sustains our physical life in this world.

Paul urges these Hebrew believers and us who read these words today then to turn theirs and our attention away from this world and the material system of things to the world that is to come and to make a habit of praise, of offering thanks to God (as we most definitely should when we remember the great Price He paid for our Salvation) since that is what God prefers to ceremonial feasts.

Cheers.

Thanks brother, I’ll carefully study this and reply (if need be).

Thanks for taking out time to respond. I sincerely appreciate this. God bless you.

OkCornel:
Hebrews 13 v 10;

10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.


Thoughts and view points are welcome on this verse.

It would be helpful if this can be discussed in context of the Old Covenant where Priests were instructed on what they could do with offerings and sacrifices after the deed was done on the altar.

Thanks

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OkCornel:
Hebrews 13 v 10;

10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Thoughts and view points are welcome on this verse.

It would be helpful if this can be discussed in context of the Old Covenant where Priests were instructed on what they could do with offerings and sacrifices after the deed was done on the altar.

Thanks

I am not entirely certain what the gist is there in Hebrews, but in the Old Covenant, I believe the right to eat from all what was sacrificed on the altar was given to only Aaron and His family, the high priesthood, while in some cases, other priests were allowed to have a share of what they offer.

Leviticus chapters 6 and 7 and 8 ....where we learn that a portion of the offering goes to the priest who offers it up to God, and then we also learn that the bulk of th offerings are meant for Aaron's family as well.

Leviticus 7 vs 31- 34

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31 The priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast of the animal will belong to Aaron and his sons.
32 You must also give the right thigh from the fellowship offering as a gift to the priest.
33 That part of the fellowship offering will belong to the priest who carries the blood and fat to the altar.

34 I will accept the breast that was lifted up and the gift of the right thigh from the Israelites. Then I will give these things to Aaron and his sons. This is their share from the fellowship offerings of the Israelites forever.”