Category Archives: horns of the altar

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

 

Take the words of this Lazaroo as a personal warning:

“On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.”
(Amos 3:14)

You have to be pretty angry to destroy your own altar, Jesus!

But it was because Your people had made a mockery of it.

They kept going through the motions of worshiping You

but their sinful lives made it clear:

Their devoted words
were nothing but lies.

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Joshua 7:1; 1 Kings 11:4; 2 Chronicles 17:6; Isaiah 29:13; Ezekiel 20:16; Matthew 15:4-8; John 8:44

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with explosive feeling:

“When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the altar.”
(1 Kings 2:28)

When he sided with David against Absalom, Jesus

Joab chose well the first time.

But when he threw in his lot with Adonijah against Solomon

that was his undoing.

What was his mistake?

Depending on his own calculations
instead of checking to see who You had chosen.

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Genesis 25:22; Joshua 9:14; 2 Samuel 18:9-16; 1 Kings 11:34; 1 Chronicles 28:5-6; 1 Chronicles 29:1; Acts 1:23-25

Monday, December 14, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in vivid recall:

“Then the priest is to take some of the blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.”
(Leviticus 4:30)

You made him use his finger to touch the blood of this goat, Jesus!

He probably didn’t want to
but that made it personal.

May this remind me of how achingly personal it got for You

for me

on the cross.

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Psalms 51:16-17; Romans 3:29; Romans 5:9; Colossians 1:20; Hebrews 9:22-26; 1 Peter 2:24

Monday, January 9, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unshakable belief:

“Aaron and his descendants were the ones who presented offerings…on the altar of incense…”
(1 Chronicles 6:49)

This altar of incense was Your idea, Father

about 18 inches square
maybe three feet high

made of acacia wood
overlaid with pure gold

the famous “horns of the altar” built into it
where those who feared for their lives ran to take hold.

No longer!

thanks to Your Son’s death on the cross in my behalf
the most fragrant offering of all time.

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Exodus 30:1-10; Proverbs 14:27; 1 Corinthians 15:55; Ephesians 5:2; Philippians 1:21; Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 2:15