Moses, take off your sandals because this is my ground.

I own this ground.

So when Isaiah sees this king high and lifted up, the whole earth is filled with his glory.

I mean, this is God going, you may as well know.

It's all my ground.

You might as well take your sandals off because I own it. Now listen carefully. There is a rule, an unbreakable rule in the Word of God, that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins.

There is never a time when it departs from that truth.

Always, always, always.

Anytime there is spokenness about atonement, it will be, whether it is seen in that passage

or not, it has got something to do with the shedding of blood because that is the forever eternal rule of God. Without it, there is no atonement.

And so all of those sacrifices were, of course, foreshadowing the one and the last sacrifice

that would be offered, the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ himself.

So which altar was it coming from? Was it coming from the altar of incense or the brazen altar?

So there are lots of different notions about that. It could be either one. But it very well could

have been the one off the altar of incense. I'm going to tell you why.

We think, no, it had to have blood on it.

Yes, but all those coals in the altar of incense were coming from the brazen altar.

So let me do just a little instruction here on what this was like.

So the brazen altar was outside of the temple or the tabernacle. It stood between, it was the area that was

just before the entering door. So it was out here. It was out like blazing, blazing brazen altar.

And so the sacrifices were placed on it. Then there is the door to the sanctuary,

and in this first sanctuary is where the altar of incense is, and it's just before the veil

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