The Sweet Savour of Our Saviour's Atonement
By Prophet Jacob R. Blandford
"And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour."
(Ephesians 5:2 KJV)
'There is no true way of serving God without the atonement. Leave that out, and you have left out the vital part of the whole. What service can we render to the Most High if we begin by disloyalty to him whom God has set forth to be the propitiation for sin, even his dear Son?' — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Exposition of Numbers 8:9-12
The phrase "sweet savour" is found in the following verses — Gen. 8:21; Ex. 29:18, 25, 41; Levi. 1:9, 13, 17, 2:2, 9, 12, 3:5, 16, 4:31, 6:15, 21, 8:21, 28, 17:6, 23:13, 18, 26:31; Num. 15:3, 7, 10, 13, 14, 24, 18:17, 28:2, 6, 8, 13, 24, 27, 29:2, 6, 8, 13, 36; Ezra 6:10; Ezek. 6:13, 16:19, 20:28, 4; II Cor. 2:15
With the numerous references to the "sweet savour" in the Old Testament, I ask you: where's your "sweet savour"? The answer is in Ephesians 5:2.
The "sweet savour" offerings are mentioned 40 times in the Old Testament regarding the Levitical priesthood. But now the Levitical priesthood is abolished. There are no more Levitical atonements. And I ask. Where's your high priest? Where's your blood atonement? Where's your sweet savour?
The only "sweet savour" acceptable to God Almighty is the predestinated, eternal, New Testament offering of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross; and His New Testament mediation as High Priest after the Order of Melchisedec. You can't find a higher priest; you can't find a holier priesthood. (see Heb. 7:26) And you can't find a perfect, eternal sacrifice without Jesus. If you could find another sacrifice (like a catholick [cf. Heb. 6:6, 10:11] or another "heretick" [Titus 3:10 KJV]); it would be abominable, blasphemous, and presumptuous compared to the sweet, eternal sacrifice of
The King James 1611 Authorized Bible:
While the rest are wavering,
We'll be savouring—
Our Saviour that is.
And yes, that's spelt with an "o-u-r".
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The Burnt Offering
By Prophet Jacob R. Blandford
When I was a teenager I remember looking at a tattoo on Tupac Shakur’s arm of Jesus on the Cross being on fire. I wondered why 2Pac depicted Jesus burning. He wasn’t literally on fire, but the spiritual fire of God’s wrath was upon the Son of God because the sins of mankind (see 1 John 2:2). Those sins were placed upon him like the scapegoat on the Day of Atonement. (Lev. 16) Jesus really was the perfect burnt sacrifice. Abraham and Isaac (in Gen. 22) pictured the burnt offering. Abraham pictured the Father, and Isaac the Son. Isaac would have been killed and burnt, had not the angel intervened and stopped Abraham. The phrase “burnt offering” is found 184 times in the KJV. And “burnt sacrifice” is found 18. The burnt offering of animals was a regular tradition in the Old Testament Levitical sacrificial system. Also many times the burnt offering produced a fragrant smell called a “sweet savour”; and that phrase is found 43 times in the KJV. All of these sacrifices were a type or picture of what the Lord Jesus Christ ultimately accomplished on the Cross. According to Apostle Paul, our Sweet Saviour made a sweet savour to God when he atoned for our sins. (see Eph. 5:2)
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I'd get a big ole' 1611 King James Bible (cf. Nehemiah 8:1,3,5,8,18) chained down to the pulpit (cf. Nehemiah 8:4) of every Church in America. In most fundamentalist Churches we see a table in front of the pulpit, and on table a King James Bible on display and opened up so the whole congregation in the sanctuary can see it. (cf. Heb. 9:2; Acts
Some may say, "Well, that's a strange thing for God to put a man's name [King James] on His Bible." And here is my response from the Bible, "I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing." (Hosea 8:12)
My second response is that God used men to write the Bible. (cf. II Pet. 1:20,21) Yes, men handled the pen, but the Words came directly from heaven. (cf. Is. 55:8-11) As a matter of fact, the names of many of the Books of the Bible are named after the Prophet or Apostle who wrote that Book. If you're going to say it's strange for God to put a man's name on the English translation, then you'd also have to say it's strange for God to entitle the Books of the Bible after men. Moreover, you have to realize these were not just any men, but they were men of God inspired by the Holy Spirit. (see 2 Pet. 1:19-21) And that's why Saint Paul wrote, "…when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." (II Thess. 2:13) God can use any vessel he wants to get His Word out; he can override men's failures and faults with His Spirit. In John Chapter 11 God used Caiaphas to speak a prophecy concerning Christ's vicarious death, and Caiaphas did not even believe on Jesus, as a matter of fact they we're plotting His death. But God not only used they're malicious intent to speak prophecy but also to fulfill it. (cf. Acts 13:27-31)
Thirdly, King James was a Christian. He was a Protestant Christian, who personally (by the power of the Holy Ghost through faith in Jesus Christ) went head to head with the Antichrist. (see The Epistle Dedicatory) Don't you think that would make him worthy enough? He was also English, he was the King of England, and he spoke old Elizabethan (Jacobean) English. He was also a king. David was a man after God's own heart, and God made him a king. He was promised the King of kings would come from his loins.
¶ Commentary on Jude verse 3. The Holy Bible was “once delivered unto the saints” in the 1st century; and “the faith was once delivered unto the saints” in the 1st century, because the ‘once delivered faith’ is called “the word of faith” (Romans 10:8). Apostle Jude wrote his general epistle in 66 A.D. And the apostles’ writings and teachings are the summation of the 1st century apostolic faith and the 1st century apostolic Bible. The RCC, Vaticanus, and Aleph were 3 centuries late! The Greek Textus Receptus (1516) and the Elizabethan English AV (1611) are “once delivered” traditional and apostolic holy Text types.