If you do a character study of
Abraham, you will find something curious about an act that he repeated many
times. As he moved from place to place, he would hear the voice of God and in
every spot where he hears the voice of God, he would build an altar. The bible
would say that the altar is a memorial of his encounter with the LORD at
different places. Which means that anyone that gets to that spot will see a
witness that it is possible to hear God form that point. We see this practice
in the Old Testament so much that people could not reach out to God except
there is an altar.
An altar is a pile of stones upon
which a flat slab is placed for sacrifices to be offered. There is a place
where woods can be placed inside it to provide fire for the burning of the
sacrifice. The act that was found with Abraham suggests that there are physical
locations where it is possible to reach the supernatural realm. Jacob was
travelling to his uncle’s place when he came across a physical location where
there was a lot of Angels travelling up and down in that physical location. He
gathered stones and built an altar there.
In African traditional religion,
altars are not physical structures. The priests that serve gods discern some
physical locations where they place the sacrifice to evoke a certain reaction
from the god. These physical locations may not have a natural heavy traffic,
but if you check spiritually, there is actually a heavy traffic in locations
that some people have referred to as location portals. These are spots where the
realities of the territory can be determined. In Eze 21:18-22, we see the king
of Babylon standing at the head of two ways to use divination. It is this kind
of location that was also mentioned in Psalms 127.
In the New Testament, the reality
of altars still exists. The Altar is the place where God meets with man. On a
general note, the boundary between the natural and the supernatural world is an
altar. That spot where you can stretch your hand from the physical into the
spiritual is called the altar. God made the believer to be in the posture of an
altar. You have the ability to reach out into the spiritual-to God without any
physical material. All you need is your faith. As we mature in the Christian
faith, we grow in the amount of power and strength we release as an altar.
The strength of an altar is a
function of the sacrifice offered on it. Different sacrifices evoke different
responses. Cain and Abel is classic. We are in the year of increasing measures
of light and as a result of these, the LORD is calling for understanding of
priestly activities. It is a priest that offers a sacrifice on an altar. We need
to increase the sacrifices that ensure our growth. Our spiritual maturity will
determine our level of spiritual influence in this last days.
In the times of increasing
darkness, we are seeing men push sacrifices on altars to reach demonic figures
to evoke different responses. The sacrifices offered on these altars at
location portals create an incense that dictates he atmospheric conditions of a
place and many who do not have the required stature to stand against this
reality simply yields to what the altar is saying. This is why the devil can be
the prince of the power of the air. Altars and sacrifices are used to determine
cultural beliefs, traditions and even economic situations.
We are in a season of power play
over territories which affect everyone living in the territory. We must mature
to the points where we are the altars that is making the decisions on the
earth.
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