Altar

Altar. In NT theology the equivalent of the Cross. Both are raising devices upon which a sacrifice was bound and slaughtered for the redemption of the offeror. On the Day of Atonement, this sacrifice was made for the whole of the congregation of Israel. On crucifixion day, it is performed by God the Father for the whole world on the sacrifice of His Son. The meaning of both devices of death is God’s Word for this future agent of redemptive justice which is historically fulfilled, hence, messianic prophecy of Jesus Messiah.

Upon this “cross,” as with the sacrificial altar, was that sacrifice bound. The Son was willingly bound by the prescient Word of God to fulfill it.  This is the epistemic challenge given to man’s moral judgment. Most of humanity will effectively render it as offensive and worthless as a basis for faith or true, but to a relatively small portion worthy of his own life to publish.

Messiah’s Person, and the righteous faith locus of God’s Word,  must be murdered (Psalm 16:8–11, Isaiah 53, Psalms 22, Daniel 9:25–26) to supremely illustrate for all time the essential sin of disbelief, relegation, apathy, and abuse of transcendent Truth. This state of antithesis to Truth that is defeated by this antithesis of love, faith, and devotion to the murdered Messiah, Transcendent Truth, the Prophetic Word of Jesus, is expressed by the murdering of the Truth of God by Man.  Man murders God’s Truth by unrighteousness, but then God’s Truth murder’s Man’s sin for him to obtain true righteousness by faith. Sin is forgiven by belief in it’s the Holy opposite, that Jesus is the Christ, the fulfillment of the Prophets.  God allows his Son’s death, Truth, to die by the hand of carnally motivated religion and disbelief, which death is to the world confirmation of that their sin will continue happy and unchanged by interference from factual transcendent phenomena. But Man’s false faith is destroyed by the True. God vindicates himself, his Word and demonstrates sin’s antithesis by supernaturally raising that Word from the dead (Psalms 16, Daniel 12:2-3,  Isaiah 53:10–11, Jonah 1:17, Hosea 6:1–2) Therefore, the Prophetic Word of Messiah is established for all time, despite the carnal impulse, to stand as an ultimate standard and a rallying point for all conceptions of divine Truth and its believers.

See https://www.jesusfilm.org/blog-and-stories/old-testament-prophecies.html

https://blog.tms.edu/resurrection-according-to-scriptures