{"id":12035,"date":"2021-05-05T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12035"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:52:00","slug":"leviticus-placating-aroma-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12035\/leviticus-placating-aroma-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Leviticus &#8211; &#8220;Placating Aroma &#8221; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Good morning,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am reading in Leviticus and have a question.\u00a0\u00a0I read our translation, and when describing the offerings it says, &#8220;it is a placating aroma made by fire to the LORD&#8221;, and KJV says a &#8221; sweet savour unto the LORD.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0It just struck me how different that is.\u00a0 Or is it?\u00a0 I looked up the word &#8220;placate&#8221; to see the definition.\u00a0 Does placating mean to stave off the anger of the LORD?\u00a0 To &#8220;make do&#8221; for now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Here is your translation of part of Leviticus 1:17: &#8220;The priest shall burn it on the altar as a burnt offering.\u00a0\u00a0It is a placating aroma made by fire to the Lord.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hi Beth.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>To placate is to stop someone from being angry (Cambridge dictionary), and that is exactly what the law of Moses did, regarding the wrath of God.\u00a0 The law&#8217;s ceremonies, especially the sacrifices, appeased the wrath of God against our sin until His Son came and made a way for us to live in God&#8217;s righteousness.\u00a0 When Jesus did that, there no longer existed a need for God&#8217;s wrath to exist against us.\u00a0 The law was not God&#8217;s permanent solution to man&#8217;s sin; the power of the holy Ghost is.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>The dictionary definition of the Hebrew word which we translated as &#8220;placating&#8221; is &#8220;quieting, soothing, tranquillizing&#8221;;\u00a0<u>it has nothing to do with a sweet smell<\/u>.\u00a0 I doubt that the burning flesh of animal sacrifices was sweet at all.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thank you for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning,\u00a0 I am reading in Leviticus and have a question.\u00a0\u00a0I read our translation, and when describing the offerings it says, &#8220;it is a placating aroma made by fire to the LORD&#8221;, and KJV says a &#8221; sweet savour unto the LORD.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0It just struck me how different that is.\u00a0 Or is it?\u00a0 I looked up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}