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From Him, Through Him, To Him, be the Glory forever and ever Amen!!!

I weep at this word, and the revelation of it.

Propitiation:

that by which God is rendered propitious, i.e., by which it becomes consistent with his character and government to pardon and bless the sinner. The propitiation does not procure his love or make him loving; it only renders it consistent for him to exercise his love towards sinners. It also shows that God is God and cannot act contrary to who He is. He is Himself in context to His own glory. The beauty of the Cross is revealed through his mercy of the sacrifice of Himself to welcome humans back into the Love Triangle created for us, from Him, through Him, and to Him and the propitiation of Him.

In Rom. 3:25 and Heb. 9:5 (”mercy-seat”) the Greek word “hilasterion” is used. It is the word employed by and used in similar context of the translation in Ex. 25:17 and elsewhere as the equivalent for the Hebrew “kapporeth”, which means “covering,” and is used of the lid of the ark of the covenant (Ex. 25:21; 30:6).

This Greek word (hilasterion) came to denote not only the mercy-seat or lid of the ark, but also propitiation or reconciliation by blood.

On the great day of atonement the high priest carried the blood of the sacrifice he offered for all the people within the veil and sprinkled with it the “mercy-seat,” and so made propitiation. In 1 John 2:2; 4:10, Christ is called the “propitiation for our sins.” Here a different Greek word is used (hilasmos).

Christ is “the propitiation,” because by his becoming our substitute and assuming our obligations he expiated our guilt, covered it, by the vicarious punishment which he endured. (Comp. Heb. 2:17, is the full expression of “making propitiation.”)

Oh the Divine Beauty of the Cross!

Noga…

Such a revelation.