Measurements of the Altar and a picture after being built.

Ezekiel 43:13-17

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“These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth (24 inches)): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is the height of the altar: from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit. The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns extending upward from the hearth. The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners; the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the east.” Ezekiel 43:13-17

The altar pictured below is where burnt offerings were made according to the law by the Israelites in the Old Testament. The burnt offerings were offered up to God as the atonement for sin of all the Jewish people. However, those sacrifices did nothing to actually remove sin, if they did then there would have been no need to repeat those sacrifices routinely. God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, as the sacrificial Lamb of God to atone for sin, once and for all, as quoted below,

“For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Therefore, when [Jesus] came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—In the volume of the book it is written of Me—To do Your will, O God.’”
Hebrews 10:1-7

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….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.
I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11