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Anointing oil

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Posted by: JG

Moses was given an exact recipe for mixing the anointing oil that was to be used in worship in the Tabernacle. I want to look at these ingredients and see how they can apply to our lives as well as how they apply to the anointing of the Holy Spirit in us.

Exod 30:23-31
23 "Also take for yourself quality spices-- five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cane,
24 "five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
25 "And you shall make from these a holy anointing oil, an ointment compounded according to the art of the perfumer. It shall be a holy anointing oil.
26 "With it you shall anoint the tabernacle of meeting and the ark of the Testimony;
27 "the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense;
28 "the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base.
29 "You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them must be holy.
30 "And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister to Me as priests.
31 "And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.
(NKJ)


There are actually five ingredients. Myrrh, sweet cinnamon, sweet calamus, cassia, and pure olive oil. Each of these ingredients has special significances for us today.


First we must realize that this oil is representative of the anointing that Father wants the whole Body of Christ to carry upon their lives. Also you need to know that a lot of the information that I will use in this article is taken from the book, "The Corporate Anointing" by Kelly Varner. I highly recommend that you read this book if you are at all interested in the anointing for your life.

Let's look at these spices and discover how they may apply to our lives today.

#1. Myrrh --- This is an important spice, it is not particularly sweet but it was expensive in the times of Christ. In fact it is still expensive today. It was a spice that was common for the wealthy and royalty. It was and is used as a medicine. They used it for treating throat and bronchial problems. But mostly it speaks of Royalty. Peter wrote that we are a Holy nation, a royal priesthood.


1 Pet 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: (KJV)

So myrrh speaks of the Royalty of Jesus (King of Kings) and those who choose to follow Him. Not so much that we should ever think that we, in or of ourselves, are greater than our master, but that we should understand that we belong to Him and so we have full access to all that He is and desires for us to be.

#2. Is the sweet cinnamon: Have you ever been under the anointing that is so strong that you seemed to actually be smelling the presence of the Lord? Well, you were. I believe we can be so in compassed by the anointing that our natural senses will be affected by it. This spice actually speaks of the sweetness of the Lord and his servant-hood.


Phil 2:7-11...7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
(KJV)


Jesus put it all on the line for us. He was rejected, beaten, bruised and tormented for our salvation. Yet he never lost His sweetness. How often have you and I been in difficult situations and in the midst of it all our sweetness went right out the window. I desire to be more like Jesus. Yet there are times when if I allow myself I can loose my sweetness in a flash. I want the sweet cinnamon to flow in my life fresh every day.

#3. Sweet Calmus: This spice speaks of the incarnate Christ who was the expression of the Father sent to dwell among us. Our Scripture in Philippians tells us that Jesus took on the form of a man; this is very significant for us. If while in the form of a man Jesus expressed the fullness of God. Shouldn't we, as humans be more willing to allow the fullness of God to be expressed through our lives?

Eph 4:13-14...13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
(NKJ)

I want the sweet calamus to be flowing through me at all times.

#4. Cassia: Cassia means to “cleave to”. I want to cleave to Jesus as never before. Jesus new the full extent of this promise in Isaiah.

Isa 40:31...31 But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. (NKJ)

I want to soar to the Spiritual heights that are available to all those who learn to flow with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. I want to be like Jesus and touch people’s lives wherever I go.


#5. The pure olive oil: --- Pure Olive Oil speaks of the fresh flow of the Holy Spirit. It is highlighted in every chapter of the book of Acts and is still fresh and flowing for the Church today. The Early Church was dependant upon the anointing oil of the Holy Spirit. It is my conviction that we are not a different church. That we are the continuation of the out pouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost found in Acts chapter two. And that anointing is still flowing to all who will receive it and walk in it today.

Acts 2:1-4...1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (KJV)


Posted by: JG

SACRED ANOINTING OIL


EXODUS 30:

  • 22 Moreover YHWH spake unto Moshe, saying,
  • 23 Take thou also unto thee the chief spices: of flowing myrrhfive hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much,even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundredand fifty,
  • 24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary,and of olive oil a hin.
  • 25 And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfumecompounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointingoil.


    • MYRRH

    This was the gum or viscid white liquid which flows from a tree resemblingthe acacia, found in Africa and Arabia, the Balsamodendron myrrha of botanists.The "bundle of myrrh" in #So 1:13 is rather a "bag" of myrrh ora scent-bag. 2. Another word _lot_ is also translated "myrrh" #Ge 37:2543:11 R.V., marg., "or ladanum". What was meant by this word is uncertain.It has been thought to be the chestnut, mastich, stacte, balsam, turpentine,pistachio nut, or the lotus. It is probably correctly rendered by the Latinword ladanum, the Arabic ladan, an aromatic juice of a shrub called theCistus or rock rose, which has the same qualities, though in a slight degree,of opium, whence a decoction of opium is called laudanum. This plant wasindigenous to Syria and Arabia.

    CINNAMON

    Heb. kinamon, the Cinnamomum zeylanicum of botanists, a tree of the Laurelfamily, which grows only in India on the Malabar coast, in Ceylon, andChina. There is no trace of it in Egypt, and it was unknown in Syria. Theinner rind when dried and rolled into cylinders forms the cinnamon of commerce.The fruit and coarser pieces of bark when boiled yield a fragrant oil.It was one of the principal ingredients in the holy anointing oil #Ex30:23 It is mentioned elsewhere only in #Pr 7:17 So 4:14 Re 18:13The mention of it indicates a very early and extensive commerce carriedon between Palestine and the East.

    CALLAMUS

    The Latin for cane, Hebrew _Kaneh_, mentioned #Ex 30:23 as one ofthe ingredients in the holy anointing oil, one of the sweet scents #So4:14 and among the articles sold in the markets of Tyre #Eze 27:19The word designates an Oriental plant called the "sweet flag," the ocoruscalamus of Linnaeus. It is elsewhere called "sweet cane" #Isa 43:24Jer 6:20 It has an aromatic smell, and when its knotted stalk is cutand dried and reduced to powder, it forms an ingredient in the most preciousperfumes. It was not a native of Palestine, but was imported from ArabiaFelix or from India. It was probably that which is now known in India bythe name of "lemon grass" or "ginger grass," the Andropogon schoenanthus.

    CASSIA

    1. Hebrew _kiddah'_, i.e., "split." One of the principal spices of theholy anointing oil #Ex 30:24 and an article of commerce #Eze27:19 It is the inner bark of a tree resembling the cinnamon (q.v.),the Cinnamomum cassia of botanists, and was probably imported from India.2. Hebrew pl. _ketzi'oth_ #Ps 45:8 Mentioned in connection withmyrrh and aloes as being used to scent garments. It was probably preparedfrom the peeled bark, as the Hebrew word suggests, of some kind of cinnamon.




    Posted by: Dreamweaver

    Jerry,
    Thank you I will find that book. I received from annointing oil from Oral Roberts ministries. I don't know if it has these ingredients. How do we obtain it? Do we make it ourselves???? Please, instruct!


    Posted by: pickone

    So, do all of these mixed together make the salty spicey smell I smell when some people pass by? Is this the smell someone gets on them when they are being prepared for something?


    Posted by: pickone

    Spikenard. Ok. I understand. Thanks.


    Posted by: angelofthelord

    Thank you Jerry for the lesson. I have used annointed oil many times especially when I was dying this past summer in the hospital.


    Posted by: akabezalel

    Anointing Oil - Biblical use for consecration, prayer, healing & worship
    by abba anointing oil

    TERMINOLOGY: To be "anointed" is, among other things, to be made sacred (consecrated); to be set apart and dedicated to serve God; to be imparted with enabling gifts and grace; to be divinely designated, inaugurated, or chosen for some purpose. We know this subject is important to God because the words anoint, anointed, and anointing appear in more than 150 Spirit-inspired Bible verses, including 22 New Testament scriptures. Indeed, the English word anoint derives from the ancient Latin inunctus, meaning "smear with oil".

    CONNECTION TO OIL: The Bible Dictionary mentions only two types of anointing: with oil or the Holy Ghost. In short, anointing and oil are much more integrally related than most people realize, which explains why Bible translators sometimes use anoint and oil interchangeably as synonymous verbs (e.g., Isa. 21:5).

    THE ANOINTED ONE: Both the ancient Hebrew form of Messiah and the ancient Greek form of Christ literally mean "anointed"; thus, "Jesus Christ" is more accurately rendered "Jesus the Anointed" (or as "Jesus, the Anointed One", or "Jesus, His Anointed"). This is one of the reasons our Savior first publicly announced Himself as the divine Messiah [Luke 4:18] by quoting Isaiah 61:1: "The Spirit of Adonai ELOHIM is upon me, because ADONAI has anointed me…" It's why Peter and John and the followers with them, inspired by the Holy Spirit, publicly refer to Jesus (Yeshua) as the "Anointed One" [Acts 4:26, NIV] and NKJ, NIV, and NAS Biblical versions translate: "Your holy Servant Jesus, whom you anointed".

    WHY FRAGRANT OIL: God is obviously a lover of sweet-smelling fragrances and perfumes, words (or forms of them) which appear in Scripture 41 times and 35 times, respectively. Spices - in the context of anointing oils, perfume, food, and incense - are mentioned throughout the Bible: 16 verses containing frankincense, 17 with myrrh, five with spikenard, and many others featuring cinnamon, cassia, calamus, camphor, stacte, aloes, onycha, cedar, honey, hyssop, henna, mandrakes ,pomegranates, lilies, roses, and saffron. Our faith is deepened and we are enriched and brought closer to God as we begin to study and understand the spiritual meaning of these exotic biblical fragrances.

    FIRST SCRIPTURAL REFERENCE: The great Hebrew patriarch Jacob (divinely renamed "Israel") makes a sacred vow to God after anointing a stone pillar by pouring oil on top of it [Gen. 28:16-22; 31:13; 35:14]. Jacob names the pillar's locale "Bethel" (or Beit-El, meaning "House of God. The editors of the Ryrie Study Bible comment that by pouring this anointing oil, Jacob "consecrated" the pillar, thereby rendering it an altar holy unto God.

    THE HOLY ANOINTING OIL: In Exodus chapter 30, the LORD tells Moses to make a very special and "holy anointing oil" of "the finest of spices", including "flowing (liquid) myrrh", "sweet-smelling cinnamon", "fragrant cane", "cassia", and "olive oil". This highly perfumed oil was used to consecrate (set apart) the articles used in Temple worship, including the ark of the testimony, the holy tabernacle, and all its furnishings, which made them "Holy" (Kadosh in Hebrew) unto the Lord. This word Kadosh, meaning "set-apart", is written on all of ABBA's anointing oils. However, Yahweh gives an admonition NOT to reproduce the exact formula or use it on ordinary humans-an admonition that ABBA takes seriously. (We do not attempt in any way to reproduce this formula).

    THE LAMPSTAND: In Biblical times light was usually provided by oil lamps (or menorahs, a Hebrew word translated "lampstands", "lamps", or, less accurately, "candlesticks"). Often made of clay, brass, silver, or gold, these simple "lamps" slowly burned oil--typically olive oil. This explains scriptures such as Exodus 27:20 ("…order the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of pounded olives for the light, to keep a lamp burning continually"); Exodus 35:14 ("…the menorah for the light, … and the oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense…"); and Exodus 35:28 ("…oil for the light, and for the anointing oil…"). It also deepens our understanding of the parable of the wise and foolish virgins [Mat. 25:1-12].

    PRIESTS: In Exodus, the LORD identifies anointing oil is an acceptable offering unto Him [Exo. 25:6]. Furthermore, He directs that Aaron and his sons be anointed, consecrated, and sanctified as holy priests to minister unto Him [Exo. 28:41 and that Aaron be anointed as Israel's High Priest through the pouring of anointing oil on his head and garments [Exo. 29:7,21,29]. (Psalm 133:1-2 compare harmonious brotherhood to "fragrant oil on the head that runs down over the beard of Aaron…").

    KINGS: In Scripture's first kingly anointing, the prophet Samuel pours oil on the head of King Saul [1Sa. 10:1].

    DAVID'S ANOINTING: David, the "man after God's own heart", is officially anointed with oil (by others) not once but three times [1Sa. 16:12-13; 2Sa. 2:4; 2Sa. 5:3]. In Psalm 23:5, he says to God, "You anoint my head with oil." This is confirmed by Psalm 89:20-21, wherein God declares, "I have found David my servant and anointed him with My holy oil. My hand will always be with him." In addition, David anoints himself while trying to shake off grief over the death of his child and just before entering the Temple to worship God [1Sa. 12:20].

    QUEEN ESTHER & OIL OF MYRRH: In Esther's era any Queen-to-be had to undergo a year of preparations prior to coronation [Est. 2:3, 6-13]. Esther underwent "a six-month treatment with oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and other aloes". One translation states it as "…with olive oil and myrrh…" In ancient times, the average woman's perfume was her anointing oil.

    MARY OF BETHANY & SPIKENARD OIL: One of Scripture's most poignant, bittersweet scenes [Mat. 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9; John 12:3-5] memorializes Mary of Bethany: A woman with an alabaster jar filled with very expensive perfume (pure spikenard oil worth an average laborer's annual wage) approaches Yeshua, breaks the jar, and begins pouring the precious oil over His head and feet. As the house fills with the oil's pungent fragrance, the Lord says to those nearby: "She has done a beautiful thing for me…She poured this perfume on me to prepare my body for burial…I tell you that throughout the whole world…what she has done will be told in her memory." Obviously, our Lord was deeply touched by Mary's unselfish, thoughtful, heartfelt, sacrificial expression of devotion and profound love. Some Bible commentators deem Mary's faithful act as the utmost example of what God desires in believers.

    FRANKINCENSE & MYRRH: The "Magi from the east" honored the child Messiah with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh [Mat. 2:11]. The gospels recount that before his death, Yeshua (Jesus) was offered myrrh mixed with wine, which he refused, and that after his death his body was treated with "a mixture of myrrh and aloes." Frankincense comes to be associated with Christ's role as our intercessor (the bowl of incense in Rev 5:8 is frankincense, representing the prayers of the saints), myrrh with his suffering and death. In Song of Songs the writer refers to the bridegroom (Yeshua) as "who is He coming in a pillar of smoke smelling of myrrh & frankincense?" Many have suggested that the gold, frankincense, and myrrh represent the three roles of Yeshua respectively: King, Priest and Prophet.

    FRAGRANCE OF MESSIAH: The apostle Paul writes: "…thanks be to God, who in the Messiah constantly leads us in a triumphal procession and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of what it means to know Him! For to God we are the aroma of the Messiah, both among those being saved and among those being lost; to the latter, we are the smell of death leading only to more death; but to the former, we are the sweet smell of life leading to more life [2Co. 2:14-16]."

    YESHUA(JESUS)' COMMAND: According to Revelation 3:18 (NAS), Yeshua Himself says to the believing community in Laodicea: "I advise you to buy from Me gold…white garments…and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see." Speaking of "white garments", consider the advice of King Solomon: "Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil [Ecc. 9:8, NIV]."

    BELIEVERS ARE ANOINTED: Believers are "in Yeshua"(Jesus) and He is "in us"; thus we, too, have been and are divinely anointed, as affirmed by both 2Corinthians 1:21-22 ("…it is God who sets…us…in firm union with the Messiah; He has anointed us, put His seal on us, and given us His Spirit") and 1John 2:20, 27 ("…you have received the Messiah's anointing…the Messianic anointing you received from the Father remains in you…His Messianic anointing continues to teach you about all things…so remain united with Him."). So, whether or not you use anointing oil, you're already one of God's anointed!

    OTHERS CAN & SHOULD BE ANOINTED: Some believe oil should be used to anoint only kings and priests; according to Scripture, however, believers in Yeshua as the divine Son of God and as their Savior and Lord are "priests" [1Pe. 2:5,9]; they are kings (by virtue of having the King of Kings "in them" [Gal. 2:20]); and they may justifiably view their being anointed with oil as a physical manifestation of their being filled continuously with the Holy Spirit [1Jn. 2:20; 2Co. 1:21-22]. (Indeed, according to most Bible scholars, in God's Word anointing oil typically symbolizes the Holy Spirit.) Furthermore, "ordinary" ancient Israelites anointed themselves and each other with oil [Ruth 3:3; 2Ch. 28:15; Dan. 10:3; Amos 6:6], and the B'rit Hadashah(Hebrew for New Covenant) actually directs "ordinary believers" to do this [Mat. 6:17; James 5:14].

    WHY & WHEN TO USE BIBLICAL FRAGRANT OIL TODAY:

    As an act of consecration and dedication, a setting apart for a special purpose in God's kingdom. Consider anointing yourself every morning, praying scriptures over your mind, heart, ears, eyes, hands and feet. It WILL change your day!!
    As the Priests of the home, husbands are encouraged to anoint their wives and children for consecration, protection, peace, pronouncing a blessing upon them as did the Fathers of Old!!
    As a preparation to bible study, devotional time, fasting, and praise and worship
    In times of sickness, fear, anxiety, oppression of the enemy, end of mourning, ALSO in foot-washing ceremonies
    As bath oil-the olive oil is great for your skin and the fragrance is divine!



    BIBLICAL FRAGRANCES AND THEIR SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE

    Frankincense: used on the Altar of Incense in temple times, one of the 3 gifts brought to Messiah (intercession)
    Myrrh: Queen Esther bathed in oil of myrrh for six months before her presentation to the King (purification, dying to self, and preparation for the KING)
    "Holy Fire"/Hyssop: exotic Biblical plant used in religious rituals of the Hebrews (cleansing, purification)
    Cedars of Lebanon: fragrant wood used to build Temple, also to anoint a restored leper's house (strength, permanence, wholeness, restoration)
    Pomegranate: highly prized fruit mentioned in numerous scriptures-- motif used to decorate temple, embroidered on high priest's garment (fruitfulness, abundance, blessings, favor of God)
    Spikenard: fragrant oil used by Mary to anoint head & feet of Jesus (intimacy, extravagant worship)
    Rose of Sharon: flower depicting the beloved (beauty)
    Lily of the Valley: white delicate flower (honor & purity of heart)


    Posted by: Fernando

    Thanks for the thread "Anointing oil".
    Here we have use anointing oil to aoint sick people dying in the hospitals and we use to pray for many days and sometimes after we use this oil that received much prayer we use it but we keep praying after to get more anointing from our Father so we just experienced that this function very well , the results are unlimited, we have experienced that only placing the anointed oil with a abundant prayer in boidies of sick people they (the sick) get healed instantle also in many cases without prayer.
    Now when we use the best olive oil 100% virgin also the results are marvellous.
    Let me here news , we can send free little pieces of fabric with olive oil from Israel and with abundant prayer .
    We can not send many pieces we will send just one piece 10 cm x 10cm and you can cut and share with those in need.
    We expect our Lord Jesus healing power for His Glory and for you to know His power to have a real and permanent encounter with our LORD.(FGBMFI lifetime menber)