01/05/2026
WHAT YOU BASICALLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ALTERS
“Man of God, come set up an altar in my house.” “We need to raise an altar against this attack.” “My breakthrough is tied to the altar I gave at church.”
This Sounds familiar right?
The word “altar” is almost everywhere in modern church culture. But under the New Covenant, most of what we call “altars” isn’t just biblical. It’s Old Covenant language dragged into New Covenant reality.
“An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.”
Exodus 20:24 (KJV)
An altar was a place of sacrifice.
They offered animals, killed, and shed blood because “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness”
“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.”
Hebrews 9:22 (KJV)
Alters were there for:
1. Atonement (cover sin temporarily).
2. Access ( meet with God)
3. Remembrance (mark encounters with God)
But under the New covenant, Jesus became the altar, the sacrifice, and the High Priest.
1.He is the final sacrifice
“But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;” Hebrews 10:12 (KJV)
If you’re still “raising altars” for forgiveness, you’re saying His blood wasn’t enough.
2. He is the meeting place
John 4:21-23.
Location died. Altars were location based. We got upgraded to indwelling alters.
3. We became the temple
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
1 Corinthians 3:16 (KJV)
You don’t go to an altar. You are the altar. Your body is where God dwells now. In Rom 12:1 the bible talks of Offering our bodies as a living sacrifice, notice that it talks about the "living sacrifice" not "dead." This clearly brings the era of killing lambs for sacrifices to an end
So under the New Covenant, there are absolutely no physical altars for atonement. The cross was the last one.
God meets YOU in YOU, His presence is in you, not the stage, or pulpit.
You dont need to raise a financial altar for breakthrough! This is literally Old Covenant. Each should give what he has decided… not reluctantly or under compulsion. Your money doesn’t buy access. You can’t pay a debt that was nailed to the cross.
Ancestral altars fighting you are never a factor because He disarmed the powers and authorities. At the cross, Jesus shut down every legal right of demonic altars. You’re not fighting for victory. You’re fighting from victory! Hallelujah!!! Your job isn’t to raise a stronger altar. It’s to enforce the one altar of Calvary through faith.
“We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.”
Hebrews 13:10 (KJV)
The Cross of Jesus Christ is the Only Redemptive, Our altar is Calvary. You don’t build it. You believe it.
2. Your heart is a LIVING altar and daily surrender is the New Covenant sacrifice. Not goats and bulls, but obedience.
3. Your mouth is the new altar. Your worship is the new bloodless sacrifice.
“By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.”
Hebrews 13:15 (KJV)
Under the Old Covenant, Men built altars to reach God but under the New Covenant, Christ became the Altar to reach man and through him we have communion with and access to the FATHER
Christ is your altar. You are His temple. That’s the New Covenant.
Don’t raise an altar, that era is long gone!
