God’s Soap Making

Years ago, my dear friend Betty Fitzsimmons shared with me the concept of God’s soap making. She talked about the sacrifices in the Old Testament. The ash, the water, and the fat that we see evident in these Old Testament sacrifices.

As a soap maker (lye soap maker) myself, I found this very interesting at the time and have never forgotten it.

In Malawi,  laundry is done with water drawn from a nearby well and scrubbed by hand, in a bucket with bar soap. Unlike the lye soap I make, it is green. I have yet to figure out why it is green.

Recently, I came across this article in Apologetics Press and thought it would be great to share with you.

https://apologeticspress.org/gods-soap-recipe-517/

Have you made such connections? Have you connected the washing in Titus 3:5 with the cleansing in the Old Testament and the cleansing in baptism?

And 1 Peter 3:21 “There is also an antitype which now saves us – baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus, Christ,

God is amazing! His word is amazing! Jump in today!