1 Samuel 16:13
Samuel took the olive oil and anointed David in front of his brothers. Immediately the spirit of the LORD took control of David and was with him from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.

Olive oil was used by Jacob to dedicate the place Bethel as "House of God." This was the time when he obeyed his father Isaac to find a wife. While he was sleeping there, he dreamt of angels going up and down a stairway from earth to heaven, then he saw God standing beside him, spoke to him and blessed him.

"Dedicate" means to "set apart" making someone or something sacred, or made holy, and so special to God. You might wonder that this sort of thing is a superstitious belief, but the truth is it's based on the Bible, the Word of God. There are a lot of things in this world that we don't understand. It's also wrong to ignore this belief because faith is something we don't see. It is the acceptance of something that has no visible evidence, or through scientific observation. That's where science has its shortcomings. They are accepted only by means of the physical realm, and no spiritual realm. And, we all know that there is a spiritual realm in the universe.

Now, why the use of olive oil for consecration if it's something spiritual? Why offer a lamb sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin in the Old Testament? It's because the physical and the spiritual is linked. God created the universe with both physical and spiritual properties. And, a time will come when we will all change into "Glorified bodies," which decay and all physics will vanish forever!

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