The use of oil is recorded often throughout scripture. It has symbolic and sometimes physical purpose. It is used in anointing people and for funeral rites and a lot in between. Some oils have physical properties that are helpful for different uses. However, when we use oils for purposes like anointing people we should take care to remember the oil is not the source of the power. YHWH is the source of the power. Using oil does not command His power to our purpose. It is symbolic or perhaps in some circumstances following the example He recorded in scripture to try to do things His way and please Him. Do not make oil into an idol that has some power on its own from a spiritual perspective.
Samuel Goes to Bethlehem
1Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have selected a king for Myself among his sons.” 2But Samuel said, “How can I go? When Saul hears of it, he will kill me.” And the LORD said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’ 3“You shall invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for Me the one whom I designate to you.” 4So Samuel did what the LORD said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and said, “Do you come in peace?” 5He said, “In peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” He also consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
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