Sacrifices Re-Instituted in the Third Temple

[Vic]

Rose since the day of the Lord issue is off topic, if you want to answer it, please start another thread. Thanks.

[jazzy]

(06-03-2010 08:04 PM)Rose of Shushan Wrote:   Jazzy I am reminded of the following verses in the NT which say that we are now the Temple of God since God and Christ are now dwelling in us.How do these reconcile with a future Temple?

2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Revelation speaks of this also and I take it to be spiritual since I dont hope to spend eternity morphed into a literal pillar of a recreation of the ancient Temple.

Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Jews are returning to Israel everyday in un-belief. If the Jews do build a third temple, it will be of no concern to Jesus's church, it will be a Jewish affair.

As I stated before:

................No building such as Ezekiel describes in 40:1-44:31 has yet been built and the prophecy can't refer to Zerubbalbel's or Herod's remodeled temple and there won't be a temple in New Jerusalem, it must be a description of the temple that is going to be on the earth during the Millenium. It can't belong to the New Earth because the land where it's located is bounded by the Sea, and the waters that flow from it flow into the sea but in the New Earth there are no more seas.

There's no Ark of the Covenant, no pot of manna, no Aaron's Rod, no Candelstick, no Shew Bread, no Altar of Incense, no Veil, no Holy of Holies where the high priest alone enters to offer atonement for sin and make intercession for the people.

Two feasts are observed, The Passover, but no Passover Lamb will be offered as Jesus fulfilled that Type (Ezek. 45:21-24), and the Feast of Tabernacles. This feast is to be observed by all nations under the penalty of "Drought" or "Plague". The Feast of Pentecost will be done away with on account of its fulfillment......................

If messiantics are trying to use Ezekiel's vision as the third temple, their so off base it isn't even funny!

The topography of Ezekiel's temple doesn't even match up with Jerusalem and if they are still going to build on what the call the "temple mount", it surrrrrrrre doesn't match Ezekiel's temple!

If the messy's are so torah observant as they claim, I find it absolutely idiotic that someone hasn't discovered this discrepency by now!

I believe Ezekiel is describing the temple in the Millenium.

[Rose of Shushan]

Quote:As I stated before:

................No building such as Ezekiel describes in 40:1-44:31 has yet been built and the prophecy can't refer to Zerubbalbel's or Herod's remodeled temple and there won't be a temple in New Jerusalem, it must be a description of the temple that is going to be on the earth during the Millenium. It can't belong to the New Earth because the land where it's located is bounded by the Sea, and the waters that flow from it flow into the sea but in the New Earth there are no more seas.

There's no Ark of the Covenant, no pot of manna, no Aaron's Rod, no Candelstick, no Shew Bread, no Altar of Incense, no Veil, no Holy of Holies where the high priest alone enters to offer atonement for sin and make intercession for the people.

As you’ve pointed out clearly the instructions for that Temple are not completely the same as the instructions given either to Moses or David.
So they are a new Torah so to speak or additions to it, which would make for interesting rabbit trail discussion.
If we go by what you propose and say its in the Millenium it still doesn’t tie in with the fact that the NT says that we are now the Temple of God both individually

2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
and also as a body

Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

The Ezekiel Temple also mentioned sacrifices yet the NT says

Heb 7:24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Heb 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Heb 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Heb 7:28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Heb 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.


Here it says that the priesthood of Jesus replaced the aaronic priesthood permanently.Verse 24 says unchangeable v28 says he is consecrated for evermore.
So to go back to the temple mentioned in Ezekiel is completely contradictory.
There are two ways I see the Ezekiel Temple.One is that its spiritual.
The other is that it was supposed to have been built post returning to Babylon and the people didnt build it.In this latter case it would thus never be rebuilt because it belonged to the past and God moved on with His plans regardless and those plans were salvation and one who was greater than the Temple.

Mat 12:6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
Mat 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

In Hebrews we see that Christ's sacrifice ended permanently any requirement for animal sacrifice since they were but shadows of what was to come.Those who say that in the millennium they will be memorials need to find Scripture to support that.I see plenty of Scripture supports that there will no longer be any animal sacrifices since those were but shadows of what was ultimately fulfilled in Christ.

Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Heb 9:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Heb 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

I think its also worth rereading these verses in the light of what I just wrote.

Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Heb 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

After all those a millennial Ezekiel Temple just doesn’t seem scriptural to me.

[jazzy]

As I stated before:

................No building such as Ezekiel describes in 40:1-44:31 has yet been built and the prophecy can't refer to Zerubbalbel's or Herod's remodeled temple and there won't be a temple in New Jerusalem, it must be a description of the temple that is going to be on the earth during the Millenium. It can't belong to the New Earth because the land where it's located is bounded by the Sea, and the waters that flow from it flow into the sea but in the New Earth there are no more seas.

There's no Ark of the Covenant, no pot of manna, no Aaron's Rod, no Candelstick, no Shew Bread, no Altar of Incense, no Veil, no Holy of Holies where the high priest alone enters to offer atonement for sin and make intercession for the people.

Quote:As you’ve pointed out clearly the instructions for that Temple are not completely the same as the instructions given either to Moses or David.
So they are a new Torah so to speak or additions to it, which would make for interesting rabbit trail discussion.
If we go by what you propose and say its in the Millenium it still doesn’t tie in with the fact that the NT says that we are now the Temple of God both individually

Please re-read. Also there will be no Veil, no unapproachable Holy of Holies where the High Priest alone might enter to make atonement for sin for the people unless a rather obscure passage in Zech.6:12,13 means that Christ (The Branch, Jer.23:5,6)will be a king-priest and perform the duties of the High Priest .

How do you compare anything now with the Millenium?

[Rose of Shushan]

Quote:Two feasts are observed, The Passover, but no Passover Lamb will be offered as Jesus fulfilled that Type (Ezek. 45:21-24), and the Feast of Tabernacles. This feast is to be observed by all nations under the penalty of "Drought" or "Plague". The Feast of Pentecost will be done away with on account of its fulfillment.

Eze 45:21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Eze 45:22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
Eze 45:23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
Eze 45:24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
Eze 45:25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

The passage in Ezekiel that you referred to is the one you say doesnt need to be done because Jesus fulfilled it?
And if that is so then why Ezekiel prophesy of it if it wouldnt need to be done?
Or did you mean something else by quoting Ezekiel there?

So Jazzy from what you wrote you said that the Passover is observed then in same sentence say that it wont be as Jesus fulfilled it.Well we either observe it or not.We cannot say we will observe it when observing it means obeying what the Law said to do.If you say we observe the Passover without a lamb then its no longer observing the Passover.
According to your reasoning Passover is done away with since theres no lamb sacrifice.So even if you call it Passover it isn’t-as Passover required a lamb.
Then youre also doing away with Shavuot .You say Tabernacles will be celebrated yet were back to the Mosaic Law requiring lots of animal sacrifices for Sukkot(Tabernacles).But the NT says there are no needs for any further sacrifices,So again its contradictory to what NT teaches.

[jazzy]

(06-05-2010 09:17 PM)Rose of Shushan Wrote:  

Quote:Two feasts are observed, The Passover, but no Passover Lamb will be offered as Jesus fulfilled that Type (Ezek. 45:21-24), and the Feast of Tabernacles. This feast is to be observed by all nations under the penalty of "Drought" or "Plague". The Feast of Pentecost will be done away with on account of its fulfillment.

Quote:Eze 45:21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Eze 45:22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
Eze 45:23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
Eze 45:24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
Eze 45:25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

Where in the Ezekiel passages you quoted does it say that a Passover lamb will be sacrificed? As a unit it was called "The Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread", It was indifferently called the feast of "Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread", the object was to mark the distinction between Passover as a sacrifice and as a feastfollowing the sacrifice the latter was disignated the feast of "Unleavened Bread" (Lev.23:5-6). The pascal meal was on the evening of the 14 Nisan, and the seven days following are called the feast of "Unleavened Bread" and sacrifices (not the pascal lamb) were offered.


The passage in Ezekiel that you referred to is the one you say doesnt need to be done because Jesus fulfilled it?
And if that is so then why Ezekiel prophesy of it if it wouldnt need to be done?
Or did you mean something else by quoting Ezekiel there?

Quote:So Jazzy from what you wrote you said that the Passover is observed then in same sentence say that it wont be as Jesus fulfilled it.Well we either observe it or not.We cannot say we will observe it when observing it means obeying what the Law said to do.If you say we observe the Passover without a lamb then its no longer observing the Passover.

[b]What Ezekiel is observing has nothing to do with the here and now.

Quote:Then youre also doing away with Shavuot .You say Tabernacles will be celebrated yet were back to the Mosaic Law requiring lots of animal sacrifices for Sukkot(Tabernacles).But the NT says there are no needs for any further sacrifices,So again its contradictory to what NT teaches.

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Again, what Ezekiel is observing has nothing to do with here and now. It has always been God's intention to set up His Kingdom on earth and there will need to be a headquarters for praise and worship for all the citizens of the messianic kingdom. Ezekiel's vision will probably have more of a doxological meaning rather than a typical significance pointing forward to the atoning and sanctifying work of a futrue Redeemer.

[Rose of Shushan]

Quote:Where in the Ezekiel passages you quoted does it say that a Passover lamb will be sacrificed? As a unit it was called "The Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread", It was indifferently called the feast of "Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread", the object was to mark the distinction between Passover as a sacrifice and as a feastfollowing the sacrifice the latter was disignated the feast of "Unleavened Bread" (Lev.23:5-6). The pascal meal was on the evening of the 14 Nisan, and the seven days following are called the feast of "Unleavened Bread" and sacrifices (not the pascal lamb) were offered.

In the Five books of the Torah it makes it clear that there is Passover and after follows seven days of Unleavened bread.In the Ezekiel verses I posted it mentions Pasover,seven days and unleavened bread also so I m not sure what you were trying to say when you posted about the distinctions.I didn’t quite get the points you were trying to make.

To answer your question about where in the Ezekiel passages it says that a Passover lamb will be sacrificed.Its right under the verses you quoted from me and asked the question! LOL but Ill repaste it here

Eze 45:21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

It clearly says you shall have the Passover,there and when we turn to the Torah this is what it said regarding how the feast should be kept.
As you will see it clearly involves a lamb being killed and then it also mentions a long list of other sacrices that were to be done throughout the seven days.And they all involved animals.

Exo 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
Exo 12:4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Exo 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exo 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Exo 12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Exo 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exo 12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
Exo 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Exo 12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
Exo 12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
Exo 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Exo 12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Lev 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
Lev 23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Lev 23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Exo 12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
Exo 12:44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Exo 12:45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
Exo 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
Exo 12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Exo 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.


Exo 34:25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.


Num 9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Num 9:12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

Deu 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Deu 16:2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
Deu 16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Deu 16:4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
Deu 16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
Deu 16:6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
Deu 16:7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

[Rose of Shushan]

Jazzy, if by the distinctions you made(the ones I didn't understand too well) you are trying to say that the Ezekiel verse really referred to the Feast of Unleavened bread and not actually the Passover day in which lambs were sacrificed then youre still in a quandary.Since the days of Unleavened Bread had its respective animal sacrifices.

Num 28:16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
Num 28:17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
Num 28:18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
Num 28:19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
Num 28:20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
Num 28:21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
Num 28:22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
Num 28:23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
Num 28:24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
Num 28:25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.


Lev 23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
Lev 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
Lev 23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Lev 23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

The following verse just about covers it all and its relating to all the feasts of the Lord under the Mosaic Covenant

Lev 23:37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

When you referred to Ezekiel 45 you said the following

Quote:Two feasts are observed, The Passover, but no Passover Lamb will be offered as Jesus fulfilled that Type (Ezek. 45:21-24), and the Feast of Tabernacles. This feast is to be observed by all nations under the penalty of "Drought" or "Plague". The Feast of Pentecost will be done away with on account of its fulfillment.

Yet there is no getting away from the fact that Ezekiel 45 does mention the Passover and says it is to be kept and keeping it involves lamb sacrifice and the seven days of Unleavened Bread also require sacrifices,burnt offerings etc.
You said the Feast of Tabernacles would still be kept and that is alluded to in

Eze 45:25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

There we do see animal sacrifices which incidentally are not the same as in the Torah, but how can you reconcile all these sacrifices with the New Testament that tells us that the animal sacrifices were shadows and types.

Heb 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

[Vic]

I am just going to add this in to what Rose is asking regarding the feasts and animal sacrifices etc according to the Law commanded by God in the Sinai covenant.

That is, to change the way they were commanded to be kept, violates the Law. For example you can't celebrate or keep the Passover without sacrificing the passover lamb. The NEW covenant and the verses such as Rose has posted from Hebrews and other passages show that the Mosaic Law was no longer in place because of Christ being and bringing in the New Covenant. And being the final sacrifice.

Deuteronomy 4:1-2 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. 2. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Deu 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Proverbs 30:5-6 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. 6. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

[jazzy]

(06-06-2010 05:52 PM)Rose of Shushan Wrote:  To answer your question about where in the Ezekiel passages it says that a Passover lamb will be sacrificed.Its right under the verses you quoted from me and asked the question! LOL but Ill repaste it here

The passage doesn't saw to offer a lamb, but, yet it goes into detail about the Feast of Unleaven Bread? And what is this LOL stuff, if you'r gonna acted like a smart al-eck we can just stop right now!