The so-called animal sacrifices are only "works of the Law" for those who do not believe Paul when he says that the Torah is spiritual, (Rom 7:14a), so that they may uphold the Sanhedrin, Pharisaic, outward and physical-minded view of the Torah which cannot please Elohim.
I agree. The Pharisees were requiring these "works of the Law" for justification, because they were "ignorant of God's Righteousness". As their fathers did, so did they, as Isaiah points out by the Spirit of Christ.
Is. 1:
2 Hark, you heavens! And give ear, O earth! For Yahweh speaks! Sons I bring up and exalt, yet they,
they transgress against Me."
3 The bull knows his owner, and the ass the crib of his possessors,
yet Israel does not know Me, and My people do not consider Me.
4 Woe, "nation of sin"! People heavy with depravity! Seed of evil doers! Sons of ruiners!
They forsake Yahweh.
They spurn the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged, going back."
10 Hear the word of Yahweh, captains of Sodom! Give ear to the law of Elohim, you people of Gomorrah!"
11 Why, to Me, your many sacrifices?saying is Yahweh. "I am surfeited with ascent approaches of rams, and the fat of fatlings,
and in the blood of young bulls and he-lambs and he-goats I do not delight."
It is clear the Pharisees were this same people who "Transgressed God's commandments by their own religious traditions", then promoted their version of the Levitical Priesthood sacrificial "works" as Justification for their lawless traditions.
I see much of Christianity in the same light. They also transgress God's commandments by their own religious traditions, then promote their version of the Christ's Sacrifice as justification for their lawless traditions. Both deceptively using God's Priesthood to justify their sins. And in both cases, the "Blood" was not to justify lawless tradition, but to promote obedience by showing that there is a COST for Sin.
The Prophet you have quoted, (Jer 7:22-23), is actually telling you that the so-called animal sacrifices are not about literal physical animal sacrifices at all because, just as Paul says, the Torah is spiritual.
Here is where we disagree. There was no Command from God for Abraham or the Children of Israel before the Golden Calf, to take a goat to a Levite Priest, and kill it, to be justified. This is an undeniable Biblical Truth. This Law "concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices" came after Israel broke God's Covenant and Moses went up to God to secure another..
While I agree with you that the Law and Prophets were written for our examples, and are Spiritual, and the things that happened to them, happened for our admonition, the Levitical Priesthood did exist, and animal sacrifices were required for a time, for those who sinned unintentionally as a lesson to us about how BAD even unintentional sin is. And there was never a Sacrifice for intentional sin. This is why we are to "Rule over Sin" and not let Sin rule over us.
It points to how Sin has a cost, intentional or not.
But the wicked men of this world, "who came in God's Name" twisted this "LAW" and turned these sacrificial "works" into a business. The Lord's Christ tipped over their tables in protest to this wickedness.
Elohim did not add "sacrificial works of the Law", no, carnal minded men did that, and they did and do so by way of their own faulty readings, understandings, and interpretations of the Torah. The Prophets and Writings, (Psalms), expound these things many times over.
One simple example:
Hosea 14:1-2 KJV
1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Hosea 14:1-2 TS2009 W/Footnotes
1 O Yisra’ĕl, return to יהוה your Elohim, for you have stumbled by your crookedness.
2 Take words with you, and return to יהוה. Say to Him, “Take away all crookedness, and accept what is good, and we render the bulls of our lips.a Footnote: aHeb 13:15 - bulls, referring to offerings.
Hosea 14:1-2 YLT
1 Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: 'Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.
Hosea 14:1-2 SLT
1 Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity.
2 Take with you words and turn back to Jehovah: say to him, Thou wilt take away all iniquity, and take good: and we will requite the fruits of our lips.
H6499 פַּר par (par) n-m, a bull, a bullock
Masculine plural form in Hosea 14:2, parim: bullocks ........... OR FRUIT! (par->pariy->priy).
Who therefore has decided what this word means throughout the Torah in the sacrificial commandments? Moreover the name of every sacrificial animal mentioned in the Torah has the same property, that is, multiple meanings that are both acceptable and understandable as legitimate readings in most every text wherein they appear.
I don't agree with you or the Catholic's religious philosophy on this topic Daq, based on what is written.
Here is God's agreement with Israel.
Ex. 19:
5 Now, if you shall hearken, yea hearken to My voice and observe My covenant then you will become Mine, a special possession, above all the peoples, for Mine is all the earth.
6 As for you, you shall become Mine,
a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
Now you and the RCC preach that God promised to change "this" Covenant. "After those days".
I argue that this Covenant was broken, and replaced by a Covenant in which men are ruled by a Priesthood "Till the SEED shall Come". A Priesthood in which they were required to go to, to hear God's Laws. A Priesthood in which they were required to go to, for forgiveness of sins.
And the New covenant, is the renewal of God's Covenant Abraham and Caleb and Joshua adopted.
The Book of 1 Peter also agrees with this understanding.
1 Pet. 2:
4 Whom approaching, a living Stone, having been rejected indeed by men, yet chosen by God, held in honor,
5 you, also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house,
into a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, most acceptable to God
through Jesus Christ. "
6 Because of this it is included in the scripture: Lo! I am laying in Zion a corner capstone, chosen, held in honor, and he who is believing on it may by no means be disgraced."
7 To you, then, who are believing, is the honor,
yet to the unbelieving: "A Stone which is rejected by the builders, this came to be for the head of the corner,
8 and a stumbling stone and a snare rock;
who are stumbling also at the word, being stubborn, to which they were appointed also."
9 Yet you are a chosen race, a "royal priesthood,a "holy nation,a procured people, so that you should be recounting the virtues of Him Who calls you out of darkness
into His marvelous light,
Clearly this is the SAME covenant God brought both Abraham and Israel under. While Abraham believed, Jeremiah 7 tells us Israel didn't.
So Moses went up a second time as it is written.
You and the RCC and her protestant daughters preach the philosophy that God's Covenant "
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.," is the one God said HE would change.
The Scriptures do not promote the same philosophy.
