Festivals and Sacrifices
Jeremiah 31:31,32.
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when
I will make a covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah 32
It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD..
Daniel 9:27
He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’
he will put an end to sacrifice and offering.
Zechariah 11:10
Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it,
revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
Malachi 3:1
“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple;
the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the LORD Almighty.
Matthew 26:28
This is my blood of
the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Festivals rejected by Yahwah.
Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but a body you have prepared for me —
burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
Psalm 51:16
You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:11
“The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the LORD. “I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
Isaiah 1:14
Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
Zephaniah 3:18
“I will remove from you all who mourn over the loss of your appointed festivals, which is a burden and reproach for you.
Lamentations 2:6
He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting.
The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.
Hosea 2:11
I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days—
all her appointed festivals.
Amos 5:21
“I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
Since the days of Adam; Festivals, Sacrifices, and Offerings, has been a tradition of mankind. God only instructed Moses on how the people were to perform those things.
Festivals, Sacrifices, and Offerings
Jeremiah 7
21 This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves, 22 for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt,
I did not speak with them or
command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.
26 However,
they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention, but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.
Zechariah 11:10
Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it,
revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
Jeremiah 31:31
“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when
I will make a covenant with the people of Israel (nation) and with the people of Judah (faithful.)
The Old Covenant has been revoked; we now live under the New Covenant.