The most prominent feature of Millennial Israel will be its Temple, so in our search for an answer, let’s begin there. The Temple will have an outer court and an inner court. Each has gates facing East, North and South. Inside each inner gate is a room for preparing animal sacrifices (Ezek. 40:38-39), which will clearly be the order of the day during the Kingdom Age. There will be sacrifices for the year, the month, the week, and the day, in addition to those for the three remaining Levitical Feasts, Passover (bulls and goats but no lamb), Unleavened Bread, and Tabernacles. These are all discussed in detail in Ezekiel 45:13 – 46:15.
So now we know that animals will be sacrificed regularly through out the Millennium. They’ll be called sin offerings, guilt offerings and burnt offerings, just like in Leviticus. What Ezekiel didn’t discuss is why they’ll still be necessary. For that we have to look other places.
It’s The Law
First, a little review. The Old Testament sacrifices, though required, were only of benefit to those who understood their symbolic purpose. In Psalm 51:16-17 David wrote,
You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Unless they were presented with the proper attitude, animal sacrifices were not pleasing to God. Men who offered sacrifices had to admit their fallen nature and believe that the animals they were offering symbolized a coming Redeemer who would one day restore them.
And in Isaiah 66:2-3 He explained just how repulsive the sacrifices are without contrition and faith, the only proper motives.
“This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word. But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a man, and whoever offers a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig’s blood, and whoever burns memorial incense, like one who worships an idol.”
So both the angels in Heaven and future generations of men on Earth will see in the Church the perfection of God’s love. In Ephes. 2:10 Paul called the Church God’s workmanship. The Greek word means to make something from something else. It’s used only twice in the New Testament and both times it describes the work of God as our Creator.
In an earlier study, The Nature Of Post Church Salvation, I made the case that post Church believers, whether Jew or Gentile, will not enjoy the seal of the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of their inheritance. Eternal Security is a blessing for the Church alone and ends with the end of the Age of Grace at the Rapture. Two passages from Revelation illustrate this.
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Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. (Psalm 2:7-12)
Barean: Jon Anon is speaking of utterances of God from the OT. Don't you think them curious verses, worth examining?
To me they speak to the fact that the Law was never capable of salvation. And of course there are parts of the Law that are literally impossible for us to keep: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul, and love your neighbor as yourself.
I also suspect that it is related to Christ's work, which is sometimes spoke of as something from outside time.
Actually, I don't think the NT addresses these particularly verses. But the OT verses themselves are from canonical books. If you are making the point that this discussion is of little use (no use, actually) when witnessing to the lost, I'll agree with you. But anything which comes from the mouth of God is interesting and worth examining. Sometimes it sheds new and unsuspected light on something we "already knew". I find this to be one of the delights of our God. On the surface there is great simplicity. The Gospel is simple. But look into it, live it, and we find out it is a lot more complicated than it first appeared. Or at least the Gospel's intersection with the topography of life is complicated and many-hued. I was shocked and surprised -- I thought belief would simplify, but I was wrong. It complicates everything. This complication is actually an enrichment. So I am not surprised to find that age of the law, and the age of grace are not hermetically sealed from each other. In a way, this is a sizable dent in dispensationalism's armor -- so you should be happy.
God bless!
I agree that Law and Grace are not sealed off from each other.
No one was able to keep the Law.
David was an adulterer and a murderer.
Only Christ was able to keep the Law and thus complete the work that we could not do.
He came to fulfill the Law, as He stated in His own words.
God appears to accept the offering of an unclean spirit from Noah, the unclean animals being a representation of Satan. However, unlike Star Wormwood for 5 months at the end of time. The 5 Months of Noah happened before the foundation of the earth ... Meaning ... God only accepts an unclean spirit as an offering with the Antichrist during 150 days, in the foundation of the earth. Since God has never accepted an unclean offering before at any point in time during the foundation of the earth, that is until the 150 days of Antichrist reign begins. (Jesus Christ, didn't accept an unclean spirit, that being satan or else the Gospel would be completed, we would not exist anymore in this earth, but here we are).This is the main reason I see a rebuilt temple with renewed animal sacrifices as an abomination.
The veil in the temple was torn into for a reason, on the day of the Cross.
There are many Christians today who are supporting the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.
If the Jews do this, they will be in the same spiritual condition they experienced between the time Christ was crucified and 70AD.
The ultimate sacrifice has already been made.
The Third Temple is coming. The Temple Institute has already completed the altar, and the red heifer was born last year. It's all coming together. As I read in the book The Jubilee Prophecy, the Temple is the Third Jubilean restoration for Jewish people - 1917 was the land, 1967 was Jerusalem, 2016-17 should be the Temple, according to what I read, and 50 years later we should have God's Kingdom on earth restored.
The Third Temple is coming. The Temple Institute has already completed the altar, and the red heifer was born last year. It's all coming together. As I read in the book The Jubilee Prophecy, the Temple is the Third Jubilean restoration for Jewish people - 1917 was the land, 1967 was Jerusalem, 2016-17 should be the Temple, according to what I read, and 50 years later we should have God's Kingdom on earth restored.
Interesting point, if "we" were to set up a new temple, would every veil that we try to put up tear?If they build it, who will come?
A rebuilt temple, with renewed animal sacrifices will put the Jewish people back into the same spiritual condition that occurred between the time that Jesus was crucified and 70 AD.
The veil in the temple was torn, showing that animal sacrifices were finished because the ultimate sacrifice had already been made.
God had given His Son as the sacrifice for sins.
How does this group plan on doing this when there's a Mosque on the site?
Psalms 2 "The king" .....showing the kingship of the sceptre witness David (Judah). This chapter is about the anointed king David. The whole world hates the two witnesses and this chapter tells us why. The reason is people don't like the idea of anybody having dominion over them, it makes them angry and shuts them down. Verse 3 tells us the kings and rulers want to break the bands and cast away the chords of the lord and his anointed as people who don't have God in their life want nobody higher than them as they are their own god looking to rule their own kingdom
This chapter is about the sceptre(the kingship of David)
Psalm 2 King James Version (KJV)
2 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
verse 9 shows us David the man-child ruling with a rod of iron on earth while Jesus rules from heaven
Revelation 12:5
King James Bible
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Two sceptre holding Judahs ruling with a rod of iron...one in heaven ....one on earth...in chapter 6 David and one in chapter 19 Jesus
Rev 12:5 is in the time frame of the woman in the wilderness fed by the two witnesses is the man-child David the metaphoric crown wearing king
Rev 12:5
King James 2000 Bible
And she brought forth a male child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
The man-child is the king with the crown riding the white horse in chapter 6 of revealation
We see the king in Revelation chapter 6 is the white horse rider "rule with a rod of iron" on earth is David the king
6 And I saw when the Lamb(Jesus) opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
and Revelation chapter 19 is at the end of the tribulation Jesus riding the white horse and he rules with a rod of Iron from heaven....Jesus' postion is always higher than the earthly postion so we have david ruling on earth as king with a rod of iron and we have Jesus ruling from heaven with a rod of iron utnil the new heaven and new earth where there is no sin.
Revelation 19:
1 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
next verse showing time frame (end of tribualtion)
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Jon,
those declarations are fulfilled in Christ. Have you not absorbed Hebrews? Or even why Rom 1 is careful to say that humanly speaking Christ was the son of David, but on the divine level declared Son of God through the resurrection? Being resurrected means his sacrifice was considered satisfactory for all mankind and all time. That's why there will never be a lack of a sacrifice.
The OT without the NT handling of it spirals wildly out of control.
"No where is scripture do we see Jesus being called "my servant David"
Not anywhere
In fact David is the Lord's servant in scripture and rightly noted .... which one created the other?
Isn't it interesting that many on this forum state exact opposites in support of their religious dogmas ..... where does this behavior come from?
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