Reading some articles on the sacrificial system and one of them said this:
"Paul also alludes to the relationship between the body and the Temple: “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16). For the analogy to function, one cannot dismiss that on which it is based. What Paul is saying is that just as the Temple and the priesthood function to manifest God’s presence, so too, do we by living faithfully to his commandments.
With this in mind, we can see why the prophets would be so harsh against the people of Israel when they were not living up to God’s law. Because obedience is the basis for God’s ability to dwell among them, when the people of Israel are disobedient, the offerings in the Temple mean nothing."
This stuck out to me and was too good to share. Here is the link to the whole article: https://ffoz.org/discover/jewi....sh-customs-and-tradi
Read this on Chabad.org concerning the sacrifices in the Torah. The article said:
"Why Sacrifice?
The sacrificial service was not primarily about the physical act of slaughtering an animal; it was principally a spiritual service. On a basic level, if the sacrifice was being brought to atone for some inadvertent sin, one had to feel remorse over what had happened. To assist in reaching true repentance, he would bear in mind that what was being done to the animal essentially should have occurred to him.
Another way of understanding sacrifices is that the animal one brings as an offering to G‑d is symbolic of our own inner animal, our instincts and primal desires that we must bring into alignment with G‑d’s will. We surrender that part of us to G‑d and make it submissive to Him, so that it too may seek to do His will."
Thought it was an interesting perspective.
I doubt anyone here would posit that Moses is Greater than the Lord Yeshua but, my question today has to do with who you are following.
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PASSION -- BROKEN SYMBOLS -- CONTINUE
3 -- A BROKEN BODY:
Near the Cross, Fanny Crosby wrote, Yeshua keeps me near the cross and multiplied thousands have sung it as a prayer. Those near the cross could hear the dripping of His blood and see it form a dirty pool on the ground. They saw it trickle down His naked side and drip off His toes. They saw it oozing from the nails through His wrists and ankles. They saw it gush in a sacrificial fountain when the spear was thrust into His side. Those near the cross heard the sighs, the groans of our Moshiach. They saw the agony on His face when YHVH would not listen to Him anymore, but let Him die all alone. They heard His voice when He prayed, [My YHVH, my YHVH, why have You forsaken me?] They saw His lips, feverish and parched, when He begged for water and was given vinegar to drink. They were there to see Yeshua’ head drop to His chest as He breathed His last. Adonai’s Supper represents the broken body of Yeshua Moshiach on the Cross. It represents the agony and the pain; Yes! But more than that, it represents the length to which YHVH is willing to go to restore the broken world and the broken lives that dwell there. The only way that YHVH could heal the broken world and our broken lives was by coming to earth Himself and taking the punishment for our sins in our place. Because of His great love for us, Yeshua Moshiach, YHVH in the flesh, came to earth to offer Himself as a sacrifice of substitution. [So, Moshiach was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation.] -- Hebrews 9:28. [For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell; and, having made peace through the Blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the Body of His Flesh through death, to present you holy and un-blameable and un-reprove-able in His Sight.] -- Colossians 1:19-22. It is through the broken Body of YHVH hanging on a Cross that our brokenness is healed, our sorrows diminished, and our souls reconciled to our Elohim. Peter wrote: [who His own self bares our sins in His own Body on the tree that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.] -- 1 Peter 2:24. The broken symbols of Adonai’s Supper are a reminder that our healing was purchased with the price of Moshiach’s death.
4 -- A BROKEN HEART:
Does your heart break when you learn what Yeshua has done for you and when you recognize how you have run away from Him? The symbols on the table represent your heart if it is willing to be broken. The old spiritual asks the question: [Were you there when they crucified my Adonai? Were you there when they crucified my Adonai? O! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble and tremble! Were you there when they crucified my Adonai?] Why should we tremble at the memory of Yeshua’ crucifixion? Because it shocks our system to come to the realization that this YHVH of the Universe, the Elohim of the World, would Love us so much as to choose not to punish us for our rebellion, but embrace us with His Love and an offer of reconciliation. When I see my own life, when I consider the times when I have rejected YHVH, when I think of the many sins that I have committed against Him and to know that He Loves me so much that He is willing to die in my place, my heart is broken. It is broken because I have come to the realization that I was there when they crucified my Adonai! It was my sin and my rejection of YHVH and my foolish ways that drove the spikes into His wrists and ankles. It was my deliberate [In Your Face YHVH] kind of attitude that thrust the spear into His side. It was my hate that ignited His Love, my complacency that moved Him to action, my cruelty that fuelled His compassion and my sin that brought His grace.
My heart becomes broken when I fully see that I have broken the heart of YHVH. To have a broken heart and to see it represented on the Communion table, is a good and honourable thing, because it is only when our hearts are broken that they become pliable. It is only when we come in shame for our sin that we are able to see and accept YHVH’s outstretched hand. Martin Luther said, [YHVH creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, YHVH can make nothing out of him.] What does YHVH make of us and our broken hearts? When we come in faith, accepting what Yeshua has done for us, He takes our broken heart and replaces it with one that is brand new. [Therefore, if any man be in Moshiach, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.] -- 2 Corinthians 5:17. Through Yeshua’ broken body, the broken world, our broken lives and our broken hearts are reunited with YHVH for all of eternity. I hope your heart is broken for YHVH. The world is filled with broken things. A child weeps over a broken toy. An archaeologist weeps over a broken jar. A broken atom powers a city. Before you, when you are in your church, are two broken symbols: partake in these symbols, be fully aware of what they represent and let it be a time for both reflection and rejoicing.
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