The Sacrificial System

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The Sacrificial System

• and the New Testament

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Shaul (Paul) the Nazirite Vow

• To our knowledge, Shaul took the Nazirite vow at
  least twice

• Acts 1818

• Acts 2117-26

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Elements of Vow Numbers 6

• No grape products verses 1-4

• No cut hair verse 5

• No going near dead person verses 6-8

• Sacrifice offerings after vow completed - verses
  13-21

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Sacrifices of Nazirite Numbers 6

• 13 Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the
  days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall
  bring the offering to the doorway of the tent of
  meeting.

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Burnt Offering (Olah) verse 14

• He shall present his offering to the LORD one
  male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt
  offering

Olah - Burnt offering Leviticus 1
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Sin Offering (Chata-at) verse 14

• and one ewe-lamb a year old without defect for
  a sin offering

Chata-at - Sin offering Leviticus 4
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Peace Offering (Shlamim) verse 14

• and one ram without defect for a peace offering,

Shlamim - Peace offering Leviticus 3
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Grain Drink Offering (Minchah) verse 15

• 15 and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine
  flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread
  with oil, along with their grain offering and
  their drink offering.

Minchah - Grain offering Leviticus 2
9

• 16 Then the priest shall present them before
  the LORD and shall offer his sin offering and his
  burnt offering. 17 He shall also offer the ram
  for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD,
  together with the basket of unleavened cakes the
  priest shall likewise offer its grain offering
  and its drink offering. 18 The Nazirite shall
  then shave his dedicated head of hair at the
  doorway of the tent of meeting, and take the
  dedicated hair of his head and put it on the fire
  which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.
  19 The priest shall take the ram's shoulder when
  it has been boiled, and one unleavened cake out
  of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall
  put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he
  has shaved his dedicated hair. 20 Then the
  priest shall wave them for a wave offering before
  the LORD. It is holy for the priest, together
  with the breast offered by waving and the thigh
  offered by lifting up and afterward the Nazirite
  may drink wine.

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Did Shaul DO This?

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He did so without objection!

• 23do this that we tell you. We have four men
  who are under a vow 24 take them and purify
  yourself along with them, and pay their expenses
  so that they may shave their heads and all will
  know that there is nothing to the things which
  they have been told about you, but that you
  yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law 26
  Then Paul took the men, and the next day,
  purifying himself along with them, went into the
  temple giving notice of the completion of the
  days of purification, until the sacrifice was
  offered for each one of them. Acts 21

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Why?

• Couldnt he have argued with the other Disciples
  and said

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not
under the Law. Galatians 518
you are not under law but under grace. Romans
614
For as many as are of the works of the Law are
under a curse for it is written, "CURSED IS
EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN
IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO PERFORM THEM."
Galatians 310
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Yes!

• Both Epistles had been written by that time!

But he didnt!
He simply did what he was asked!
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Which now brings up a Dilemma

• Christian theology for the last 1800 years has
  taught that the Law, particularly the sacrificial
  system, has been done away by the death and
  resurrection of Yeshua!

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Once for All Passages

• New Testament passages seemingly indicating that
  sacrificial system was ended by the death of
  Yeshua

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The Once for All sacrifice of Yeshua

• For the death that He died, He died to sin once
  for all but the life that He lives, He lives to
  God. Romans 610

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Hebrews 727

• who does not need daily, like those high
  priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His
  own sins and then for the sins of the people,
  because this He did once for all when He offered
  up Himself.

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Hebrews 1010

• By this will we have been sanctified through
  the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
  all.

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1 Peter 318

• For Christ also died for sins once for all,
  the just for the unjust, so that He might
  bring us to God, having been put to death in the
  flesh, but made alive in the spirit

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So, if Yeshua IS the Once for All Sacrifice
Why is Shaul offering Sacrifices over 20 years
AFTER the Death Resurrection of Yeshua?
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Need an Explanation!

• The very fact that he did so without objection
  demands an explanation!

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We Cannot Ignore What He is Doing! He is
speaking volumes by his actions!

• Last Shabbat we talked about possible motives
  behind Shauls doing this!

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Shauls Motive?

• Deception?

• People Pleasing?

• Hypocrite?

• Lying?

• Legalist?

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None of these!

• If he was, we could not trust a single epistle of
  this Apostle of God!

• Only conclusion Shaul did not believe that his
  offering sacrifices violated his faith or
  practice as a believer in Yeshua as the Messiah
  or the efficacy of Yeshuas sacrificial death on
  behalf of the nation!

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A Choice to Make

• Either Christian theology over the last 1900
  years is wrong about end of the Law and the
  sacrificial system, or the Apostle Paul (from
  whose writings most anti-Law theology is
  quarried) and the other Disciples are wrong.

• Cant have it both ways.

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Even Greater Dilemma!!!

• Why, during the Millennial (thousand year) Reign
  of Messiah Yeshua on Earth, does Yeshua allow the
  Sacrificial System to Continue!

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Outreach Judaism Anti-Missionary Group

• If in factthere was thus no longer any need
  for animal sacrifices, why then are the same
  animal sacrifices coming back? Christians have
  very little room to maneuver on this matter
  because the Bible is quite clear that the animal
  sacrificial system will be restored in the
  messianic age. In fact, in the last nine
  chapters of the Book of Ezekiel, the prophet
  describes in vivid detail the elaborate rituals
  and lofty ceremonies which will occur in the
  third and final messianic Temple. In chapters
  43-44, Ezekiel clearly states that the animal
  sacrifices will be reinstated in their full
  glory.

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Ezekiel 40-43

• Millennial Temple. Such a Temple with these
  dimensions has never yet been built!

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Lord will Come to this Temple Ezekiel 43

• And the glory of the LORD came into the house by
  the way of the gate facing toward the east. 5 And
  the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the
  inner court and behold, the glory of the LORD
  filled the house. 6 Then I heard one speaking to
  me from the house, while a man was standing
  beside me. 7 He said to me, "Son of man, this is
  the place of My throne and the place of the soles
  of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of
  Israel forever.

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The Offerings Ezekiel 43

• 18 And He said to me, "Son of man, thus says the
  Lord GOD, These are the statutes for the altar
  on the day it is built, to offer burnt offerings
  on it and to sprinkle blood on it. 19 You shall
  give to the Levitical priests who are from the
  offspring of Zadok, who draw near to Me to
  minister to Me,' declares the Lord GOD, a young
  bull for a sin offering. 20 You shall take some
  of its blood and put it on its four horns and on
  the four corners of the ledge and on the border
  round about thus you shall cleanse it and make
  atonement for it. 21 You shall also take the
  bull for the sin offering, and it shall be burned
  in the appointed place of the house, outside the
  sanctuary. 22 On the second day you shall offer
  a male goat without blemish for a sin offering,
  and they shall cleanse the altar as they cleansed
  it with the bull. 23 When you have finished
  cleansing it, you shall present a young bull
  without blemish and a ram without blemish from
  the flock.

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Ezekiel 43

• 24 You shall present them before the LORD, and
  the priests shall throw salt on them, and they
  shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the
  LORD. 25 For seven days you shall prepare daily
  a goat for a sin offering also a young bull and
  a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be
  prepared. 26 For seven days they shall make
  atonement for the altar and purify it so shall
  they consecrate it. 27 When they have completed
  the days, it shall be that on the eighth day and
  onward, the priests shall offer your burnt
  offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings
  and I will accept you,' declares the Lord GOD."

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Jeremiah 33 A Still Future Time

• 14 Behold, days are coming,' declares the LORD,
  when I will fulfill the good word which I have
  spoken concerning the house of Israel and the
  house of Judah. 15 In those days and at that
  time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to
  spring forth and He shall execute justice and
  righteousness on the earth. 16 In those days
  Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell in
  safety and this is the name by which she will be
  called the LORD is our righteousness.' 17 "For
  thus says the LORD, David shall never lack a man
  to sit on the throne of the house of Israel 18
  and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man
  before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain
  offerings and to prepare sacrifices continually.'
  "

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As Sure as Day Night!

• 19 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,
  saying, 20 "Thus says the LORD, If you can break
  My covenant for the day and My covenant for the
  night, so that day and night will not be at their
  appointed time, 21 then My covenant may also be
  broken with David My servant so that he will not
  have a son to reign on his throne, and with the
  Levitical priests, My ministers.

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False Prophets???

• These two prophets (Ezekiel Jeremiah) are
  stating that during the Millennial reign of
  Messiah the sacrificial system will be resumed.

• If they arent correct, then these prophets are
  false prophets according to Scripture

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Deuteronomy 18

• 17 "The LORD said to me, They have spoken well.
  18 I will raise up a prophet from among their
  countrymen like you, and I will put My words in
  his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I
  command him. 19 It shall come about that whoever
  will not listen to My words which he shall speak
  in My name, I Myself will require it of him. 20
  But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously
  in My name which I have not commanded him to
  speak, or which he speaks in the name of other
  gods, that prophet shall die.' 21 "You may say in
  your heart, How will we know the word which the
  LORD has not spoken?' 22 "When a prophet speaks
  in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not
  come about or come true, that is the thing which
  the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken
  it presumptuously you shall not be afraid of
  him.

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They are True Prophets

• I believe that these men ARE true prophets of God
  and that the sacrificial system will resume
  during the Millennial reign of Messiah, just as
  they said!

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Why Resume Sacrifices?

• Some Christian commentaries say that this will be
  in memorial for the sacrifice that Yeshua made on
  our behalf on the Cross (Ungers Bible Handbook).

• Other Christian commentaries spiritualize this
  away as spiritual sacrifices (Matthew Henrys
  Commentary Halleys Bible Handbook).

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Literal Resumption

• I believe this is a literal resumption of the
  sacrifices, not a memorial nor a spiritual
  sacrifice.

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Why Resume the Sacrificial System?

• My Opinion, In Brief As long as there is 1) a
  Temple, 2) a priesthood acting in the Temple, and
  3) sinful man coming before a holy God, there
  will be a sacrificial system.

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No Temple/No Priesthood No Sacrificial System

• Happened before

• Babylon, stopped sacrificial system.

• Antiochus Epiphanes, stopped sacrificial system.

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Restoration Resumption

• After restoration of the Temple in these
  examples, resumption of sacrificial system
  occurred.

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Restored Temple Restored Sacrifices

• So, too, will the sacrificial system be resumed
  in the Millennial Temple!

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• Why the Continuation and Resumption of
  Sacrificial system if Yeshuas Atoning Death
  Ended that System?

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Evidently, His Death Did NOT End the Sacrificial
System!

• My Understanding It just ended the Efficacy of
  ONE sacrifice only once for all and for all
  time

• Yom Kippur Sacrifice

• The permanent priesthood of Yeshua FOREVER and
  Perfectly ended this sacrifice! (Hebrews 5 - 8)

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Book of Hebrews

• Motif of the Book relates to the Yom Kippur
  Sacrifice. Not the other sacrifices.

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Yom Kippur Sacrifice

• Did not do away with the need for the other
  sacrifices (Leviticus 1-5).

• Individuals still offered other sacrifices daily
  in the Temple. (Such as what Shaul was doing!)

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On the obverse Daily sacrifices did not do away
with the need for the Yom Kippur Sacrifice.
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Yom Kippur Sacrifice
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Leviticus 16
34 "Now you shall have this as a permanent
statute, to make atonement for the sons of Israel
for all their sins once every year." And just as
the LORD had commanded Moses, so he did.

• Once a year sacrifice

• On behalf of the Entire Nation of Israel

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Once

• Yeshuas sacrifice Once, not yearly

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Yom Kippur is a Perpetual yearly sacrifice
Leviticus 1634

• "Now you shall have this as a permanent statute,
  to make atonement for the sons of Israel for all
  their sins once every year."

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Leviticus 23

• 26 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27 "On
  exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is
  the day of atonement it shall be a holy
  convocation for you, and you shall humble your
  souls and present an offering by fire to the
  LORD. 28 "You shall not do any work on this same
  day, for it is a day of atonement, to make
  atonement on your behalf before the LORD your
  God. 29 "If there is any person who will not
  humble himself on this same day, he shall be cut
  off from his people. 30 "As for any person who
  does any work on this same day, that person I
  will destroy from among his people. 31 "You shall
  do no work at all. It is to be a perpetual
  statute throughout your generations in all your
  dwelling places. 32 "It is to be a sabbath of
  complete rest to you, and you shall humble your
  souls on the ninth of the month at evening, from
  evening until evening you shall keep your
  sabbath."

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Levitical Sacrifice
but into the second, only the high priest
enters once a year, not without taking blood,
which he offers for himself and for the sins of
the people committed in ignorance. Hebrews 97
Then Aaron shall offer the bull for the sin
offering which is for himself, that he may make
atonement for himself and for his household.
(Leviticus 166)
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Hebrews 103

• But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of
  sins year by year.

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Yeshuas sacrifice is Permanent/Eternal

• Completes FOREVER the Yom Kippur sacrifice.

• Because it Stands outside of time

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Permanency of Messiahs Sacrifice Hebrews 9

• 24 For Christ did not enter a holy place made
  with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into
  heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of
  God for us 25 nor was it that He would offer
  Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy
  place year by year with blood that is not his
  own. 26 Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer
  often since the foundation of the world but now
  once at the consummation of the ages He has been
  manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of
  Himself. 27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for
  men to die once and after this comes judgment, 28
  so Christ also, having been offered once to bear
  the sins of many

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Hebrews 10

• 11 Every priest stands daily ministering and
  offering time after time the same sacrifices,
  which can never take away sins 12 but He, having
  offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT
  DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, 13 waiting from
  that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A
  FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. 14 For by one offering He
  has perfected for all time those who are
  sanctified.

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Messiahs Sacrifice

• nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as
  the high priest enters the holy place year by
  year with blood that is not his own. Hebrews 925

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Hebrews 101

• For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the
  good things to come and not the very form of
  things, can never, by the same sacrifices which
  they offer continually year by year, make perfect
  those who draw near.

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Extra-Biblical Proof of Ending of Yom Kippur
Sacrifice

• Yom Kippur Sacrifice no longer accepted by God.

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THE MIRACLE OF THE CRIMSON WOOL

• These lengths of wool were specifically dyed
  crimson on account of the verse which reads,
  "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall
  whiten as snow though they be red like crimson,
  they shall be white as wool" (Isaiah 118). It is
  related that a great miracle occured concerning
  this crimson-colored wool For in addition to the
  piece which was tied to the scapegoat, a similar
  length was tied to the entrance of the Sanctuary
  where all could behold it, high up like a banner.
  The sage Rabbi Yishmael taught (Yoma 6, 8) that
  when the scapegoat reached its destination in the
  desert, this wool miraculously turned white
  before the eyes of all Israel, in keeping with
  the words of the prophet - and thus providing a
  Heavenly sign that the sins of the people had
  been atoned for.

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Isaiah 118 - Rashi

•  Our Rabbis taught During the last forty years
  before the destruction of the Temple the lot
  For the Lord did not come up in the right
  hand nor did the crimson-coloured strap become
  white nor did the westernmost light shine and
  the doors of the Hekal would open by themselves,
  until R. Johanan b. Zakkai rebuked them, saying
  Hekal, Hekal, why wilt thou be the alarmer
  thyself? 5 I know about thee that thou wilt be
  destroyed, for Zechariah ben Ido has already
  prophesied concerning thee 6 Open thy doors, O
  Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. 7
  12) Which was tied between the horns of the
  bullock. If that became white, it signified that
  the Holy One, blessed be He, had forgiven
  Israel's sin. Cf. Though your sins be as scarlet,
  they shall be as white as snow.

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What Happened 40 Years BEFORE the Destruction of
the Temple?

• Destruction of the Temple occurred in 70 CE. by
  Titus

• 70 40 30 CE.

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Yeshua Crucified!

• And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in
  two from top to bottom and the earth shook and
  the rocks were split. Matthew 2751

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Veil of Temple

• Opened only ONCE a year (Yom Kippur), ONLY High
  Priest entered!

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Hebrews 10

• 19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence
  to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20
  by a new and living way which He inaugurated for
  us through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and
  since we have a great priest over the house of
  God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in
  full assurance of faith, having our hearts
  sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our
  bodies washed with pure water.

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Only ONE Sacrifice NOT Mentioned by the Prophets
During Millennial Reign of Messiah!

• Yom Kippur Sacrifice!

• This is the only sacrifice made on behalf of the
  nation!

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All Others Repeated! Made on Behalf of the
Individual!

• Ezekiel 43 Jeremiah 33

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Explains Sacrificial System

• Usage by Rabbi Shaul

• Resumption During Millennial reign of Yeshua.

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Take away sins Hebrews 10

• 11 Every priest stands daily ministering and
  offering time after time the same sacrifices,
  which can never take away sins

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Hebrews 104

• For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and
  goats to take away sins.

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John 129

• The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and
  said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away
  the sin of the world!

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Yeshua takes away sins

• You know that He appeared in order to take away
  sins and in Him there is no sin. 1 John 35

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1 John 2

• 1 My little children, I am writing these things
  to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone
  sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus
  Christ the righteous 2 and He Himself is the
  propitiation for our sins and not for ours only,
  but also for those of the whole world.

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By A Permanent Priesthood

• Melech (King) Tzedekh (Righteousness) Hebrews
  5-7

• Yeshua could not be a priest on this earth
  tribe of Judah Hebrews 714

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One More Thing

• The sacrifice of Yeshua also had one more
  advantage it was complete!

• At the time of Yeshua, the full Yom Kippur
  sacrifice could NOT be carried out completely!

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Whats Missing?

• In the Temple of the First Century?

The Ark of the Testimony did not stand in the
Second Temple.
In the Ark's absence in the Second Temple era,
the High Priest would place the shovel down on
the foundation stone itself, in the place where
the poles would be extending had the ark been
there.
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Leviticus 16

• 13 "He shall put the incense on the fire before
  the LORD, that the cloud of incense may cover the
  mercy seat that is on the ark of the testimony,
  otherwise he will. 14 "Moreover, he shall take
  some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it
  with his finger on the mercy seat on the east
  side also in front of the mercy seat he shall
  sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven
  times. 15 "Then he shall slaughter the goat of
  the sin offering which is for the people, and
  bring its blood inside the veil and do with its
  blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and
  sprinkle it on the mercy seat and in front of the
  mercy seat.

79

• 1 Now even the first covenant had regulations of
  divine worship and the earthly sanctuary. 2 For
  there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one,
  in which were the lampstand and the table and the
  sacred bread this is called the holy place. 3
  Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle
  which is called the Holy of Holies, 4 having a
  golden altar of incense and the ark of the
  covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which
  was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron's
  rod which budded, and the tables of the covenant
  5 and above it were the cherubim of glory
  overshadowing the mercy seat but of these things
  we cannot now speak in detail. Hebrews 91-5

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Contrasts in Priestly Ministry
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Once For All

• All What???

• Sacrifices???

• Was Yeshua the sacrifice to end ALL Sacrifices???

• No!

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Else, why the sacrifices of Shaul (Paul) and
during the Millennial Reign of Yeshua?
83
For ALL

• For the sins of ALL the people who would believe
  in Him!

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Yom Kippur Sacrifice

• Sins of the people

34 "Now you shall have this as a permanent
statute, to make atonement for the sons of Israel
for all their sins once every year." Leviticus 16
85
On Behalf of the Sins of the People Hebrews 2

• 17 Therefore, He had to be made like His
  brethren in all things, so that He might become a
  merciful and faithful high priest in things
  pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the
  sins of the people.

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Yom Kippur Sacrifice

• Made on behalf of the people (nation Israel), not
  individuals!

• ALL other sacrifices (Leviticus 1-5) are
  individual sacrifices!

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Atonement for All the People of Israel The
Nation as a Whole
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Individuals can choose to be a part of this
Covenant Nation Israel
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Or not(cut off)

• Israel
• The Saved or Covenant Community

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Free Will of the Individual can choose to belong
to the Covenant Community

• Predestination as a people plural those, these
  NOT as Individuals

28 And we know that God causes all things to work
together for good to those who love God, to those
who are called according to His purpose. 29 For
those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to
become conformed to the image of His Son, so that
He would be the firstborn among many brethren 30
and these whom He predestined, He also called
and these whom He called, He also justified and
these whom He justified, He also glorified.
Romans 8
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Were too used to thinking Individuals

• Western thinking I

• Hebraic thinking We

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Even New Covenant made with the Nation (We) Not
Individuals (I) Jeremiah 31/Hebrews 8
31 "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD,
"when I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not
like the covenant I made with their fathers in
the day I took them by the hand to bring them out
of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they
broke, although I was a husband to them,"
declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 31

• 33 "But this is the covenant which I will make
  with the house of Israel after those days,"
  declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them
  and on their heart I will write it and I will be
  their God, and they shall be My people. 34 "They
  will not teach again, each man his neighbor and
  each man his brother, saying, Know the LORD,'
  for they will all know Me, from the least of them
  to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for
  I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I
  will remember no more."

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Individuals (I) Join the Covenant Community
(We)

• It is with the House of Israel (We) and Judah
  that God makes His New Covenant (Jeremiah
  31/Hebrews 8).

• Individuals (I) can choose to be (or not to be)
  a part of this covenant community (We). Like
  Ruth Rahab (Is).

• No one saved outside of that covenant community
  (We/Israel Romans 11). All individuals
  (I) grafted in.

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Romans 11

• 17 But if some of the branches were broken off,
  and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in
  among them and became partaker with them of the
  rich root of the olive tree, 18 do not be
  arrogant toward the branches but if you are
  arrogant, remember that it is not you who
  supports the root, but the root supports you. 19
  You will say then, "Branches were broken off so
  that I might be grafted in." 20 Quite right, they
  were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand
  by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear 21
  for if God did not spare the natural branches, He
  will not spare you, either. 22 Behold then the
  kindness and severity of God to those who fell,
  severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you
  continue in His kindness otherwise you also will
  be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not
  continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in,
  for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if
  you were cut off from what is by nature a wild
  olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature
  into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will
  these who are the natural branches be grafted
  into their own olive tree?

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Cut off

• Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but
  on the first day you shall remove leaven from
  your houses for whoever eats anything leavened
  from the first day until the seventh day, that
  person shall be cut off from Israel. Exodus
  1215

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Exodus 3114

• Therefore you are to observe the sabbath, for
  it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall
  surely be put to death for whoever does any work
  on it, that person shall be cut off from among
  his people.

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Leviticus 720

• But the person who eats the flesh of the
  sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the
  LORD, in his uncleanness, that person shall be
  cut off from his people.

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Leviticus 727

• Any person who eats any blood, even that person
  shall be cut off from his people.

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Leviticus 23

• 29 "If there is any person who will not humble
  himself on this same day, he shall be cut off
  from his people. 30 "As for any person who does
  any work on this same day, that person I will
  destroy from among his people.

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Many other Cut off Passages

• Strong's Number  0377 - Karath 
•  Definition - to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off
  a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill
• to cut off
• to cut off a body part, behead
• to cut down
• to hew

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Individuals can choose to be a part of this
Covenant Nation Israel
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Criteria to belong to Covenant Community?

• A Biblical Faith

• Faith in God determines whether one is a part of
  the saved community or not.

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Romans 328

• For we maintain that a man is justified by faith
  apart from works of the Law.

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Ephesians 2

• 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith
  and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of
  God 9 not as a result of works, so that no one
  may boast.

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Even in Old Testament Righteous shall live by
faith

• "Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not
  right within him But the righteous will live by
  his faith. Habakuk 24

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James 224

• You see that a man is justified by works and not
  by faith alone.

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Balance Between Faith Works

• Both are part of a believers life

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True Biblical Faith

• Koine Greek Pistis

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped
for, the conviction of things not seen.
Hebrews 111
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1st Element of a True Biblical faith Belief
that God exists and Rewards those who Seek Him

• 6 And without faith it is impossible to please
  Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He
  is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek
  Him. Hebrews 116

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Not just Head Knowledge

• 19 You believe that God is one. You do well the
  demons also believe, and shudder. James 2

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2nd Element of True, Biblical Faith Give
Yourself to Him

• Accept His provision for you and give yourself to
  Him as a Living Sacrifice.

• Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of
  God, to present your bodies a living and holy
  sacrifice, acceptable to God, (which is) your
  spiritual service of worship. Romans 121

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This the Demons Wont Do
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3rd Element of a True Biblical Faith Works

• 20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish
  fellow, that faith without works is useless?
  James 2

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James 2

• 22 You see that faith was working with his
  works, and as a result of the works, faith was
  perfected 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled
  which says, "AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS
  RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS," and he was
  called the friend of God. 24 You see that a man
  is justified by works and not by faith alone.

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Body Faith

• 26 For just as the body without the spirit is
  dead, so also faith without works is dead.
• James 2

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Works Spirit

• Would have thought that the body would be the
  works and not the spirit.

• By this Scripture we see that it is the persons
  works that cause their faith to be alive.

• It is NOT their faith that cause their works to
  be alive.

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Faith Hebraic Understanding

• Hebrew Emoonah Faith/ Faithfulness

• Emoonah Battle with Amalekites Exodus 1712

But Moses' hands were heavy. Then they took a
stone and put it under him, and he sat on it and
Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one
side and one on the other. Thus his hands were
steady (emoonah) until the sun set.
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Belonging to Covenant Community

• Takes a Biblical Faith Head knowledge (belief
  system), living sacrifice, AND faithfulness in
  walking out that faith!

• Remember We belong to a Faith- Community.
  Were NOT walking this faith out simply as
  individuals (alone).

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Gentiles Brought Into that Covenant Community by
Faith in Yeshua Ephesians 2

• 11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the
  Gentiles in the flesh, who are called
  "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision,"
  which is performed in the flesh by human hands--
  12 remember that you were at that time separate
  from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of
  Israel, and strangers to the covenants of
  promise, having no hope and without God in the
  world.

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Ephesians 2

• 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were
  far off have been brought near by the blood of
  Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, who made
  both groups into one and broke down the barrier
  of the dividing wall, 15 by abolishing in His
  flesh the enmity, which is the Law of
  commandments contained in ordinances, so that in
  Himself He might make the two into one new man,
  thus establishing peace, 16 and might reconcile
  them both in one body to God through the cross,
  by it having put to death the enmity.

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Ephesians 2

• 19 So then you are no longer strangers and
  aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
  saints, and are of God's household, 20 having
  been built on the foundation of the apostles and
  prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner
  stone, 21 in whom the whole building, being
  fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in
  the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built
  together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

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Romans 11

• 17 But if some of the branches were broken off,
  and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in
  among them and became partaker with them of the
  rich root of the olive tree, 18 do not be
  arrogant toward the branches but if you are
  arrogant, remember that it is not you who
  supports the root, but the root supports you. 19
  You will say then, "Branches were broken off so
  that I might be grafted in." 20 Quite right, they
  were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand
  by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear 21
  for if God did not spare the natural branches, He
  will not spare you, either. 22 Behold then the
  kindness and severity of God to those who fell,
  severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you
  continue in His kindness otherwise you also will
  be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not
  continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in,
  for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if
  you were cut off from what is by nature a wild
  olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature
  into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will
  these who are the natural branches be grafted
  into their own olive tree?

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Covenant Community

• Not local community of believers ONLY

• Not separate from Israel

• But part of Israel - the people of faith
  -descendants both by physical descent of Israel
  (remnant) and by spiritual engrafting (non-Jewish
  believers) World-wide

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Ruth

• Your people shall be my people, your God shall be
  my God.

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We MUST identify with Israel in the Land and
Scattered Abroad

• They are OUR people, too!