YAHWEH, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, IS WITH US!
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins ...
(Isaiah 58:1)
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A Voice In The Wilderness
Animal Sacrific Index
The story of Christ's death on Calvary is well known. Indeed the four Gospels
tell it with inspired accuracy and effect. I will not attempt to explain the
height, breadth and depth of such love - because words fail me. But I will
point the reader to one chapter in the Bible which tells of that amazing
sacrifice. It is Isaiah chapter 53. Join me as I highlight a few verses which
tell of the Saviour's amazing sacrifice; of how he was despised and rejected,
but still went ahead and purchased man's salvation with his own blood.
| Isaiah 53:
| 5: But he was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities:
The chastisement of our sins was upon him
And with his stripes we are healed.
6: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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After so great a sacrifice, how ought the sinner to approach the Almighty?
There is only one answer; and that is: with repentance, faith &
gratitude.
| John 3:16
| "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life."
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| verse 18
| "He that believeth on him is not condemned:
but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath
not believed in the only begotten Son of God."
| John 1:29
| "Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the
world!"
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Do you believe these verses? Do you believe that Yahweh gave His only begotten
Son Yeshua to die in your place, and that he is the Lamb of God? If you do,
then you are in line for mercy, salvation and everlasting life.
This book abounds with evidence that Faith in Christ has now replaced
the need to sacrifice animals. I list a few texts from this book to show the
difference between the sacrifice of Christ and that of animals.
- Animal sacrifices could never take away sin
| Hebrews 10:11
| "And every (Aaronic) priest standeth daily at his service,
offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never
take away sins ... But when Christ had offered for all time
a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God."
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- Animal sacrifices cannot perfect the conscience or renew the inner
man
| Hebrews 9:8
| "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest
of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9: Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were
offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did
the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; "
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- The Saviour's single sacrifice covers every sin
Yeshua's sacrifice under the Melchisedec Priesthood superseded all
the sacrifices of the Aaronic priesthood; which were given simply to illustrate
the higher spiritual objectives the Messiah would achieve.
| Hebrews 7:27
| "... He (Messiah) has no need like those other (Aaronic) High
priests to offer sacrifices daily ... he did this ONCE for all
when he offered up himself."
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| Hebrews 9:
| 26: For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of
the world: but now ONCE in the end of the world hath he appeared to
put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27: And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this
the judgment: 28: So Christ 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.
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| Hebrews 10:
| 14: For by ONE offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
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- Christ's offering purifies heaven itself
| Hebrews 9:
| 23: It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the
heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these.
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- Yahweh no longer wants animal sacrifices
| Hebrews 10:5
| Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and
offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
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| Hebrews 10:
| 8: Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and
offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure
therein; which are offered by the law;
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- Animal sacrifices are abolished
| Hebrews 10:9
| "Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away
the first, that he may establish the second."
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When the Scriptures tell of the 'Saviour's blood,' they are telling
of far more than of his sacrificial death on Calvary. The
'Saviour's blood' when applied by faith has enormous power: to
redeem, cleanse, purify, unite, justify, subdue, sanctify and even
purge the conscience.
Yeshua's blood represents his life. It means far more than the
sacrifice which took his life.
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood:
for the blood is the life!
(Deuteronomy 12:23)
As you read the following Bible texts, bear that vital truth in mind, that every
reference to the Saviour's blood is in fact a reference to
'his life.' Sure, Yeshua's sacrifice was the act of giving
up his life. However, his 'sacrificial death' doesn't cleans us.
It is the faithful application of his life-giving blood to our souls
that cleanses us from sin. In ancient days, it wasn't the animal's
death that cleansed the sinner; it was the application or
'sprinkling of its blood' upon the sinner that sybolically
cleansed him. Do not miss the subtle difference; because some modern
translations (Good News Bible) often omit the word blood by replacing
it with the phrase sacrificial death; These are mistranslations of the
Real Word of God!.
- Yeshua's blood redeems / purchases
| Acts 20:28
| "Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock
over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the
church of God, which He hath purchased with His blood."
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| Ephesians 1:7
| "In whom we have redemption through his blood ..." (Col 1:14)
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| 1 Peter 1:19
| "... Redeemed with the precious blood of Christ"
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- The Saviour's blood washes and purifies the Unclean
Prior to Calvary the process of cleansing from leprosy, menstruation,
touching a corpse etc. all called for a blood sacrifice and washing.
(Lev.14 & 15, Matt.8:4) The spiritual realities these conditions
symbolized (i.e. leprosy symbolized sin) are all cleansed by the blood of
Christ. And though washing with soap and water is still necessary to keep
physically clean, there is now no need for a blood sacrifice: because
Christ's blood cleanses the believer form every spiritual impurity.
| 1 John 1:7
| "... The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us."
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| Revelation 1:5
| "... Washed us from our sins in his own blood."
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| Revelation 7:14
| "... Washed their garments in the blood of the Lamb."
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| Hebrews 9:
| 13: For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God?
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- Yeshua's blood justifies
| Romans 5:9
| "Much more then, being now justified by his blood ..."
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- Yeshua's blood sanctifies
| Hebrews 13:12
| "Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his
own blood suffered without the gate."
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This text pictures the unclean person or leper who was obliged to abide
outside the camp because of uncleanness. Messiah's blood sanctifies
(purifies and sets apart) the unclean believer and qualifies him/her to
re-enter the camp and the Father's presence.
- Yeshua's blood unites & brings peace
| Ephesians 2:13
| "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of Christ."
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| Colossians 1:
| 20: 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.
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A Voice In The Wilderness
Animal Sacrific Index
Author: Elder: David B. Loughran - Stewarton Bible School - Stewarton Scotland
Elders: Max W. Mader & Chris A. Yenni
A Voice In The Wilderness - Toronto Canada - USA
Web-Site - www.avoiceinthewilderness.org
First published 1979 / Placed on the Internet 1996 / Updated: 1998 / Updated: 2003