FEAST
DAYS PART II
All the sacrificing and feast days, and rituals
were all put in effect for reasons, a reminder of sin, memorials,
and a way of governing the Priesthood. This was Gods first covenant,
was it faultless, did it fulfill Gods needs and ours? If it fulfilled
Gods plan then would there be a need for another? The Lord is clear
of what the first covenant was for and what it lacked. We need to
choose which lamb was the eternal sacrifice:
Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless,
then should no place have been sought for the second.
Heb 9:1-7
1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service,
and a worldly sanctuary.
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick,
and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the
Holiest of all;
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid
round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna,
and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of
which we cannot now speak particularly.
6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always
into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year,
not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors
of the people:
The Lord set these ordinances to be practiced with
His people till the time came for Jesus to come and become the supreme
sacrifice. All these ordinances were a spiritual symbolic of the
real sacrifice Jesus Christ. The Lord knew that the peoples heart
was far from him and that they were worshiping in vain and with
traditions, it became routine. God had a new Covenant that would
lead his people back to him.
Heb 8:9-10
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in
the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land
of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded
them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their
mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God,
and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 10:4-10
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should
take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and
offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written
of me,) to do thy will, O God.
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;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away
the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 9:10-15
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and
carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,
by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that
is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us.
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?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that
by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that
were under the first testament, they which are called might receive
the promise of eternal inheritance.
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