THEME: WORSHIP IN THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID TOPIC: OBJECT OF SACRIFICE It is important to understand that in the two Tabernacles, that of Moses and the other of David, the pattern or principles of sacrificing are the same but the objects of sacrifices are different. God, through the mouth of David who was a Prophetic King Priest and many other prophets, has repeatedly shown that he was not pleased with animal sacrifices. It is clear that the animal sacrifices were a temporal arrangement made because of the sins of man. Animals were representation of man’s sacrifice. So the prophets prophesied of the change in the object of sacrifice for a long time. When God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac as an offering upon the Altar, it was pointing at who or what was the real object of sacrifice. Because of Isaac being a sinful seed of man, God still used an animal in the place of Isaac. Let’s look at these several scripture. “Sacrifices and grain offerings you don’t want; burnt offerings and sin offerings you don’t demand. Instead, you have given me open ears;” Tehillim (Psa) 40:7 (6) CJB We “Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God, pay your vows to the Most High,” Tehillim (Psa) 50:13-14 CJB “For you don’t want sacrifices, or I would give them; you don’t take pleasure in burnt offerings. My sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; God, you won’t spurn a broken, chastened heart.” Tehillim (Psa) 51:18-19 (16-17 NASB) CJB ““Why are all those sacrifices offered to me?” asks ADONAI. “I’m fed up with burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals! I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls, lambs and goats!” Yesha 'yahu (Isa) 1:11 CJB “For what I desire is mercy, not sacrifices, knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.” Hoshea (Hos) 6:6 CJB “As for you, go and learn what this means: ‘I want compassion rather than animal-sacrifices.’ For I didn’t come to call the ‘righteous,’ but sinners!”” Mattityahu (Mat) 9:13 CJB “If you knew what ‘I want compassion rather than animal-sacrifice’ meant, you would not condemn the innocent.” Mattityahu (Mat) 12:7 CJB When Yeshua came on earth He came with a prepared body, which was to replace the animal sacrifice. “This is why, on coming into the world, he says, “It has not been your will to have an animal sacrifice and a meal offering; rather, you have prepared for me a body.” Messianic Jews (Heb) 10:5 CJB Yeshua the Mashiach presented the holy body without spot and He became the Lamb of God that came to die for the sins of the world or mankind. He ultimately took the place of Isaac in the same mountains of Moria called Golgotha where Isaac’s father was to sacrificed him. Therefore, Yeshua started a new way of sacrifice. He was the High Priest who offered Himself. The Priest and the sacrifice became one. In response to this kind of sacrificing, Paul said: “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. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:1-2 NASB The sacrifice is now the living people not the dead animals. SAME PRINCIPLES BUT DIFFERENT OBJECT OF SACRIFICE
