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Introduction and updates

Amen. Amen.

Thank you, Samuel. Couple of things I need to cover before we jump into this lesson. So, by the way, welcome. So glad

that you’re here with us, whether in person or online, but I needed to cover a couple of things that uh keep coming up uh in the way of announcements.

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self-employed and don’t need YouTube to survive. But nonetheless, I wanted to address that. I know that there are commercials. I really can’t do anything

about that. That’s just YouTube. So that’s something that I felt like I needed to uh cover. Also, uh real quick,

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announcement. If you want to ask questions about that afterwards, you certainly can. But here we are. Why

Why sacrifice returns

animal sacrifice returns? Why am I doing this lesson? Well, if you’ve been a part of our group for any length of time,

you’ve probably heard me touch on this topic in passing in a lesson or two. I

think even last week, we touched on it a little bit, trying to to answer some questions. So, I thought, well, perhaps

it’s time that we actually did a full-on lesson on this because if you’re if you’re in your regular weekly or daily

Bible study and you’re you come across certain scriptures, it’s important for you to understand what they mean. So, I

thought that we should we should talk about this.

Challenge to preterism

So, let’s jump into it. We have to start uh here first. This is a a scriptural challenge to predtoism. And the reason I

wanted to start with this is because esquetology’s greatest enemy is predism.

And if you don’t know what predtoism means, predtoism basically means that you believe that 95% of all things that

were prophesied to happen in in the last days have already happened in one way, shape, or another. You know, minus the

actual second coming. And even there there’s some people out there who believe that Christ already returned. So it’s it’s there’s a there’s predtoism and then there’s extreme predtoism.

But you really can’t talk about sacrifices in the millennium without dealing with predtoism. So I thought we

would start there. Predatorism teaches that the prophetic promises of scripture, including those of temple, sacrifice, judgment, and kingdom, were

fulfilled in the first century, culminating in the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in AD.70.

Because of that, predtoism generally holds that there will be no future physical temple, no Levitical priesthood

restored, and certainly no return to animal sacrifices.

This stands in sharp tension with the prophetic texts that explicitly describe

sacrificial worship in the messianic kingdom.

Literal view of Ezekiel

Let’s talk very briefly about where predtoism fails. Predtoism asserts the finality of AD70.

And if you are a member of any evangelical church, you may not know it, but most of them have predtoism in their veins.

And AD70 is something that they hold to as an anchor.

Predtoism views the destruction of the temple in 70 AD as the final end of

sacrificial worship. The logic is the old covenant system was judged and dismantled.

Christ’s sacrifice was its fulfillment.

Therefore, no return to animal offerings is possible.

But Ezekiel 40-48 presents us detailed future tense

commands for sacrifices in a temple that never existed historically.

If those chapters are taken literally, they require a postexile, post Christ

fulfillment that predism denies.

Ezekiel’s vision contradicts predtoist closure.

Ezekiel chapters 43 through 46 describes burnt offerings, sin

offerings, peace offerings in a future temple.

Yet by predtoous logic, all of that ended permanently in 70 AD. So, as it

pertains to Ezekiel, predtoism either has to allegorize the entire section

or claim it was already fulfilled in the second temple, which it was not since

Ezekiel’s dimensions and rituals never matched Zerubbabel or Herod’s temple.

It’s a completely different temple.

Predtoism says the messianic reign is only spiritualized in the church, but

the text shows physical sacrificial worship on earth during Messiah’s reign.

If taken at face value, they demand a future beyond AD70.

Too many, way too many evangelicals spiritualize the teachings in the Hebrew scriptures

simply because they do not understand them.

If something is not understood, the knee-jerk reaction is to call it allegory or to dismiss it as something that does not pertain to them.

I did this.

I know that many do, many have, many still do.

It’s a misunderstanding of the scripture as it speaks alone.

What do I mean by that? Well, we all start with our own spiritual world views, our own biblical worldviews.

And if we read something in the scripture that does not seem to match that world view,

then we explain it away with allegory, spiritualization,

assigning it to different dates in history without seeking out the truth in the matter. I did that.

Memorial role of sacrifices

Hebrews versus memorial sacrifices.

Predtoism leans heavily on Hebrews 10 10 through14 that says we have been sanctified through the offering of the

body of Jesus Christ once for all. But millennial sacrifices are never

presented in the prophets as competing with Christ’s atonement. That is super important as we go forward in this

discussion because it’s so important. I want to read it again.

Millennial sacrifices such as we see in Ezekiel, in Zechariah, in Isaiah

are never presented by those prophets as something that competes with what Christ did on the cross.

Reason I’m stressing that is because anybody who looks at this video,

their defensive walls are already up simply based on the title of the lesson.

And they’re already looking for chinks in the armor. They’re already looking for the heresy

that somehow challenges the authority and the power and the reach of the cross.

So, let me start by saying before we go any further that these sacrifices that we see in the

millennium in no way compete with or challenge the

atonement, the forgiveness that happened at the cross.

They serve a ritual memorial role like Passover for foreshadowed the cross.

Interesting that you brought that up, Glenn. So these would point backward to Messiah’s completed work. So predtoism

cannot accept this because its system demands that all temple imagery was exhausted in the first century. And

second, in their world view, there is no literal 1,000year reign.

Again, if you’re an evangelical and you’re watching this, an interesting exercise might be that you corner your

pastor and ask him what the church believes as it pertains to the 1,000-year millennial reign.

90% of the time, you’ll hear him say, “Uh, that’s that’s just metaphorical.

A day is a thousand years to the Lord and vice versa.” They’ll pull out the old Peter passage.

So, in their world view, this is not literal itself. The 1,000-year reign, this creates an exogetical catch 22. If

you do not believe in the literal millennium, then you will not accept anything the Old Testament has to say about the millennium.

After all, in your mind, the Old Testament is done away with as well.

So you see the catch 22 here. They have two things working against their ability to see things as they are in scripture.

A there’s no millennial reign for a thousand years. And B, the Old Testament’s done away with anyways.

So it destroys their ability to uh understanding.

So, you can’t believe one without the other. You can’t say, “Yeah, I believe in the millennial 10,000-year reign, but

I don’t believe in animal sacrifice happening during that time and vice versa.” And you can’t reject both. If one accepts the Bible’s teaching of a

literal 1,000-year reign of Messiah on earth, then the detailed descriptions of temple worship, priestly service, and

sacrifices in passages like Ezekiel 40-48, Isaiah 56, Jeremiah 33, and Zechariah 14 cannot be dismissed as symbolic alone.

You cannot dodge the prophets.

The same Bible that gives you that kingdom also declares animal sacrifices will return.

To accept one while denying the other is to pick and choose what you choose to believe and what you don’t.

You’re slicing the scripture apart.

Revisiting biblical worldviews

So if you can wrap your brain around for a moment, suspend your biblical

disbelief for a moment to accept the possibility that what these prophets are saying

will actually come to pass, that animal sacrifices will return.

Then it’s our responsibility as the student of scripture to understand why they return.

instead of just disregarding them.

So if you can just let the Bible speak, then you can understand that which has eluded you thus far. I

don’t mean to sound self-inflated, but that’s a very important statement right there.

If you can just let the Bible speak, say what it says, then you can understand

the knowledge, the wisdom that you that’s eluded you thus far.

A little insight from personal experience.

Anytime you come across a teaching in the Bible that doesn’t seem to make sense or it appears to be challenging

your biblical worldview somehow, don’t just pass it over.

I saw the references to the law in the New Testament before I discovered the ways of the Lord, but I rationalized it.

I dismissed it because I thought that it was saying that because of the timing that the scriptures were written

and that I was supposed to just kind of gloss over that. And I did

for 30 years. I glossed over it until I stopped. I decided, wait a

minute, I need to study this out. It’s it’s been way too long. I’ve not understood this. I’m gonna study this out. And when I did,

that which had eluded me for 30 years all of a sudden began to make sense.

If you don’t pass over it and you start to look into it, it’s at that moment

that you are on the precipice of learning something new and possibly something that will change your life forever.

For me, it did. Once I learned what I sought to understand, once I understood

that which had eluded me for 30 years, it changed the direction of my life forever. It’s why I’m here this morning.

It’s why I’m teaching. It’s how I met Glenn number two and how why he’s coming over every morning. It can it does have the power to change your life forever.

So, it’s your responsibility predtoist. to seek it out.

Don’t rest until you have discovered the answer.

Even if that answer causes you to rethink your entire biblical paradigm.

And another little freebie, if you are unwilling to have something challenge your paradigm, if you are

unwilling to move off of your paradigm, if you are unwilling to accept something

that you can see with your own eyes because it challenges your paradigm, you are not seeking the Lord with all of your heart, soul, strength, and mind.

You’re just resting on the little bit of knowledge that you think you have.

That’s just my little challenge to you viewer in that regard.

The role of the prince

So, animal sacrifice in the 1,000-year reign of Christ. Let’s start looking at it.

Ezekiel 40.

This is his vision of the city, the New Jerusalem. And he tells us that there’s a chamber at its entrance by the gate

post of the gateway. Not within the gates, but at the gate posts where these

burnt offerings and these sacrifices are being offered.

So there’s a chamber that appears to be set apart for the purpose of sacrifice.

Again, if you’re reading the book of Ezekiel one day and you realize that he’s discussing this vision of a future

temple and you see the word sacrifice, that should cause you to pause and ask

yourself, why is Ezekiel having a vision of sacrifices being made in the days of the new Jerusalem?

And let the Bible speak.

We see in Ezekiel 45, then it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink

offerings at the feasts, the new moons, the Sabbaths, and all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. Let’s

stop there for a moment and ask this question. Who is this prince?

Fun number two.

Do you have an opinion on who this prince is in Ezekiel 45? He is not Christ.

He Okay. He is not Christ. That’s an opinion. A human leader. A human leader. Okay. Yeah. That has duties. He has duties.

He has sacrifices. Okay.

He has a special gate that he enters and another he exits from and Yeah. So he’s an important physical human being.

Yes.

So, good on you, Glenn. Number two. So, why why am I bringing this up? This is a little bit of a side note, FYI, just

because I I want you to be fully rounded here in your understanding of this.

There’s a lot of speculation in rebbitical circles as to who this prince is. There’s even more speculation in

Christian circles as to who this prince is. Some people want to say it’s Yeshua.

A lot of rabbis want to think it’s David, a resurrected David who is serving in this capacity.

But let’s look at who he is not based on scripture. Okay, we can see in Ezekiel

that on that day the prince shall prepare for himself

and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

So just because of that one verse, what can we deduce? It’s not Yeshua because

Yeshua has no sin that he has to prepare a sin offering for, right? And it can’t be David because

David would have been resurrected in the first resurrection and he’s got no sin to prepare for himself and the people a sin offering.

So, right off the bat, Ezekiel 45 tells us that this prince, whoever he is, is not Yeshua, nor is he David. Ezekiel 46

says, “The Lord God, if a prince gives us gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall

belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance.” So, what do we deduce from this? He’s not a resurrected man.

All right? because he’s talking about inheritance, sons, possessions. This would not be a

resurrected individual. So, as Glenn correctly stated, the the prince Glenn number two is over

here celebrating, the prince in Ezekiel 40 40 through 48 functions like a governor or appointed dividic ruler

under Messiah’s kingship. Why is this important?

Sacrifice for all Israel

Because when you look at what he’s doing there in verse 17, he’s the one preparing the burnt

offerings, the peace offerings. That’s sounds like who? Sounds like the high priest.

But he can’t be a high priest. Why, Glenn? Number two, because there is a high priest. Because the high priest is there, right?

Yeshua in the order of Melzdc. And you can’t have two high priests on the planet at the same time.

So Ezekiel never mentions in his vision a high priest, but he does mention this prince who kind

of takes the role as like a governor uh over over the matters of the temple.

So I thought that would be fun to talk about as a little side note. Second part of that verse, he shall prepare the sin

offerings, the grain offerings, the burnt offerings, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of

Israel. Now, as you’re reading this verse and you know the difference between the

house of Israel and the house of Judah, you know the difference between the house of Israel and all of Israel, then

you might get stuck here and go, “Wait a minute. Why are these atone why are these offerings only be being made for

the house of Israel?” But they’re not. here. The sticks have been rejoined.

That’s right. See, Glenn is on his game today. The sticks have been rejoined by this time in Israel or in the people of

Israel. So, let me get back to that next slide so I can kind of walk you through this visually. We have the people of Israel,

the whole nation of Israel, all 12 tribes as the nation of Israel.

Now, if you’ve watched the Jacob to Jesus lesson, you understand that at some point due to sin, the breach of

Jeroboam, as it’s often called, these two houses were divided into two, or Israel was divided into two.

10 tribes became known as the house of Israel. Two tribes became known as the house of Judah. Their continued

rebellion caused the father to divorce the house of Israel in

1. He could not divorce the house of Judah because the Messiah would come

from that line. But he did divorce the northern 10. And what do we know? We

know that they basically became Gentiles. They were cast into the nations and the house of Judah would rule

Jerusalem. They were ruling Jerusalem in the days of Yeshua.

However, when you’re reading the book of Ezekiel, you get to chapter 37 where he prophesies the the two sticks coming together in his hands.

Okay? He is going to bring them back and create them in them this thing that the

scripture calls the whole house of Israel.

You can see that in several places in the book of Ezekiel uh I think once in in Zechariah where

the terminology the whole house of Israel is referring to the restored

sticks. So this is by this time in Ezekiel 45, it’s the whole house of Israel and not

just the limited house of Israel. So that’s an important point to make. Are

you with us, my love? Okay, you’re kind of smiling. Are you Am I losing you?

Okay, good. Zechariah 14, we see this.

We’re coming back now to the animal sacrifice in the millennial reign. In that day, that section of scripture starts off. What day are we talking

about? We’re talking about the the millennial period, the post period of time after Yeshua returns.

In that day, the pots in the Lord’s house shall be made like the bowls before the altar. Yes. Every pot in

Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts.

Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in

them. So here we have a second prophet talking about these sacrifices

that are happening in the day of the Lord, that 1,000year period of time.

Oh, now there’s a third prophet. Isaiah 56. Also, the sons of the foreigner, their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar.

For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations. Again,

as you’re studying Isaiah, by the time we’re we’ve gotten to chapter 56,

he’s already prophesying about the same day that Zechariah was.

So again like Zechariah Isaiah is prophesying about that day where the father says

the sacrifices and offerings of the foreigner of the gentile will be accepted on my altar.

So again, if you are a predtoist or you’re having a hard time wrapping your brain around this, let the scripture speak.

The point of all these scriptures I’m showing you is all of these verses and

more are set in the millennium. It’s not metaphoric.

The descriptions of the new Jerusalem in Ezekiel’s vision, as I said before, do not match other temples described in

scripture. That has to be pointing to a future temple that is as of today unseen.

Atone vs. forgive

Okay.

The purpose of animal sacrifice. Let’s get into this very briefly. I thought it would be helpful.

to explore this for the person who’s trying to understand why they come back in the millennium.

Old Testament sacrifice was the God- orained system in which the blood of animals was offered on the altar to make

atonement that is to provide a covering for sin, restoring fellowship between Yahw and his people.

The sacrifice did not remove sin permanently, but covered it until the true lamb would come.

Leviticus 17. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for

your souls. For it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. That word atonement in the Hebrew is kafar.

The root meaning means to cover, to purge, to make reconciliation, to atone. Am I saying that right, David?

Kafar. Kapa. It’s not a, it’s a kapa. A kapa. Okay, thank you.

The verb gapa uh occurs over 100 times in the Torah and is consistently tied to sacrificial ritual.

In sacrificial context, it means not the removal of sin, but rather covering so

that Yahw’s wrath is stayed and fellowship is maintained.

Let’s look at the difference between covering versus removal.

covering kapa the sacrifice provided a shield or an appeasement so the worshipper did not

bear wrath think of it as yah passing over sin as we see in the book of Romans

forgiveness and I believe that’s salak so so forgiveness salak in the old testament sacrificial system this mean meant

release from the guilt in the covenant context.

The person could return to fellowship with Yahw and community removal.

Retroactive power of the cross

Only Messiah’s sacrifice achieves true cleansing of the conscience and

permanent putting away of sin as we see in the book of Hebrews. So there’s a difference here in these three words.

But on these last two points, I need to clarify something by asking a question. And number two,

was there ever sin or David? By the way, you can answer this too. Was there ever

sin forgiven in the Old Testament where there was no sacrifice?

Yes or no? You only want yes or no.

Let’s let’s start with let’s start with that and then you can take a moment to explain. Uh yes.

Okay.

Yeah. The the the sin offerings covered unintentional sins. They did not cover intentional sins unless there was repentance.

Okay. Numbers 14 19-20. This is this is Moshe.

Moses, pardon the iniquity of this people. And that word is salak.

Forgive the iniquity of this people, I pray, according to the greatness of your mercy. Just as you have forgiven this

people from Egypt until now. Then the Lord said, I have forgiven

according to your word. This is not kafa or kapa. This is salak.

So the answer to the question is was there ever sin forgiven in the Old Testament where there was no sacrifice? The answer is yes.

Yah could act directly out of his mercy because he knew the true basis of forgiveness was already secure in his

plan. The sacrifice of Messiah slain from the foundation of the world. Think about Yeshua.

Matthew 9, but that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins.

He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” So yes, the father, the son has power to forgive completely sin on earth.

But that was, how shall I say, the exception, not the rule.

Okay. So, a little bit of clarity on those last two points.

Let’s talk briefly about the retroactive power of the cross.

This is something that I remember learning as a young believer. Gosh, back into my college days. And it and it kind

of kind of blew my mind because I I didn’t quite understand it. Even then, I didn’t quite understand it. But true.

Nonetheless, the sacrifices of the Torah could only provide a temporary covering for sin, never a final cleansing.

Scripture teaches that the faithful of the Old Testament, though counted righteous by their faith, were still awaiting something greater.

In the fullness of time, the blood of Yeshua, the true lamb of God, reached backward

as well as forward, redeeming the faithful under the covenant.

Something that has come to my mind just now before I continue was a lesson that

I taught many years ago about this moment in time that you’re seeing on your screen when Yeshua was crucified.

And what were some of the things that happened on that day, Glenn? Do you remember? Is the darkness that covered the land?

Yes. Okay.

Scientists have tried to figure out what that darkness is for a long time. It wasn’t a It wasn’t an eclipse. Right. Right.

They can actually go back in time and and find eclipses in history. So, what was it?

It was the fulfillment of a prophecy.

Yes, it was. I spiritualized this in my mind. So, take take it for what you will.

But the power of the cross reached backward as well as forward for the sin of mankind.

For all the sin that was committed up until the cross and all the sin that was committed that would have been or will have been committed after the cross.

His sacrifice has the power to cleanse it all for the believer, for him who believes.

But he had to take that sin somewhere. And we learned that he took it where? To the grave.

So in my young mind, I think to myself, if Yeshua is to

gather the sin of the world, past, present, and future into one place,

to take into his body, to take into the grave, what would that look like?

Darkness.

And then I find an interesting passage in Ephesians 1 where Paul says you were darkness.

He doesn’t say you were like darkness.

He doesn’t say that your sins were like he doesn’t use the word darkness as a metaphor. He just says no, you were darkness.

And that old Christian uh saying that my sin was at Calvary.

Well, yeah, it was.

And it was there as darkness at the moment of his death. Is that what the darkness was? I don’t know. I I I could

make an argument for it biblically, but that’s not the purpose of this lesson.

Cleansing the conscience

So, Romans 3, but now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, but witnessed by the law and the

prophets. even the righteousness of God through faith in Christ to all and on all who believe.

And I put in parentheses both in the old covenant and the new for there is no difference.

I ask myself, why is he saying there is no difference?

And I can only speculate that that phrase on all who believe doesn’t just mean the people of his day.

But all who believed in Yah, whether it was old covenant or new, they have all sinned and fallen short of

the glory of God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth

as a propitiation by his blood through faith.

And I’m going to come back to this a lot more here in the next few slides.

To demonstrate his righteousness because in his forbearance,

Yahw passed over the sins that were previously committed by the faithful.

Those are my words.

to demonstrate at the present time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier

of the one who has faith in Christ.

So what was happening under the sacrificial atonement of the old covenant?

The sins were being covered.

They were being passed over by the father for the faithful

so that when the time came, Yeshua’s blood would justify them all.

Hebrews 9, Christ came as high priest of the good things to come. With a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,

that is, not of this creation, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he created the most holy

place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of go bulls and goats and the ashes of a

hepher sprinkling the unclean sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, that’s

important. How much more shall the blood of Christ through who the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God

cleanse the conscience, cleanse the inner person, remove

the sin from dead works to serve the living God. And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant by

means of death for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant that those who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

So this atonement that we saw happening in the Old Testament could be looked at as a purifying of the flesh.

But not until the cross, not until Christ could it cleanse us internally.

That’s why I think Peter says as he’s talking about baptism in chapter 3 that

he says this is not a purifying of the flesh.

This is by faith cleansing your soul as it were.

Once for all time

Continuing on the retroactive power of the cross, we just read Hebrews 10 that

said it’s not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

That’s one of the reasons why we know that what was happening in these Old Testament sacrifices

wasn’t forgiving them of their sins. It wasn’t removing the sin from them as far as the east as from the west. It’s not

possible for the blood of bulls and goats to do this. The writer of Hebrews makes it plain. And by the way, why am I

teaching all this? It all builds up to understand what’s happening in the millennium. So bear with me. The writer

of Hebrews makes it plain. No matter how many animals were sacrificed, the blood, their blood never had the power to erase

sin. At best, it covered guilt temporarily, pointing forward to the only sacrifice

that truly removes sin, the body and blood of Messiah.

Again, pointing back to this verse of the third time, by that we will have been set apart

through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Now, if you’re following me along

in your New King James, that’s where it stops, once for all.

But in the actual manuscript, it says once for all time.

There’s a difference between once for all and once for all time.

Every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time,

waiting till his enemies are made of of his foottool by for by one offering he

has perfected forever those who are being set apart. Then number two, were those pe were there

people in the Old Testament who were set apart? Yes. Yes. There’s a list.

There is a list in this very same book as a matter of fact.

So yes, they are being perfected, those who are being set apart uh because of this retroactive power of the cross. And

I made a little diagram here. Um I like diagrams. They help me understand things. I’m a visual learner. We have

history depicted in this long white line. And right there in the middle of history, we have what? We have the cross. We have the crucifixion.

And we can see that those who believe by faith are saved

for from their sins because of their belief in obedience to Christ from the

cross forward. But those who were covered also by their

faith are being perfected as Hebrews 10 says. So the washing

was universal. It was not just from the cross forward. It was from the cross backward.

Levitical sacrifices brought real forgiveness in the covenantal sense.

sins were covered and fellowship was restored with Yhovah. So if you wanted to find forgiveness

through that fellowship and restoration, then you could make the argument that there was true forgiveness. But we all

know just based on that verse in Hebrews 10 that the forgiveness wasn’t the true sense of the word. But they did not provide the ultimate removal of sins.

That’s what I just said that final eternal forgiveness comes only through Messiah’s once and for all sacrifices.

So, Old Testament sacrifices equals external purification,

making a worshipper ceremonial ceremonially clean and acceptable before Yah’s presence.

As I’m teaching this little blue box, apply this to someone who might be living in the

millennium who was not a follower of Yeshua but wants to be.

These sacrifices are an external purification making the worshipper

clean and acceptable before Yahw’s presence. The New Testament fulfillment in Messiah

equals internal purification, removing sin’s guilt and cleansing the conscience permanently.

So with your own two little eyes, hopefully you’re seeing the difference

in these two. It’s not just external purification and internal purification.

These are two different people each having access to the cross

but in different ways. And we’re going to explore that here in a moment because I want to talk briefly about what this

once for all time means. You could read Hebrews 10 and if you want to reject the

Faith and sight

idea of sacrifices returning in the millennium, you could pull out this verse

and quote it saying that the cross is thorough enough to cleanse for all time.

And is it blend number two? Yes, it is.

But we have to understand what this means. Once for all time. The Greek phrase

a fapax aphax once for all time. I don’t know how to say that word. It means Christ’s

offering is unique, sufficient, and never to be repeated. It accomplished eternal redemption.

Unlike Old Testament sacrifices which were continual reminders of sin. This truth never expires.

Even in the millennium, salvation rests on that one sacrifice only.

However, however, as I as I alluded to in the previous slide, there is a striking difference

between us and them. them being the people in the millennium.

And that’s a saving faith, not based on sight.

And this is what you’ve heard me argue a couple of times in our previous lessons.

Hebrews 11, the chapter that Glenn number two just alluded to, says, “Faith

is the substance of things hoped for, not the things that you have,

but things you hope for. The evidence of the things not seen.

Not what you can see, but the things you can’t see.

For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

1 Peter 1. Yeshua whom having not seen you love.

Though now you do not see him, yet believing you rejoice with joy, inexpressable and

full of glory, receiving the end of your faith.

Talos, the same word that’s used in Galatians to describe the end of the

law. Receiving the goal of your faith,

the salvation of your souls. We don’t see, we hope. We don’t see, we believe.

And in that belief, we have an inexpressable joy. And as a result of that faith, the salvation of our souls.

2 Corinthians 5, we walk by faith, not by sight. Romans 8, for we were saved in

this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope.

For why does one still hope for what he sees? If we hope for what we do not see,

we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

Are you starting to get the drift of what I’m saying?

Those of us who cannot see yet believe are forced, if you will, to persevere,

to keep going, to not giving up, to rejecting the forces of evil that are

constantly at our feet trying to get us to give up.

Whether you become a believer at the age 20 like I did or a believer at the age 80 like somebody else might, you still

have to fight to receive the salvation of your soul.

That’s why Yeshua says, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have

believed.” tells Thomas, “You only you only believe this because you’re looking at it. These holes, you believe because

you’ve seen, but blessed are those who have not seen and believed.” So there is a difference

between those of us who will be resurrected in the first resurrection partaking in the new Jerusalem, the wedding feast of the lamb.

And those who are outside the gates who may have survived the second coming of Christ, let’s say,

and never had to deal with faith. Now they can see this individual that they didn’t want to believe in

before, but al all of a sudden they also see the need to do so.

So there’s a difference between those people in the millennium and those of us who have been saved by the blood based

on our faith in something that we could not see. What

Obedience in the millennium

now for the individuals who see who are they like Glenn number two if you could repeat history

saw they saw him they saw the miracles they saw the Red Sea open they saw the the water coming out of the

rock they saw the miracles but they didn’t believe right they didn’t have faith and That’s

what it’s like for the people in the millennium. They will be just like Israel. I see it.

I see them. There it is. But what would their belief be? So I continue. We’re almost done here. A saving faith. In the

days of the Levitical system, the sacrifices of bulls and goats could never remove sin, but only cover it, pointing forward to Messiah’s perfect

offering. With the coming of Yeshua, those who believe enter into his finished work by grace through faith

apart from sacrifices. Yet in the millennial reign, those still living in mortal bodies will not partake of that

same grace in the same way. Their faith will be demonstrated by obedience to Messiah’s commands

expressed through the required sacrifices that continue until the great white throne judgment.

Unlike the faith of those before the cross which trusted in what was unseen or the

faith of believers now which rests in what has already been accomplished.

The faith of the millennial age will be bound up with the living obedience under

the visible rule of the king. So follow me here. In the Old Testament,

sacrifices covered sin but did not remove it, awaiting Messiah. I’m just driving this home over and over again for you guys.

Yes, you are.

In the New Testament, faith in Yeshua’s finished work brings grace. Now apart from sacrifice in the millennium

those still in mortal bodies will live under Messiah’s reign but their faith will be expressed differently.

They will be required to demonstrate obedience through sacrifices until the great white throne judgment because they

are not recipients of the once-forall grace in the same way as those before.

So the question begs itself. Anytime you teach this, you inevitably arrive at this question.

Does this mean that those in the millennium are earning their salvation through works or obedience?

If you read the last point in that box, it says that their faith will be expressed by them demonstrating

obedience through sacrifices until they’re judged at the great white throne. So naturally,

does this mean that those in the millennium are earning their salvation through works? And my answer is no.

Why am I saying no? In the millennium, all will see him.

Yet, scripture shows, as I mentioned before, that seeing does not guarantee inward loyalty.

Grace requires a heart response. It’s not merely physical sight.

Consider Israel in the wilderness.

They saw God’s works continually yet did not believe and so they missed his grace.

Had they joined their obedience to the God they both heard and saw,

their outcome would have been entirely different.

If nothing else, brothers and sisters, the teaching of animal sacrifice in the

millennium should cement in our hearts that faith and obedience go together.

That the book of James should never have been toyed around with being thrown out because it seemed to challenge the grace only lot.

That’s what it tells us that these people in the millennium will respond to the same grace

by showing that they will obey him. Are they saved by that obedience? No. But they will be judged according to that

obedience at the great white throne judgment as we see. So it cannot be denied.

Exodus 33. You have said, “I know you by name.” This is uh Moses again. You have

said, “I know you by name, and you have also found grace in my sight.” Now, therefore, I pray, if I have found grace

in your sight, show me your way that I may know you that I might find grace in your sight. So, what do we see here? But what we see here is a is a commitment.

We see a tie between um grace and the way, grace and knowing

him, grace and following him. Moses ties Yahw’s promised grace directly to

knowing and walking in his way. So obedience was the reflection of belief in Yah’s presence.

Okay, I’m drawing this connection to dispel any notion that someone might think that

an individual in the millennium is quote unquote earning their salvation through obedience. No, their obedience is an

expression of them realizing that grace just as it is for you and me. If I was to ask Glenn number two or David, why do

you obey? So I can go to heaven. That would be a wrong answer.

I obey because I love him. I obey because of what he did for me. The person in the in the millennium will

also see that and should also respond to that. Jeremiah 7, obey my voice and I

will be your God and you shall be my people and walk in the ways that I have commanded you that it may go well with you. So the phrase it may go well with

you is the language of Yahw’s favor his grace extended on the basis of belief

expressed through obedience the structure is the same as in the New Testament. Grace is the root belief and

obedience are the channel blessing and ultimately salvation is the fruit even for those in the millennium. Now, let me

Conclusion and Q&A

read the conclusion. I dumped a lot of stuff on you guys today, but I wanted you to have a a biblical foundation of

why this is true, and then I’m going to open it up for your questions here in a moment. Salvation in the millennium, as

in every age, will rest solely on the once for all sacrifice of Yeshua, the Messiah. His blood alone removes sin.

and his name alone secures a place in the book of life.

Yet in that future kingdom when Messiah reigns visibly from Jerusalem, the nations will be required to submit to

his rule and walk in obedience to his statutes.

The return of animal sacrifice in Ezekiel’s temple does not add to or compete with the cross. where scripture

is clear that it is not possible that the blood of goats, blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. Instead,

these offerings serve as displaying the holiness of God and pointing back to the sufficiency of Messiah’s atonement, even

as they regulate worship for mortals still living in their flesh during the thousand years. In this way, the

sacrifices function much like the Levitical system once did for Israel, tutoring the nations in righteousness,

while salvation itself remains anchored in the unchanging grace of God through

the lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world. Now before I finish, I want to look at that

statement. Tutoring the nations in righteousness.

Think about you what it was like for you when you first came to understand the ways of the Lord. You felt like you were drinking water from a fire hydrant.

All of a sudden, you were reordering your entire belief system. You were having everything you

thought you knew challenged and you were being trained

in righteousness. The Holy Spirit was tutoring you in the ways of the Lord.

And what does Isaiah say about the the last day, this this time, the millennium? Come, let us go to

Jerusalem, to Mount Zion, so we can learn the ways of the Lord. Those are Gentiles speaking.

And for them, they’re going to be getting that same treatment when they come to Jerusalem where where

they are going to be tutored in righteousness. They’re going to be taught the ways of the Lord in much the same fashion.

So, that is my thoughts on animal sacrifice.

I’m going to shut up and open the floor for the rest of you guys. Sign number two, if you want to say anything. Um, people already have their hands up.

Let’s start with Emily from Idaho. It’s great to have you. Thank you. The most excellent teaching.

Um, I’ve had a few friends actually asking me about this exact subject. So, I’m so glad that you covered it. And so,

um, just two things real quick. One is more of a comment, but you can correct me if I’m wrong. So, there’s no more Levitical system. Instead of the

millennium is going to have um some other type of you said like a governorship

um covering those uh sacrifices and all that system. That’s the first thing. And then um there’s some groups out there

like Torah pursuant Hebrew roots that actually teach that we don’t need to observe day of atonement anymore because

Yeshua already fulfilled that. And so just um wanted to know I mean I guess I

understand it because atonement means covering and he has covered us already. So that’s my other question.

Okay. Well, I don’t want to be Mr.

Answer. I I I I want to give you other brothers and sisters a chance to speak to one another on this. Does anyone uh

Samuel, maybe you want to try and take a shot at that question?

Sure. Sure. Shabbat shalom. And and Shabbat shalom to you, Emily. That’s that’s an that’s an exceptional question. My understanding is that that

no, you we don’t eliminate the Levitical priesthood. The Levites are still going to be vital. You have two different

priesthoods. You have the Levitical priesthood that will continue in the ways that were established by Yhovah because he’s unchanging. His word is

unchanging. His instructions are unchanging. And then you have the order of Malchisedc which is represented through our Messiah

Yeshua Hamashiach. So within the millennial kingdom, my understanding is the Levites, the priesthood particularly

will resume um the ordinances that were laid out through the mitzvote given to Moshe in

in writing for those who are of the other nations who are coming in obedience

for the covering of their sins. That’s my understanding. As far as the day of atonement is concerned,

my understanding is yes, we continue to observe it as we do the other moed.

Even though it is a shadow of things and even though we can see how it plays out in terms of the life of Messiah, we are

to continue the observances that were laid out within the mitzvot or the writings that were given to to Moshe to

to to uh uh to provide instruction to us for

the greatest extent of time outside of the horizon that we can see. So we continue that. We we don’t stop. We

continue until the Most High gives us word otherwise. So I I would submit to you, no, continue to observe all of the moede, including the day of atonement.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much.

Let me just let me just jump in there and Samuel, I’m going to give you a chance to sh to share yourself because I know you probably had your own comments

aside from responding to Emily. So, uh, yeah, I think everything that Glenn, that not Glenn, but Samuel said, um,

Emily is absolutely true. We learn in several passages, the least of which is not Exodus 29, that the Levitical priesthood will be before God forever.

Olam, uh, which is a a scripture that most Christians can’t explain why it says that. Well, it’s it’s topics like this

that explain it. There will be Levites serving during that time but

they will be following the instructions of the king and priest Yeshua.

Second thing is um I’m I have to be careful that I’m not I don’t express my anger in my response.

I’m I’m I’m sick and tired of people in the church, regardless of

their flavor, messianic or otherwise, saying that A, B, C, or D was done away with because of this or because of that.

God’s word is set or settled in heaven forever.

There is not a jot or a tit that is ever done away with. Okay? It’s not.

So, it’s ridiculous in my mind to think that just because Yeshua accomplished what he accomplished on the

cross that we should disregard one of the most sacred festivals in all of the festivals.

We do that in honor of his triumph.

We don’t disregard it. That’s just craziness in my mind. But I hope that helps.

Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Thank you.

Okay. Uh Samuel, did you have anything else that you wanted to share besides answering to Emily?

Yes, Elder Dolls. First of all, hallelujah. Thank you for this this wonderful message. It was quite edifying and I’m grateful to be here. Um I’m I

was listening to you know the prince of the power of the air was was disturbing um my broadcast. I had to jump on

another device. But um from what you were sharing I could see the connections when you quoted things out of the

epistles out of second Peter and out of the book of Hebrews. I’m seeing what they connect to um in in in the Old

Testament. So when you when you were referencing second Peter verses 3 um um chapter 3:8 in terms of a day is like a

thousand years and a thousand years as a day. Immediately my mind went to to the psalm of Moshe um Psalm number 90

um verse 4 for a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is passed and like a watch in the night. So it’s not like Peter just pulled this out

of nowhere out of thin air. he had the reference and then when you were talking

on Hebrews chap um 9 11-15 immediately especially with relation to

animal sacrifice and the fact that it’s not something that is there for um that that eliminates

um the weight of sin on us. I I think about Psalms 50 verses 12-15

where it says, “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine in all of his fullness. Will I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of

goats? Offer to Elohim thanksgiving and pay your vows to the most high. Call upon me in the day of trouble. I will

deliver you and you shall glorify me.” So that let us know that yes these things are placed in order and are required but that is not sufficient.

What is sufficient is faith in Messiah and then obedience in relation to that faith. So the connection that you’re

able to draw and and render to those who are who have uh eyes to see and ears to hear is very critical. The question that

I have for you um Elder Doss is as as far as the priesthoods are concerned,

the the Levites of course ex you know that are carried through from from the descendants of Levi extended through

Aaron and and his sons and his sons sons they’re going to have their place in the millennium kingdom. And my question is,

what role will those who fall within the order of Malchisedc serve? And who will be within that order of Melkisedc? Is

that are those the the the saints who have the testimonies now before the return? What what are your thoughts on

that? You, Glenn, and and uh Brother David, and I and I thank you. Shalom.

Well, okay. Thank you. gets a deep question and probably requires a lust of its own, but Glenn number two wanted to say something.

I I’m I’m only speaking up, Samuel, because he called my name.

But um I I think that that is a really really solid observation. Another observation

uh in Ezekiel 40 through Ezekiel 48 uh you have exhaustive

u uh explanations of the rituals who does it how they do it. You know it’s like reading from Leviticus all over

again. One thing you don’t see in the millennium is anybody getting baptized.

You don’t see anybody receiving the Holy Spirit.

So you got to ask why. And so I think those are all connected

to what you’re talking about with the Mechisedc uh priesthood. It appears that the Levitical priesthood is what

prevails during the millennial time period.

okay. Um, yeah, I I I agree with what Glenn is saying, but if

I could summarize my two cents on your question, Samuel is

Ezekiel is clear that a certain subset of the Levites will be key amongst all

of them being Zadok, right?

Zadok is the comes from the same word as Zedc from Melchzdc.

And who who are the quote unquote priests under his order? Well, he is

priest and king. So even the Levites will fall within his obviously authority and instruction.

But elsewhere, I couldn’t find it at the moment, but there are scriptures that

teach us that people from the nations will be tapped on the shoulder to serve

in the capacity of a Levite at one one level or another. Now, does that mean

that these people that are tapped are long descendants of Levi?

Or are they somehow a uh a priest under

Melchzdc’s order or Yeshua’s order under the Melkazedc title?

Not sure. Not Not exactly sure. I know I do know of a handful of teachers that

believe they’re absolutely sure on this, but as I listen to them, I don’t come to the same conclusion. So, I I can’t I

can’t be uh dogmatic with you either, Samuel. Um but something that we could probably look into in the future if it doesn’t bore people too much.

I don’t think I don’t think that’s a subject that should bore people. And I and I thank you for that. Um and I’ll just I’m going to end with this and I

think this is something that that would be great for us to expound on in a in a lesson that you craft. Um but within

within the within the prophets it it would appear and again this is not doctrine. This is just my understanding,

a cursing understanding based on um what I’m I’m seeing is that the the

faithful who endure until the return of Messiah to establish the

millennium kingdom, they’re more or less given the role of being over the nations. So, they’re assigned

various nations to govern over. And I’m wondering if if that those who are

assigned as the the princes under the king under Messiah over those um nations

more or less they serve more or less as the the priest for them. And so it’s more or less the order of things. Those

nations report to to the faithful who held on to the testimony until the millennium kingdom. And then those

individuals report upward to the Messiah who himself is accountable to the father. But that’s just something for a

later discussion. Thank you for allowing me to to participate in the share and blessings. Shabbat shalom.

Amen. Amen, bro. It’s always great to hear from you and good to have you back. Uh let’s see. Uh Joey.

Hey, Shabbat shalom everybody. Um thank you for having me on the call too, Ed. first- timer here in the in the group.

Um, I wanted to mention um, you know, with these with with the

part of the 144,000 being Levites as well.

I mean, if if you know, sacrificial or anything was going to be gone, then I feel like the tribe of Levi, right,

since they’re associated and they were the high priest that maybe that they wouldn’t be mentioned in it.

Also, um even though it might be a little bit hard with a lot of us wrapping our heads

around this sacrificial system coming back, I think it’s even crazier to think that after the millennium, once the enemy is

loose again, that he’s actually going to deceive people still and people will still fall.

So um I wanted to add that in there because that’s uh I I felt that’s very important and

and when you see these people coming to um Yahusha

you know and one way or another they they lose light in their oil you know or in their lamp you know even at the at

the very finish when you’re seeing all these things happen and and you’re dwelling with the Messiah and you’re, you know, all the sacrifices

and all this and still after the thousand years are up

that people will still be deceived. So, I I wanted to add that. I thought that was interest that popped in my head.

Yeah. Well, that just uh it’s history repeating itself, right, Joey? Because

how long did Israel have the presence with them? And yet they rebelled and yet they

adopted the ways of the nations around them. So it’ll be in the millennium as well. So did you want to say something?

Yeah, just a tiny thing. Go ahead.

Yeah. Um in in the book of Revelations, it it shows that the 144,000 come from every Yeah, I was going to make that

point, too, but you jumped in front of me. Sorry. That’s okay. Okay. So, you’re done. Okay. Sorry.

Oh, no. Just what one minor correction to what you said, Joey. The 144,000 are not all Levites. They come from every

tribe. Um, but that’s okay. It’s just a small minor little tweak there to something that you were sharing.

Right. I just meant like a part like they were a part of the 144,000. Not all the 14,000. Sorry if I like misspoke.

Kevin had my coffee has no apologies necessary in this group. We’re all learning together. Okay, anybody else?

We’re getting close. Got one more minute. Anybody else want to share anything before we we sign off here?

Okay, mind’s blown. Luke, thank you. Um, I hope that was a good mind blown. But guys, as always, it’s good to Oh, David

and Cassie, one last thought. David Cassie, hey, I was just curious in the very beginning, you were talking about the

prince that’s going to offer these sacrifices. I was wondering if that had anything to do with Hebrews uh 8:4 where it says Yeshua being from the order of

MelkiseDC would not be a priest on earth. Uh because the Levites are here now according to the law. But I I put my

hand down earlier because you guys started talking about the order of Melkisedc and people being kind of put into that category. So, how do you I’m

just curious like how would you differentiate that between what Hebrews 8:4 says and what’s going to be happening. Is it going to be the Levites

in charge with just Yeshua um o as the overseer as the high priest of the order of Melkisedc or will there

be other people of the order of Melkisedc also under Yeshua um with Levites as well? I guess I got

confused when people started talk bringing in the order of Melchisedc. So that’s it. No. Um, are you raising your hand plan?

Okay. I thought you were raising your hand. Uh, so for clarity, there cannot be two high priests on the planet at one

time. Only one. Okay. So Yeshua can’t be serving as the high priest as long as

there’s a uh a high priest in office in the temple. Now

aside from that note, u the high priest that was in place during the days of Yeshua,

what’s his name, Glenn? His name is eluding me. I don’t remember. Yeah, the high priest.

Swapping high priest real quick. He was he was not put in that position according to biblical instructions.

He was appointed by Herod. So was he a true high priest?

Well, he held the title, but he was kind of a bastardized version of the high priest in the days of Yeshua.

There is a distinction to be made between the high priest and the Levitical priesthood.

Yes, they’re all from Aaron, Aaron’s line, but the the Levitical priesthood

is should be understood like a second tier level of priesthood. They are servants

of the people and service servants of the temple.

When Yeshua returns, he will reign as king and priest

with those servants serving underneath him. He is not from the order of Aaron. He is not bloodline

Aaron, but he still will be king and priest.

And that’s why Ezekiel doesn’t ever mention a high priest in the order of Aaron

in his vision because they can’t be there together at the same time.

So, I hope that clarifies everything. If it doesn’t, hit me up, shoot me an email or something else and we can continue this. Glenn, who who does the atonement ceremony?

The prince in the millennium. Is that stated or just That’s what we read in Ezekiel 45. Yeah.

Yeah. He asked if you didn’t hear that, who does the ceremony? And and I believe it’s the prince, the the the human

person who is raised up to kind of oversee, govern, if you will. Okay, guys. It’s.

3 months fast. It’s my pleasure and my honor to always have

you here with us on Shabbat and I’m grateful that to have you and grateful for your insights and for your questions and for your faith and for your prayers.

Um let’s not forget our brothers in uh places that right now are really going through um H double hockey sticks, if you will.

um financially. And next week we will start talking about the festivals, the spring, the fall festivals.

We’re going to be teaching on trumpets uh next week. So love you guys. Have a

fantastic Shabbat. Have a peaceful, quiet day and a great weekend. And we’ll see you guys next time.

Okay. Thank you very, very excellent teaching. Yes. Shabbat shalom everyone.

Shabbat shalom. Thank you so much. Wonderful. Shabbat shalom.

Shabbat shalom everybody. Have a wonderful Shabbat.