The Law of sacrifices (part 2)

The law of sacrifices and offerings is a law that is completely different to either the law of love/righteousness, or to the law of sin and death. As the apostle Paul clearly states: “What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator” (Galatians 3:19).

Since the wages of sin which is transgressing the law of God, or to live in accordance to the law of sin and death, the law of sacrifices and offerings was added because of transgressions to the law of love: In the old dispensation, it was animal sacrifices and it was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience ---concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

Notice carefully that this law was not abolished but was rather reformed or replaced by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as we have been duly instructed saying; “For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and un-profitableness, for the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God” (Hebrews 7:18-19).

This law which made nothing perfect is not the law of love but rather the law of sacrifices and offerings which was added because of transgressions and a means of reconciling man to God because, according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins” (Hebrews 9:22; 10:1-4).

But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the 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 entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God,cleanse your conscience 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 the eternal inheritance” (Hebrews 9: 11-15).

And so, the law of sacrifices and offerings has been reformed and replaced by the sacrificial body and blood of Jesus Christ in the form of the bread and wine which we are required to offer to Him at the appointed time, which the Lord instructed Moses saying; "Command the children of Israel, and say to them, 'My offering, My food for My offerings made by fire as a sweet aroma to Me, you shall be careful to offer to Me at their appointed time.” This appointed time is recorded in the book of Numbers chapter twenty eight and twenty nine.

Unfortunately, this is the area I find most professing believers are falling short, they have not perceived the practicality and reality of this aspect of life in the Spirit.