Why were the SACRIFICES NECESSARY BEFORE ... Will they be re-instituted again ... and if so WHY?

[George]

1 hour ago, BibleGuy said:

So perhaps Yeshua is the David to come (Eze.37:24)...after all, He is the son of David...the "greater David" if you are willing to accept it...

On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if it's literally David!

Actually the passage REFERENCES 2 Davids ...

Eze 37:22  And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 

Eze 37:23  They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 

Eze 37:24  “My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.  [David as KING]

Eze 37:25  They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.  [David as Prince]

Eze 37:26  I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 

Eze 37:27  My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 

Eze 37:28  Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” 

Shows the duality of David ... could be 2 Davids ... the Son of God ... as well as King David from the days of old.

[kwikphilly]

Great study George

    Thank you for this interesting Topic,I  got a lot out of all you've brought to the table and appreciate your time and patience .......so many times I've walked away because my own patience wears thin but I keep coming back to continue the actual study -God Bless you!

                          With love-in Christ,Kwik                                                                 

[Alive]

I will jump in briefly--I read the two posts of George back a ways ago and a careful reading of those verses does not say what is hoped. It is indeed inferential.

This is the central issue in most of this. We have presuppositions and then wrest scripture to fit the construct.

Look at the verses carefully. Language communicates information. Information reduces uncertainty. Those verses don't reduce the uncertainty of the question Josheb is asking. They just don't. It can be imagined that they do when behind the reading is a an already formed notion.

 

[kwikphilly]

Hi George.....

   Will you be getting back to the study or is that all of it? 

[George]

8 minutes ago, Alive said:

It can be imagined that they do when behind the reading is a an already formed notion.

Or a DENIED reading of the Word because of a theology that was not from the mouth of Jesus or the Apostles!  The reality is that it was NOT FINISHED in 70 AD.

Did we have a MARK OF THE BEAST YET?  Did we have a time where you couldn't buy or sell without a MARK?  Seriously, the DEVIL is not bound ... He's raging havoc because it's not imprisoned! 

Those who continue to go down this road of denial ... they are blinded by picking and choosing what they choose to see!  But it's OBVIOUS to everyone reading the Scriptures ... seeing Matthew 24 being fulfilled as we speak!

[Alive]

My issues are primarily around two more advents--a rapture and then a literal 1000 years later another and sin still present during a proposed literal reign of Christ on earth.

Where I lean is that we are currently in the millenium, which rather than literal is a protracted period of time unknown...similar to a cattle on a thousand hills(Psalm 50.10) or like a thousand years of our time picturing one of God's days (Psalm 90:4)

Twoard the end of this period we are now in resistance to Christ's gospel will increase and things will get real bad--then Christ will return, the angel's will sift, Christ will destroy all that is not of Him, final judgement and we enter the eternal state.

No more sin in the universe.

[George]

7 minutes ago, kwikphilly said:

Will you be getting back to the study or is that all of it? 

Honestly, the issue is that people who don't understand the Bible from a hebraic standpoint ... can't reconcile why Paul circumcised Timothy in Acts 16, why he offered sacrifices in Acts 21 --- with the same Paul who wrote Galatians!  If you don't read the Scriptures from the mindset it was written ... then these passages confuse people!  Paul didn't become a "Christian" -- he was a JEW from the beginning to the End!  Jesus didn't become a "Christian" ... and He's returning as a JEWISH KING!    The reality is that without an understanding of the context from which it is written ... it confuses most Christian theological circles, but in reality -- it fits nice and neat!

[George]

4 minutes ago, Alive said:

Twoard the end of this period we are now in resistance to Christ's gospel will increase and things will get real bad--then Christ will return, the angel's will sift, Christ will destroy all that is not of Him, final judgement and we enter the eternal state.

What was the purpose of God for mankind at the beginning?  Start from the beginning ... what was His purpose?

[Alive]

6 minutes ago, George said:

Or a DENIED reading of the Word because of a theology that was not from the mouth of Jesus or the Apostles!  The reality is that it was NOT FINISHED in 70 AD.

Did we have a MARK OF THE BEAST YET?  Did we have a time where you couldn't buy or sell without a MARK?  Seriously, the DEVIL is not bound ... He's raging havoc because it's not imprisoned! 

Those who continue to go down this road of denial ... they are blinded by picking and choosing what they choose to see!  But it's OBVIOUS to everyone reading the Scriptures ... seeing Matthew 24 being fulfilled as we speak!

I am not saying it was all finished in 70AD. I have never said that....certainly much was. Same for Revelation. Much has been as is evident in the time stamps. The end is yet to come. The already, but not yet thing.

[Alive]

2 minutes ago, George said:

What was the purpose of God for mankind at the beginning?  Start from the beginning ... what was His purpose?

I have written much on this here...Paul, in Eph. mentioned God's "eternal purpose"--I believe that to be God's desire and will to have a family after His image to work along side Him for all eternity.

When reading through scripture with that in mind and Christ as the fullfillment of that and the mechanism by which it happens--we see it unfolding in space and time.

This is the simple concise explanation.