I Suspect It Is Really Simple, No Third Temple, No Messiah!

[Dennis Tate]

The Levitical Covenant was not observed for very long in the past, and never perfectly, so I suppose that the prophecies that it will be observed during the era of Messiah/Moshiach will be the first time that the Jewish people ever in history had the opportunity to carry out the sacrifices in the way that God had intended. We Christians will be watching what they do....exactly how and when they do it....and we will be noticing levels of meaning within levels of meaning that we had never noticed before!

[url="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Mar&c=1&t=KJV#comm/44"]Mark 1:44[/url] And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.


[url="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Mat&c=8&t=KJV#comm/4"]Matthew[/url]
[url="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Mat&c=8&t=KJV#comm/4"]8:4[/url] And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

[url="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Isa&c=66&t=KJV#comm/22"]Isaiah 66:22[/url] [color=#AAAAAA]¶[/color] For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. [url="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Isa&c=66&t=KJV#comm/23"]Isaiah 66:23[/url] And it shall come to pass, [that] from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.



[url="http://www.drbo.org/chapter/43014.htm"]http://www.drbo.org/chapter/43014.htm[/url]

And all [u]they that shall be left[/u] of all nations that came against Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts, and [u]to keep the feast of tabernacles[/u]. [url="http://www.drbo.org/x/d?b=drb&bk=43&ch=14&l=17#x"][17][/url] And it shall come to pass, that he that shall not go up of the families of the land to Jerusalem, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts, there shall be no rain upon them. [url="http://www.drbo.org/x/d?b=drb&bk=43&ch=14&l=18#x"][18][/url] And if the family of Egypt go not up nor come: neither shall it be upon them, but there shall be destruction wherewith the Lord will strike all nations that will not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles. [url="http://www.drbo.org/x/d?b=drb&bk=43&ch=14&l=19#x"][19][/url] This shall be the sin of Egypt, and this the sin of all nations, that will not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles. [url="http://www.drbo.org/x/d?b=drb&bk=43&ch=14&l=20#x"][20][/url] In that day [u]that which is upon the bridle[/u] of the horse shall be holy to the Lord: and the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as the phials before the altar.

Edited February 5, 2012 by Dennis Tate

[Aloysius]

Jesus told the man to show himself to the temple priests, because He had not yet fulfilled all things by His sacrifice.

the perfect levitical sacrifice was Christ on the cross. no other sacrifice is sufficient, every other sacrifice pointed to it, and when Christ sacrificed Himself on the cross, He fulfilled the whole law. no attempt to follow the prescriptions of old testament sacrifices will appease God. the way God always intended those sacrifices to be made was with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, and the unbloody re-presentation of it that goes from East to West when we break bread and "do this in commemoration" of Him. That is what the prophesies you are quoting are pointing to, that Jesus Christ's sacrifice will be present in all the tabernacles throughout the whole world, to every corner of the earth, the blood of the Perfect Sacrifice available to wash over all people, Jew and Gentile, all nations, in baptism and the Eucharist.