What I said earlier to Ambassador -- Why would you make fun of the sacrificial system that God instituted? Even if you disagree with someone's understanding of the millennium, that's a far cry from besmirching the system set up by God as a PRE-FIGURING of the sacrifice of Christ. Incidentally, if God can PRE-figure by the sacrifice of a lamb or bull or goat, why can't he Post-figure?
It was never the fact of animal sacrifice that God rejected with His people, it was that their hearts were wrong.
What I said earlier to Ambassador -- Why would you make fun of the sacrificial system that God instituted?"
You seem not to get my point!
Is animal sacrifice ~NOT~ animal butchering????
My point is to portray the sacrifice for what it is -a ritual centered around the death and destruction of an animal. It ~IS~ animal butchering. The term butchering is not mocking in any way, but is an explicit description of the system of which you took offense. That should tell you something.
I simply wanted to stress that in the time of this 'millennial kingdom' there will be a reversion to an O.T. practice centering on a need to shed blood for sin as if Christ's sacrifice had not yet happenned.
How can repeated animal sacrifice be a memorial for the "once for all" sacrifice of Jesus Christ that did away with the O.T. Sacrifices???
Psalm 40
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.Micah 6
6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?Hebrews 10
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the secondbr> 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
You demand a return to a system which, yes, was ordained by God, but which the Scriptures, straight up, tell us the Lord was never pleased with anyway!
But then again, Isaiah 65 has already told us, straight up, that it is a description, not of a 'millennial kingdom', but of the New Heavens and the New Earth. Yet, you require and insist on inserting your 'millenial kingdom' into this passage anyway! It literally tells us that this is a description of the New Heavens and the New Earth! You ought to be ashamed of yourself!
We serve a ~RISEN~ savior and we fully expect a perfect world where there will be no death. Even in your bastardized interpretation of Isaiah 65 as the 'millennial kingdom' you would have a description of the lamb lying down with the wolf without fearing death! Your 'millennial kingdom' would have the lion becoming a vegetarian never to feast on animal meat again. Yet you demand the butchering of animals in this 'millennial kingdom' in order to satisfy your own presumptions of an inconsistantly and conveniently used 'literal hermeneutic'.
Jean