an Easter question

[Athetotheist]

If temple sacrifices were supposed to end with Jesus as the Messiah being the final and ultimate sacrifice, why does Ezekiel chapter 45 have sacrifices being reinstituted in the messianic age?

[Athetotheist]

[Replying to A Freeman in post #10]

Ezekiel 45:17 And it shall be The Prince's part [to give] burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the Sabbaths, in all solemnities of the "House of Israel": he shall prepare the sin offering*

*John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Then why does that same prince prepare----for the people and for himself----a bull for a sin offering in Ezekiel 45:22? And seven kid-goats [one a day for seven days] as a sin offering in verse 23?


These sacrifices are detailed in the writings of the Jews, so let's ask them about it:
https://jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/ar ... -sacrifice

https://jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/ar ... ion-of-sin

[gadfly]

If temple sacrifices were supposed to end with Jesus as the Messiah being the final and ultimate sacrifice, why does Ezekiel chapter 45 have sacrifices being reinstituted in the messianic age?

Another victim of American fundamentalism.

American fundamentalists are so loud and obnoxious that everyone thinks they represent Christianity. Thus they insist that the Bible is an inerrant systematic book intended to make a confined number of propositions that you have to believe to "go to heaven".

This is untrue. American fundamentalists do not represent Christianity.

Ezekiel was a man. Given his context, the notion of worship without sacrifice was inconceivable (and unwanted--that was when one got to eat meat!). If one could go back in time and tell Ezekiel all about Jesus and his death and resurrection (a concept that may have been new to Ezekiel) he may have torn his robes and cried out "heretic".

(I do wonder sometimes how many of the prophets would have been scandalized by Christianity, lol).