Animal Sacrifice

In the old Testament Almighty God Himself permitted animal sacrifice why now does God change his mind and stops the sacrifice???

Please read and study the epistle to the Hebrews. The answers are all there.

GOD IS a SPIRIT and HE wanted obedience rather than sacrifice but man because of the weakness of the flesh could not be perfectly obedient In the flesh but HE said that LIFE Is In the blood and IMO HE was talking about JESUS.

SO then It's not what we do but what we believe that GOD desires.they could sacrifice all the animals they wanted to but If their heart was not right,what would that mean to GOD?It would be meaningless to GOD who looks at the heart.

Look toward JESUS and not to self.

The old testament was pointing to JESUS the LAMB of GOD.

Hi Nazarenes, here are a couple more pieces to the puzzle (if you will) to consider.


~Deut

Jesus himself became the sacrifice for our sin by his death on the cross. There is no need for further atonement by blood.

The shed blood of animal sacrifices did not actually result in forgiveness of sins but were a type pointing to Jesus shedding His blood of the cross dying, paying the penalty for sins committed.

It would seem from the beginning our invisible God, in order to make himself know to his children of faith, he used the temporal created things of this world so that we could understand him and walk by faith (the unseen eternal).

Living things that had the breath of life. Fowl of the air, fish of the sea or beast of the field.. again to teach us how to mix faith (Hebrew 4:2) using the different formulas as tools for rightly dividing.

2 Corinthians 4:18 comes to mind as one. In doing so hiding the spiritual understanding from those who do not mix faith in what they hear.(Hebrew 4:2) Metaphors in ceremonies were used to preach the suffering of Christ beforehand and the glory that did follow up until the time of the first century reformation. (the end of the use of those metaphors ) New ones for the restored government.

This included all the beast of the field to include mankind as part of that preaching the gospel in respect to the same suffering of Christ beforehand. Jewish flesh was set aside to represent both belief as clean or redeemed (faith) and unbelief, unclean (no faith) of mankind. This is not in respect to their literal flesh and blood but a metaphor used throughout the bible. Animals like a Ass classified as unclean. The uncleanness had to with representing those not redeemed like natural man in need a savior typified as a Lamb. The same with the Ass it must be redeemed or the neck would be broken to symbolize no mercy.

Balaam's Ass like the flesh of a outward unredeemed Jew show us God is not served by the flesh of his creation (human hands) in any way shape or form .

The gospel below.

Exodus 13:12-14 King James Version (KJV)That thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the Lord's. And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem. And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:

According to Job23 He who is of one mind and always does whatsoever his soul pleases in that way. He performs the things appointed to us as a imputed righteousness ( Philippians 2:12-13) he makes our new heart soft.

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:Job 23:13-16

Picture of Christ coming on the last day a Ass into the heavenly Jerusalem (Zion) prepared as his chaste virgin bride the church, as a sign he is not served by the human hands of un-belief, the unclean.

We will all receive our new incorruptible (the clean) . In the twinkling of the eye on that last day

Zechariah 9:8-10 King James Version (KJV)And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon "a colt" the foal of an ass. ( First born) And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

Well said Brother 'The Father so loved the world that He sends his only Begotten son '.

The All Mighty Father wants us to change or lets say gets transform to a new creature because sacrifice of animal is becoming an exusse to remain the same or a bypass then its sin sacrifice sin sacrifce the character has remain the same for so many years and so many sacrifices no evolution of the soul and Spirit.

The coming of Jesus brings a New alliance of transformation with the Grace of Rebirth where all our characters and nature has been touch by the Hand of God ' Halleluia' and we are born again with Spirit of God and now we are Eligible to enter the kingdom of God thank you Yeshwa Ha Machiach for this sacrifice and Grace oh bless you Yeshwa bless you Father.

The blood of aniamal has no power to remove sin but the blood of Yeshwa Ha Machiach makes us as white as the snow.


Thank you brother you have enlighten me with your post i pray that All mighter bless you more so that you can serve the lord our God more and more Amen.

Actually, those sacrifices did forgive sins temporary, but they were not cleared. Sins were covered but not washed away.

Leviticus 19:
21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

Over and over throughout Leviticus God instructs Israel how sins could be forgiven through the sacrificial system He set up. But they could not clear the transgressions.

Exodus 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Because Jesus was sacraficed.. And His sacrafice if one believes and trusts in it will suffice for everyone..

And the old testament sacrafices where fore shadows of the future sacrafice of Jesus.. It is the sacrafice of Jesus that paid the price for sins..