Thoughts and teachings supporting animal offerings

Gotquestion.org page says that animal offerings shall be reinstituted in the Millenial Kingdom, because animal offerings are in nature memorial, which don't remove the sins as old testament animal offerings didn't remove the sins.Teaching about reinstituting of animal offerings in the Millenial Kingdom violates and disgraces atonement of the Lord Jesus.

Hebr 10:
1 ¶ For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
 

Some people teach that Hebrews 10:11 say that animal offerings can never take away sins, and therefore in the Millenial Kingdom is possible to sacrifice animal offerings, because they are memorizing sins, but not taken away sins.

Hebrews 10:11 mean that old testament animal offerings can't take away sins by one offering like Jesus' sacrifice did. Jesus had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, but old testament animal offerings should perform every day over and over again.

When we study what the letter of Hebrews chapter 10 teaches, so we will understand what means that animal offerings couldn't take away sins.

Old testament law and animal offerings were a shadow of things to come, in other words, a shadow from the better covenant (New Covenant by Jesus' sin offering), so therefore old testament animal offerings couldn't perfected nation of Israel. For this reason, old covenant animal offerings memorized from sins, and couldn't perfectly remove the sins, because animal offerings must perfom daily and over and over again.

When the Lord Jesus sacrificed himself as a sin offering for once, so all who believe in Jesus shall be sanctified and perfected forever by one offering. Through Jesus' sin offering will take place perfect and eternal removal of sins. Jesus' blood and death remove forever sins by one offering. In the era of the old covenant was not possible to perform one offering that would take away sins forever, and therefore animal offerings practiced every day. However, old covenant animal offerings had the meaning to take away the sins:

Lev 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

Neh 10:
32 ¶ Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

In the old covenant atonement occurred through animal offerings. The blood of the animal offering make atonement for Israel. The blood of the animal offering wasn't enough to atone once and forever sins and for this reason needed daily and continuous animal offerings for atone sins. In this sense old testament animal offerings couldn't take away sins, and not make perfect and sanctify anybody for one offering and therefore needed daily and continuous offerings to remove sins. Jesus' sin offering cancelled old covenant animal offerings order, because Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins for ever and His sacrifice make perfect and sanctify all who believe in Him.

All this means that old covenant animal offerings had atoning meaning (sins) and through the Jesus' sin offering old covenant animal offerings order has been cancelled forever and they ever again return, because the Jesus' sin offering is eternal and will cancel forever animal offerings. The Bible says that Jesus obtained through His blood eternal redemption for our sins for remission of sins to those who believe in Him:

Hebr 9:
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
 

Eph 1:7 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Animal offerings don't never return

Mark 15:
37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

Hebr 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Hebr 9:12 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

When the Lord Jesus died, the veil of the temple was torn into two, from top to bottom as the sign that the order of the old covenant with its animal offerings was ended. Jesus' sin offering and redemption are eternal, what means that animal offerings will never return by command of God, not in the Millenial Kingdom and never. Old covenant animal offerings had atoning meaning and for this reason God will never set again animal offerings, because Jesus' redemption and atonement are eternal. Teaching that animal offerings will be reinstituted regards to the Millenial Kingdom is disdaining of Jesus' sin offering and distorting the teaching of the word of God.

Hebr 7:
17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Jesus' priesthood after the order of Melchisedec is unchangeable and remains forever, what means that animal offerings can never return, because Jesus' priesthood is eternal.

Jesus' priesthood as the eternal High Priest has cancelled old covenant priesthood and because Jesus' priesthood is eternal there can never set any kind of animal offerings in the future.

Eze 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, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.

Those people who believe that in the Millenial Kingdom will be offered animal offerings defended it that Ezekiel's Millenial Kingdom animal offerings has memorial meaning not atoning meaning and therefore in the Millenial Kingdom is animal offerings. The book of Ezekiel in chapters 40,43,44 and 46 is told that animal offerings are offered to atone sins. This means that teaching about animal offerings memorial meaning in the Millenial Kingdom is not true and Ezekiel says that animal offerings are for atonement of sins.

Eze 45:22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

The book of Ezekiel in chapters 44,45,46 and 48 speaks about the prince, and some say that this prince is Jesus. This claim is not true, because Ezekiel says that the prince must offer a sin offering for himself and all the people of the land. The Lord Jesus is sinless and He doesn't have to sacrifice for himself and He can't, because He is sinless. This means that Jesus can't be the prince of Ezekiel.

If the prince of the Ezekiel's books would mean Jesus the Messiah, so it would prove that Ezekiel's Millenial Temple sacrificial system have allegorical meaning and not the literal meaning, because Jesus can't offer a sin offering for himself, because He is sinless and perfect. Jesus offered a sin offering in the Calcary for the sake of the sins of the world, not for himself, and He ever would offer a sin offering for himself.

The order of the book of Ezekiel about Millenial Kingdom temple differs remarkably from the order of the old covenant temple. The Millennial Kingdom's Ezekiel temple is not the ark of the covenant, not golden manna pot, not tables of stone, not cherubim, not the mercy seat, not golden candlestick, not shewbread, not the veil, not the altar of incense, not the High Priest. This means that the Ezekiel Millenial Kingdom temple doesn't teach Jewish old covenant temple order. This means that there is not old covenant animal offerings in the Millenial Kingdom.

The only possible explanation is that Ezekiel's Millenial Kingdom temple and animal offerings in metaphorical teaching and animal offerings are not literal offerings. Because Ezekiel's Millenial Kingdom temple is lacking many things, so into question must be allegory and we must also understand and believe that Jesus' sin offering cancelled forever animal offerings and order of the old covenant.

All Bible places concerning the Millenial Kingdom that teaches about animal offerings must be understood symbolic, not literal, because God has cancelled animal offerings through Jesus' eternal atonement and shall not reinstitute them anymore.

The third temple and animal offerings that shall be established in Israel in the era of the New Covenant is not the will of God, but a rebellious act of the Jews toward God and atonement of the Lord Jesus. The third temple shall be destroyed in the time of great tribulation. According to prophecy of the word of God the third part of the remains of Israel shall repent and believe that Jesus is the Lord, the Messiah and the Saviour.

Petri Paavola