Something Better to Come

The Mosaic Law, with its many sacrifices and offerings, was given to the Israelites to enable them to approach God to gain and retain his favor and blessing until the arrival  of the promised Seed.  The Apostle  Paul, a natural Jew, put it this way:  "The Law has become our tutor leading to Christ, that we  might be declared righteous due to faith."  (Galatians 3:24) Sadly, Israel as a nation did not respond  to that tutelage but abused that privilege. Consequently, their multitude of sacrifices became loathsome to Jehovah, who said:  "I have had enough of whole burnt offerings or rams and the fat of  well-fed animals; and in the blood of young bulls and male lambs and he-goats I have taken no delight." - Isaiah 1:11.

In 70 C.E., the Jewish system of things with its temple and priesthood, came to its end.  After that, sacrifices in the manner stipulated by the Law were no longer possible. Does this mean that the sacrifices, as an integral part of the Law, have lost all meaning for worshipers of God today?  We will examine this in the next article.

Next time: SACRIFICES OF PRAISE THAT PLEASE JEHOVAH

From the Watchtower magazine, 2000