Prophecy Pros -   Ezk. 40-48/Temple Rebuilt/Millenial Reign-Why blood sacrifices again?
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During the millennium, those who survived the tribulation (Christians) will give birth to children. These children are not automatically saved, they will have to make the same decision their parents did during the tribulation: Accept Jesus Christ as your Savior? The sacrifices will be reinstituted to be a picture of Jesus's sacrifice that had occured millennia ago. This is because the Age of Grace ended with the Rapture and subsequent tribulation. \n\nThis is much like the Old Testament sacrifices, except those pictured the sacrifice that had yet to come (Christ's crucifiction.)\n\nAt the end of the Millennium, Satan will be released again for a brief time from the bottomless pit. Once again he will amass an army, from those children who, despite having grown up under a perfect Government (Christ) will choose to reject Him and join satan. This will be satan's last rebellion, and he and his army will be killed by fire and cast into the Lake of Fire for all of eternity. This will conclude human history and usher in Eternity.
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Interesting point, but I thought the whole "second coming" was promised to the disciples AFTER the resurrection. In that case, no.
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There is still violence because we have free will to make choices, and sometimes those choices are wrong.  \n\nThe prophecy is that with the Second Coming of Christ, peace will reign for 1,000 years.  So far, He's only been here once.  That first time, He gave His life as substitutionary atonement for our sins, so that those who accept Him will have inner peace.
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We believe this is the dispensation of the Fullness of times.  All things had to be restored including the Aaronic Priesthood. \n\nThis restoration also included polygamy and will one day bring the Law of Consecration as well.
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"...without the shedding of blood is no remission of sins."  Hebrews 9:22\n\nGod requires a blood sacrifice to wash away sin and cleanse the heart of all who believe.  The symbology is found in the life's blood of the sacrifice...one life to repay for another.  Why?  Because God said so.\n\nJesus Christ is the "once for all" sacrifice.  He gave His life, so that all might live.  Whoever turns from their sins, and believes in Him, that He truly did this for us, also believes God.  This is the cleansing and washing away of sin that is acceptable to God.  God declares all who believe Him as "righteous" (justifies them) by His grace because He loves us.  Those who turn from their sin and are redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ are given the Spirit of God to dwell in them and teach them and help them obey God.  \n\nSo, Christ died that all might live.  This is the will of the Father who is not willing that any should perish (die the second final death).  Will all receive eternal life?  No, sadly.  Those who reject God will still bear the penalty for not receiving the cleansing by believing on Jesus.  The penalty is death.\n\n"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."  Romans 3:23\n\n"But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."  Romans 5:8-9\n\n"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed uon all men, for that all have sinned."  Romans 5:12\n\n"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."  Romans 6:23\n\n"If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Romans 10:9\n\n"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."  Romans 10:13\n\n"...for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ...So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God."  Romans 14:10-12
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The OT altars were all done in order to enter into God's presence ie the HOLY of HOLIES...now, we can come directly to God through Jesus Christ, who tore down the veils of the temple when He died, signifying that we now need NO mediator like they did in the OT...(the reason for the altars)...we come straight to the throne....He would NOT like it...it's offering a sacrifice to Him, and Jesus was the ULTIMATE sacrifice. It would be an affront!
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The answer by Spider is not correct. Jesus was resurrected and we, his followers will be resurrected when he returns at the end of time.\nMaranatha!
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This is a very confusing thing and when I checked now there are two outcomes given. One is that in the 45 days it would be the setting up of God's kingdom and another one is that in the 45 days it will be the pouring out of God's wrath. I am not sure what it is going to be. and so you can check out the links and decide for yourself\n\nhttp://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms062.htm\n\nhttp://www3.calvarychapel.com/cheyenne/Library/27-Daniel/Daniel1205.html\n\n\nhttp://www.prophecyupdate.com/daniel_chapter_12.htm\n\nAnd if you read and come to a conclusion I hope you will share your conclusion!
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Jesus warned: “There will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning . . . , no, nor will occur again.” (Matthew 24:21) That event will bring an end to the present unrighteous system of things. Its climax will be “the war of the great day of God the Almighty”—Armageddon. That will indeed be a calamity for all those who remain a “part of the world.”\n\nWhat kind of judgment will this be? It will be selective, removing only “those who do not [choose to] know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus.” (2 Thessalonians 1:8-10) But it will not be a disaster to those who listen to God’s warning and instructions, as did Noah and his family. This event will certainly be an act of God, since he will protect his servants. That makes it different from other disasters, which take the lives of good and bad alike.\n\nWHEN Jesus taught his followers to pray for God’s Kingdom, he knew that its coming would bring an end to thousands of years of human rule independent from God. During all that time, God’s will was not being done on earth in general. (Psalm 147:19, 20) But after the establishment of the Kingdom in heaven, God’s will is to be done everywhere. The time for the awe-inspiring transition from human rule to God’s heavenly Kingdom rule is getting very near.\n\n Marking this transition will be the period of time that Jesus called the “great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again.” (Matthew 24:21) The Bible does not say how long that time period is to be, but the calamities that are to take place during it will be worse than anything the world has ever seen. At the beginning of the great tribulation, something will happen that will be a severe shock to most people on earth: the destruction of all false religion. That will not be a shock to Jehovah’s Witnesses, for they have long anticipated this.  The great tribulation ends at Armageddon when God’s Kingdom crushes the entire Satanic system.—Daniel 2:44;
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First, I'm wondering how Jehovah's Witnesses resolve Revelation 14:4, which states that the 144,000 will be virgin (unmarried) males:\n\n"These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins."\n\nThis verse, taken with Revelation 7:4, tells us that the 144,000 will literally be:\n1. Jews\n2. Men\n3. Virgins (unmarried). \n\nA Jehovah's Witness once told me that these were "virgins" in the spiritual sense, since they did not defile themselves with the whore of Babylon. But John didn't say "woman" (singular) he said "women" (plural).\n\nSo if we shouldn't take what the book of Revelation says literally regarding the 144,000, why should the number itself be? It seems that the Watch Tower organization is applying a double standard here in its interpretation of the scriptures. \n\n------------------------\n\nSecondly, Wink Winkleman said: "The scriptures make it very clear that the Jews WERE, at one point, God's chosen people, but they were completely abandoned by God once they had his Son, Jesus, put to death."\n\nWink, I'm wondering how you resolve that statement (that the Jews have been completely abandoned by God) with what Paul wrote in Romans chapter 11. \n\nPaul, writing well after Jesus died and rose again, said this of the Jewish people:\n\nVerse 1:\n"I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not!"\n\nVerse 2:\n"God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew."\n\nVerses 25-27:\n"For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:\n>  "The Deliverer will come out of Zion,\n>  And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;\n>  For this is My covenant with them,\n>  When I take away their sins.""\n\nVerses 28-31:\n"Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy."\n\nIf Paul is correct in saying that God will one day restore salvation to the nation of Israel, then why can't we take Revelation literally and simply believe what it says? The 144,000 will be Jewish, male virgins.
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Dear child, I feel I must answer you...you keep on asking ?about the Sabbath. In the new testament Jesus said old things are put away...the teachings of the sabbath is one of them, this was before the death of Christ.\nAlong with keeping the sabbath there were many other  requirements, like sacrificing, which we no longer have to do because Jesus did it for us. He was the ultimate sacrifice. I hope this helps you and GOD BLESS
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The Bible never said one could only get forgiveness of sin through a blood sacrifice.\n\nIf one believed that a blood sacrifice was necessary before God would forgive you, then even one example where God forgave without a blood sacrifice would prove that this idea is UnBiblical. \n\nThere are many such examples, but the most interesting is found in the Book of Leviticus. The reason this is so interesting is that it comes right in the middle of the discussion of sin sacrifices, which is found in the first chapters. In Leviticus 5:11-13, it states, \n\n       "If, however, he cannot afford two doves or two \n       young pigeons, he is to bring as an offering for his \n       sin a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin \n       offering." \n\nOne can also see that one does not need a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins in the Book of Jonah 3:10. There, the Bible simply states that God saw the works of the people of Ninevah. Specifically it says that the works God saw were that they stopped doing evil, and so God forgave them. There are plenty of other examples, and the idea that one needs a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins is UnBiblical.
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! SOMEBODY IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO SPEAK OUT IN TRUTH! You are 100% CORRECT! ALL of the so-called "holidays"(holydays) were NEVER commanded in the Bible-EVER!!! Jeremiah Chapter 10 directly mentions a "christmas tree" as an IDOL! Astarte (Easter) is mentioned many times in the Old Testament as an ABOMINATION TO GOD!!! Tammuz is also in the Old Testament! And not in a good way! People simply follow what the "crowd" says to follow! DOES THAT MAKE IT RIGHT??? Borrowing Pagan traditions and somehow transforming them into "holy days" is unacceptable worship to GOD! DON'T BELIEVE A NOBODY LIKE ME--READ YOUR BIBLE!!! Please see for yourself! Then you will know what God REALLY feels about man-made traditions.....
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Sacrifice. But it might interest you to note two things. \n\nFirst, most sacrifices offered had nothing to do with sin. There were all sorts of other reasons to offer a sacrifice, free-will offerings, thanksgiving offerings, just to name two of them.\n\nSecond, please remember that there was no need to offer animal sacrifices, a blood sacrifice was not necessary for the forgiveness of sin:::\n\nThe Bible describes blood sacrifices for the forgiveness of sin in the Book of Leviticus. But it is in Leviticus itself, in the middle of the discussion of the sin sacrifices, that we are taught that we do not need a blood sacrifice to be forgiven for our sins. Offering a blood sacrifice was an expensive thing to do for the family offering the animal. Was forgiveness then, to be only for the rich? No, because if one could not afford a blood sacrifice then one who sins could bring flour, which has no blood and no life as their sacrifice, and Gd forgave them!\n\nLeviticus 5:11-13; But if he be not able to \nbring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, \nthen he that sinned shall bring for his \noffering the tenth part of an ephah of fine \nflour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil \nupon it, neither shall he put any \nfrankincense thereon: for it is a sin \noffering.\n\nFurthermore, read the Book of Jonah. In Jonah, the People of Ninevah do three things in order to be forgiven by Gd. They fast, they pray for forgiveness, and they stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd forgave them! This is exactly what we do on Yom Kippur, we fast, we pray for forgiveness, and, hopefully, we stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd forgives us. And what book do we read on Yom Kippur afternoon? The Book of Jonah!\n\nJonah 3:7-10 And he caused it to be proclaimed \nand published through Ninevah, by the decree \nof the King and his nobles, saying, Let \nneither man nor beast, herd nor flock taste \nanything; let them not feed nor drink water; \nbut let man and beast be covered with \nsackcloth, and cry mightily unto Gd; yea, let \nthem turn every one from his evil way, and \nfrom the violence that is in their hands. Who \ncan tell if Gd will turn and repent, and turn \naway from his fierce anger that we perish not? \nAnd Gd saw their works, that they turned from \ntheir evil way; and Gd repented of the evil, \nthat he had said that he would do unto them; \nand he did not do it.\n\nPlease notice that Jonah tells us that Gd saw their WORKS, their deeds, how they turned from their evil ways, and Gd forgave them. It does not say that Gd saw their blood sacrifice, they never offered one. It does not say that Gd forgave them because they had the right faith, but rather it says that Gd forgave them because of their deeds!\n\nFurthermore, Where were the sacrifices to have taken place? In the Temple built by Solomon. And what did Solomon himself say at the dedication of this very Temple where these sacrifices were to take place?\n\n1 Kings 8:46-50 If they sin against thee, (for \nthere is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be \nangry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, \nso that they carry them away captives unto the \nland of the enemy, far or near; Yet if they \nshall bethink themselves in the land whither \nthey were carried captives, and repent, and make \nsupplication unto thee in the land of them that \ncarried them captives, saying, We have sinned, \nand have done perversely, we have committed \nwickedness; And so return unto thee with all \ntheir heart, and with all their soul, in the \nland of their enemies, which led them away \ncaptive, and pray unto thee toward their land, \nwhich thou gavest unto their fathers, the city \nwhich thou hast chosen, and the house which I \nhave built for thy name: Then hear thou their \nprayer and their supplication in heaven thy \ndwelling place, and maintain their cause, And \nforgive thy people that have sinned against \nthee, and all their transgressions wherein they \nhave transgressed
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the scriptures demonstrate a clear pattern indicating the sacredness with which Jehovah God (and thus god-fearing humankind) views all creature blood.\n\nPredates Mosaic Law.\nFor example, over a thousand years before the birth of Moses, the pre-Israel, pre-Jewish, pre-Hebrew man Noah received what the scriptures record as only the second restrictive command on humans (after Garden of Eden's tree):\n\n"Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it [that is, lifeblood] and of man" (Genesis 9:3-5)\n\nJewish Law.\nLater, God's feeling regarding blood was codified into the Mosaic Law. This part of the Law dealing with blood was unique in that it applied, not just to Israel, but also to non-Jewish foreigners among them. It's also interesting that besides forbidding the consumption of blood, the Law also mandated that it be 'poured out on the ground', not used for any purpose.\n\n"No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. Any man also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust." (Lev 17:12,13)\n\nBy comparison, it's significant that the Law also forbid the consumption of ceremonial animal fat, but that didn't apply to non-Jewish foreigners and it DID allow the fat to be used for other purposes.\n\n"The LORD said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. The fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of one that is torn by beasts, may be put to any other use" (Lev 7:22-24)\n\nEarly Christian era.\nThe Christian era ended the validity of the Mosaic Law, but remember that the restriction on eating blood preceded the Mosaic Law by over a thousand years. Still, does the New Testament indicate that Jehovah God changed his view of blood's sacredness?\n\n"[God] freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses" (Eph 1:6,7)\n\n"[God's] beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins... and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood" (Colossians 1:13-20)\n\n"we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood." Acts 15:19,20\n\n"For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity." Acts 15:28,29\n\n\nFor most Jehovah's Witness parents, they would never "let their child die" but would work with every health care professional they could find to pursue every non-blood treatment they could think of.
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i believe it was aztec who sacraficed because they were the 9th sun (i believe tht's the correct number) in which their god sacraficed himself to give us life, so he expects sacrafice in return.\n\ni will back you up here. there will be many nay-sayers here sayin god doesnt want human sacrafice, but here's your proof from your own precious book:\n\nAt the LORD's command, a man of God from Judah went to Bethel, and he arrived there just as Jeroboam was approaching the altar to offer a sacrifice.  Then at the LORD's command, he shouted, "O altar, altar!  This is what the LORD says: A child named Josiah will be born into the dynasty of David.  On you he will sacrifice the priests from the pagan shrines who come here to burn incense, and human bones will be burned on you."   (1 Kings 13:1-2 NLT) \n\n\n\n\nAnd this became a hidden trap for mankind, because men, in bondage to misfortune or to royal authority, bestowed on objects of stone or wood the name that ought not to be shared.  Afterward it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but they live in great strife due to ignorance, and they call such great evils peace.  \n\n \n\n    For whether they kill children in their initiations, or celebrate secret mysteries, or hold frenzied revels with strange customs, they no longer keep either their lives or their marriages pure, but they either treacherously kill one another, or grieve one another by adultery, and all is a raging riot of blood and murder, theft and deceit, corruption, faithlessness, tumult, perjury, confusion over what is good, forgetfulness of favors, pollution of souls, sex perversion, disorder in marriage, adultery, and debauchery.  For the worship of idols not to be named is the beginning and cause and end of every evil.  For their worshipers either rave in exultation, or prophesy lies, or live unrighteously, or readily commit perjury; for because they trust in lifeless idols they swear wicked oaths and expect to suffer no harm.  But just penalties will overtake them on two counts: because they thought wickedly of God in devoting themselves to idols, and because in deceit they swore unrighteously through contempt for holiness.  For it is not the power of the things by which men swear, but the just penalty for those who sin, that always pursues the transgression of the unrighteous.   (Wisdom 14:21-31 RSV)
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There are lots of Jewish temples being redone.  In my town, there is one that was torn down and is being rebuilt into a multi-million dollar complex.  I am newly reborn and am just learning about the things of the Bibble, however, if you are referring to that.  Amen and Praise our Lord Jesus ;).