Animal Sacrifices Stink to High Heaven

Did it ever bother you to read of all the animals sacrificed to Yah in the Old Testament? I always had trouble relating to a being who wanted blood sacrifices or was described as enjoying the smell of these holocausts. For many years I tried to overlook it, but then one day I read David and he wrote:

"Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required." (Ps 40:6)

David quotes Yah saying:

"I will take no bull-calf from your stalls, nor he-goats out of your pens; for all the beasts of the forest are mine, the herds in their thousands upon the hills. I know every bird in the sky, and the creatures of the fields are in my sight. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the whole world is mine and all that is in it. Do you think I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?" (Psalm 50:8-14:)

Hey wait a minute the whole book of Leviticus is about the requirements for proper animal sacrifices isn't it?

Then I read Amos who said

"I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols." (Amos 5:21-23). My preacher told me that Yah likes sacrifices, but it was their heart attitude that upset him.

Next came Jeremiah saying

"I have not burdened thee with a meal-offering, Nor wearied thee with frankincense." (Isaiah 43:23)

So now Yah not only does not want blood sacrifices, he doesn't want grain or even incense.

"For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them on the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices; but this thing I commanded them, saying, "Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you." (Jeremiah 7:22-23) Well I guess my preacher was wrong this sounds pretty clear. Yah never authorized any sacrifices.

Then I read Hosea

"For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice." (Hos. 6:6)

Then Isaiah

"To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them." (Is 1:11-14)

The Prophets are in agreement, Yah never asked for nor wanted, nor enjoyed the sacrificial system.

Daniel

Daniel prophesied that when the Messiah would come he would end the sacrificial system once and for all.

"And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he (messiah) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he (Messiah) shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease." (Daniel 9:26-27)( Note, I added the two words Messiah in parenthesis to show how I read it).

Yahshuah ended the blood sacrifices and the non-blood oblations. He announced the destruction of the temple which took place when Titus (the prince) and the Romans (the people of the prince) destroyed all of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

When Yahshuah entered the temple in 32 AD he drove out the animals marking an end to sacrifices saying "Go and learn what this means I will have mercy and not sacrifice." (Mt. 9:13)

Satan is the God Who Wants Sacrifices

Satan (Azazel) is the father of sacrifices both animal and human. (see my article on the Ransom Satan wants you to think that Yah is a God of Sacrifices. It is his most powerful weapon.

You see if we see our father Yah as a being who wants and delights in bloody sacrifices, we can never truly love or relate to such a being, nor can we ever trust a father who would kill his only son who never sinned, to treat us right when we are sinful sons. But Yah is a loving father, he knows the name of every bird. He is love.

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