Blood Of Bulls And Goats.....

[Anna]

From My Friend Avi:

Subject: blood of bulls and goats


"For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." (Heb. 10:1-4) NASB

In light of this verse: "He shall also do with the bull just as he did with the bull of the sin offering; thus he shall do with it. So the priest shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven."

And also: 'Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.

It seems to me that many have missed the significance of "can never...make perfect those who draw near and to me this this verse"it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins" would be more in line with the TaNaK if it read "it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away ...our sin nature"

It is Yeshua indwelling us; that is, the promised seed of redemption that brings about our rebirth. As it states in 1st John 3:9 " No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." I assume this is referring to Yeshua when it says the word "seed"? I have heard and read many comments using this verse (Heb. 10:4) as a proof text that sacrifices only placed our sins or the debt for them on a sort of spiritual credit card that Jesus came and paid off. My understanding is that Yeshua's sacrifice and our acceptance by faith of His sacrifice for our sins and His Deity and Messiahship brings us into a restored relationship with the Heavenly Father. This in turn brings about the baptism in the Holy Spirit or His indwelling spiritual presence (Seed) that begins to convert us into the perfected image of Yeshua who in turn is the perfect image of His Father (YHVH) In any case I would like your thoughts on the subject.

Shalom,

Avi/Steve

[Daniel Baumet]

Here my sister is some food for thought .. :
A?
Genesis 15:9 tells us that the heifer, goat and ram were to be three years of age. The number three points to three covenants in three ages or dispensations. The covenant with Abraham (faith), with Moses (the law) and the Messiah (grace). The greatest of these would be the third (the ram), which is symbolic of our Meshiach. Abraham saw this on the day of his final test of obedience. The story is recorded in Genesis 22. The fourth verse tells us that it was on the third day that he saw Calvary (in the land of Moriah), and it was there on Calvary that God provided a ram caught in the thicket by its horns.

B/
The three-year-old heifer was symbolic of God's covenant with Abraham, a covenant based on obedience (Genesis 17:1-2) as a result of faith which would produce works of obedience. This covenant would be carried into the New Covenant of grace and was, therefore, foreshadowed by the law as the ashes of a red (blood) heifer. (Numbers 19:2-10). Thus, the second covenant, which would pass away pointed to the blood of everlasting atonement.
and finally
C/
Abraham must have known this because he did not cut the birds in two. The turtle dove and pigeon represent the progression of the third covenant as it moves into the third day. In the likeness of the Ram (Lamb) with the fullness of the Spirit, represented by the turtle dove (the Holy Spirit) and will become the carrier pigeon--carrying the good news of the gospel unto all the world, and then the end shall come.

It will also be in the third day of the third covenant that the five-fold ministry (Ephesians 4:11) will be raised up under the power of the covenant promise. Ephesians 4:12-13, "For the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of our Messiah, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Yeshua."