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Post by mystic on Oct 14, 2016 2:05:11 GMT -8
Like they used to do back then by cooking or burning sheep and all that, are we supposed to be doing anything similar today?
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Post by jimmie on Oct 26, 2016 15:51:29 GMT -8
If offerings were performed before and during the Temple's existence, why do they not apply after the temple? Did God change or what?
If Israel went into captivity because they did not allow the land to rest, how does that make it okay for them to break the law that they're being punished for breaking? Very confusing.
When a woman is set apart due to her flowers or child birth, isn't the man bound by the same law not to lay with her, so that she can be set apart?
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Post by alon on Oct 26, 2016 19:05:17 GMT -8
If offerings were performed before and during the Temple's existence, why do they not apply after the temple? Did God change or what? If Israel went into captivity because they did not allow the land to rest, how does that make it okay for them to break the law that they're being punished for breaking? Very confusing. When a woman is set apart due to her flowers or child birth, isn't the man bound by the same law not to lay with her, so that she can be set apart?
Deuteronomy 12:13-14 (ESV) Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see, 14 but at the place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.
When the Hebrews were given the land and Yerushalayim was finally taken; and after Shlomo was told to build the Beit haMikdash, Jews were only to make their sacrifices there. God didn't change, therefore with no Temple, or at least with no access to the Temple site, there can be no sacrifices. There are now two mosques polluting that site, and by an agreement the Muslims control the site of the Temple.
I think the second sentence there mixes two ideas- not allowing the land to rest being reason for punishment, and the fact the Hebrews eventually cheated Hashem in their sacrifices and even went after other gods, and so were punished. Only the second idea is germane to this discussion; and they are not being punished for not sacrificing now with no Temple. That is being obedient. Cheating Hashem and going after other gods was the cause of their punishment. And not accepting their Messiah is also cause for the continuing punishment over such a long time; 2000 yrs!
And yes, a man is not to go to a woman who is nidah:
Leviticus 20:18 (ESV) If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
But I don't get the relevance to this and not making sacrifices.
Dan C
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Post by jimmie on Oct 27, 2016 6:26:01 GMT -8
Deuteronomy 12:21English Standard Version (ESV) If the place that the LORD your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire. Even when the temple was standing, one could make offerings outside of the temple. alon, the comments about the land rest and nidah don’t have a direct relevance to making sacrifices, they were offered as comments to Benayahu’s comments to the law/  only applying in certain situations. 2 Chron 36:21 To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. Also see Lev 26:34-35 I concede that Israel broke many other laws other than the land sabbath causing them to go into captivity. The length of time the land sabbath was broken determined the length of their captivity. When Israel was in captivity they were not given liberty to continue to break any of God’s laws including the land sabbath. And we are not at liberty to break any of God’s law’s today because there is no earthly temple. |
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only apply to certain situations.
