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Zechariah clearly illustrates in chapter 14, that the bowls of the alter will be replaced by the pots in the city of the new Jerusalem. Try going to Jerusalem today, and proposing to use a regular old cooking pot for sacrificial offering...see what you run into. I don't (Think) you would be well received, and they are gearing up to rebuild the temple as we discuss this. Such a suggestion to devout Jews would be a sacrilege. Those bowls are a source of pride...made of pure gold. If they could be replaced by something as common as a cooking pot...it only stands to reason some other customs are replaced as well.
God's feelings on animal Sacrifices offered at that timeframe are explained in Isaiah 66
3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb,
as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered
swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they
have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
The Presence of God and the Lamb in the New Jerusalem
**Now I stated before that there is no temple in the New Jerusalem, actually there is, but even it, like the bowls before
the altar, are seen as having been replaced in Revelations 21, and replaced by The Lord God himself and the Lamb...We see also the Presence of both The Lord God Almighty and The Lamb in that city in both Isaiah 66 and Zechariah 14:
Isaiah 66
6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that
rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Zecheriah 14
Vs 7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night:
but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
vs 9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Revelations 21
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it:
for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Note in Isaiah 66:6 we see the presence of a city, and "a voice" not "THE Voice", but "a voice of the Lord" the voice is from the Temple, the temple is not The Lord, but it is The Lord God Almighty and The Lamb. And one of these voices is heard.
Now, as they are the temple, the lamb is actually the Glory of God, and the light which emanates in Revelations 21:23, and at Evening in Zechariah 14:7.
The earthquake before the arrival of the city, is the travail of Isaiah 66: 7, and Zecheriah 14: 4
Isa 66: 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation
be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Zech 14
14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,
which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in
the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a
very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north,
and half of it toward the south.
14:5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
Note in Isaiah 66:10 the Saints are told to Rejoice for Jerusalem, the same who offer Mourning...well prior to this arrival of the NEW Jerusalem...we see in Zechariah 14:4, to this Cleaving of the Mount of Olives as New Mt. Zion rises out of the earth, prior to the earthquake which causes the same...we see the cause of those who Mourn Jerusalem, as the earthly city is destroyed...
Zechariah 14
14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Now before we look at those priests and Levites you noted, lets look at the offerings.
Isa 66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
Did you get that...? In the New Testament Paul alludes to describe himself as a "living sacrifice." Go back and read that verse again...emphasis on the following question(s), We see those who bring an offering unto the Lord out of all nations for the feast of Tabernacles, and do so in the same fashion as the Jews of old...doing so "AS THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BRING AN OFFERING", so the question is two fold...Who are "THEY" who bring in the opening words? And What do "THEY" bring for an offering unto the Lord out of All nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts?
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