Secret Temple Rituals Revealed!

The mysterious rites of an ancient culture have been uncovered. Archeologists have long sought the artifacts and writings of ancient peoples for study and debate. Their study of artifacts leads them to understand the cultures and civilizations that have gone before us. Now a group has examined and compared relics from a 3000 year old civilization and discovered hidden secrets of ancient temple rites where live sacrifices were actually once conducted!

In the dusty pages of an ancient parchment translated from the chaldean language it is revealed that at one time animals and agricultural products were sacrificed to the Hebrew God as an expression of worship, gratitude, dedication, and for the forgiveness of repented sin. Yet, did you know, that this sacrificial system was actually inaugurated when sin first entered the world long before there was ever a Jew or a Gentile? (see Gen 4:3, 4). That first sacrifice, when God made for the guilty pair garments of skin, served through the ages as a reminder that the wages of sin is death, the result of sin repugnant, and that pardon for sin would require the sacrifice of an innocent victim for guilty man to be spared eternal separation from a sinless universe.

Following the Flood, Noah and his family made sacrifices; but, as time went by men forgot about this custom which had been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. In time, nearly all men forgot God just as they did in the days before the flood, and at Mount Sinai, with a grand and ominous display of majestic power, God provided a systematic provision that was written down in exacting specifics detailing the various types of sacrifices to be conducted by a chosen people. A people who were to tell the whole world about God and His desire to save all men from the penalty of death.

Investigation into the New Testament Scriptures reveals that every sacrifice or ordinance performed under the levitical system prefigured the sacrifice and ministry of the "Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). The particlars of the sacrificial ceremonies of the Hebrew Service will be investigated in subsequent posts and each will be compared with the life and ministry of Jesus for revelation of their spiritual significance. The symbolism of the Hebrew Service detailed in the Old Testament was an amazing foreshadowing of the plan of salvation and the means by which all men might escape their own selfish and sinful natures, receive pardon, and obtain everlasting life through the blood of a Lamb.