Why No Sacrifices Today?

The answer to that is that about forty years AFTER Christ’s crucifixion in AD 70 Titus’ Roman legions besieged Jerusalem, destroyed the temple and therefore the sacrifices were stopped.

However, if you recall, that wasn’t the first time that something like this happened was it ?

Nebuchadnezzar did something very similar, back in Daniel’s time. He sacked Jerusalem, raided the temple, took the Ark of the Covenant and took the nation into captivity in Babylon, and the Levitical system of sacrifices was suspended for about 70 years.

Perhaps there are some parallels here ?

For that period at least, no-one would have argued that the Levitical priesthood had been “done away with”, because sacrifices were re-instated not too many years later. However, temple sacrifices had very clearly been suspended, until the nation had been punished for their disobedience and eventually until the exiles were allowed home to rebuild the walls and the temple under Nehemiah, Ezrah etc. Then as we know the sanctuary was cleansed, and the sacrifices recommenced.

Nevertheless this time we're talking about ~2000 years, rather than 70 years, which is a huge difference. But arguably that could be the explanation: that the Levitical priesthood is suspended until the temple is re-established when Christ returns.

Very clearly though, the lesson of history is, just because a temple no longer exists doesn't mean that the sacrificial system has been “done away”.

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One small & predictable change to an "Old Testament" law about circumcising gentile proselytes in Acts, caused massive turmoil in the predominantly Jewish first century church. If most of the "law of Moses" really has been "done away with" by Paul in Galatians; why then isn't any comparable degree of unrest recorded in the New Testament?