Conflict between OT priests and OT prophets?

[The Biblicist]

Simple abc's of bible hermeneutics demands you ask who is talking, who is being talked to and what is being talked about.

You rightly say it is Jesus talking.

But who is he talking to???? Is he talking to His disciples? No! Is he talking to true believers? No! He is talking to Pharisees and Scribes!

Who are they? They are HYPOCRITS as Jesus says they are whited on the outside but full of death on the inside. Their religious service to God is HYPOCRISY because EXTERNALLY they go through all the motions of the Law - including sacrifices - but what they do externally is not true of themselves internally. The sacrifices were to be offered by those whose hearts were right with God through faith in what the sacrifices symbolized.

Why is he talking to them? He is talking to them because they are criticizing him for fellowshipping with publican's and sinners so that they might be saved.

What is he talling these HYPOCRITS about? "I desire mercy not sacrifice"! Where does MERCY originate? It originates INSIDE with a RIGHT heart before it can be applied OUTSIDE to others. Where does "sacrifice" originate? It originates OUTSIDE. He does not want sacrifice from HYPOCRITS because it would be nothing but HYPOCRITICAL WORSHIP. However, he tells the leper he cleansed whose heart is right, to go offer a sacrifice as commanded by Moses - Lk. 5:12-17. Is Christ a schizophrenic? According to Michael he is! According to Michael God is a schicophrenic because it is God that gave the sacrificial system to Israel and the whole book of Leviticus clearly and explicitly says so.

What are the sacrifices God accepts? The sacrifices of a broken and contrite heart. That is precisely the kind of person God intended to make external sacrifices where the INTERNAL condition harmonized with the EXTERNAL types.

Michael, wants to make this whole thing about persecution of himself when he simply is not being honest with the Word of God. It is a matter of simply being honest with God's Word.

Is God a Schizophrenic or author of confusion?


Nu 28:2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

1Sa 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king..

1 Sam. 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.


Now, was God a hypocrit? A schizophrenic? According to Michael's interpreting of scripture God would be a hypocrit and schizophrenic and author of confusion as Michael's interpretation and handling of scriptures pits scripture against scripture and God against God!

The solution is so simple and so evident to anyone with any common sense. God does not want or accept sacrifices from hypocrits because it is hypocritical worship. God desires obedience over hypocritical sacrificial worship. God wants BOTH - a sincere heart that offers up His appointed sacrifices.