Sacrifice in the religious context

[quantumfaith]

Hebrews 10 says that in sacrifice there was a remembrance of sins every year. Imagine having to constantly offer up sacrifices. It would tend to reinforce the fact that there is a Holy God in heaven who hates sin, that I am a sinner needing forgiveness, and forgiveness is gained through the death of a substitute. Remember well God beating this into their heads: the blood is the life. When the blood of an animal was to be shed, that was representative of the life of that animal. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission. Something or someone has to die to put away sins.

Those substitutes all pictured, or foreshadowed, the great Substitute, the Lord Jesus. They were all pictures of Him.

:thumbs: We are all in need of forgiveness, everyday of our life!! Great point on the foreshadowing of the once and final sacrifice of the Lamb of God.
Although I assume it to one of the "mysteries" of our God, I would love for someone to plunder and probe the "why" of this.

 

[Thinkingstuff]

I was considering this question and Melito of Sardis came up with a good point. He likened it to a structure that is being built. The plans are the design upon which the structure is built and is a shadowing of what is to be built but once the building is built the glory of the structure makes the design plans (the foreshadowing) not enough. However, they were necissary to build the structure.