Blood Sacrifice?
Following is a list of scriptures that voice or indicate the displeasure
of God with blood sacrifice.
You can locate many hundreds of biblical entrees, beginning with
the transposed "offerings" of murderous Cain's blood sacrifice with gentle
Abel's God pleasing offering of fruits and flax (in original Hebrew scrolls).
Those multitude and parroted entrees lead you to believe God wanted or
required blood sacrifice over the harmless and beneficial for all life
principle of Consecration! Unfortunately most of humanity for many centuries
have presumed those entrees that proscribe blood shed to be God's truth.
But the authorship, with their knowledge base, investitures and the time
of those entrees must be considered; especially where the Levite Priests,
their philosophers and their scribes instead of the Prophets authored,
maintained, transcribed, selected, edited, rewrote and reconstituted, many
hundreds of times, those texts -- as it was with the books of Leviticus
and Deuteronomy - which were stolen or lost and reconstructed from memory
of men several times - and most all of the other books up to Psalms. But
thankfully many parts of Psalms, Proverbs, then Isaiah forward (with the
exception of the "reconstructed" Book of Ezekiel) hold enough to
detect the attitudes of God through true Prophets instead of the Priests,
philosophers, kings or their scribes.
You must decide which "god" would have asked for blood sacrifice,
its endless killings and brutal death -- and was able to seduce and convince
the priests that some innocent animal's death was what was required and
would satisfy or appease him.
Is not our true God unchangeable and eternally full
of grace and truth?
unchangeable = not duplicitous, not double minded, not with
double standard, not confusing nor contradictive
grace = love kindness compassion protecting preserving
truth = including all physiology and knowing the dangers
of blood transmission of disease, hormones, prions, antigens and heavy
artery clogging fat! -- even for those many centuries of ill and corrupted
Priests like grotesque and unworthy Eli, Manassah (who killed Isaiah),
Annas and Caiaphas or Laban.
Remember, if a "god" of evil is able to mislead the priests, scribes,
teachers and leaders of a community or nation, the trusting of that community
or nation will blindly follow -- and teach their children the same!
The killing, blood sacrifice and consumption of flesh by the Priests
was and still is the premise for all of Israel and the whole human family
to kill, shed blood, consume corrupting flesh and learn violence -- to
become diseased, grotesque, carnal and violent!
What true and loving God would want a unhealthy, heart disease, animal
infection afflicted and vile nation? -- especially when He had from the
very beginning provided a bounteous healthful and peaceful garden from
which He advised us -- and lovingly desired for us to freely partake --
and enjoy life!
The animal never was the true sacrifice --
but the true sacrifice is to remove the animal
from within man!
-- and lay that upon the alter to be consumed!
Conference, April 1995
"So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was
placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the
animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed! Such is the “sacrifice
unto the Lord … of a broken heart and a contrite spirit,” (D&C 59:8),
a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while giving “away all [our] sins”
in order to “know God” (Alma 22:18) for the denial of self precedes the
full acceptance of Him. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."
-- Apostle Neal A Maxwell
This first
Scripture, --
along with Isaiah 66:3 & 4, following, -- holds the key to understand
what the Lord really wanted in terms of sacrifice from His people, from
the beginning! -- that of a "broken heart and contrite spirit" -- and living
within that compassion and peaceful relationship with all creation that
truly is -- and always was -- God!
(Ex. 22:29-31)
29 ¶ Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits,
and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto
me.
30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep:
seven
days* it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
[* Seven days: Like with your human child, critical
immunity in an animal is established for its life survival and vital emotional
bonding with its mother and family or herd is fixed within those important
seven days! Then any removal and/or slaughter of the calf or kid would
traumatize the mother and stress her associative herd -- even potentially
drying up part of or all of that herd! -- That would bless no one!]
31 ¶ And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any
flesh that is 'torn' -[in original Hebrew: severed or cut] of beasts
in the field; ye shall cast it to the 'dogs' -[unbelievers].
(Isa. 66:3&4)
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.
[Isaiah was speaking here to the chief priest of the
temple. Offended by his words which condemned those Levite priests and
their blood sacrifices, within months Isaiah was himself slaughtered and
dismembered upon their alter at the hand of those very same temple priests.]
Sacrifice:
OLD TESTAMENT
(1 Sam. 15:22)
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.
(Ps. 27:6)
6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about
me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will
sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
(Ps. 40:5-8)
5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done,
and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order
unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can
be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou
opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written
of me,
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
(Ps. 51:15-19)
15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest
not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of
Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks
upon thine altar.
(Ps. 107:22)
22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare
his works with rejoicing.
(Prov. 15:8)
8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the
prayer of the upright is his delight.
(Prov. 17:1)
1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full
of sacrifices with strife.
(Prov. 21:3)
3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
(Prov. 21:27)
27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when
he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
(Prov. 21:3)
3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
(Eccl. 5:1)
1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready
to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that
they do evil.
(Isa. 1:11)
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith
the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed
beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of
he goats.
(Isa. 29:1-2) spoken in sarcastic rebuke
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to
year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow:
and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
(Isa. 43:22-28)
22 ¶ But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast
been weary of me, O Israel.
23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings;
neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee
to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou
filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve
with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own
sake, and will not remember thy sins.
26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that
thou mayest be justified.
27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed
against me.
28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have
given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
(Isa. 61:8)
8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering;
and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant
with them.
(Isa. 65:3,4)
3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which
eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
(Isa. 66:3,4)
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.
(Jer. 6:19-21)
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even
the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words,
nor to my law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet
cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your
sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks
before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon
them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
(Jer. 7:17-26)
17 ¶ Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in
the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour
out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke
themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury
shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon
the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall
burn, and shall not be quenched.
21 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day
that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings
or sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will
be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that
I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the
counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward,
and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt
unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily
rising up early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened
their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
(Jer. 14:12)
12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt
offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them
by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
(Hosea 4:12,13)
12 ¶ My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth
unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they
have gone a whoring from under their God.
13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense
upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof
is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses
shall commit adultery.
(Hosea 4:18,19)
18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her
rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed
because of their sacrifices.
(Hosea 6:4-7)
4 ¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall
I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early
dew it goeth away.
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by
the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God
more than burnt offerings.
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they
dealt treacherously against me.
(Hosea 8:11-14)
11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto
him to sin.
12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were
counted as a strange thing.
13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat
it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity,
and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah
hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
(Hosea 9:1-9)
1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone
a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine
shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return
to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they
be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread
of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for
their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of
the LORD?
6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather
them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver,
nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come;
Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad,
for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare
of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah:
therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
(Hosea 12:10,11)
10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions,
and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice
bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the
fields.
(Hosea 13:2)
2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images
of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of
it the work of the
craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
(Amos 4:4-6)
4 ¶ Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression;
and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving [bread] with leaven, and proclaim
and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel,
saith the Lord GOD.
6 ¶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the LORD.
(Amos 5:21-27)
21 ¶ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in
your solemn assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will
not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat
beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear
the melody of thy viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty
stream.
25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness
forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
(Mal. 1:12-14)
12 ¶ But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the
LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed
at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and
the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this
of your hand? saith the LORD.
14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and
voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great
King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
NEW TESTAMENT
(Matt. 9:13)
13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not
sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
(Matt. 12:5-7)
5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the
priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not
sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
(Mark 12:33)
33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding,
and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour
as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
(Acts 7:35-54)
35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and
a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand
of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs
in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37 ¶ This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel,
A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like
unto me; him shall ye hear.
38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel
which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received
the lively oracles to give unto us:
39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and
in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this
Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become
of him.
41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the
idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have
ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years
in the wilderness?
43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god
Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away
beyond Babylon.
44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as
he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according
to the fashion that he had seen.
45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into
the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our
fathers, unto the days of David;
46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for
the God of Jacob.
47 But Solomon built him an house.
48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as
saith the prophet,
49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will
ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
51 ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do
always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they
have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom
ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have
not kept it.
54 ¶ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart,
and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
(Rom. 12:1,2)
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which
is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.
(Heb. 7:27,28)
27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice,
first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once,
when he offered up himself.
28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; 0but the
word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated
for evermore.
(Heb. 10:1-11)
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very
image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the
worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins
every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should
take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and
offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written
of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and
offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which
are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the
first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes
the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
(Heb. 13:8-16)
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is
a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats,
which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve
the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the
sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his
own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his
reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually,
that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices
God is well pleased.
(1 Pet. 2:5)
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ.
BOOK OF MORMON
(Alma 34:10-17)
10 For it is expedient that there should be a great and last sacrifice;
yea, not a sacrifice of man, neither of beast, neither of any manner of
fowl; for it shall not be a human sacrifice; but it must be an infinite
and eternal sacrifice.
11 Now there is not any man that can sacrifice his own blood which
will atone for the sins of another. Now, if a man murdereth, behold will
our law, which is just, take the life of his brother? I say unto you, Nay.
12 But the law requireth the life of him who hath murdered; therefore
there can be nothing which is short of an infinite atonement which will
suffice for the sins of the world.
13 Therefore, it is expedient that there should be a great and last
sacrifice, and then shall there be, or it is expedient there should be,
a stop to the shedding of blood; then shall the law of Moses be fulfilled;
yea, it shall be all fulfilled, every jot and tittle, and none shall have
passed away.
14 And behold, this is the whole meaning of the law, every whit pointing
to that great and last sacrifice; and that great and last sacrifice will
be the Son of God, yea, infinite and eternal.
15 And thus he shall bring salvation to all those who shall believe
on his name; this being the intent of this last sacrifice, to bring about
the bowels of mercy, which overpowereth justice, and bringeth about means
unto men that they may have faith unto repentance.
16 And thus mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and encircles
them in the arms of safety, while he that exercises no faith unto repentance
is exposed to the whole law of the demands of justice; therefore only unto
him that has faith unto repentance is brought about the great and eternal
plan of redemption.
17 Therefore may God grant unto you, my brethren, that ye may begin
to exercise your faith unto repentance, that ye begin to call upon his
holy name, that he would have mercy upon you;
(3 Ne. 9:19-22)
19 And ye shall offer up unto me no more the shedding of blood; yea,
your sacrifices and your burnt offerings shall be done away, for I will
accept none of your sacrifices and your burnt offerings.
20 And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a
contrite spirit. And whoso cometh unto me with a broken heart and a contrite
spirit, him will I baptize with fire and with the Holy Ghost, even as the
Lamanites, because of their faith in me at the time of their conversion,
were baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and they knew it not.
21 Behold, I have come unto the world to bring redemption unto the
world, to save the world from sin.
22 Therefore, whoso repenteth and cometh unto me as a little child,
him will I receive, for of such is the kingdom of God. Behold, for such
I have laid down my life, and have taken it up again; therefore repent,
and come unto me ye ends of the earth, and be saved.
D&C
(D&C 59:8)
8 Thou shalt offer a sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in righteousness,
even that of a broken heart and a contrite spirit.
(D&C 64:23)
23 Behold, now it is called today until the coming of the Son of Man,
and verily it is a day of sacrifice, and a day for the tithing of my people;
for he that is tithed shall not be burned at his coming.
(D&C 84:31-34)
31 Therefore, as I said concerning the sons of Moses—for the sons of
Moses and also the sons of Aaron shall offer an acceptable offering and
sacrifice in the house of the Lord, which house shall be built unto the
Lord in this generation, upon the consecrated spot as I have appointed—
32 And the sons of Moses and of Aaron shall be filled with the glory
of the Lord, upon Mount Zion in the Lord's house, whose sons are ye; and
also many whom I have called and sent forth to build up my church.
33 For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these two priesthoods of
which I have spoken, and the magnifying their calling, are sanctified by
the Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies.
34 They become the sons of Moses and of Aaron and the seed of Abraham,
and the church and kingdom, and the elect of God.
(D&C 97:8-12)
8 Verily I say unto you, all among them who know their hearts are honest,
and are broken, and their spirits contrite, and are willing to observe
their covenants by sacrifice—yea, every sacrifice which I, the Lord, shall
command—they are accepted of me.
9 For I, the Lord, will cause them to bring forth as a very fruitful
tree which is planted in a goodly land, by a pure stream, that yieldeth
much precious fruit.
10 Verily I say unto you, that it is my will that a house should be
built unto me in the land of Zion, like unto the pattern which I have given
you.
11 Yea, let it be built speedily, by the tithing of my people.
12 Behold, this is the tithing and the sacrifice which I, the Lord,
require at their hands, that there may be a house built unto me for the
salvation of Zion—
D&C 132:50)
50 Behold, I have seen your sacrifices, and will forgive all your sins;
I have seen your sacrifices in obedience to that which I have told you.
Go, therefore, and I make a way for your escape, as I accepted the offering
of Abraham of his son Isaac. [- the sacrifice of raising a son in rightousness]
PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
(Moses 5:5-8)
5 And he gave unto them commandments, that they should worship the
Lord their God, and should offer the firstlings of their flocks, [remember
how the true offering is discribed in Exodus 22;29,30] for an offering
unto the Lord. And Adam was obedient unto the commandments of the Lord.
6 And after many days an angel of the Lord appeared unto Adam, saying:
Why dost thou offer sacrifices unto the Lord? And Adam said unto him: I
know not, save the Lord commanded me.
7 And then the angel spake, saying: This thing is a similitude of the
sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of grace and
truth.
8 Wherefore, thou shalt do all that thou doest in the name of the Son,
and thou shalt repent and call upon God in the name of the Son forevermore.
Evil has ever
been (always) associated with animal, "blood sacrifice!" -- It has always
been a conditioning for and preparatory "type-and-shadow" for ALL
murder, including human murder! -- including the murder of the Lord
Himself! Remember, it was Annas and Caiaphas, the Chief Priests of the
temple, with their already entrenched proclivity for the endlessly brutal
and bloody slaughter, long established within their order, which offended
God, the Prophets, righteous Priests (as Zacharias) and ultimately Christ
himself, that arranged for the murder of Christ!
Here is another correcting example shown in Facsimile #1 from
the Book of Abraham:
EXPLANATION
Fig. 1. The Angel of the Lord.
Fig. 2. Abraham fastened upon an altar.
Fig. 3. The idolatrous priest of Elkenah attempting to offer up Abraham
as a sacrifice.
Fig. 4. The altar for sacrifice by the idolatrous priests, standing
before the gods of Elkenah, Libnah, Mahmackrah,
...more...
Would a loving God also have Abraham terrorize his own son Issac with his
own like (previous) experience?
Why did the Lord make sure you had this drawing and experience of Abraham
exposed to you?
Is it not so you would know that Abraham already would know how evil
the threat of a father sacrificing his own son was -- long before his own
son Isaac was even born? Or does God act duplicitously and deceptively,
mocking even His own counsels against lying or barring false witness with
righteous men or precious mothers, or cruelly and unkindly affixing maliscous
or fabricating trauma upon or towards an innocent, helpless child or youth?
Is every written word pure truth?
-- So what is the Lord teaching you in or through this undefiled facsimile
that He had Abraham, and Joseph Smith today, provide for your view?
And then, what is the message of our relationship to all creation that
we observe and are taught in the Lord's House?
From the very beginning, commencing even with Adam and Eve (whom you
are instructed to consider yourselves as, and emulate), and as is required
of us to even usher in the Millennium, what is our relationship with the
creatures meant to be?
-- Has not always the Lord's true message been: to "become harmless
before the brute creation" and to come to peace with all creatures and
all living souls -- so as to be found worthy to partake of the tree of
Life? -- not of Babylon's slaughterhouse or Eygypts fleshpots and their
tables full of misery, blood, horror and death!
-- And have we not been told over and over that we must be cleansed
from the blood and sins of even our very own generations and "become a
Millennial People" and to "be anxiously engaged in a good cause -- any
good cause!" - especially that good cause of bringing about the Millennium!
-
by Pres Hinckley, and in infinitly by the other righteous Prophets before
him.
When will we ever figure it out?
Our disease is not a test from God!
It is because we left His garden,
followed Solomon's fallen priests into their bloody slaughterhouse,
and went contrary to our initial, perfectly nourished and divinely
harmless creation.
It is a consequence of our own carnal stupidity!
Please!
Check with the Holy Ghost: Use your own pure heart! -- and that
Holy Spirit of Promise given you to discern truth! -- as all the Lord's
Holy Prophets have commanded us to do!
Throw off the fables,"old wives tales"and outright lies that we
have so easily accepted -- and do bind us! -- the same which did
harm our fathers before -- and will continue to harm our children and all
children to come -- if we do not!
Find the truth! Live the truth!
And that truth will work with power to heal you! -- and will
heal your posterity!
It will not only work to restore vigor , but also to clear your
mind!
Then you will find -- and understand treasures of knowledge,
even hidden treasures!
-- and those will make you wise, vital -- and free!
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