David writes in Psalm 141, [1] LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. [2] Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
“Where do you burn incense? In the temple. David said, ‘Look, Lord, I’m cut off. I can’t get to the temple. I can’t get up there and offer the sacrifice, but just let me by prayer . . . I know you don’t want a sacrifice anyway--what you want is a broken spirit and a contrite heart. You’re looking at the inner man . . .’
“David writes in Psalm 51: [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.
"David said, ‘I can’t get over there. Circumstances won’t let me. I’m cut off. I’m on the run and I don’t have a sacrifice. So Lord, just let my prayer be like the incense, and let the lifting up of my hands and my praying to you, and my heart looking toward you—let that be like I offered the sacrifice,' " explains Richard Jordan.
“You say, ‘Well, how can that be?’ Well, we now understand that the sacrifice wasn’t the issue anyway. But David had a little understanding about what faith was all about and he knew what it was just to have to cast himself on the mercy of God when anything he could do wasn’t available.
“You get a Jew in the tribulation and the Antichrist makes a covenant with Israel and goes out among Israel and convinces them, and the world, that he is the Savior; their Messiah to bring in utopia. And he goes over and rebuilds the temple and starts the daily sacrifice in operation again 220 days after that last seven-year period begins.
“After he signs the covenant with the nation and enters into a false Abrahamic covenant with Israel and they begin to dwell safely in the land, the temple is rebuilt and the daily sacrifice (morning and evening oblations) begin again and they reinstitute the Mosaic system.
“It’s interesting in this book a Jewish Believer gave me, the rabbi argues, ‘Just like back there on the temple mount when Abraham offered Isaac, one day we’ll have those animal sacrifices again. One day it will happen again! But we don’t want any of that wicked HUMAN sacrifices idea that the pagan Christians promote, because we know only pagans promote the sacrifice of humans.’
“What human sacrifice do you and I promote? That's what Calvary’s all about, right?! You see it’s foolishness to them that perish. It’s blasphemy to them that perish.”
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