One of the major problems I see with people not being able to comprehend the sacrifice of the Mass is the fact that most have a very limited understanding of covenant theology and typology. It is impossible to understand what Christ put in place at the last supper which he “Strongly desired to celebrate” and Calvary, without seeing things through the Jewish eyes of the apostles. Yes Christ has been sacrificed once and for all, but according to the covenant God established a memorial and oath of that covenant continues as long as the covenant is present. A covenant is not just a contract, it establishes a family relationship. Family has been created so that in the brief moment of time compared to eternity, our souls can contemplate the eternal family we will have in heaven. The word for covenant in Hebrew is berit. In its simplest form it means I am yours and you are mine. When man fell from grace and separated from God due to the insanity of self love, God created steps to return to grace and union with him through covenant. We see in Gods covenant with Abraham an early precursor to this return to grace. God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars and sands at the sea. Abraham was told to go on a three days journey to a place of Gods choosing and sacrifice his own son to solidify this covenant bond; an act of active faith that would almost be considered as madness. Human sacrifice was forbidden yet Abrahams love for God was so strong that he was willing to perform the work requested choosing Gods word over all creation and the love he had for his son. This IS my body. At the last moment God provided a victim that was caught in a thicket of thorns. This event was to give a precursor of the true nature of the salvation mystery. The covenant was held in suspension until Christ fulfilled it and the true circumcision as a sign of the covenant became Baptism. A ram with a crown of thorns was offered in place of Christ; Christ wore a crown of thorns. Abraham offered his only son; God offered His only son. Isaac carried the wood for the sacrifice; Jesus carried the cross for the sacrifice. Isaac cried out to his father; Jesus cried out to His Father. Isaac escaped death after three days; Jesus rose from the dead on the third day. Abraham indicated that God would provide a victim for the sacrifice; Jesus said he is the true Lamb of God. God told Abraham exactly where the sacrifice was to be offered; Mount Moriah. For hundreds of years sacrifices would be offered in the same place inside Solomon’s temple and in the second temple until 70 AD when God finalized the destruction of the old covenant and John saw the New Jerusalem descending from heaven like a bride. At about the same time the High Priest of Aaron was offering a sacrifice in the temple raising an unblemished Lamb in front of the veil, sanctifying bread and wine and consuming the sacrifice, Christ during the last Passover was raising bread to the Father calling it his body and raising wine calling it his blood. As Christ was offering Himself on the cross taking on the curse of the covenant of the mosaic law so that the promise to Abraham could be fulfilled, the high priests in the temple was offering Christ in type. Picture the priest in the temple at 3:00 as Christ says it is finished and dies on the cross and the earth quakes; picture the priest raising the Lamb in his hands as the veil that represents the separation of heaven and earth and is covered in images of angels is torn from heaven to earth and the priest in the heavenly reality of the mystery stands before the Father the hosts of heaven the angels and the spirits of the just made perfect. “When I am lifted up all will be revealed”. “Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar ? “ 1 Corinthians 10:18 “We have an altar, whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.” Hebrews 13:10 “A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,” Hebrews 10:20 “For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as ALSO CHRIST DOTH THE CHURCH” Ephesians 5:29 “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27FOR ALL OF YOU WHO WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE CLOTHED YOURSELVES WITH CHRIST. 28There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are ABRAHAM’S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE.” Galatians 3:26 GOD PROMISED ABRAHAM THAT HIS DESCENDANTS WOULD BE AS NUMEROUS AS THE STARS AND SANDS AT THE SEA The true circumcision is Baptism, through Baptism the church the flesh of Christ, the veil between the sins of the world and the Father, is Catholic. The Israelites were influenced by the sin of Egypt and so after they celebrated their first Sabbath where they consumed an unblemished Lamb so that the angel of death would pass over in type of the true feast of the paschal Lamb in the Mass, they returned to sin. They made a golden calf in order to worship it as the Egyptians did with the Apis Bull which was an intermediary god between the people and the god Ptah and later Osiris. Paul tells us that the law is pedagogue of Christ. A pedagogue is a child’s teacher. God through covenant and the law, was teaching the Israelites how to stay away from sin, which is separation from God. The wages of sin is death. 50 days after the first Passover came the first Pentecost . The Jews waited for Pentecost and the promise of the law which would be put in place until the pedagogue was fulfilled in Christ at the true Pentecost when the bride of Christ the church was born and over 3000 were baptized. “Can a City be born in a day?” At the first Pentecost Moses through God gave the Israelites the law. At the true Pentecost the Holy Spirit came and wrote the laws of grace on our hearts. At the first Pentecost Moses established the priesthood of Aaron at the true Pentecost the Holy Spirit established the priesthood of Melchizedek. Grace came into the world through the spirit and love fulfills the law. Through this love of God you are given the power to overcome concupiscence through saving grace and by contemplating the gift of the cross. Remaining in habitual sin after receiving grace is denying the grace given, it is falling out of love with God. Therefore no longer fulfilling the law. “The Gentiles do what the law requires without ever knowing the law”. When the covenant with Israel was made, an oath was made between God and man. If you follow the law I will be your God and you will be my people. When an oath is made a curse is applied for breaking the oath and the oath takers swear to uphold the oath or if they fail they accept the rule to take on the curse. Breaking of the oath makes null and void the covenant. When the oath is broken and the covenant revoked, death is the result the curse is enacted. The reminder of the curse in the image of the animal sacrifice is placed before the oath takers as a memorial offering and reaffirmation of the oath as long as the oath is kept. The Israelites over time broke their oath with God and even went so far as to sacrifice their own children to the Babylonian god Moloch. God as father, even though they went so far astray and in order to keep his promise to Abraham still provided them a way to come back into covenant with God. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’7 “By offering defiled food on my altar. “But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ “By saying that the Lord’s table is contemptible. 8 When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty.9 “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”—says the Lord Almighty.10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept no offering from your hands. 11 My name will be great among the Gentiles, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the Gentiles,” says the Lord Almighty.12 “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord’s table is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food is contemptible.’ 13 And you say, ‘What a burden!’ and you sniff at it contemptuously,” says the Lord Almighty. Malachi 1 Christ will destroy the Old Covenant and take on the curse so that a New and eternal covenant could be established and the promise to Abraham fulfilled. He destroyed his old house and established a new one through a Gentile priesthood. “And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this commandment, a beam be taken from his house. and set up, and he be nailed upon it, and his house be confiscated. “ Ezra 6:11. Christ was sacrificed once and for all outside of the walls; He carried his beam from his house to Calvary. He destroyed his own house and the Old Testament priesthood in 70 AD when the temple came down and the Jewish sacrifices stopped. He took on the curse and established a new covenant in his very blood. Since he is sacrificed once and for all he established an oath that will never be broken. The devil will never prevail against it. God told Moses to sacrifice a goat and sprinkle the Israelites with the blood of the sacrifice as a sign of the oath. The Israelites as they were sprinkled in blood gave their allegiance to the most high God and gave their promise that they would keep the law. He then made the Israelites as a pedagogue, sacrifice daily what they once worshipped. In addition he put in place a sacrifice that would be fulfilled in the Holy Mass when the final covenant would be put in place. Do this in remembrance of me. This is the daily Tamid in which the unblemished Lamb is offered, bread and wine are consecrated in front of the altar and eaten by the priest. An altar was raised by Solomon in the same place where Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac and a daily sacrifice of unblemished Lamb bread and wine was offered on the altar. The word in Hebrew for continuous sacrifice is Tamid or “tamiyd. “The Lord also said to Moses: 2Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Offer ye my oblation and my bread, and burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour, in their due seasons. 3These are the sacrifices which you shall offer: Two lambs of a year old without blemish every day for the perpetual holocaust: 4One you shall offer in the morning, and the other in the evening: 5And the tenth part of an ephi of flour, which shall be tempered with the purest oil, of the measure of the fourth part of a hin. 6It is the continual holocaust which you offered in mount Sinai for a most sweet. odour of a sacrifice by fire to the Lord. 7And for a libation you shall offer of wine the fourth part of a hin for every lamb in the sanctuary of the Lord. 8And you shall offer the other lamb in like manner ill the evening according to all the rites of the morning sacrifice, and of the libations thereof, an oblation of most sweet odour to the Lord. “ Numbers 28. A continuous sacrifice of an unblemished Lamb, wine and bread. Sound familiar? I am the true Lamb of God. I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill the law. To change the types into the heavenly realities through a sprinkling of blood which speaks better than that of Able. When the Tamid is performed the liturgical prayers of the psalms were said. Primarily Psalms 113 through 136. These prayers included praise of the enthroned Lord on high, Judah being the sanctuary of God, the earth trembling in the presence of the Lord (Earthquakes?) Rocks being turned into springs of water (They pierced the side of the true Adam and out from his rib came water spirit and blood of baptism and his bride was born) All you Israelites, trust in the Lord— he is their help and shield.10 House of Aaron, trust in the Lord— For you, Lord, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling,9 that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living. he is their help and shield. I will lift UP THE CUP OF SALVATION AND CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD.14 I WILL FULFILL MY VOWS TO THE LORD IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS PEOPLE.15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants.16 Truly I am your servant, Lord; I serve you just as my mother did; you have freed me from my chains.17 I WILL SACRIFICE A THANK OFFERING TO YOU (Eucharistasis) AND CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD.18 I WILL FULFILL MY VOWS (My oath the creed. We believe in one God the Father almighty…) TO THE LORD IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS PEOPLE,19 in the courts of the house of the Lord— OPEN FOR ME THE GATES OF THE RIGHTEOUS …THIS IS THE GATE OF THE LORD THROUGH WHICH THE RIGHTEOUS MAY ENTER.21 … BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. From the house of the Lord we bless you.[b]27 The Lord is God, and he has made his light shine on us. With boughs in hand, join in the festal PROCESSION UP] TO THE HORNS OF THE ALTAR. in your midst, Jerusalem. Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart—3 they do no wrong but follow his ways.4 YOU HAVE LAID DOWN PRECEPTS THAT ARE TO BE FULLY OBEYED.5 OH, THAT MY WAYS WERE STEADFAST IN OBEYING YOUR DECREES!... THEN I WOULD NOT BE PUT TO SHAME WHEN I CONSIDER ALL YOUR COMMANDS.7 I WILL PRAISE YOU WITH AN UPRIGHT HEART AS I LEARN YOUR RIGHTEOUS LAWS.8 I WILL OBEY YOUR DECREES; THOSE WHO TRUST IN THE LORD ARE LIKE MOUNT ZION… (You have come to mount Sion to the new Jerusalem…) BOTH NOW AND FOREVERMORE. UNLESS THE LORD BUILDS THE HOUSE, (I will build my church) THE BUILDERS LABOR IN VAIN. Unless the Lord watches over the city, (I will not leave you orphan) They have greatly oppressed me from my youth… MAY ALL WHO HATE ZION BE TURNED BACK IN SHAME.6 May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;7 a reaper cannot fill his hands with it, nor one who gathers fill his arms. “LET US GO TO HIS DWELLING PLACE, let us worship at his footstool, saying,8 ‘ARISE, LORD, AND COME TO YOUR RESTING PLACE, YOU AND THE ARK OF YOUR MIGHT.9 (And I saw the ark and behold a great wonder appeared in the heavens …) MAY YOUR PRIESTS BE CLOTHED WITH YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS; may your faithful people sing for joy.’”…ONE OF YOUR OWN DESCENDANTS I WILL PLACE ON YOUR THRONE.12 IF YOUR SONS KEEP MY COVENANT AND THE STATUTES I TEACH THEM,THEN THEIR SONS WILL SIT ON YOUR THRONE FOR EVER AND EVER.”13 FOR THE LORD HAS CHOSEN ZION. Paul tells us: BUT YOU HAVE COME TO MOUNT ZION, TO THE CITY OF THE LIVING GOD, THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. (AT EVERY TRUE TAMID IN THE SACRIFICE OF THE HOLY MASS IN THE VEIL) 25 See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”[e] 27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.” Hebrews 12 At dawn at the first hour the Lamb is brought out and tied to the altar (Mishnah:Tamid 3:2-3) the High Priest prepares the altar (Exodus 29:39; Leviticus 6:1.) At 9:00 the first Lamb is sacrificed (Mishnah: Tamid 3:7.) The third hour, 9:00 am is the first hour of prayer. (Acts 2:15) the temple gates are open. At the 6th hour or noon during the second hour of prayer, (Acts 3:1; 10:9) the second Lamb is brought out and tied to the altar (Mishnah:Tamid 4:1) at 3:00 pm the ninth hour and the third hour of prayer which is also called the hour of confession is the Jewish evening the second Lamb is sacrificed (Antiquities of the Jews 14.4.3) At the hour of confession the Jews pray for the savior to return and the great Hillel of the Psalms, and the next day begins at sundown. Paul tells us that Christ is a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek offered a sacrifice for Abraham to the most high God of bread and wine. Paul says that Christ is a high priests forever. He continues his priestly functions forever offering a sacrifice of bread and wine through his priesthood. Bethlehem was a city that was created by the sheep herders whose job it was to raise unblemished Lambs for the daily sacrifice, Manger means to eat. Christ came into the world through Mary the ark which he has sanctified and Mary placed him in a manger. The unblemished Lamb was placed in a manger and we eat the true Tamid in the form of bread and wine. “But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise; and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong. “ 1 Corinthians 1:27 My flesh is real food my blood is real drink, he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him. The unblemished Lamb as the true Tamid established the true Passover which is a reminder of the covenant oath. At the Passover God strongly desired to celebrate he raised the true Tamid of the wine “In like manner the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.” He then put in place his priesthood under his direction as the high priest by saying do this in memory of me. The word remembrance in Greek is anamnesis. Almost every time it is used in scripture it has a sacrificial nature. It means make present once again. Make present once again the memorial sacrifice of the new oath of the new covenant established at Calvary. From the rising of the sun until its setting my name is great among the gentiles and everywhere a clean oblation is offered in my name. Offer this true Tamid of my body and blood through the power of the Holy Spirit in the company of the heavenly hosts in the Mount Sion, the New Jerusalem, among the spirits of the just made perfect, as my continuous sacrifice to the Father in heaven and promise of my oath. Not in front of the veil which has been opened to you but with heaven itself because you are my flesh and blood you are the veil between the Father and the sins of the world that offers the continuous sacrifice of the Tamid which is a remembrance of the true oath of the eternal covenant established on the cross when I said “It is finished.” I will be their God and they will be my people. The apostles established the liturgy of the Mass and dedicated themselves to the doctrine of Mount Sion and broke bread in the New Jerusalem and continued in the prayers. These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee shortly. 15But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 16And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.
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