The Daily Sacrifice

Peace,


    The study below moved my Spirit greatly. The below is only the beginning please read the rest if led to by Abba Father. Amen.





What exactly is this daily sacrifice spoken of
in Daniel 12? 
What does scripture mean when it says that
‘the daily sacrifice shall be taken away’?
Daniel 12:9 tells us that these words in the
book of Daniel “are closed up and sealed till
the time of the end”. 
It is now time to understand!
4Chapter 1
Daily Sacrifices
The Old Testament discusses two daily sacrifices which
were required offerings as part of the correct worship of
God: one in the morning and one in the evening. There
are a number of scriptures which talk about these sacrifices, but
for the purposes of this example it would be sufficient to refer
to only a few of them. Notice what is stated in 2 Kings 16:


“And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest,
saying, Upon the great altar burn the  morning
burnt offering, and the  evening meat offering,
and  the  king's  burnt  sacrifice,  and  his  meat
offering,  with  the  burnt  offering  of  all  the
people of the land, and their meat offering, and
their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the
blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of
the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me
to  enquire  by. Thus  did  Urijah  the  priest,
according to all that king Ahaz commanded” (2
Kings 16:15-16). 
The  book  of  1  Chronicles  also  discusses  two  daily
sacrifices:
“And  Zadok  the  priest,  and  his  brethren  the
priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in
the high place that was at Gibeon, To offer burnt
offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the
burnt  offering continually morning  and
evening,  and  to  do according  to  all  that  is
written  in  the  law  of  the  LORD,  which  he
commanded Israel” (1 Chron. 16:39-40).
   5The word “continual” in verse 40 comes from the Hebrew
word  “tamiyd”  and  could  be translated  as:  “continuance…
constant (or  adverbially  constantly);  elipitically  the  regular
daily  sacrifice:  always,  continual,  daily,  perpetual”.  The
continual  morning and evening sacrifices are to be  constant,
regular  daily sacrifices which must be performed  perpetually,
or throughout our generations; forever. This is what scripture
clearly  indicates!  To  fulfill  the  obligation  of  morning  and
evening daily sacrifices throughout  our generations, morning
and evening sacrifices must be offered to God – even today!
Notice the permanency of this obligation in 2 Chronicles: 
“Behold, I build an house to the name of the
Lord  my  God, to  dedicate  it to  him…  sweet
incense …morning and evening...  This  is an
ordinance for ever to Israel” (2 Chron. 2:4). 
Evidently, two sacrifices are to be offered to God daily -
even today: one in the morning and another in the evening.
Again:
“And they burn unto the LORD every morning
and every evening burnt sacrifices and  sweet
incense” (2 Chron. 13:11). 
Daily sacrifices?
An  obvious  and  important  question  should  immediately
jump to mind: What kind of daily sacrifices do we need to
offer, morning and evening, to fulfill our obligation towards
God of sacrifices and sweet incense? Let us allow scriptures in
the New Testament to answer this question:
“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” (1 Pet. 2:5). 
6Scripture tells us that God’s Church is a  spiritual house
which is made up of lively stones. As lively stones forming
God’s Church, we are to offer up spiritual sacrifices! God’s
people are no longer required to offer physical burnt sacrifices,
but  spiritual sacrifices. [More on this later]. Scripture clearly
states that these sacrifices must be acceptable to God if they are
to correctly fulfill our spiritual obligation.
“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”  (Heb.
13:15). 
Hebrews 13:5 gets more specific as to the spiritual daily
sacrifices required of God’s people. However, there are more
scriptures that clarify this further:
“And  when  he  had  taken  the  book,  the  four
beasts  and  four  and twenty  elders  fell  down
before  the  Lamb,  having  every  one  of  them
harps, and golden vials full of odours
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 [2368
= incense],  which are the prayers of saints”
(Rev. 5:8)
“And another angel came and stood at the altar,
having  a  golden  censer;  and  there  was  given
unto  him  much  incense
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,  that  he  should
offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the
golden altar which was before the throne. And
the smoke of the incense
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, which came with
the  prayers of the saints, ascended up before
God out of the angel's hand” (Rev. 8:3-4). 
Evidently,  the  spiritual  sacrifices  God’s  people  must
offer twice a day are prayers to God, our Heavenly Father.
When scripture discusses God’s people offering the continual,
or daily sacrifices, it is referring to spiritual prayers offered to
God by His people. These are the daily sacrifices we must be
   7offering as a tool which accompanies the work done in getting
ourselves ready as the bride of Christ and to deliver God’s
message.  Old  Testament  scriptures  demonstrate  that  only
God’s priests were to perform the daily sacrifices, twice a day,
morning and evening. This places an important emphasis and
responsibility on God’s priests today, but certainly includes all
of God’s people in the New Testament Church (Eph. 2:18;
Rom.  5:1-2).  AS  GOD’S  PEOPLE  WE  MUST  TODAY
PERFORM  SACRIFICES,  twice  a day,  which  in  this  New
Testament era consists of offering acceptable prayers to God:
“But I have all, and abound: I am full, having
received of Epaphroditus the things which were
sent from you,  an odour of a  sweet smell,  a
sacrifice  acceptable,  wellpleasing  to  God”
(Phil. 4:18). 
Notice the following New Testament example:
“I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers
with  pure  conscience,  that  without  ceasing  I
have remembrance of thee in my prayers night
and day” (2 Tim. 1:3). 
(Please also see Lk. 2:37 and 1 Tim. 5:5).
By Frank Borg