THANKS FOR POSTING A SEPARATE BLOG ON THIS.

I've defended both my initial statement that biblical Judaism ended in 70AD as well as these points on differences between biblical Judaism and modern Judaism from the Old Testament, Josephus and the Jewish Encyclopedia.

And to that I say "that's nice"....however, none of them, not the Levites, Samaritans, etc., could ever fulfill the priestly duties in divine worship as commanded by ALmighty God in the Mosaic Church of the children of Isreal as set forth in the Torah. The biblical Judaism that's ended and the one I've been zoning in on is Temple sacrifice and worship as called for in the Book of Leviticus. Those Levites, Samaritans etc. today can't becasue there is no Temple, no altar thereby making it physically impossible to sacrifice to God just as He prescribed according to the Mosaic Law.

This is when the Mosaic Chruch or biblical Judaism as recorded in the Old Testament became a thing of historic past.

In modern Judaism and Jewry today there are no competant authorities who have a Divine commission, who are consecrated to exercise Levitical requirements according to God's divine command.

leauki posts:

And this has been my point all along ....that biblical Judaism ended in 70AD. What ended?...not the Jews ability to talk to God....but what ended was the priestly sacrifice and biblical Judaism, the sacrificial religion, that God stipulated in Leviticus in accordance with the Mosaic law which the Jewish Encyclopedia states the High Priest "ALONE offered the sacrifices for the sins of the people." 

Question to Lula:

If Jesus is our sin sacrifice.  Weren't all sin sacrifices 'burnt' and 'inside' the temple by Torah mandate?  If this question is true how can Jesus be our sin sacrifice if he was neither burnt (which would have made him a human sacrifice which again is a violation of Torah) nor was he killed 'inside' the Temple. 

AD, you've given me something to ponder and research.

I'm going to be away from my computer over the weekend, but will comment ASAP.

Again the article has it that the line died out leaving no children to carry on the succession.  

Evidently the records are clear up until the High Priesthood of Phannias, son of Samuel, the 81st occupant of the Chair of AAron. That ended in 70AD. So, if it's as you claim and there is a Samaritan priestly succession in the order of AAron, where is the genealogical list of High Priests from 70AD to the 1600's?   

Again, I'm defining the Aaronic priesthood strictly according to the Torah of the Old Testament....which makes plain the Judaism of God is strictly of an authoritative, priestly, sacrificial character. In Leviticus 28 we read that God instituted the priesthood of Aaron of the tribe of Levi.

Before this, the first born had been set apart for the service of God, but from the time forward that Moses consecrated Aaron as High priest, only the tribe of Levi was chosen as ministers of the sanctuary and service of the Tabernacle. In other words before this, priests had been taken from all tribes and all families but now a very distinct priesthood was instituted and this is the one I'm zoning in on to make my case that biblical Judaism ended in 70AD.

The priestly office was heredity in only Aaron's family ..the first born was always to be High Priest, and the other male descendants priests. The other men of the tribe of Levi were to assist the priests in the service of God.

With the consecration of Aaron as High Priest by Moses (Exod. 28), the tribe of Levi to which Aaron belonged, was separated into 2 divisions...Kohanim High Priests who functioned at the Altar, entered the Holy of Holies once a year when the sin-offering was sprinkled on the mercy seat, and incense burned within the Veil Exod. 16. and Levite priests who assisted in the service of the Tabernacle and Temple.

Leauki, the sacredness and exclusiveness of these priests are Divinely demonstrated on the day of the consecration of Aaron when his sons, Nabad and Abihn, were consumed by fire for offering incense in an unlawful manner. Lev. 10. Every Jewish priest must belong to the tribe of Levi of the house of Aaron. The Jewish Encyclopedia says that "for priests the purity of descent was indispensable."

This is the Jewish priesthood that is no more...there is no continual distinctive genealogical evidence of the existence of the house of Aaron of the tribe of Levi. Judaism without this particular priesthood in no more the religion it was of God.  

The Temple Veil was rent in 33AD when Christ was crucified and from that moment on, God was sending a message that biblical Judaism would be no more....it was formerly ended in 70 AD when the Temple was destroyed stone by stone razed flat to the ground. The sacrificial 'cult" is no more, nor is the Jewish priest to offer a bloody sacrifice today. The sacrifice of the Old Law ceased, was was foretold, for a new Aaron--"a priest forever according to the order of Melchisedech was offering "a clean oblation."

Aaron offered calves, goats, rams, lambs, as sacrifice of the Mosaic Law, whereas Mechisedech offered bread and wine, such as CHrist offered at the last Supper on the night before He was crucified. This sacrificial offering has been continued for over 2000 years by the Catholic Chruch as Malachais predicted. So, the bloody sacrifice of the Jews is no more now that the "clean oblation" has supplanted it in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Open your eyes and see how from the rising to the setting of the sun there is offered up the Sacrifices of the Christians, not in one place, as it was ordained among the Jews, but everywhere....to the God of Isreal who predicted these things. Not according to the order of Aaron, but according to the order of Melchisedech.

The problem is the OT Mosaic requirement of the sacrificail priesthood is that at the geneaolgy linkage goes back to Aaron...and this lineage is no longer...

This first born high priest is from some other line.

Hey Leuki, I wanted to ask you a Hebrew question. 

Is חַטֹּאתָ֑ם related mainly to sins of sacrifices and עֲוֹנֹת֙ is mainly sins against Torah?

Big picture...Salvation history is the events as recounted in the Holy Bible of Almighty God's salvific acts which deliver man from evil and reunites him in grace with God. Salvation history asserts that God has made a progressive revelation of Himself  and His will in Scripture.  History because of 1----God's salvific acts are directed toward the course of human events so that salvation begins with time (as in the first Book of Genesis) through the actual happenings wrought by God in mankind. 2---God's salvific act begun in time is brought to completion within the historic processes of human activity. 3---The saving act of God as performed in time, has past, present, and future realizations (as in the last Book of the Apocalypse).

Genesis starts with Creation and from it we learn that God's goodness to man is infinitely great. He created us in His own image with an immortal soul and the promise of eternal destiny in Heaven. He gave us the whole earth to use and yet, our first parents transgressed the command of God and sin and death entered the world…The punishment of Adam and Eve reveals the infinite justice of God. In fact, the evil consequences of their sin have passed down to the whole human race..our reason is obscured, our will is weakened, prone to disease and bitter pangs of suffering and death and no one could attain Heaven if our Divine Redeemer had not died for us…so all wasn’t lost, else there would have been total despair without Our Merciful God’s  promise of a Redeemer, a Messias.   

Almighty God wants us all to be saved and so He gave us His salvation plan... it’s a long, slow journey of God’s revelation, of following His laws and guidance. God never left us high and dry…..mankind always had a religion taught by God which falls into 4 stages.

The first stage was the religion of Adam who was taught by God directly. Stage 2 is Adam handing on down to his children the truth about God and the duty of worshipping Him by sacrifice.  Sacrifices here were visible gifts for the purpose of thanking God for the benefits already received and of imploring further blessings from Him. We see that men offered sacrifice to God from the very first…so there have been sacrifices so long as there have been men to worship Him. Sacrifice is the highest and most perfect from of worship and is essential to religion. The Catholic religion being full blossomed  Judaism is now the most perfect and holy religion because it possesses the most holy and perfect of sacrifices. This most pleasing, holy and perfect Sacrifice is Jesus Christ Himself, who once sacrificed Himself on the Cross in a bloody manner, and who continually offers Himself for us in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in an unbloody manner, “a clean oblation”; the Holy Eucharist.

Cain and Abel both brought gifts to God. They offered them by burning them..by this they wished to express that they had kept nothing back for themselves; that they desired to offer them wholly to God from whom all good things come. Abel offered the firstlings of his flock and Cain offered fruits of the earth. St.Paul explains in Hebrews 11:4 that “by faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain.” What was wanting in Cain’s sacrifice? His faith in God and in the promised of a coming Savior was not firm and living and therefore his worship of God was wanting in reverence and thankfulness. He worshipped Him outwardly, but not inwardly. The gifts which he offered were good, but the intention behind them was not. The lesson we learn from this is that God does not look merely on our outward works and gifts, but He looks especially at our intention. “The Lord seeth the heart.”

Thus Abel offered acceptable sacrifice. The traditions were handed on by Adam’s posterity, but memories faded. Still conscience always dictated what was naturally right and this period could be called the period of natural law. During this time, Almighty God gave unwritten revelations to several of the Patriarchs, over and above the natural law.

Noe (Noah) belonged to that of the Patriarchal unwritten law. And you know the story of Noe and the Ark. When the waters subsided God told Noe to go out of the Ark which he, his wife, sons and their wife did along with all the animals, etc. It’s written that Noe was “filled with gratitude”…and after more than a year in the Ark, he saw what must have been quite a scene…desolation and death everywhere he looked. With sorrow in his heart was also thankfulness in his soul that God had so mercifully taken care of him and his loved ones that he immediately built an altar of stones to the Lord and offered on it a sacrifice of clean animals.  Noe offered sacrifice to God with faith and in thanksgiving which was so pleasing that He made a covenant with him and his posterity. Our Lord Jesus Christ by His death on the Cross offered the most perfect Sacrifice and obtained for all men pardon, grace and everlasting peace.

Now comes the necessity of a supernatural or revealed religion....the majority of men fell into idolatry about 2,000 years after Creation. Yet, there were always a few just men who with their families preserved the faith in the one true God and His oral revelation.  But the true faith would have been lost unless God revealed Himself anew. Divine revelation was a necessity because even man’s natural knowledge would have been lost.

With Abraham comes the second promise of the Messias. The words, “In thee shall all the kindred of the world be blessed” contain the 2^nd promise. The second promise is more explicit than the first in that it says a Divine Redeemer shall be born of the seed of Abram.

God showed Abram the land of Canaan and said to him, “to thy seed will I give this land.” Abram, showing his gratitude raised in that place an altar to the Lord. And after he and Lot decided where to go, Abram dwelt in Hebron, Abram built an altar to the Lord. In Gen. 14, we read that God blessed Abraham and gave him victory over 4 kings. As Abram returned victorious, Melchisedech, the king of Salem, (later called Jerusalem) and a High Priest offered to the Lord, bread and wine as a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving.

Abraham’s faith was tested by God most severely when  He commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Isaac was obedient to his father and carried up the mountain the wood on which was to be the altar where he would be killed. Isaac as a sacrifice was a type of Jesus as the Perfect Sacrifice. Jesus Christ was obedient to His heavenly Father unto death, even on the Cross. “As a sheep He was led to the slaughter and like a lamb without a voice before his shearer, so opened He not His mouth.” Jesus carried up to Calvary the wooden Cross on which He was to die. In one main point though Isaac’s sacrifice was very different from the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Abraham was quite ready out of love of God to offer up his beloved son….but Almighty God would permit the sacrifice to be completed….why? …because sinful man could not be redeemed by a human sacrifice and that’s why the angel stopped the slaying of Isaac. God spared the son of Abraham but would not spare His own Son, but gave Him over to a painful death for our sakes. “God so loved the world as to give His only-begotten Son, that whoever believeth in Him, may not perish, but may have life ever-lasting.” St. John 3:16.

We see the story of Jacob and Joseph also as one of offering sacrifice. When Jacob set out for Egypt with his family he offered a sacrifice to God asking God’s protection and guidance. The resemblance of Joseph to Christ was that he forgave and excused his brothers as did our Lord hanging on the Cross forgive His enemies and pray for them. 

The paschal lamb—the departure from Egypt was a type of Jesus Christ the Paschal Lamb of God. Why did Christ Sacrifice Himself as He did?

Moses and Aaron told the people to kill a lamb without blemish and sprinkle the blood of the lamb upon the door post. We know as far as the paschal lamb that everything had to be of the best, without blemish.  Afterwards, Moses commanded the people to sanctify unto the Lord every first born of clean beasts because the Lord had spared their first born children.

According to Exod. 12:27, the paschal lamb was a sacrifice, “the victim of the passage of the Lord”. As such it was preeminently a type of our Lord in the following ways. The paschal lamb was to be without blemish….Jesus Christ is the Most Pure, the Most Holy, “a lamb unspotted and undefiled.” 1^St.Peter 1:19. The paschal lamb was killed and its blood spilt; Jesus Christ was slain for us on the altar of the Cross and shed all His blood for us. Of the paschal lamb, no bone was to be broken, contrary to the usual custom with those crucified, not one of Our Lord’s bones was broken. Through the blood of the paschal lamb, the Israelites were saved from temporal death, and through the Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, we are saved from spiritual death of sin, and the eternal death of Hell. The paschal lamb therefore foretold that the future Savior would be unspotted, that He would sacrifice Himself for us; that He would give His life and Blood for us; that not one of His bones would be broken and that we, through His Sacrifice would be saved from death.

 Satisfaction was made to the Divine Justice by our Lord Jesus Christ, because each act of expiation, Jesus being God, had an infinite value.

There is no salvation except through Jesus Christ. The blood of the paschal lamb obtained mercy for the Israelites and saved them from death, only because it was a type of the Redeemer of the world. Its atoning and saving power did not lie in itself, but came from the blood of Jesus whose sacrifice and death were prefigured by the death of the lamb. The Israelites because they sacrificed the paschal lamb and sprinkled their houses with its blood having faith in the future Redeemer, were spared by reason of that faith.

The 3^rd stage came with Moses….After the remultiplication of the human race from Noe, and even though Noe had faithfully delivered to his descendants the oral revelation of God handed down by Adam, men followed their evil inclinations and their faith became weakened. They again began to forget God and God gave Moses a clearer exposition of his religious duties to be put into writing.  This is known as the stage of the written law or that of the Mosaic religion. This is what I have been zoning in and discussing with Leauki. All first born sons were consecrated to God to be the priests of the family. Soon after this, the tribe of Levi was substituted for the first born.

We learn from Jesus that “salvation is from the Jews.” How? Through biblical Judaism!

The 4^th and final stage is God’s revealed religion (biblical Judaism) perfectly fulfilled in every detail by Jesus Christ, who gave the more perfect and eternal law –Christianity—which only the Catholic Church teaches in its fullness and on Christ’s promise will teach until the end of the world.

A classic Lula theological conclusion! Very quotable.

Studying Christ's death on the Cross from the New Testament.....

The reason why our Lord chose death on the Cross is becasue this way offered the complete satisfaction for our sins. Remember, man had offended God by a disobedience which sprang from pride when he desired to "be like unto God". The Divine Redeemer atoned for this pride by choosing the most painful and ignominious of deaths.

Under the Old Law the dead body of a criminal was hung upon a cross as a token that the man was cursed of God and rejected by the people and yet Jesus suffered Himself to be hung on the Cross while alive. For this reason St.Paul writes, "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, (meaning from sin)being made a curse for us: for it is written (Deut. 21:23) "Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree." So, by dying on the Cross this way, Christ abased Himself as far as He could, so as to offer satisfaction for our pride. In the same way, He atoned for our disobedience, for He became "obedient unto death, even to the death on the Cross." Phil. 2:8.

Our Lord chose to die on the Cross to show His unbounded love for us in a way whcih we could not mistake, and to move our hearts to love Him in return. When on the Cross, He suffered the severest torments of Body and Soul, pouring out His Precious Blood for our sakes, slowly, and drop by drop. "He hath loved us and washed us from our sins with His blood" says St.John in Apoc. 1:5.  

St. Augustine wrote, "See, see the wounds of the Crucified, the Blood of the dying, the ransom paid by the Redeemer; His Head is bowed down to kiss us; His heart is open to love us; His Arms are spread to embrace us' His whole Body is given to save us."

  Of the Cross itself Catholic theology teaches....

It stands upon the earth and rasies itself towards heaven, sto signify that our Lord, when lifted up upon the Cross between Heaven and earth, purified this sinful earth and reconciled it to Heaven. The four arms of the Cross signify the universality of Redemption, all men being saved by Christ crucified. They are symbols of the four parts of the world, pointing when the Cross is laid down, to the North, South, East and West and signifying that all men, all over the face of the globe, have a share in the fruits of Redemption. In the Cross alone is salvation, and from it flow all graces and blessings. Thus it is that in all her benedictions, the Chruch makes use of the sign of the Cross and whenever a Catholic makes the sign of the Cross, he confesses his faith in the crucified Son of God.

Only for those who don't believe it.

It's not what I want....it's what is!

What is...is God's one true revealed holy religion and the way He prescribed worship which is through God ordained sacrifice on an altar prepared and sanctified for the Lord....that can only be biblical Judaism full blossomed into Catholicism.

Under the OLd Law what was sacrificed was given to God and had to be wholly consumed in His honor. So the victims were killed and burnt, and wine was poured out and incense was burnt. These actions were meant to express on part of him who made the offerieng a thought of faith, and thanksgiving to God acknowleding we owe our life to Him. The bloody sacrifices were sacrifices of expiation, and for this reason the person who offered it laid his hand on the head of the victim as a token that he laid his sins on it, and sacrificed it as a substitute for himself.

Under the Old Law these sacrifices could not obtain inward sanctification, but only outward justice and a legal purification by which those who made it were made clean in the eyes of the law, and were enabled to take part in public worship of God. These sacrifices though always pointed to the one atoning Sacrifice of Christ as His is the only source of grace and pardon. The chief significance of biblical Judaism sacrifices lay in their being types of the most holy and world-redeeming Sacrifice of Christ.

The bloody sacrifices were typical of His bloody Sacrifice on the Cross, and the unbloody sacrifices were typical of the Holy Sacrifice of the HOly Mass and the meat-offerings, the clean oblation, of Holy Communion of the Blessed Eucharist.

All the sacrifices of the Old Law found their fulfillment in the sacrifice of Christ becasue He is the Real Sacrifice, and it had infinite efficacy to blot out all sin and win grace for mankind. It was real becasue Christ as True Man took the sins of the world upon Him. It had infinite efficacy becasue Christ is also True God and so able to make infinite satisfaction to the divine justice.

The Sacrifice of Christ is the true holocaust becasue He shed all His Blood and was consumed by the fire of infininite love in honor of His heavenly Father. It was a sin-offering in the highest sense of the wrod becasue it took away the sins of the owrld and cancelled the debt of mankind. It was the greatest of peace-offerings becasue it reconciled heaven to earth, and brought peace to the world. 

SInce OUr Lord offered Himself as Sacrifice the typical sacrifices of the OLd Mosaic Law have lost all efficacy and all legitimate existence.

The priesthood of the Old Mosaic Covenant was a type of priesthood of the New COvenant. As there was a graduation in the former, so is there in the latter. The graduation in the Catholic Chruch is twofold ...one of order according to Melchesidech...Bishops or High Priests, Priests and Deacons or ministers and one of jurisdiction.  ie power of ruling Pope, Patriarchs, Archbishops or Metropolitan, Bishops and priests. As in the OT, there was only one High Priest, so the CC considered as a whole has only one High Priest the BIshop of bishops, whom we call the Pope who is the visible representatvie of our Invisible High Priest, Jesus Christ. And even as the High Priest of the OT was called "Holy of the Lord" , so do we call the Pope, "Holy Father", becasue he fills the holiest office on earth.    

The Jewish priesthood was propagated by natural descent, the Catholic priesthood is perpetuated by spiritual descent, that is by means of Apostolic Holy Orders, which is one of the 7 Sacraments by the laying on of hands ...Book of Acts. The Jewish priests could only offer typical sacrifices, Catholic priests offer up to God the true Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world. The former partook of earthly meat-offerings, the latter receive the priceless Flesh and Blood of the Divine Savior .

Catholics have great reverence for the priesthood for they are "ministers of Christ and the dispensers of the mysteries of God." 1Cor. 4:1.

As far as worship of Almighty God in the way He prescribed, Islam doesn't even come close. As a matter of fact, nothing in Protestantism does either.

Yeah, right. The prophets prepared the Jews for a corporeal god and a Trinity by repeatedly claiming that G-d is not corporeal, that Jews are not allowed to pray to anything corporeal, and that G-d is ONE (not three, ONE).

It's time for unbelieving non-Jews to learn that their Messiah is theirs, not mine.