“To offer Christ up ‘again’ as a sacrificial offering for sin is an abomination in the sight of God. It is to account the blood of the eternal Son to have no more value than the blood of goats and calves. This is to hold the blood of the covenant to contempt.”
This is the prayer I heard the Holy Spirit make as best as I can remember it. I was in the midst of prayer when I heard a prayer alongside mine, to which I stopped to listen. After making the above statement He went quiet. However this is just my testimony you have to decide for yourselves if it stands true to the word of God.
The offering of Christ as a daily sacrifice in the Mass service has been greatly spoken against by the fathers of the reformation, Luther, Calvin, Knox and so on. They have touched on the point of the real presence and also the withholding of the cup from common people. Now there is a clear distinction to be made between the Lord’s supper and Mass. While in essence they are both practiced in the serving of communion, the Mass is more like the morning and evening sacrifices of the old covenant Temple worship.
However Christ was never to be offered up as a sacrifice by mankind. For this we may look into Christ priestly service as contrasted with that of the Levitical Priesthood. That Christ Himself is a priest though not according to the order of Aaron but of Melchizedek. “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” Psalm 110:4 So Christ is the High Priest of God and He is also the Lamb of God. While the Levitical priesthood depended on the blood of goats and calves to enter into the earthly sanctuary, into the presence of God, Christ entered into heaven itself not by the blood of goats and calves but by His own blood. Christ offered Himself, to make propitiation for sins and to enter the presence of God ONCE and For All.
“Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us…. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Hebrews 9:12,14
Jesus Christ made Himself a sacrificial offering by laying down His life. All the powers of heaven were available to Him, for He says to Peter. “Or do you think that I am not able to call upon My Father, and He will furnish to Me presently more than twelve legions of angels? How then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?” Matthew 26:53-54 So He willingly handed Himself over into the hands of evil men and did not seek to open His mouth to exonerate Himself but submitted Himself to their predetermined plan.
“Therefore does My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again. No man takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.” John 10:17-18
So Christ was never offered up by sinful men as a sacrificial offering, but their act was a means by which He Himself made His blood an offering for sins.
Therefore if we in turn were to offer up Christ as a sacrificial offering, then it means we account the works of the rulers of the people, High Priest, Judas, Pilot, the soldiers who scourged, nailed His hands and feet and pierced His side, and those who mocked and derided Him in the midst of His suffering to be a blessed work. Since it is by their hand Christ was betrayed and crucified therefore made an offering onto God for sins. But the Lord says to them when they came to lay hands on Him, “Every day of Me being with you in the temple, you did not stretch out the hands against Me; but this is your hour, and the power of the darkness.” Luke 22:53
Therefore the offering of the body of Christ in the morning and evening Mass service is to take up their mantle and associate ourselves with the very same deed. It is more a celebration of the hour of darkness rather than the remembrance of what He suffered for us.
When Peter first preached he made this point clear and says, “Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” Acts 2:23 While the sacrifice of Christ is according to the purpose of God the means it was achieved by was through evil and wicked hands. And Peter granting them reprieve from the act so that through repentance they may receive salvation he says, “Now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.” Acts 3:17
And Paul revealing the powers of darkness that were at work to bring about the death of Christ says, “Which none of the rulers of this age has understood. For if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”1 Corinthians 2:8
So if the act was done by wicked hands and they played their part in ignorance then Christ was not an offering made by men. The significance of this point is very simple, every priest that lifts the body of Christ to offer Him as a daily sacrifice for sins, may it be in a symbolic act or not is declaring association with evil and wicked hands. Jesus Christ was NEVER offered up and is NEVER to be offered up by men but He is to be received and remembered.
This being said the astonishing main issue is that such practices account the work of Christ to be unfinished and His blood to have no more value than the blood of the goats and calves. So in keeping with the daily morning and evening sacrifices of Temple worship Christ is also daily offered up for sins against clear cut scriptural truth.
“But this Man, after He had offered ONE sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; From then on waiting till His enemies be made His footstool. For by ONE offering He has perfected forever them that are sanctified.” Hebrews 10:12-14
Now there is another point worth addressing in regard to Mass service, which is the neglect of the blood in the serving of communion.
If by any means if one was to consider [ASSUME] the concept of the Real presence of the body and blood of Christ and its administration in a Mass service as a means for salvation. Then the withholding of the wine [the blood of Christ] from the common people is failure in purpose. While the administration of Mass teaches, one may be saved by partaking of Christ, however at the same time it restricts what is of the highest importance in the act of salvation. Then whoever puts their trust in a Mass service, to achieve forgiveness for sins and to obtain eternal life yet were restricted from partaking of the blood of Christ then they have failed in the very purpose they have sought. Since it is the blood of Christ that is of the supreme importance.
“And having taken the cup and having given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink of it, all of you. For this is My blood of the covenant, being poured out for many, for forgiveness of sins.’” Matthew 26:27-28
This we may clearly illustrate in the redemption of Israel from Egypt. If on the night of the Passover an Israelite sat to eat of the lamb but neglected to put the blood on the doorposts and on the lintel of the house, the first born of that household would have perished along with the Egyptians. For the word of the Lord was, “Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.” Exodus 12:13
And this is what is essentially practiced everyday in the administration of Mass. There ought to be no word wrangling saying, “the body contains the blood” and so on, if that was truly the case why is the priest drinking the wine? Whatever traditional or any other excuse may be offered up for such neglect, it is a clear evidence that the Mass service itself devalues the importance of the blood of Christ. As such the Mass service counters the very thing it believes to administer.
“Therefore brothers, having confidence for entering the holy places by the blood of Jesus.“ Hebrews 10:19
“And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Revelation 7:14
“And they have overcome him by reason of the blood of the Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony; and they have not loved their life unto death.” Rev 12:11
The point we want to make clear is this, Mass is a ritualistic practice which fails in upholding the fundamental truth of Christ and even fails in the simplest instructions of the serving of communion.
Paul striving with his countrymen to convince them of the truth of Christ gave them a warning saying, “Take heed therefore, lest that having been said in the prophets might come about: ‘Behold, scoffers, and wonder and perish; for I am working a work in your days, a work that you would never believe, even if one should declare it to you.’” Acts 13:40-41 The Holy Spirit also gives us a similar warning saying, “For there will be a time when they will not endure sound teaching, but according to the own desires, having an itching ear, they will gather around them teachers to suit themselves, and indeed they will turn away from hearing the truth, and will be turned aside unto myths.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4
Therefore do not relegate the value of your eternal soul to teaching and ritualistic practices that are devoid of truth but you yourselves giving ear to the word of God may determine for yourselves the truth. It is a very poor excuse to jeopardise your soul for the sake of culture and tradition.
“Whatever Distracts, takes away confidence from the simple truth and makes a reliance on anything other than God is an Idol.”
John Knox
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