Animal Sacrifices Found in the Old Testament ?

[beameup]

In the very beginning of the discourse they ask him, saying, "When shall these things be?", (Mt 24:3), and he answers them precisely "when" in the closing punch-line statement of the entire passage, which you have failed to recognize:

the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us,
when shall these things be?
and what shall be the sign of thy coming,
and what shall be the sign of the end of the world?

Three distinct questions.
Jesus answered all 3 questions in the passage.

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Here's your problem:
:readthis:
Eisegesis - is the process of interpreting a text or portion of text in such a way that the process introduces one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases into and onto the text.

 

[Jerry Shugart]

I gave you the authority from which I speak: Matthew 11:13.
You rejected that authority.

So what is found in the book of Exodus might or might not have happened? There might have been a man named Moses and maybe not! It is obvious why you do not believe what the Lord Jesus said, as witnessed by His words here:

"For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me" (Jn.5:46).​

There are different theories as to whether the Torah actually records historical events or no...

Your faith is built upon theories but mine is built on the Scriptures. When you see that you are losing an argument you just pull something out of your bag of tricks in the hope that others will be fooled into taking you seriously, like--the Exodus never happened!

 

[daqq]

Three distinct questions.
Jesus answered all 3 questions in the passage.

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Here's your problem:
:readthis:
Eisegesis - is the process of interpreting a text or portion of text in such a way that the process introduces one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases into and onto the text.

Exactly as I said: you are denying what the Master himself said in the final punch-line statement for the entire Olivet Discourse because it does not conform to your own pre-concieved ill-conceived mindset. Shame, shame.

 

[daqq]

So what is found in the book of Exodus might or might not have happened? There might have been a man named Moses and maybe not! It is obvious why you do not believe what the Lord Jesus said, as witnessed by His words here:

"For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me" (Jn.5:46).​

Your faith is built upon theories but mine is built on the Scriptures. When you see that you are losing an argument you just pull something out of your bag of tricks in the hope that others will be fooled into taking you seriously, like--the Exodus never happened!

What is obvious is that you are an intentional slanderer and liar because I clearly said that I do believe the children of Israel were brought forth out of Egypt. Believe what you want to believe but when you need to lie about people it only shows that what you yourself believe is a lie that you cannot defend without attacking others for your own lack of character and truth in what you believe. Your own son was absolutely right about you.

Have a nice thread. :loser:

 

[chair]

That is easy to explain and Stephen said it best:

"Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye" (Acts 7:51).​

Judaism predates Theology and Philosophy. What we have is tradition. Not theories. Blabbering away about theology does not make you closer to God.

 

[beameup]

Exactly as I said: you are denying what the Master himself said in the final punch-line statement for the entire Olivet Discourse because it does not conform to your own pre-concieved ill-conceived mindset. Shame, shame.

Well, the Lord took chapters 24-25 to answer those 3 questions that his "inner circle" asked him.
The "punch line" would be Matthew 25:46 "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."

 

[daqq]

Well, the Lord took chapters 24-25 to answer those 3 questions that his "inner circle" asked him.
The "punch line" would be Matthew 25:46 "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."

You do not even know what a punch-line is?
It is always the final statement in a speech or discourse.
The most important statement out of everything said. :duh:

 

[beameup]

You do not even know what a punch-line is?
It is always the final statement in a speech or discourse.
The most important statement out of everything said. :duh:

There were 3 distinct questions asked. Accordingly, there is no "punch-line".
Additionally, the questions are not answered consecutively.

the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us,
(1)when shall these things be? [re: destruction of Temple]
and (2)what shall be the sign of thy coming,
and (3)what shall be the sign of the end of the world?

 

[daqq]

There were 3 distinct questions asked. Accordingly, there is no "punch-line".
Additionally, the questions are not answered consecutively.

Where did I say any of those other things? I only highlighted the ONE question, "WHEN", which is answered in the punch-line statement at the very end of the discourse; and yes, it is indeed a punch-line because it is the final statement and the answer as to the question of "WHEN". Why are you playing games? I never said anything about the other questions or the order in which they were answered. You are playing games because you are obfuscating and deflecting. You do not believe what the Master says in that passage because, just as I said would be the case, it does not comply with your own concocted dispensational futurist literalist carnal-physical belief system. The only real difference between you and the Preterist is a date: the Preterist says that he believes Josephus, and it all happened in 70AD, while you say that if you do not see it with your own eyes you will not believe it. Both you and the Preterist see all things according to a historical prophetic one-time-only fulfillment physical literalist perspective. And yet here we are two thousand years after the fact and neither of you even have a clue that your belief systems drive people away from the faith because you both must openly reject the Testimony of the Messiah and the Torah to believe the nonsense you believe. Do you not understand that not only the Master but likewise the author of the Apocalypse are subject to what is written in Deuteronomy 18:15-20,21,22? Your version of Messiah and the author of the Apocalypse must be rejected because we are now going on two thousand years and according to you there are things in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and the Apocalypse, which have still not yet come to pass. However it is not that those things never came to pass but that they continue to come to pass; each in his or her own appointed times. Thus it is you and your doctrines which must be rejected according to the Torah. Your version of Messiah is a false Messiah because you say that some of his prophetic statements have not yet come to pass after almost two thousand years now. Have you not waited long enough to know whether or not his words were true? Do you have another two thousand years to wait and see if his words come to pass?

Both you and Jerry are wholly engaged in buffoonery.

 

[Jerry Shugart]

Judaism predates Theology and Philosophy. What we have is tradition. Not theories.

What does your traditions say about the fact that the first-born among the children of Israel were spared the death sentence due to the blood of the passover lambs?

Surely you people must have some teaching about that based on your traditions, don't you?

 

[Jerry Shugart]

This makes sense to you, I gather.

Do not your own Scriptures reveal that the pentalty for sin is death?

 

[Jerry Shugart]

What is obvious is that you are an intentional slanderer and liar because I clearly said that I do believe the children of Israel were brought forth out of Egypt.

At least you believe that but it is obvious that you do not believe what Moses said about the LORD commanding these sacrifices:

"An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee" (Ex.20:24).

Here is what you said about those animal sacrifices commanded by the LORD:

Literal physical animal sacrifice results in blood guilt according to the scripture, (Psalm 51:14, Isaiah 1:15), and is the result of the imagination of an evil heart according to the above passage from Jeremiah, that is, the imagination of an evil heart that does not actually "hear" the Torah and rather walks according to belly, (just as the serpent was cursed to do from the beginning), which is the result of walking according to the lust of the flesh, (the lust to eat the cooked flesh of slain innocent creatures of Elohim).

If you are right then we must believe that the animal sacrifices which resulted in blood guilt were the result of the imagination of an evil heart even though it was the LORD who commanded those animal sacrifices.

Who can take you seriously?

 

[daqq]

At least you believe that but it is obvious that you do not believe what Moses said about the LORD commanding these sacrifices:

"An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee" (Ex.20:24).

Here is what you said about those animal sacrifices commanded by the LORD:



If you are right then we must believe that the animal sacrifices which resulted in blood guilt were the result of the imagination of an evil heart even though it was the LORD who commanded those animal sacrifices.

Who can take you seriously?

And why should anyone take you seriously when you openly reject all of this:

Psalm 40:6, 7, 8
Psalm 50:7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Psalm 51:14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Hosea 14:1-2 KJV
Isaiah 1:10, 11, 12, 15
Isaiah 66:1, 2, 3
Jeremiah 7:21, 22, 23

???

 

[Jerry Shugart]

And why should anyone take you seriously when you openly reject all of this:

I addressed that when I quoted the passage where the LORD commanded sacrifices. Then all you did is quote verses which you seem to think that He commanded no such things even though His testimony cannot possibly be any clearer:

"An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee" (Ex.20:24).​

Then to make it worse you say that the idea of animal sacrifices springs from an evil heart!

 

[daqq]

I addressed that when I quoted the passage where the LORD commanded sacrifices. Then all you did is quote verses which you seem to think that He commanded no such things even though His testimony cannot possibly be any clearer:

"An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee" (Ex.20:24).​

Then to make it worse you say that the idea of animal sacrifices springs from an evil heart!

And I also already responded to that passage so now you are just swimming in circles.

 

[Jerry Shugart]

And I also already responded to that passage so now you are just swimming in circles.

You never give a straight answer. You must be ashamed of your beliefs. That is why you refuse to admit that the LORD commanded these sacrifices:

"An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee" (Ex.20:24).​

 

[daqq]

You never give a straight answer. You must be ashamed of your beliefs. That is why you refuse to admit that the LORD commanded these sacrifices:

"An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee" (Ex.20:24).​

This is why your threads are worthless and a waste of time: for when someone gives an answer to something you post, you wait a page or two and then lie about them as if they never even answered you and refuse to answer you. This passage, as I said, has already been discussed in depth. I have given my response to it several times already. You are lying.

I addressed that when I quoted the passage where the LORD commanded sacrifices. Then all you did is quote verses which you seem to think that He commanded no such things even though His testimony cannot possibly be any clearer:

"An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee" (Ex.20:24).
​

Then to make it worse you say that the idea of animal sacrifices springs from an evil heart!

And I also already responded to that passage so now you are just swimming in circles.

And just as I also said, you are now swimming in circles: shall we just keep reposting the same responses over and over again? Am I supposed to just ignore it when you lie and say I did not respond? Do you think that asking the same question over and over again will sooner or later get you a different response that is more suitable to your own opinions? Do you imagine that truth is just opinion and everything is relative? If what I posted to you is what I believe to be the truth then how is it you think you can now squeeze a different answer out of me this time? My answer is not going to change no matter how many times you either ask the same question or how many times you lie and say I have not answered you. Thus you are indeed swimming in circles because now you are just going to get the same answer already posted twice in this thread. Again, you are wholly engaged in buffoonery.

And that says an altar of adamah which is the altar of the heart, (parable of the Sower).

Exodus 20:24
24 An altar of adamah shall you make unto Me, and shall sacrifice thereon your ascending offerings, (prayer) and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen: (the bullocks of your lips) in all places where I record My name, I will come unto you, and I will bless you.

You are the Land, O man, both the eretz outer bounds, (the flesh), and the adamah; and the adamah is the soil of the heart in supernal Torah by the teachings of Messiah in the Gospel accounts, (such as clearly displayed in the parable of the Sower). The adamah is the soil from which the first man Adam was taken, (Gen 2:7), which when he was cast forth out of Eden he was sent back to till, (and that is symbolism for tilling the soil of the heart after having transgressed). The Torah likewise reveals this supernal truth in the companion passage to Exo 20:24 which you have quoted, (and if not for the Testimony of Messiah in the Gospel accounts I would have never even seen or understood this).

Deuteronomy 5:29
29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Exo 20:24a - "An altar of adamah shall you make unto Me"
Deut 5:29a - "O that there were such an heart in them"

By the companion passage, Deuteronomy 5:29, it is revealed that the altar of adamah-soil from Exodus 20:24 is the heart; just exactly as it is expounded in the parable of the Sower by the Master in the Gospel accounts. Your carnal Pharisaic interpretations of the Torah are an affront because they are an old school Pharisaic flesh-minded carnal argument against the Testimony of the Master Teacher recorded in the Gospel accounts. Again, you are the blind leading the blind.

Exodus 20:24
24 An altar of adamah shall you make unto Me, and shall sacrifice thereon your ascending offerings, [H5930 `olah] (prayer) and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen: (the bullocks of your lips) in all places where I record My name, I will come unto you, and I will bless you.

H5930 עֹלָה `olah (o-law') n-f.
עוֹלָה `owlah (o-law')
1. a step.
2. (collectively) stairs, as ascending.
3. (usually) a holocaust (as going up in smoke).
[feminine active participle of H5927]
Root(s): H5927

H5927 עָלָה `alah (aw-law') v.
1. to ascend.
2. (intransitively) to be high.
3. (actively) to mount.
{used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)}
[a primitive root]
KJV: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.

The Testimony of Messiah in the Gospel accounts has taught me these things.
Too bad you neither understand nor believe his Testimony.

 

[Jerry Shugart]

Elohim does not ask for "death", (as Jerry has said), no, but rather, Elohim wants living sacrifices because Elohim is love, and life, and the Elohim of the living.

Do you deny that the animal sacrifices found in the following verse were according to the commandment of the LORD?:

"An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee" (Ex.20:24).​

Are you really willing to argue that the LORD is speaking about "living sacrifices" in that verse?

Oh, I forgot! You don't answer questions even though you say that you do. Prove to us that you really want an honest discussion on this subject and actually answer these two questions. A simple "yes" or "no" will suffice.

 

[daqq]

Do you deny that the animal sacrifices found in the following verse were according to the commandment of the LORD?:

"An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee" (Ex.20:24).​

Are you really willing to argue that the LORD is speaking about "living sacrifices" in that verse?

Oh, I forgot! You don't answer questions even though you say that you do. Prove to us that you really want an honest discussion on this subject and actually answer these two questions. A simple "yes" or "no" will suffice.

In addition to the Testimony of Messiah in the Gospel accounts there are reasons from within the Torah itself and the Prophets for why I understand these things the way I do. Even from the Torah every man is a little miqdash-temple-sanctuary-chapel, (and the Prophet Ezekiel expounds this along with the true supernal meaning of the adamah-soil of the heart). This has been discussed many times throughout this forum: you deny these things in favor of a literal physical Israel found outlined with borders on your favorite Armageddon apocalypse war maps of the Middle East. How is it my problem you do not believe what the Word of the Father actually says even after it has been explained multiple times? In many of the following quotes you were there in those threads and one of them was even your own thread:

It is yet another body-temple analogy, another "mystery" set in types and shadows. The one new man is both sticks combined: Yhudah is of the holy adamah-soil of the heart, (Zec 2:12-13), while Israel is in the outer eretz-lands of the nations, (the outer bounds or badlands, that is, the flesh, which is the commons-profane area roundabout the outer perimeter of the temple, the eretzot-lands in the allegory). If you understand that the people are the land, (both the adamah-soil of the heart and the eretz-land), then you may begin to truly understand the allegory; for you are the holy temple with its lands, both the holy adamah-soil of the heart and commons or profane which represents the flesh. But sin dwells in the flesh, (Rom 7:18), and therefore we are admonished to mortify or put to death the deeds of the body and our members which are upon the "land", (our own land, which would be eretz if it were written in Hebrew). Therefore those "dwellers" in the outer bounds of the flesh are enemies for the sake of the Gospel, but beloved for the sake of the fathers; and those are the dispersed tribes of Israel, (the house of Israel, the ten northern tribes). The flesh is deceived, partially blind or partially hardened; divide your "land" into "twelve thrones" and rule it with a rod of iron, (by way of the Testimony of Messiah and supernal-spiritual Torah as understood through the lenses of his Testimony, Rom 7:14, 25). Messiah is the power and the wisdom of Elohim; for the foolishness of Elohim is wiser than men, and the weakness of Elohim is stronger and mightier than men. Elohim has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; Elohim has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, and things which are despised, Elohim has chosen: yea, even things which are not, so as to bring to nothing things that are: THAT NO FLESH SHOULD GLORY IN HIS PRESENCE, (Zec 2:12-13).

Then take what is said from Zec 2:12, where adamah is used, ("the holy adamah" which is the adamah-soil of the heart when it has been tilled, and turned, and purged of stones, rocks, and weeds, as in the Parable of the Sower), and compare that with what Paul states in Rom 2:28-29.

Wrong . . .

Exodus 25:1-9
1 And YHWH spoke unto Mosheh, saying:
2 Speak unto bnei Yisrael, that they bring Me an offering: of every one that gives it willingly with his heart shall you take My offering.
3 And this is the offering which you shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass:
4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goat hair:
5 and ram skins dyed red, and tachash skins, and acacia wood:
6 oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense:
7 shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.
8 And let them make Me a miqdash-sanctuary so that I may dwell among them:
9 according to all that I show you, after the pattern of the Mishkan-Tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it.

You either do it or you do not and this is no different from the Testimony of Messiah who clearly teaches that every individual is a house and the same which Paul teaches; how you are the miqdash-body-temple of Elohim. We are admonished to pattern our own little miqdash-chapel-temple after the pattern of the greater Mishkan-Tabernacle with all its vessels. This no doubt means that all such things are supernal in meaning. For the same reasons above, Exodus 25:8-9, the Prophet Ezekiel, a son of Man, writes the following:

Ezekiel 11:14-20
14 Again the Word of YHWH came unto me, saying:
15 Son of man, your brethren, even your brethren the men of your kindred and all the house of Yisrael, all of them are they unto whom the inhabitants of Yerushalem have said, "Get you far from YHWH: unto us is this eretz-land given in possession!"
16 Therefore say, Thus says Adonai YHWH: Although I have cast them far off among the gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the aretzot-lands, yet will I be to them as a little miqdash-sanctuary-chapel in the aretzot-lands where they shall go.
17 Therefore say, Thus says Adonai YHWH: I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the aretzot-lands where you have been scattered, and I will give you the adamat-soil of Yisrael.
18 And they shall enter therein, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, and all the abominations thereof from that place.
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new Spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances, and do them: and they shall be My people, and I will be their Elohim.

The new Spirit is the Testimony of Messiah: the Spirit of the Renewed Covenant.
Sorry for your luck but there is no such thing as "the house of the Gentiles" . . .

There is actually authority from the scripture which explains that statement, (not me, but the scripture), in fact, from the same author; and if any would receive it the passage reveals that the Testimony of Messiah is what is finished when the Master says that at Golgotha. Thus the Testimony of Messiah is itself the "new covenant Spirit", (because testimony is spirit whether for the good or whether for the evil). This may be understood by a simple reading of the following passage without adding any words to it like most English translations do. I have found that from the English renderings the Young's Literal Bible Translation is one of the very few which actually renders it without adding the word "given" into the text. That word, (the Greek equivalent), is not found in any codex or manuscript even though most English renderings incorrectly insert it into the text because they do not understand that the Testimony of Messiah is actually the new covenant Spirit, (meaning that to have "the Spirit" one must actually be IN the Testimony of Messiah to be "IN Messiah", actually DOING his teachings and commandments, and not just claiming some ethereal presence for having made a one-time confession of "faith"). Read the following and understand that when the text says "Jesus was not yet glorified" the author means lifted up at Golgotha, (glorified being the same as exalted or lifted up).

And do not add "given" into the text because it does not belong there:

John 7:37-39 YLT (Young's Literal Bible Translation)
37 And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 'If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;
38 he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'
39 and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

There it is as plain as day:

"For not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified", (at Golgotha).

The "new covenant Spirit" is the Testimony of Messiah, and it was not finished until Golgotha when the Master cried out, "It is finished", meaning his full Testimony; which if we observe, heed, do, and carry out in our own walk, is our sanctification and our salvation because it is the soterion-peace-offering that reconciles us unto the Father.

Ezekiel 11:19-20 KJV
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 18:31 KJV
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:25-27 KJV
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

New Spirit = New Covenant Spirit = Testimony of Messiah.

Face it Jerry: your entire view of the scripture is based on the eyes and mind of the flesh.

 

[daqq]

Do you deny that the animal sacrifices found in the following verse were according to the commandment of the LORD?:

"An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee" (Ex.20:24).​

Are you really willing to argue that the LORD is speaking about "living sacrifices" in that verse?

Oh, I forgot! You don't answer questions even though you say that you do. Prove to us that you really want an honest discussion on this subject and actually answer these two questions. A simple "yes" or "no" will suffice.

And by the way, I did not answer this in the previous post because I also already answered you with the scripture which you then rejected in favor of your own mindset. Thus you also apparently "forgot" that I already answered it with what GOD says but you reject what GOD says.

Jeremiah 7:21-26 KJV
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

Literal physical animal sacrifice results in blood guilt according to the scripture, (Psalm 51:14, Isaiah 1:15), and is the result of the imagination of an evil heart according to the above passage from Jeremiah, that is, the imagination of an evil heart that does not actually "hear" the Torah and rather walks according to belly, (just as the serpent was cursed to do from the beginning), which is the result of walking according to the lust of the flesh, (the lust to eat the cooked flesh of slain innocent creatures of Elohim).

The LORD GOD says He was not speaking of what YOU are thinking in your Pharisaic carnal mindset and lust for the cooked flesh of slain creatures of Elohim with their blood drained. Will you now post the NIV for the Jeremiah 7:22 passage again? If you do I will go get the same response I posted to you the last time, when you posted the corrupt NIV, and you can keep swimming in circles for rejecting what The LORD GOD says in His Word.

Isaiah 55:6-9 KJV
6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.