“The Day of the Lord: Phase 3 - The Millennial Kingdom — Christ, the Priest"

We have reached our studies on the Day of the Lord and will introduce the Biblical teaching on the third phase of the Day of the Lord, the 1000 year Millennial Kingdom.  Our focus will initially be limited today and in our next studies on one overall theme of the coming Kingdom, the Three Offices of Israel’s Messiah during that 1000 year dispensational period.  During that period Christ will be manifested openly as Prophet, Priest and, of course also, King.  Today our special focus will be on Christ as the long awaited Priest that Moses had prophesied of in Deut. 18:15 & 18.  Today our study will consider a remarkable fact of the promised Millennial Kingdom, that there will be a continuation during that 1000 year period of animal sacrifices.  Those are clearly promised in the major prophets as we will point out.  Their meaning and intent necessarily will be one of our focal points.  What we shall see is that their purpose is far more than as a “remembrance” looking back to the work of Christ on Calvary.  Most essential for our understanding is that these sacrifices will in some way provide, as the KJV states, both “atonement” and “reconciliation” for those participating in them.  In fact the Law of the Kingdom will command these sacrifices, similarly to what Moses Law also commanded.  Obedience was NOT optional.