Books Published by Michal E. Hunt
In God's
gift of divine Law and the Liturgy of worship to Israel at Mount Sinai, He
ordained a single sacrifice as the center of the sacrificial system—the Tamid
sacrifice. The Hebrew word "tamid" means "standing" as in
perpetual or continual. The ritual of the Tamid was a daily communal sacifrice
for the atonement and sanctification of the covenant people and was the focus
of religious life for the Israelites in covenant union with the God of their
forefathers. No other sacrifices were to take precedence over the Tamid
sacrifice.
The mystery of the single sacrifice of two Tamid lambs is revealed in the Passion of the Christ—He who is fully man and fully God. Jesus became the true Tamid Lamb that all past Tamid lambs prefigured. Just as the unblemished Tamid lamb was the "standing" sacrifice presented continually on the altar of sacrifice in the Jerusalem Temple, Jesus is the unblemished Lamb "standing" before the throne of God in the heavenly Temple, offering a sacrifice that is continually made present on the Eucharistic altar in the sacrifice of the Mass.
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When the Israelites strayed from obedience to covenant union with God, He sent His prophets to call them to repentance and return to fellowship with Him.
The prophets received vivid and frightening oracles and visions of armies of locusts, fiery chariots, monsters of land and sea, and the unstoppable force
of God's divine wrath poured out like a flood to bring the people to repentance. However, there were four recurring images: covenant marriage, a fruitful
vineyard or fig tree, shepherding domesticated animals, and drinking wine. Each recurring image group consisted of four parts: covenant unity, rebellion,
judgment, and the promise of restoration. In His ministry, Jesus used the same four symbolic images to call humanity with the promise of eternal salvation
in a new and everlasting covenant Kingdom.
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