Question: What was the Daily Sacrifice Daniel spoke of?’ Was it about the sacrifice itself done by the priests daily? Or was it about God’s blessing that resulted from the Daily Sacrifice? Here is the verse in question.
Daniel 12:11-12, “From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days (1290). Blessed is he that waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. (1335)”
The redemptive plan for the Jews was divinely designed by the Lord. All temple sacrifices were to be instituted by divine appointment and were to prefigure the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. God alone orders his form of worship and regards as vain and presumptuous every pretense of honoring him which he has not commanded. The sacrifices commanded represented grace and purity, but these sacrifices did not impart grace and purity.
The proper order of temple sacrifices was made clear to Moses. First, the sin offering on the day of Atonement (Yom Kipper) because this sacrifice occupied the most important place; Yom Kippur is the most holy day for the Jews. After this sacrifice had been offered by the Priest and received by the Lord, only then could the daily sacrifice and the meat offering, or peace offering be made. Only a Priest of the tribe of Levi was permitted into the Holy of Holies on this one holy day as prescribed by the LORD.
Leviticus 16:2, “The LORD said to Moses, --- I will appear in the cloud (smoke of incense) upon the mercy seat.”
Before the Priest entered, his prescribed duty was to fill the Holy Place with the smoke of incense. The reason for the smoke of incense is that if he were to look upon the person of God, he would have been struck dead.
Habakkuk 1:13, ‘You (LORD) are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look at iniquity.’
And it was only upon the Mercy seat that the LORD presented himself in all his glory (the Shekinah glory) to the High Priest. If the LORD accepted the sacrifice, the Priest was cleansed of his sins. Once done, he would cleanse the Tabernacle and make an offering for the sins of the people.
First, he would go behind the curtain with the incense and fill the room with smoke from the incense. He would then sprinkle the blood offering on the Mercy Seat to atone for his sins and then for the people’s sins. Let me repeat: The blood must first be sprinkled on the mercy seat.
This offering protected the people and the Priests from the wrath of God because of their sins. The Day of Atonement took place once each year on the tenth day of October by our calendar and on the seventh month, the tenth day according to the Jewish calendar.
But only on this one specified holy Day of Atonement could the whole system of other sacrifices be cleansed and rebooted.
So, the Daily Sacrifice would be received by the LORD only if the sacrifice on the Day of Atonement was satisfactorily presented. But for 2600 years there existed a problem the Jews were unable to overcome. Without the Ark of the Covenant, and the Mercy Seat, there could not be any acceptable Daily sacrifice because the Day of Atonement did not proceed as prescribed by the Lord.
Daniel 12:11-12, “From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days (1290). Blessed is he that waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. (1335)”
The redemptive plan for the Jews was divinely designed by the Lord. All temple sacrifices were to be instituted by divine appointment and were to prefigure the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. God alone orders his form of worship and regards as vain and presumptuous every pretense of honoring him which he has not commanded. The sacrifices commanded represented grace and purity, but these sacrifices did not impart grace and purity.
The proper order of temple sacrifices was made clear to Moses. First, the sin offering on the day of Atonement (Yom Kipper) because this sacrifice occupied the most important place; Yom Kippur is the most holy day for the Jews. After this sacrifice had been offered by the Priest and received by the Lord, only then could the daily sacrifice and the meat offering, or peace offering be made. Only a Priest of the tribe of Levi was permitted into the Holy of Holies on this one holy day as prescribed by the LORD.
Leviticus 16:2, “The LORD said to Moses, --- I will appear in the cloud (smoke of incense) upon the mercy seat.”
Before the Priest entered, his prescribed duty was to fill the Holy Place with the smoke of incense. The reason for the smoke of incense is that if he were to look upon the person of God, he would have been struck dead.
Habakkuk 1:13, ‘You (LORD) are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look at iniquity.’
And it was only upon the Mercy seat that the LORD presented himself in all his glory (the Shekinah glory) to the High Priest. If the LORD accepted the sacrifice, the Priest was cleansed of his sins. Once done, he would cleanse the Tabernacle and make an offering for the sins of the people.
First, he would go behind the curtain with the incense and fill the room with smoke from the incense. He would then sprinkle the blood offering on the Mercy Seat to atone for his sins and then for the people’s sins. Let me repeat: The blood must first be sprinkled on the mercy seat.
This offering protected the people and the Priests from the wrath of God because of their sins. The Day of Atonement took place once each year on the tenth day of October by our calendar and on the seventh month, the tenth day according to the Jewish calendar.
But only on this one specified holy Day of Atonement could the whole system of other sacrifices be cleansed and rebooted.
So, the Daily Sacrifice would be received by the LORD only if the sacrifice on the Day of Atonement was satisfactorily presented. But for 2600 years there existed a problem the Jews were unable to overcome. Without the Ark of the Covenant, and the Mercy Seat, there could not be any acceptable Daily sacrifice because the Day of Atonement did not proceed as prescribed by the Lord.
