Donna,

Thank you very much for your answer, and the link to the Never Thirsty website.

What was said in that article, was what I thought for many years.

Israel was told to keep the passover as a memorial, and in the new testament the crucifixion is remembered by the Lord's supper.

Memorial is used 31 times in the scriptures, and the various forms of remember, remembered, remembering, etc. is used 262 times.

Yet, in Ezekiel chapters 40 - 48, neither are used.

Ezekiel never mentions that the things that he wrote about would be done in remembrance.

Ezekiel did not mention the coming crucifixion of the Messiah, that would fulfill all the types and patterns.

Ezekiel also did not mention what would later be revealed in the book of Hebrews:

Hebrews 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

  12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

  14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

  24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

The priesthood has been changed from the order of Aaron to the order of Melchisedec.

Also, Ezekiel did not mention that the first covenant sacrifices were imposed "until" the time of reformation:

Hebrews 9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

  10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

There is a remembrance involved with the first covenant sacrifices.

However, it is a remembrance of sins, not of Jesus' sacrifice:

Hebrews 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

  4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Ezekiel mentions the sin offering:

Ezekiel 40:39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

The sin offering is then mentioned 13 more times in Ezekiel chapters 42-46.

Yet the book of Hebrews says:

Hebrews 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

  18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

There will be no more sin offering.

The first covenant sacrifices were a shadow of the ultimate new testament sacrifice of Jesus, himself.

The Lord's supper remembers the new testament sacrifice.

First covenant sacrifices, by type and picture, looked forward to the new covenant.

But the new covenant priesthood of our great high priest Jesus, after the order of Melchisedec,

is not going to be changed back to the order of Aaron, and undo the priesthood of Jesus.

Neither will old covenant sacrifices be used again in remembrance of the new covenant sacrifice.

At the timing of the writing of Hebrews:

Hebrews 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Shortly afterwards, the temple was destroyed by the Romans.

Any attempt to restart first covenant sacrifices in the tribulation temple will be an abomination.

How could the LORD be pleased with the blood of bulls and goats, by those still rejecting Jesus' blood?

But in the kingdom, there will be no need to remember Jesus, as he will be here.

Nor will there be a need to kill lambs to remember the Lamb of God, since he will be here.

The holes in his hands will remind them of his crucifixion.

So, why did I for so many years, like the writer of the article, think like that?

That sacrifices of the old covenant, which vanished away, would be restarted?

And that they would be restarted by a priesthood that has already been changed to another priesthood?

Well, for myself, I thought if Ezekiel said they will happen, then they absolutely will.

However, has the LORD ever said something will happen, or has had someone say something will happen,

but that something not happen like it was said?

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Adam and Eve ate of it, but instead of the LORD killing them, he killed animals instead, and made coats of skins for them.

Yes, they died spiritually, but someone had to die, and blood had to be shed.

But the LORD in his mercy killed the animals instead, a picture of Jesus being killed in our place.

Or when the LORD had Jonah preach to Nineveh:

Jonah 3:1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

  2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

  4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Jonah preached as he was bid, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown".

There was no call for repentance, yet the city repented, and was not overthrown.

Like with Adam, the LORD extended mercy to Nineveh, and not doing what he originally had Jonah say.

He also said, "The wages of sin is death", but in mercy, allows the sacrifice of Jesus to supersede that, if we will believe.

In a similar fashion, before the LORD fully revealed what the new covenant sacrifice would be,

no one considered that the old covenant sacrifices would no longer be needed.

However, those sacrifices are now no longer needed.

So, if we somehow try to keep them, by saying that they must be in remembrance, we go beyond what we should.

It is never said that the old covenant sacrifices in Ezekiel chapters 40-48 are to remember the new covenant sacrifice.

We add that to the scriptures, ourselves, trying to keep those sacrifices going.

Why cannot the sacrifices that Ezekiel spoke of, be like those that Moses spoke of?

Old covenant sacrifices, by an old covenant priesthood.

Both what Moses and Ezekiel mentioned, now are no longer needed, as something better has come?