The fall of the Temple, Changes WorshipMatthew W. Reckinger-Rowe

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Table of Contents

Introduction2

Worship in the Old Testament2

Passover3

Partakers of Passover and the Lord's Supper3

All are welcome into the God's family4

Seeing the Conversion Differences4

Unity Event4

The Longevity of These Types of Worship5

The fall of the Temple5

Clear Direct Worship5

Today's Worship5

Summary7

References8

The fall of the Temple, Changes WorshipMatthew W. Reckinger-Rowe

What if you could be sanctified and pure enough to worship God directly? In 70 AD, the fall of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was one of the biggest shifts in Jewish-Christian worship that changed the way we, as Christians, are able to worship and interact with God. The ultimate sacrificial lamb had come, giving us the ability to have a pure worship experience that was direct with God through the propitiation for our sins through Jesus. "He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world" (1 John 2:2 ESV) making us holy and blameless in God's sight to welcome our direct worship of Him and to Him.

Introduction

Since the fall of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD, there has been a significant change and transition over the past two thousand years in the Christians worship. Few of the Old Testament worship rituals are still in practice today, such as Passover, Baptism, and the offering of the first 1/10 of their harvest. Even with these Old Testament traditions of worship, these were changed by the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Yeshua. However, they still carry many similarities of each other. The aim of this paper is to discuss the differences of these three forms of worship and also provide examples of new techniques of worship in modern Christianity which is apparent in today's worship practices.

The fall of the Temple, Changes WorshipMatthew W. Reckinger-Rowe

Worship in the Old Testament

Worship through the Laws in the Pentateuch. God is a Holy God, and the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, the sacrifice of animals, and the practice of worship through the offering of the first 1/10 of each harvest allowed the propitiation of worship to reach a Holy God. The sacrifice offered to God from His people, allowed God to accept their repentance of their sins and trespasses. God's people, in the Old Testament, were considered unclean and the Jewish people strived to maintain their cleanliness in the sight of God. We can better understand the purpose and practice of Passover when we compare it with the Lord's Supper. Let us begin by discussing instructions of the Passover found in Exodus.

Passover

In Exodus 12:43-46 (ESV) , it describes the basics of the Institution of the Lord's Passover, "43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44 but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46 It shall be eaten in one ...