Sacrifices: Could not Take Away Sin

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.

It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. …