The End of Animal Sacrifice

Why do God’s people no longer worship Him with animal sacrifices? Today, R.C. Sproul teaches that the Old Testament sacrifices pointed to Jesus and were fulfilled in His perfect self-sacrifice for the sins of His people.

All the sacrifices that had been offered by the priests in the Old Testament were basically symbolic, and they were mere shadows of the full and perfect sacrifice that was to come and that would be offered once and for all. We don’t repeat animal sacrifices in the Christian church today because everything that the animal sacrifice pointed to was fulfilled in the perfect sacrifice of Jesus. And Jesus not only was the person or the subject who offered the perfect sacrifice, but He was the object of His own sacrifice because He was sacrificing Himself.