When did the animal sacrifices stop?
For Jews, who rejected Jesus as
their Messiah, animal sacrifices
were stopped in A.D. 70 when
Jerusalem and the temple were
destroyed by the Romans. Jesus
predicted this in the gospels. For
Christians, animal sacrifices
stopped with the death and
resurrection of Jesus. Some were
pressured by the Jewish community to
continue to offer sacrifices, either
because they rejected Jesus or felt
His death was not enough (works
legalism). The book of Hebrews deals
with this topic; it shows that the
Old Testament sacrificial system was
temporary and that the coming of
Christ fulfilled the sacrificial
system.
