Hebrews 8:1-2, 4-5 (NKJV), 1 “Now this is the main point…We have such a High Priest, … in the heavens, 2 a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man. … 4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; 5 who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things,…”
The Law served as a copy and shadow of the reality to come. The reality of the sacrifices was Jesus and the Church class. When Jesus died He, “… wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us,” (Colossians 2:14).
Hebrews 10:1-2, 5, 8-10 NKJV] 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come,… can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? … 5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: ‘Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.’ … 8 Previously saying, ‘Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them’ (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, ‘Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.’ He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.’”
The Law was fulfilled by Jesus and thus God took “away the first (covenant)”. We are to recognize the reality – not the shadow.
During the last supper, when Jesus began the practice of eating the unleavened bread and drinking the wine – He was establishing the memorial or remembrance of His death. He was instructing us to commemorate the reality (not the shadow) of the true sacrifice of His death.
Any who choose to practice the shadow in the Law Covenant after the fulfillment (reality) of that shadow are not recognizing that God has taken away the first covenant in preparation for the New Covenant.
Daniel 9:26-27 (KJV), 26 “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: … 27 And he shall confirm the covenant (70 prophetic weeks of favor for Israel) with many for one week: and in the midst of the week (33 1/2 AD) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease (the sacrifices of the Law ended with Jesus’s death), and for the overspreading of abominations (the continuing sacrifices of the Jews became an abomination to God*) he shall make it desolate…”
Thus, any who continue to practice the typical sacrifices of the Law Covenant are not recognizing that Jesus was the Lamb of God who was the real sacrifice. Those typical sacrifices are now considered an *abomination to God. *D571