Do You Now Offer Sacrifices and Offerings in the Wilderness?

Vass notes that they take this to be a reference to the fact that sacrifices were not offered during god's favor shown to israel in the wilderness. Vass: Once that favor has been withdrawn, it is never going to avail to offer sacrifice with a heart that continues to be hard against god if you refuse to repent and yet rely on the outward offering of sacrifice. "Once the divine favor has been lost due to ted sin, you are most certainly going to be sent into exile," he says.