The answer
Prophecies of the Old Testament clearly point out to the future establishment of the altar of the New Testament: “For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; in every place incense shall be offered to My name, and a pure offering …” (Mal. 1:11); and “In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt … then the Lord will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day, and will make sacrifice and offering” (Isa. 19:19–21).
The Lord says, “Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar” (Matt. 5:24).
The Apostle Paul warned, “you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons” (1 Cor. 10:21).
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty