God provides some form of salvation for all humans. Hebrews 7:25; II Peter 3:9; I Corinthians 15:22. Eventually, in one way or another, all living humans, created by Him, will come back to faith in Him. Man can have no part in God's salvation whatsoever. Man happens to be far too weak and sullied by sin to ever be able to cleanse and heal himself. Romans 5:6. The pride of man, which was the sin that the Devil injected into the human race, causes man to believe that somehow, in some way, he can at least contribute to his own salvation. Exodus 19:8. God had already provided for the complete salvation of the Hebrew people, but they still wanted to do something that they believed would make them righteous and acceptable with God.
God liberated the Hebrews from bondage in Egypt entirely by means of blood and burnt offering sacrifices. Exodus 12:5-10. The Old Testament blood sacrifices symbolized God's salvation by His grace of all believers in the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized God's salvation of the living parts of all humans confined to the regions of the dead with a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:5. Salvation by grace and sanctification comes from the Holy Spirit washing the believer from his sins with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus' body on the cross. Revelation 1:5; John 13:1-10. Salvation of the living parts of humans in the general resurrection comes from Jesus' descent into hell to leave the sins of all dead humans behind there forever. This had to have happened because Jesus bore all the sins of mankind on the cross but rose from immaculate from the grave.
Although Christ accomplished salvation by grace as He hung on the cross, this salvation does not become actual for the believer until the Holy Spirit washes and sanctifies him with Christ's spiritual blood and water. John 6:63; I Corinthians 6:11. To the same degree, although Jesus left all of the sins of all humans not saved by grace behind Him in hell when He rose immaculate from the grave, the actual separation of the living believer from his sins and spiritual death by God's use of His consuming fire does not occur until the general resurrection from the dead in the end of the world. I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29. God provides a home in heaven for all believers saved by grace. I Peter 1:3-4. God provides a home on His recreated earth for all His living humans that He rescues in the general resurrection. Revelation 21:1-5.
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