The Old Testament Offerings part eight

 The Israelite nation, liberated from slavery in Egypt, represented the entire human race whom God will save either by His grace or by His fiery wrath against evil. The deaths of the Egyptian firstborn and the drowning of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea represented all of the spiritual dead that Christ will cast into the lake of fire. Most of the priests represented those humans who will obtain salvation by grace except that some rebellious priests represented the apostates within Christianity.

The half shekel of silver that the Lord commanded all of the Israelites above the age of twenty to pay for their redemption represented the living souls and spirits of all humans whom God will raise from the dead in Revelation 20:5. Exodus 30:11-16. The half shekel of silver could not represent salvation by grace because God provides grace without works. Ephesians 2:8-9. The half shekel of silver represented the good works that God has given to all living humans that He will recover and raise from the dead for Him to recreate. John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:5. These resurrected living humans will give their good works back to God, who gave them to them in the first place, and He will give them rewards for their good works when He recreates them to live righteous lives on His recreated earth. Revelation 22:11-12.

God commanded that the half shekel of silver should not be paid by anyone under twenty years old. God commanded that the second generation of Israelites should conquer the Promised Land. This second generation represented all humans who would obtain salvation by God's grace. All of the first generation of Israelites, except for Joshua and Caleb, died in the wilderness which represented all who die while not in a state of grace. The Promised Land did not represent Heaven. The Promised Land represented the state of grace and sanctification, but every believer must fight the forces of evil well to win a personal victory over sin and evil in their own lives. Believers saved by grace who win the victory will achieve a state of rest while in the state of grace. Hebrews 3:7-11; Hebrews 3:17-19; Hebrews 4:9-11. But those believers who fail to fight evil well and who do not find rest from the fight will nevertheless never lose their state of grace. Christ has promised that He will cause all living humans saved by grace to become thoroughly cleansed and forgiven before He allows them to enter into Heaven. Ephesians 5:25-27. The whole book of Joshua represents the battles that every believer saved by grace has with the forces of evil in their own lives. Hebrews 4:1-11.

The Old Testament Offerings part seven

 In Leviticus 6:8-13, God informs all humans that the burnt offering symbolizes God's salvation of every living human who does not get saved by grace. The priest put on linen clothes which symbolized the purity of Christ. He recovered the ashes from the burnt offering and put them in a clean place. This action of the priest symbolized that God will use His fiery wrath against sin and evil to dissolve every living human not saved by grace, recover their "ashes" which symbolized the elements of their good and living natures, and put their "ashes" in a clean place which symbolized that God will recover their good elements for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. The priest changed his clothes before he carried the ashes to a clean place which symbolized that God will recreate every living human not saved by grace with the earthly righteousness that He gave to Adam and Eve. I Corinthians 15:40. God commanded the priest to never let the fire go out which symbolized the eternal lake of fire that will forever burn the dead and evil natures of all humans who do not get saved by grace. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 3:11-15.

God commanded that other types of offerings be made by the priests, but they all were directly connected to the sin offerings and the burnt offerings which alone God gave for the forgiveness of sins. The meal offering was made without leaven, which symbolized sin, and with salt, which symbolized God's preservation of every living human that He creates and loves. The absence of leaven symbolized the purity of Christ which is absolutely necessary for the salvation of all living humans. God commanded that salt be added to every sin and burnt offering to symbolize that God will preserve the living souls and spirits of all humans. Leviticus 2:1-16; Psalm 36:6; Mark 9:49-50. God commanded the priests to eat some of the meal offering and some of the other types of offerings to symbolize that all living humans who spiritually partake of the blood and water that Christ shed on the cross will obtain salvation by grace, and all living humans who partake of Christ while confined to the regions of death will obtain a living resurrection for God to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Matthew 26:26-28; John 6:53-58; John 6:63; Hebrews 2:9; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

God commanded that the priests make a peace offering in connection with both the sin offerings and the burnt offerings to symbolize the peace and joy that God will give to all living humans saved by grace and to all living, resurrected humans whom He will recreate to live righteous lives on His recreated earth. John 14:27; Revelation 21:1-5.

God commanded that the priests make a trespass offering in connection with both the sin offering and the burnt offering to symbolize the fact that any sin against one's fellow human is also a sin against God. Leviticus 5:1-19; Leviticus 6:1-7. Most trespass sins were done through ignorance which meant that the weak, living nature of humans sinned because of the influence of their evil natures. But God will turn even a cruel and deliberate sin, which is wholly evil, into a sin of weakness if a person truly repents and begs God for forgiveness. I Timothy 1:15; I Corinthians 6:9-11; Luke 22:61-62. But all that is wholly evil in humans, which is spiritual death, God will separate from all living humans in the end of the world, and He will cast it all into the lake of fire because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32; John 16:7-11; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 15:13; Hebrews 2:9-15; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12. Jesus' prayer to His Father from the cross in Luke 23:34 ensures that God will forgive every sinner who repents of their sins that nailed Jesus to the cross, and God will eventually cause all living humans to repent and believe. But that deliberate evil that the Devil injected into the inner beings of every human that attempts to murder God on the cross and never repents, God will separate from every living human in the end of the world and cast those spiritual deaths into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 12:31-32; John 12:31-32; I John 3:8.

The Old Testament Offerings part six

 Aaron, who as High Priest symbolized Christ, symbolically put all of the sins and iniquities of all the Israelites on a live goat and sent it into the wilderness. Since the Israelites symbolized the entire living human race, then Christ must remove all of the sins and spiritual deaths of all living humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Leviticus 16:20-22; Revelation 20:11-15. The live goat symbolized Christ's descent into Hell and His resurrection from the dead victorious over all sins and evil. John 16:33; Revelation 1:17-18.

Even though the priests offered sacrifices for the whole nation, every individual Israelite could request that a sin offering or a burnt offering be made for them for the forgiveness of their sins. If two turtledoves or pigeons were brought to the priest, one would be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. This indicated that both types of offerings were efficacious for the forgiveness of sins. This fact indicates that a higher form of salvation by God's grace, and a lesser form of salvation by God's fiery wrath against sin and evil, Christ would accomplish through His suffering and death on the cross, His burial, His descent into Hell, and His glorious resurrection. Leviticus 12:8. God promised every faithful Israelite who kept His commandments, including the sin offering and the burnt offering, an eternal life on His recreated earth. Deuteronomy 4:40. God also promised that "the strangers will be joined with them," which can only mean that every living human who has done some good in their lives that God gave them to do, He will resurrect to a recreated life on His recreated earth. Isaiah 14:1; John 5:28-29.

Some people have lived very evil lives on the earth. But no living human has ever been totally evil. If they had been, they would have been demonic and incapable of doing any good whatsoever. God creates living humans in His image which means He puts some good into them, and all humans do at least some of that good. Genesis 1:31. Even the maniac of Gadara was not totally evil because the good part of his nature ran to Jesus and worshiped Him. Luke 8:28. Even Judas Iscariot was not wholly evil because he suffered remorse and tried to repent, but he could not repent to God. Matthew 27:3-5. God will eventually cause every good and living soul and spirit on the earth or confined to the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of God of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14. God will dissolve their lives by His fiery wrath to separate their good lives from their evil natures which are foreign to them. Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will recreate their good lives to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their evil, dead natures into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5. The living souls and spirits of humans who deliberately practiced evil will receive few rewards and a demoted position in their recreated lives on the new earth. Because God will be able to recover only a small amount of goodness from evil people for Him to recreate to be righteous, these living humans will possess completely different personalities than their mostly evil personalities that they had on the old earth. John 12:25. Those who "hate his life in this world," which means they will hate their sins and evil within them, will be those who will be likely to repent and believe in Christ and obtain salvation by His grace. John 5:24; John 3:3.

The Old Testament Offerings part five

 God gave both the sin offering and the burnt offering back to the Israelites just before their exodus from Egypt. Both sacrifices were for the forgiveness of sins. Exodus 12:1-13; Leviticus 4:20; Leviticus 5:10. At that time, the Israelites symbolized the entire human race who would ever live, and all other people who practiced idolatry and child sacrifice symbolized total evil and all of the devils from Hell and Satan as well. The priests offered both the sin offerings and the burnt offerings for the salvation of all the Israelites which also symbolized the salvation that God would provide for every human who would ever live. But God commanded the High Priest once a year in October to bring only the blood of a sin offering into the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle and sprinkle that blood on the Mercy Seat above the Ark of the Covenant. This action by the High Priest symbolized that only humans who would become washed in the blood and water of Christ and saved by grace will God allow to live with Him in Heaven forever. Leviticus 16:2; Leviticus 16:13-17; Leviticus 16:29-34. When Christ died on the cross, God rent the veil of the Holy of Holies in the Temple to symbolize that all living humans saved by grace could then enter into Heaven to live there with God forever. Mathew 27:51.

But the blood of the sin offering that the priest sprinkled on the horns of the brazen altar in front of the Tabernacle, and that he poured out at the bottom of the altar, and the fat he burned on that altar, and the rest of the sacrificed parts of the animals that were burned outside the camp symbolized God's lesser form of salvation for all humans who did not get saved by grace. Hebrews 13:10-14; Leviticus 16:17-28; Hebrews 2:9-14; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10; John 12:31-32. The sin offering and the burnt offering which the priest made outside the Tabernacle were inextricably connected, but the blood brought into the Holy of Holies by the High Priest alone symbolized God's salvation by His grace given to all humans who would repent and believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh. Christ is that perfect High Priest. Hebrews 9:22-28.

The sin offerings and the burnt offerings that the priests made outside the Tabernacle symbolized God's use of His fiery wrath against sin and evil to save all of humanity who do not get saved by grace. All living humans must repent and believe in order to be saved by God's higher and lower forms of salvation. God must consign all living humans who fail to get saved by grace to one of the three regions of death after they physically die. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. But God will cause all living humans confined to the regions of death, and those who live on the earth, to repent and believe in the Lamb of God of their own free will as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. The fiery wrath that God uses to cleanse them of all sins and evil must also contain the cleansing blood and water that Christ shed on the cross. Hebrews 9:22. For this reason, the sin offering and the burnt offering were inextricably connected. I Corinthians 3:11-15 describes God's salvation of  "every man" who does not get saved by grace. God must save all living humans because His Love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God must cause all humans to repent and believe of their own free will to prove that His Love is real. Enforced love cannot be real.  God cannot lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God promised in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new." This promise can only mean that God will save and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created that has become sullied by sin and evil, including all living humans. II Peter 3:9-13; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 11:36; John 5:28-29; Psalm 75:3; Isaiah 45:20-25; John 11:25; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 15:13.

The Old Testament Offerings part four

God gave back to the Israelites the sin offering that He first gave to the whole human race when He killed the animal and clothed Adam and Eve with its coat. Genesis 3:21. God also gave back to the Israelites the burnt offering that He first gave to the whole human race when Noah made the first burnt offering sacrifice of animals. Genesis 8:20-21.

God destroyed the entire, evil human race in the great flood except for Noah and his family who found grace in God's sight. Genesis 6:8. God was not angry with these evil humans. God realized that they had not become evil because they sinned. They only inherited spiritual death through intermarriage with the fallen Adamic race. God grieved that He had to destroy all these evil humans in order to cleanse His world of all the huge amount of evil that they had brought into it. Genesis 6:5-7. But God cleansed them of all their sins with the water of His Word at the same time that He killed them. But even though God cleansed them of all their sins for which they were not responsible, He still had to confine their weak spirits to the regions of death because of the spiritual death that still clung to their inner beings. But after Christ took their spiritual deaths upon Himself on the cross, the Spirit of Christ came to them and preached the gospel to them. They all believed which will enable Christ to use His fiery wrath against evil to liberate their living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths. I Peter 3:18-22; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Hebrews 2:9.

The burnt offering of the lamb that God gave to the Israelites, He first gave to Noah after the flood. Genesis 8:20-21. The burnt sacrifice cannot be made without the sin offering. Christ had to shed His blood and water on the cross to save by His grace before He could dismiss His Spirit to descend into Hell to save the rest of humanity. When God gave the burnt offering to Noah, He did not mention the sin offering. God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve to symbolize salvation by His grace, but He gave the burnt offering to Noah to symbolize His lesser from of salvation for the rest of humanity.

God specifically told Noah the reason that He gave him the burnt offering. When God killed the entire, evil human race in the flood, He had to send their living souls and spirits that He had created in His image to the regions of death because they still retained their evil natures. God's judgment of them grieved Him because He had not, at that time, provided any form of salvation for their living souls and spirits. They existed in constant danger of eternal separation from God. God cannot lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 36:6; Romans 11:36. God gave the sin offering to the Adamic race through Seth only, not to the evil humans whom He destroyed in the flood.

But God provided for the lesser salvation of all living humans who do not become saved by grace when He gave the burnt offering to Noah. God told Noah that He would remove the curse of the ground "for man's sake" even though the hearts of all humans would be filled with evil. This promise can only mean that God will liberate all living humans from the curse of the ground which are the regions of death. Revelation 20:13. God also told Noah that He would never again "smite the living." This promise can only mean that God will never again kill all living humans with no plan for their salvation. These prophesies can only mean that at some time in the future, God will use His fiery wrath against evil, symbolized by the burnt offering, to liberate all living humans from the cursed ground for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Genesis 8:20-21; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 15:13; I Timothy 4:10. I Corinthians 3:11-15 speaks about "every man," not just humans saved by grace, and God's Word means exactly that which it states.

The Old Testament Offerings part three

 God commanded the Israelites to burn all parts of the lamb that were left over after the Passover. This command meant that Christ would accomplish the salvation of the entire human race. God gave a burnt offering to the Israelites that symbolized Christ's descent into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of all humanity that Christ bore on the cross who failed to get saved by grace. Psalm 16:10. Since, at that time, the Israelites represented the entire human race, then God's command that they all eat some of the roasted lamb symbolized that God will cause all humans to spiritually partake of the body of Christ by faith for their eventual salvation. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. The burnt offering, which must always follow the sin offering, were both given by God to symbolize forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God. Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 4:20; Leviticus 5:10. The burnt offering also symbolized that God will use His fiery wrath against evil in the end of the world to dissolve the systems of every individual human confined to the regions of death in order to separate their repentant, living natures that He created and loves from their dead, evil natures that He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

All living humans who become saved by grace, Christ saved at the time that He shed His blood and water on the cross, but that salvation does not become actual until the Holy Spirit imparts that blood and water to the inner being the moment those humans repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. I Corinthians 6:11. In a similar manner, the Spirit of Christ left behind in Hell the sins and evil of all humans who did not get saved by grace when He rose immaculate from Hell to reanimate the perfect, dead body of Jesus who rose immaculate from the dead victorious over all sins, evil, and death itself. Revelation 1:17-18; I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 15:22. But that lesser form of salvation does not become actual until all living humans confined to the regions of death repent and believe in the Lamb in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. At that time in the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against sin and evil to dissolve the systems of every believer within the regions of death in order to separate their living souls and spirits for Him to recreate from their dead and evil natures that He will cast into the lake of fire. Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:26-31; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38; II Timothy 1:9-10.

The Old Testament Offerings part two

 God will cast only the evil that He has cursed into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. In Genesis 3:14-21, God did not curse Adam and Eve. God cursed only the Devil and the ground that holds all evil and spiritual death. God promised Eve that she would be "the mother of all living," and in light of Luke 20:38 and Ecclesiastes 3:14, God must forever save all living humans whom He creates and loves. I Corinthians 13:8. The only difference happens to be that God will provide a higher form of salvation for humans saved by His grace and a lower form of salvation for all other living humans.

God killed an animal and shed its blood to clothe Adam and Eve with its coat. God gave this first sin offering to symbolize that the coming Savior that He had promised would shed His blood and water on a cross to cleanse and forgive all living humans who would ever repent and believe in this Savior while still alive in the flesh. This sin offering symbolized God's salvation by grace. Genesis 3:21; John 5:24. All living humans saved by grace obtain a home with God in Heaven forever. I Peter 1:3-5.

God gave this same sin offering to the Israelites just before He liberated them from slavery in Egypt. At that time, the Israelites symbolized the entire living human race that God will liberate from slavery to the Devil. Pharaoh and his people, who worshiped evil gods, symbolized the regions of death which holds all evil. The deaths of the Egyptian firstborn symbolized the spiritual death that God will remove from all living humans. Exodus 11:4-6. God commanded that the Israelites kill a perfect lamb, which symbolized the sacrifice of the coming Lamb of God, put its blood on their lintels and doorposts which symbolized the shape of a cross, and the death angel who killed the firstborn would pass over them. God commanded all of the Israelites to roast the lamb and eat some of it. God also commanded that the rest of the lamb should be burned before the morning. These commands symbolized that eventually God will save the entire living human race, some by His grace and all others confined to the regions of death in a great worship service just before the final, general resurrection when Christ will reveal Himself to them, and they will repent and believe that He is the Lamb of God who alone can save them. At that time, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the individual systems of every one of these believers in order to separate their dead, spiritual natures for Him to cast into the lake of fire from their repentant, living natures which He will recreate to live on His recreated earth. The Israelites had to have symbolized the entire living human race because God gave them both a sin offering and a burnt offering to save them all. Exodus 12:1-13; John 6:47-51; John 11:25; Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Isaiah 45:20-25; Isaiah 66:22-24; Genesis 8:20-21.

The Old Testament Offerings part one

 In the Old Testament, God commanded that two types of offerings be made for the forgiveness and remission of sins; that is, a sin offering and a burnt offering. Both of these animal sacrifices symbolized all that the coming Savior would do to save the entire human race from all sin and evil. The sin offerings symbolized the blood and water that Christ would shed on the cross to save by His grace all who would repent and believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. Revelation 1:5; I John 1:9; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:21. The burnt offerings symbolized the descent of Christ's Spirit into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Christ bore on the cross. Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:26-31;  Genesis 8:20-21. The innocent Spirit of Christ rose from Hell to reanimate the innocent and perfect body of Jesus, transformed His physical body into a spiritual body, and raised Christ from the dead victorious over all sin, evil, and spiritual death itself. I Peter 3:18; Revelation 1:17-18. Since Christ has "abolished death" as II Timothy 1:10 clearly states, then spiritual death can have no more power whatsoever over any living human. Since the gospel has also "brought life and immortality to light," then every living human whom God has created and loves must receive some form of salvation. John 1:9; Luke 19:10; Luke 20:38; John 11:25. Jesus clearly taught in John 5:28-29 that in His final Judgment and general resurrection in the end of the world, he will raise all of His good and living souls and spirits from the dead, and He will cast their separated, evil natures into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. Even the most evil human cannot be totally evil. All humans possess a good, living soul and spirit that God puts into them when He creates them in His image. Genesis 1:27. Even Judas Iscariot displayed some goodness still left in him when he felt remorse and tried to repent for his betrayal of Jesus. Matthew 27:3-5.

No verse in the Bible (KJB) teaches that if a person rejects Christ until his physical death, then his living soul and spirit will be lost from God's Love forever. John 11:25 flatly contradicts this doctrine. I Corinthians 13:8 also contradicts this doctrine. Ecclesiastes 3:14 clearly teaches that God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves, as does Psalm 36:6. Jesus taught in John 12:46-48 that He would not judge unbelievers while in physical form in the world because He came "to save the world." Christ cannot fail to do whatever He says He will do. In verse 48, Jesus taught that in His last Judgment, only dead unbelievers will be judged by His Word. In Revelation 20:11-15, "the books were opened," which can only be the Word of God, and only the evil dead will be judged by God's Word and cast into the lake of fire, not living humans whom God will raise from the dead in Revelation 20:5.

In Mark 9:44, 46, and 48, Jesus did not teach that living humans will ever be cast into an eternal lake of fire. He taught that their "worm" would be in the lake of fire. The Bible (KJB) uses the word "worm" to refer to the dead and evil natures of humans that God will separate from all living humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. When Jesus taught this, He probably referred to Isaiah 66:22-24 which teaches that God will raise all living humans from the dead in the end of the world, and they will be able to observe their own "worms" in the eternal lake of fire. In Isaiah 14:9-11, God prophesies that when He casts the Beast into the lake of fire, only the dead will be there, and he will be covered by "worms." God commanded the Israelites in the desert to eat all of the manna that they gathered in one day and not leave any of it until the morning. The manna symbolized the good life that God gives to every human, but when they disobeyed God and left some of it until the morning, "it bred worms and stank," which symbolized spiritual death which the Devil has injected into all humans similar to the eggs of the worms which had to have come from the air. Exodus 16:18-20; John 6:31-33; Luke 20:38; Psalm 36:6.