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.