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.