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.