The Old Testament Offerings part nine

 Moses wrote that the sin offering and the burnt offering would make an "atonement" for those who offered them. This word means "at one with God." But this word had a prophetic meaning only. Animal sacrifices could never make any person one with God. Hebrews 10:4. No one ever becomes one with God in the New Age sense. Jesus did pray that His believers would be one in Him and His Father, but He meant that in a subordinate sense. Jesus sometimes spoke as if He were a mere man, and so He emphasized the subordinate role of humans when He said "for my Father is greater than I." John 14:28. At other times, Jesus spoke as God and openly declared Himself to be One with His Father. John 10:30.

In Exodus 29:32-33, Aaron and his sons ate part of the sin offering which was a symbolic prophecy that believers saved by grace must spiritually partake of Christ in order to receive God's grace. God did not allow the stranger to eat because he symbolized all humans who fail to obtain salvation by grace.

Moses also wrote in Leviticus 1:4 that the person who offered a burnt sacrifice would also achieve "atonement" with God. Leviticus 5:10 also relates that that person would be forgiven by God. But these verses constitute a prophecy fulfilled in the New Testament that all humans not saved by grace will achieve a lesser form of salvation through the descent of the Spirit of Christ into Hell which the burnt offering symbolized.

The Apostle Paul used the word "atonement" in its Old Testament prophetic sense in Romans 5:11 to mean reconciliation with God. The Old Testament word "atonement" has this prophetic meaning. In this verse, Paul wrote only of salvation by grace, but in Romans 5:18-19, Paul wrote that Christ's sacrifice actually saves all humans. Paul's first use of the word "many" in Romans 5:19 can only mean "all humans" since all humans are sinners. Romans 3:23. This fact can also only mean that Paul's second use of the word "many" in this verse can only mean that God will provide for the salvation of all humans. Paul also used the word "reconcile" in Colossians 1:20 to mean that God will save all things that He has created in Heaven and in Earth, including all living humans. Paul wrote in Romans 11:36 that all that went out from God in His creations will come back to Him in recreation, including all humans. Ecclesiastes 3:14. In I Timothy 4:10, Paul flatly states that God will save all humans, especially those who believe while still alive in the flesh which is God's highest form of salvation. In I Corinthians 15:22, Paul outright teaches that Christ will restore to life all humans who are subject to death. I Timothy 6:13.

In John 10:10, Jesus taught that He came to give His life back to all humans, especially His abundant life which He gives to all humans saved by His grace. Jesus taught in John 12:31-32 and in John 16:11 that He came to defeat His enemies which happens to be Satan and all evil, not living humans. Christ said the same to Adam and Eve in the beginning when He cursed Satan and promised to crush his head, but He put no curse on living humans. Genesis 3:14-20. I John 3:8 teaches that Jesus came to "destroy the works of the Devil," not living humans. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. In fact, God promised Eve that she would be "the mother of all living," and in Luke 20:38 Jesus taught that "all live unto Him." Genesis 3:20. Revelation 20:11-15 teaches that Christ will cast only the separated, evil dead into the lake of fire.