On Truth and Falsity

         The Sin Offering and the Burnt Offering

In Leviticus 5:7-10, God commanded that a man who could not bring a lamb for a sin offering could bring two turtledoves or two pigeons "one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering." God clearly meant to demonstrate that the sin offering and the burnt offering be two different and distinct offerings for two different purposes, but they both were for the forgiveness of sins. In the sin offering, the shed blood of a clean animal was always applied to something, to the altar, to the doorposts and lintel of the Israelites in Egypt, to the horns of the altar before the Tabernacle, or applied to the incense altar before the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle. Exodus 12:1-11; Leviticus 4:1-12 (KJB). But except for two notable exceptions, always after the sin offering, the rest of the offered animal had to be burned either on the burnt offering altar outside of the Tabernacle or burned outside the camp. The sin offering symbolized the fact that Jesus would shed His blood on a cross so that He could apply His shed blood to the inner beings of all who would accept His sacrifice by faith before they die. His Spirit will thoroughly cleanse their souls and spirits with the spiritual blood of Christ, and He will make a Tabernacle for Himself in their hearts. John 5:24; I John 1:7; I Corinthians 6:19-20; I Corinthians 6:11 (KJB).

The symbolic purpose of the sin offering was to cleanse and forgive sinners who would become saved by God's grace. The symbolic purpose of the burnt offering was to burn up all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil so that God could separate it all from the rest of humanity, forgive them, and provide them with a lesser form of salvation.

In the case of the man who brought two turtledoves or two pigeons for his sin offering, one was made a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. These were two separate and distinct offerings. Yet, the man could be forgiven for his sins because of the burnt offering alone apart from the sin offering. Leviticus 5:10 (KJB). The other notable exception was that the priests could offer a meat offering to the Lord. This offering was not the meat of an animal, but it was flour seasoned with oil and frankincense. This offering was not a blood sacrifice, and yet, this burnt offering was just as holy as was the sin offering, and all who ate of it were holy. Leviticus 6:14-18 (KJB). In addition, whenever the priests made a specific burnt offering, they would take the ashes of the burnt offering to a "clean place," and God commanded that they would continuously feed wood to the fire in the altar of the burnt offering to never let it go out. Leviticus 6:8-13 (KJB). Also at times, some of the leftover meat of the animals that were burned on the altar would be taken outside of the camp and burned. Leviticus 8:17 (KJB).

The fact that parts of the burnt offerings were sometimes burned outside the camp symbolized that God made His burnt offering sacrifice for all the people of the earth who do not become saved by His grace. Jesus suffered on a cross outside the camp not only to save living humans by His grace, but He saved the rest of living humanity by a burnt offering. When Jesus died on the cross, His Spirit descended into a burning Hell to leave behind all of the sins and evil of all His living humans who fail to become saved by His grace. Psalm 16:9-10; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). Jesus will cause a separation of all their sins and evil from all of His living humans confined to the regions of death when He dissolves all of their beings with His fiery wrath against evil, cleanses and forgives them all, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God when He appears to them near the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Just as the priests took the ashes of the burnt offering to a "clean place," Jesus will recover and recreate all of His cleansed, living souls and spirits from the regions of death with new bodies to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 75:1-3; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).

The fact that the priests and all the males could eat the meat offering and become just as holy as if they ate of the sin offering accords with that which Jesus taught in John 6:33 and in John 6:50-51 (KJB). Humans who become saved by grace must be washed in Jesus' blood, but Jesus will save the rest of humanity when they partake of Him by faith when He appears to them as the Lamb of God near the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). When the broken body of Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit to descend into Hell to be a burnt offering sacrifice for all living humans who do not become saved by His grace. This fact means that all living humans confined to the regions of death will spiritually partake of the broken body of Jesus by faith when He appears to them near the end of the world, and all of them will receive a lesser form of salvation. All living humans who spiritually partake of the "living bread" will be saved from the regions of death. John 6:33; John 6:50-51 (KJB). All living humans who spiritually partake of both the "living bread" and the blood of Jesus will be saved by His grace. John 6:52-58 (KJB).