Exodus 12:1-13 (KJB)
God commanded the Israelites to make a passover sacrifice of a perfect lamb when He liberated them from slavery in Egypt. Every family was to apply the blood of their lamb to the doorposts of their houses so that the death angel whom God would send to kill the firstborn of every family in Egypt would pass over the Israelites and spare their firstborn. God would judge the gods of Egypt and the Egyptians who believed in them because they symbolized that part of human nature which is spiritually dead and totally evil. The shed blood of the lamb symbolized that God would send His own Son to sacrifice Himself on a cruel cross and shed His blood to wash away the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans who would repent and believe in His Son while still alive in the flesh. Just as God would liberate His people from slavery in Egypt by the blood of a lamb, He would liberate from slavery to the Devil all who would believe in the power of the shed blood of the Lamb of God to wash away their sins. God had given this sin offering to Adam and Eve, and He extended it to the Israelites. Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB).
But God also gave the burnt offering to Noah after the worldwide flood and later to the Israelites as well. The burnt offering always had to follow the sin offering, but God would forgive sins by the use of either offering. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:7-10 (KJB). God instructed Noah as to the symbolic meaning of the burnt offering. The burnt offering was God's promise that He would not "smite;" that is, kill, any future humans and send their souls and spirits to the regions of death without any plan for their salvation as He had done with all the evil people when He killed them in the worldwide flood. "Neither will I again smite any more every living thing, as I have done." God creates the good and living natures of every human. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Even though God knows that every human also has an evil nature, God will extend this salvation to all those He killed in the worldwide flood as well because He will remove the "curse" of the ground which are the regions of death, and He will liberate all of His living humans from their slavery who are confined there. God will save all of His living humans despite the fact that "the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God will cause them all to return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).
God commanded the Israelites to make a burnt offering following the sin offering. They were to roast the lamb, eat it, and completely burn all that was left of it before the morning. The burnt offering had to have the same symbolic meaning that God had given to Noah. They were to roast it and eat it which meant they would have faith that the burnt offering symbolized their faith in God's power to save them from eternal death. John 6:50-51 (KJB). They were to completely burn the rest of it before morning, which meant that God would completely destroy all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths so that He could forgive them and save them from eternal death. Leviticus 5:10 (KJB).
The sin offering and the burnt offering of the lamb had to symbolize Christ's salvation of the living souls and spirits of the entire human race. When Jesus suffered and died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit to the care of His Father. Luke 23:46 (KJB). This meant that Jesus prayed that His Father would use His power to take care of His Spirit who had to make the burnt sacrifice necessary to save the rest of humanity who did not obtain salvation by God's grace. Jesus' Spirit descended into the burning Hell, but because He was absolutely pure, Hell could not hold Him. The Holy Spirit left all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths behind in Hell, and He rose immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead completely victorious over all sins, evil, spiritual deaths, and the Devil. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Ephesians 4:7-10; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26 (KJB).
God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God loves all of His living humans whom He creates in His image, and therefore, He cannot lose a single one of them, certainly not to the Devil. When I John 3:8 states that Jesus came "to destroy the works of the Devil," that can only mean that He destroys all of the evil works of the Devil, not just some of them. God does nothing halfway. When I Corinthians 15:22 states, "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive," the "all" in that verse can only mean the entire, living human race because the same "all" humans died in Adam. When God promises, "Behold, I make all things new," that can only mean that He will recreate the entire human race because it has to be a part of the "all things" that God created. Revelation 21:5; Revelation 4:11 (KJB).
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