The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Leviticus 6:24-30 KJB

The altar positioned before the Tabernacle of the children of Israel was not called the sin offering altar. It was called the burnt offering altar. Yet, the sin offering always began on the burnt offering altar. This fact can only mean that the sin offering and the burnt offering were inextricably bound together and could not be separated. Whenever a sin offering was made, a burnt offering also had to be made, and whenever a burnt offering was made, a sin offering had to begin it. This fact also had to mean that the sin offering had a particular purpose and so did the burnt offering. The sin offering altar that was separate from the burnt offering altar happened to be the mercy seat placed upon the Ark of the Covenant located in the Holy of Holies, the most sacred place in the Tabernacle.

The priest that made a sin offering had to eat the flesh of the clean animal, but only after it was cooked; that is, in a sense burnt. The entire Tabernacle was a holy place. Psalm 100:1-5 is addressed to the people of all lands which must include all Gentiles. God invited all people to enter His "courts with praise." The court of the Tabernacle and of the Temple was always meant to be an area for the approach of all people to God if they approached with praise and thanksgiving. According to Revelation 11:2, the outer court of the Temple was always meant for the worship of Gentiles, but during the Tribulation period, that right will be abused because the Gentiles will take the Temple by force. Nevertheless, the fact that all the priests should eat a part of the cooked animal, and whoever even touched it would be holy, must mean that the burnt offering symbolized that God will provide a lesser form of salvation than that of grace for all of His living humans that He creates and loves.

Whenever any of the priests made a sin offering, some of the blood had to spew onto his garments. These garments had to be washed in water in the holy place. This act had to mean that all humans alive in the flesh who would ever come to faith in the sacrifice of God for their salvation  would be washed clean of all their sins and evil by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus' body while He hung on the cross.

Any "earthen vessel" that held the cooked meat "shall be broken." This symbolized the fact that all living humans not saved by grace, God must consign to one of the regions of death when they die. Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). Any "brazen pot" that cooked the meat had to be cleansed with water. Since brass in the Tabernacle always symbolized the judgment of God, then all humans alive in the flesh who would become saved by their faith that the judgment of God fell on Jesus in their place when He was on the cross were to be sure to be cleansed by the blood of Jesus and by the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. I John 1:9; Ephesians 5:25-27; I Peter 1:18-19 (KJB).

The culmination of the sin offering happened once a year when the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies and sprinkled the mercy seat with the blood of the clean animal that had been killed on the brazen altar before the Tabernacle. This particular part of the animal's blood could never be eaten, but the blood of that animal had to be burned. Thus the priests always ate cooked meat and never ate its blood. In fact, God commanded all of the Israelites to never eat raw blood. Leviticus 7:26-27 (KJB).

Yet, when Jesus taught about how a sinner could be saved by grace, He said that sinner would have to eat His flesh and drink His blood. John 6:53 (KJB). But the physical blood and flesh of Jesus can never be eaten. Jesus deliberately said that to drive away all unbelievers who were following Him so that He could cleanse His Church. And when Jesus explained to them that only His Spirit could give them life which meant His words had a spiritual meaning, they still did not believe. John 6:63 (KJB). Then Simon Peter, and eleven of the twelve disciples, demonstrated that they did believe in the spiritual words of Jesus. John 5:67-71 (KJB).

When Jesus suffered and died on the cross, He poured out most of His blood at the bottom of the cross on the ground. Leviticus 4:18 (KJB). Some of the blood and water that Jesus shed on the cross clung to the soldier's spear who pierced His side. Leviticus 4:30 (KJB). That blood could never be eaten. When Jesus ascended into Heaven to sprinkle some of His blood on the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies for all who would be saved by His grace, that blood could never be eaten. Leviticus 16:14; Hebrews 9:12 (KJB). So how can a repentant sinner ever become saved by grace since He has to partake of the blood that Jesus shed on the cross? He must receive the finished burnt sacrifice of Christ. When Jesus died on the cross, His Spirit descended into Hell and carried all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans to be forever burned, and He changed the physical blood and flesh of Jesus to spiritual blood, water, and flesh so that He could impart that spiritual blood, water, and flesh to every repentant sinner who were still alive in the flesh. The Holy Spirit washes every believer saved by His grace with the spiritual blood of Jesus and saves their souls and spirits forever, and He daily washes them in the spiritual water that Jesus shed on the cross as they daily repent to ensure their eternal physical salvation in their resurrections, and He gives them the spiritual flesh of Jesus for their eternal life with God in Heaven. I Corinthians 6:11; Ephesians 5:25-27; Colossians 3:3-4; Leviticus 16:11-14 (KJB).

But the Holy Spirit caused all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all living humans to be forever burned. That means Jesus will give all of His living humans there who did not become saved by His grace a lesser form of salvation by means of His fiery wrath against evil when He visits them in the end of the world and causes them all to repent and return to the faith in Him as their Savior that He put into them when He created them. They will be saved by God's burnt offering sacrifice. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:20; Genesis 8:20-21; Luke 20:38; Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; II Peter 3:9-13; John 5:28-29; John 11:25-26; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).