The Fiery Wrath of God

                                Leviticus 9:1-24 KJB

Moses instructed Aaron and his sons to make sin offerings and burnt offerings for themselves and for all of the people. If the priest brought a clean animal for a sin offering, then he had to burn a part of it for a burnt offering. And if the priest brought a clean animal for a burnt offering, he first had to kill it and shed its blood for a sin offering. The sin offerings and the burnt offerings could never be separated in the sacrifice of clean animals.

Both the sin offering and the burnt offering were made to make an "atonement;" that is, a reconciliation of all of the people to God. A person who put his faith in the sin offering would receive forgiveness from God for his sins, and a person who put his faith in the burnt offering would also receive forgiveness from God for his sins. But God's forgiveness was not eternal since the  blood offering and the burnt offering of animals never permanently removed sins and evil. Hebrews 10:4 (KJB). Those animal sacrifices were symbolic that a day would come when God Himself would make the permanent blood sacrifice and burnt sacrifice for the forgiveness of all His people that He created in His image and whom He loves. Genesis 1:26-27; Hebrews 10:5-18 (KJB). Christ made a blood sacrifice on the cross for the permanent forgiveness and salvation of all humans who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. These living humans become saved by His grace. John 5:24 (KJB). But Christ also made a burnt offering sacrifice when His Spirit descended into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus bore on the cross so that Jesus could appear to them in the end of the world and cause them all to repent and return to the faith in Him that He put into them when He created them. Then He will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate their saved souls and spirits from their dead and evil natures so that He can cleanse and forgive their souls and spirits, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). I Corinthians 3:11-15 can only be about Christ's burnt offering salvation because it states that "any man's work shall be burned," but "he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire." Christians are saved by being washed in the blood of Christ, never by fire. Matthew 26:28 (KJB).

God gave a promise and a prophecy to some of the human race that a coming Messiah would save them from eternal death when He killed an animal and used its coat to temporarily cover the sins and evil of Adam and Eve, but He also gave a promise and a prophecy to the rest of humanity when He commanded Noah to make a burnt offering sacrifice which meant that God would never again "smite;" that is, kill any living humans and send them to the regions of death with no hope of salvation as He had done to the evil human race in the worldwide flood. Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Genesis 6:5-7 (KJB). But God extended that burnt offering sacrifice to those whom He had killed in the flood because Jesus will preach that salvation to them in the end of the world. I Peter 3:18-21 (KJB).

The peace offering was for the purpose of demonstrating to the people that they could find peace with God through their faith in either the sin offering or the burnt offering.

In the last verse of this chapter, God sent fire from Heaven to make a burnt offering sacrifice, and all the people shouted and worshiped. This act of God constituted a promise and a prophecy that in the end of the world, God will initiate a great worship service in which all humans saved by grace will praise God, and the rest of humanity will praise and worship God because He will have saved them by means of His burnt offering sacrifice that He made for them. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:24 (KJB). Because God's Love is Almighty and can never fail and because He never changes, then He will extend His same eternal Love and compassion to those living humans confined to the regions of death as He does to all living humans whom He saves by His grace. I Corinthians 13:8; Hebrews 13:8; Revelation 5:11-14; Luke 20:38; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).