Leviticus 16:1-34 KJB
When God commanded Aaron to bring a bullock and two goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, then there had to be a distinct purpose for each offering even though they were always of necessity linked to each other. The burnt offering could never be made without the sin offering first being made. God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve and all of their descendants to symbolize the shed blood of the coming Messiah who would save by His grace any human who would ever put their faith in Him as their Savior while they were still alive in the flesh. Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). God gave the burnt offering to Noah and all of his descendants to symbolize that God will use His fiery wrath against evil to utterly consume all of the sins and evil in the hearts of all humans who do not become saved by His grace so that He can save them all from eternal death by His mercy. God promised that He would never again "smite;" that is, kill any future humans without any remedy for their salvation as He had done in the great worldwide flood. Genesis 6:5-7; Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God also made His burnt offering salvation retroactive for all humans whom He had killed in the flood. I Peter 3:18-20 (KJB). God knows exactly how to return all of His living humans confined to the regions of death to faith in Him as their Savior. Habakkuk 2:4; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).
God then commanded Aaron to select one of the two goats by some form of random choice to be a sin offering for the people, and he must put his hands on the other goat to symbolize that he had transferred all of the sins and evil of all the Israelites to that goat. A "fit man" was then to take that other goat to the wilderness and release him alive. That goat would know how to keep himself alive in the wilderness, but he would eventually die. If the wilderness symbolized the regions of death, then all sinners whom God must confine to the regions of death will still possess their living natures which God created in His image, and they will also possess a dead and evil nature. Since Aaron symbolically transferred all of the sins and evil of all of the people to the scapegoat, then the goat that became the sin offering had to be symbolically innocent, but he died so that the scapegoat could live. Our innocent Savior bled and died on a cross to save the entire human race from eternal death. Hebrews 2:9 (KJB). He can save by His grace, or He will save all of His living humans on the earth or confined to the regions of death by causing them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their living natures with everlasting life on His new earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Leviticus 16:7-10; Leviticus 16:20-22; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; II Timothy 1:10; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).
God then commanded Aaron to bring the blood of the bullock and of the goat that was offered as a sin offering into the Holy place in the Tabernacle and sprinkle their blood on the mercy seat to symbolize all humans who would become saved by His grace. But the flesh, the skin, and the dung of these animals had to be burned outside the camp. Christ became a sin offering and a burnt offering outside the camp. Hebrews 13:10-14 (KJB). Christ shed His blood on the cross to save all who would ever become saved by His grace, but His Spirit descended into Hell to make a burnt offering sacrifice for the salvation of the rest of humanity. Aaron could not bring the burnt offering into the Holy place in the Tabernacle, but he could bring into the Holy place the proper incense that he had put into a censer that held burning coals that had been taken from the fire of the burnt offering. The smoke from that burning incense filled the Holy place and covered the mercy seat. The smoke symbolized that the Holy Spirit would make the burnt offering sacrifice that would cover the mercy seat in Heaven so that God could save all of the rest of humanity by His mercy who did not become saved by His grace. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Matthew 13:36-43; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).
God then commanded that on October tenth of every year, the high priest should enter the Holy place in the Tabernacle to make a reconciliation to God for all of the people, but they all had to repent and believe that God could save them from their sins. The sin offering and the burnt offering made a reconciliation for the entire congregation of the people. The Apostle Paul revealed that God had extended His salvation by His grace to all the Gentiles, and since God reconciled the entire congregation of the Israelites to Himself, then God will reconcile all of the Gentiles to Himself as well through the blood sacrifice of Christ and through the burnt offering sacrifice of the Holy Spirit. Romans 11:13-36; I Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:15-23; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).
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