Leviticus 22:22,27
This chapter of Leviticus mentions only the burnt offering. God instructed that when an Israelite brought a clean animal for a burnt offering, it had to be perfect; that is, it had to have no physical blemish whatsoever. This means that this clean animal had to symbolize the perfect body and life of Christ who would make a burnt offering sacrifice for the sins of the people. For these reasons, God attached great importance to the burnt offering for the forgiveness of their sins. This fact can only mean that Christ would make a burnt offering sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins after He had made the sin offering for the forgiveness of sins. Leviticus 6:5-10 (KJB). The clean animal had to be killed, and its blood shed before any burnt offering could be made. In like manner, Christ shed His holy blood and water on the cross to save all living humans who would become saved by His grace, but He then made a burnt offering sacrifice to save the rest of humanity from eternal spiritual death. Acts 2:25-31; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).
God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve to symbolize Christ's blood sacrifice to save all future living humans by His grace, but He also gave the burnt offering sacrifice to Noah after the worldwide flood to symbolize that He would save the rest of humanity by the means of Christ's burnt offering sacrifice. Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God also gave the sin offering and the burnt offering to the Israelites. God gave Noah the reasons why He instructed Noah to make a burnt offering. God informed Noah that He had removed the curse from the ground because the ground holds the regions of death where God had consigned all of the evil humans that He had killed in the flood. Genesis 3:17 (KJB). But God's destruction of the human race greatly grieved Him because He had consigned their good and living natures, along with their evil natures, to the regions of death with no way to save their living natures that He had created and loved from eternal death. If the human race had become totally evil with their good natures extinguished, then God would have been glad that He destroyed them because He hates evil. Genesis 6:5-8 (KJB). God also realized that all humans would inevitably become sinful and evil because of the spiritual death that the Devil had planted within all of them, but despite that, God promised that He would never again "smite;" that is, kill any future humans with no hope for the salvation of their living souls and spirits. Genesis 8:20-21; Genesis 3:15; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Christ made the burnt offering sacrifice necessary for the salvation of all humans who do not become saved by His grace. Acts 2:25-31; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God also extended the burnt offering sacrifice to all those living humans whom He had killed in the worldwide flood when He would send Jesus to preach the gospel to them that He had "abolished death" itself. I Peter 3:18-20; II Timothy 1:10 (KJB). Through His sin offering and His burnt offering, Christ has abolished death itself, not any of His living humans who He loves. I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).
When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit to the care of His Father. Luke 23:46 (KJB). The Spirit could take care of Himself, but in this case He needed the Father's power because He descended into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of all living humans who would fail to become saved by His grace. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). The Spirit then ascended from the burning Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus who would rise from the dead victorious over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. I Peter 3:18; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). I John 2:2 clearly teaches that Christ bore all of the sins and evil of the entire human race to satisfy His Father that He would save the entire human race. Jesus made the sin offering, and His Spirit made the burnt offering. But since God in the Trinity is One Being, then Jesus Himself descended into Hell.
Just as living humans can only be saved by grace when the Spirit activates their faith in the shed blood of Christ the moment they repent and believe in Christ, so all living humans on the earth and consigned to the regions of death must repent and come to faith that Christ has made the burnt offering sacrifice necessary to save them from their sins and eternal death. Christ will appear to them in the end of the world, and when they all see His great majesty and His Love for them, they will all repent and come to faith in Christ as their Savior who used His fiery wrath against evil to separate all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from them so that He can save their living souls and spirits and recreate them all with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Christ will cast their separated dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).
The Holy Spirit had to have had a reason to descend into Hell. He descended to make the burnt offering sacrifice necessary for the salvation of all humans who do not become saved by God's grace. God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).
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