Numbers 18:9-10; 17-18 KJB
The Israelite priests were responsible for conducting the worship services and for making the sacrifices of animals and for all other offerings made to the Lord. They and their sons were allowed to eat a part of those offerings that had been baked or roasted over a fire. But whatever was not eaten had to be completely consumed in a burnt offering. Leviticus 6:8-13 (KJB). Except for the blood, part of the sin offering could be eaten by the priests. The priests had to apply some of the blood of the sacrificed, clean animal to the brazen altar in front of the Tabernacle, and they had to pour out the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar. Some of Jesus' blood adhered to the cross, and the rest poured out on the ground. Leviticus 4:7 (KJB). And once a year, the high priest had to enter the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle and sprinkle the mercy seat on that altar with the blood of a clean animal. Leviticus 16:29-34 (KJB).
God allows every human who becomes saved by His grace to become indwelt by His Spirit. Psalm 51:11 (KJB). But no one saved by grace can be washed clean inside with the blood of Jesus until after He had shed His blood on the cross, and He had applied His blood to the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies in Heaven. Hebrews 9:11-15 (KJB). For this reason, Christ did not allow Mary Magdalene to touch Him until He had applied His blood to the mercy seat in Heaven. John 20:17 (KJB). God also did not allow any of the Old Testament saints saved by grace to go to Heaven when they died, but He consigned their souls and spirits to a place called Paradise located next to Hell. But after Jesus had applied His blood to the mercy seat in Heaven, He came to them and preached the gospel to them so that He could wash their souls and spirits clean of all sins and evil with His blood and annul their spiritual deaths so that He could give them His own righteousness and take them to Heaven with Him when He ascended. Ephesians 4:7-11; I Peter 3:18-19; Matthew 27:51-53; Luke 16:19-26 (KJB). God did not allow the Israelites to eat the blood of the sacrificed animals, but in the Church Age every believer will be filled with His Spirit who will wash them clean of all sins and evil with the blood of Christ, annul their spiritual deaths, and give them the righteousness of Christ Himself so that they can go directly to Heaven when they die. II Corinthians 5:21; John 5:24; I Corinthians 6:11; I John 1:7; Hebrews 10:4-18 (KJB).
But an Israelite could also bring a clean animal for a burnt offering that would cause God to forgive his sins but not cleanse him of them. Leviticus 5:7-10 (KJB). The animal would have to be killed and its blood shed before the burnt offering could be made. The Israelite could not eat its blood, and yet, he could be forgiven because of the burnt offering. The priest had to put the ashes of the burnt offering in a clean place. Leviticus 6:10-11; Hebrews 9:22 (KJB). This fact can only mean that God initiated the burnt offering to symbolize that He has provided a lesser form of salvation for all humans who do not become saved by grace. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God told Noah that the burnt offering symbolized that God will not "smite;" that is, forever kill any future humans. Jesus accomplished salvation by His grace when He shed His blood and water on the cross, but His Spirit accomplished His lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity when He descended into Hell to make the necessary burnt offering. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; I John 2:2 (KJB). But no human can be saved until they bring a sin offering or a burnt offering to God; that is, they must repent and return to the faith that Christ put into them when He created them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). But God knows exactly how to cause every human to repent and return to faith in Him of their own free will. In the end of the world, Christ will visit all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures instilled into them by the Devil. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:17 (KJB). Christ will recover and recreate their good and living natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). God will have removed the curse from the ground. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB).
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