Numbers 28:1-31 KJB
In this chapter, God gives specific and detailed instructions as to when and how often the priests should make a burnt offering to the Lord. God informed the Israelites that the burnt offering made a "sweet savour" to Him which meant He was greatly pleased with these offerings. Apparently, the burnt offerings were very important to God. In fact, God informed the Israelites that the burnt offering was just as holy to Him as was the sin offering. Leviticus 6:17 (KJB). God informed the Israelites that if a person brought two clean animals to the priests, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, the sins of that person would be forgiven for either offering. Leviticus 5:7-10 (KJB). Since the sin offering symbolized the blood sacrifice of the coming Messiah on the cross for the forgiveness of sins and salvation by grace, then what did the burnt offering symbolize since a person could be forgiven of their sins because of it?
God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve when He killed an animal and made coats for them to cover their nakedness which symbolized their sinful nature. Genesis 3:21 (KJB). That was symbolic of the coming Messiah who would shed His blood to save anyone who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. John 3:16; John 5:24 (KJB).
God became grieved when He had to kill the entire, evil human race except for Noah and his family who had found grace from God. Genesis 6:5-9 (KJB). God could not have been grieved because of His destruction of evil because He hates evil, and He intends to purge all evil and the Devil from His entire creation. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God creates every living human in His image, and He loves them all. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). But because of human sin, the Devil has injected spiritual death and evil into the inner beings of every human. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God has a "seed" which he has planted, and the Devil has a "seed" which he has planted. In the great flood, God killed the good and living natures of every living human for allowing evil to dominate their good and living natures and for refusing to repent. God grieved because He had killed their good and living natures that He loved, and He had sent their souls and spirits into the regions of death that He had cursed in the ground with no way provided by Him to save them from spiritual death which could become eternal death. Genesis 3:17 (KJB).
But after the flood, God gave Noah a symbolic sacrifice of clean animals to indicate that He will never again destroy the human race with a great flood, but in the future, He will use His fiery wrath against evil to cleanse and purge all sins, evil, and spiritual death from all of His good and living humans who do not become saved by His grace. John 5:28-29; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God told Noah that He had removed the curse from the ground which meant He will open up the regions of death to liberate all of His repentant, good and living humans from it. Genesis 3:17 (KJB). God told Noah that he realizes that the evil nature in every human inevitably causes them to sin, but God will nevertheless save their good and living natures because of His mercy. Psalm 62:11-12 (KJB). Then God told Noah that in the future, He will never permanently "smite," that is, kill any of His living humans that He loves. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). In the Old Testament and even sometimes today, God uses His fiery wrath, and other means, to kill evil people, but He only permanently kills their dead and evil natures. God is Almighty and merciful, and He intends to use His fiery wrath against evil in the end of the world to dissolve the beings of every human "on the earth, and under the earth" to separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save their living natures from eternal death, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the lake of fire. Psalm 75:2-3; Psalm 36:6; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).
But God will need to get their good and living natures to repent and return to faith in Him to activate His compassion so that He can save them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God will send Christ to preach to them in the regions of death and to all of His living humans whom He killed in the great flood, and when they all see His tremendous majesty and His Almighty Love for them, they will all repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can heal them and return them all to the complete goodness and love that He put into them when He created them, and He will cast their separated, evil and spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; I Peter 3:18-20; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB).
Jesus' dead body was buried and not burned. So how did Jesus accomplish His salvation by His use of His fiery wrath against evil which the burnt offering symbolized? When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit to descend into Hell to accomplish His salvation of all living humans who do not become saved by His grace. Luke 23:46 (KJB). Jesus' Spirit carried all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans not saved by grace that Jesus bore on the cross, and He left it all in Hell. I John 2:2 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will cast Hell with all of its separated sins and evil into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14 (KJB). Jesus' Spirit then rose immaculate from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead with a complete victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. I Peter 3:18; I John 3:8; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31. I John 3:8 clearly teaches that Jesus came to "destroy the works of the Devil," not any of His own works that He loves. King David was saved by grace, but he did not fully understand what that meant. He nevertheless believed that in the final resurrection, he would be raised back to life from Hell when the Holy One was resurrected.
Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to wash away the sins and evil of all living humans whom He would save by His grace. I John 2:7 (KJB). But the Holy Spirit does not activate that faith and salvation until the moment the believer repents. John 3:16; John 5:24 (KJB). In the same way, Christ does not activate His salvation of the rest of humanity until He visits them in the end of the world and causes them all to repent and return to faith in Him 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 which the Holy Spirit left behind Him in Hell. Revelation 5:11-14; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB).
"Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." Hebrews 13:8 (KJB). The Almighty Love and compassion of God cannot change. Christ will save any sinner by His grace who repents and believes no matter how evil that person may be. I Timothy 1:15 (KJB). The physical deaths of humans cannot change the compassion of Christ and no verse in the Bible relates that it does. When God sees the repentance of any living human, dead or alive, that cannot fail to activate His tremendous Love and Mercy so that His constant compassion will cause Him to save that person by His grace or by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. John 3:16; Revelation 5:11-14; I Timothy 6:13; Revelation 21:5; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).
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