II Chronicles 35:13 KJB
King Josiah came to the throne of Judah after many years that a dark evil had pervaded the land. The Temple of God had fallen into disrepair, and God's Word, written by Moses, had been hidden in some dark corner of the Temple. King Josiah ordered that the people should return to the worship of God, and he appropriated money to pay workmen to cleanse and repair the Temple of God. While this was happening, a priest named Hilkiah found the Book of the Law where it had been hidden. Hilkiah gave the book to a scribe named Shaphan who read it to the king. King Josiah became distressed because the people of God had not obeyed God's Word for a long time. King Josiah gathered the people, and he read the Law to them, and he commanded that all people who were under his control should serve God and obey His Law. II Chronicles 34:1-33 (KJB).
This pattern happened many times in God's Word, especially when Jesus came into the world. Every time, just when it seemed that the darkness of evil had almost put out the light of God's Word forever, God would recover His Word, have His people to hear it and experience it, and He would cause His faith to return to His people. In this way, God proves again and again that His Word and His Love can never be destroyed. Psalm 111:7-8; Matthew 24:35; Romans 5:20 (KJB). All of the persecutions of the Jews and Christians by the pagans, atheists, and materialists over the centuries can never put out the light of God's Word. Matthew 16:17-18 (KJB).
King Josiah had the Passover restored which had been neglected for many years. When the animals were sacrificed, the sin offering was mentioned, but the burnt offering was more emphasized. II Chronicles 35:11-13 (KJB). God commanded Moses to have every family of the Israelites to offer a lamb without blemish for a sin offering which was the shedding of its blood. Then they were to roast the lamb and eat it during the night, and then they were to completely burn up the rest of it in the morning. Exodus 12:1-11 (KJB). The fact that God would forgive the sins of a person who made a burnt offering just as He would for a sin offering can only mean that the burnt offering was just as important to God as was the sin offering. Leviticus 5:6-10 (KJB). God emphasized the burnt offering more during Josiah's Passover because the people needed it more than the sin offering at that time. II Chronicles 35:10-19 (KJB).
This is the symbolism of the sin and burnt offerings. Jesus sacrificed Himself on a cross just before the night of sin and evil fell onto the world to put out the light of God's Love forever. Sin and evil still plague the human race to this day. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to save all humans who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh, just as He did when He shed the blood of an animal to symbolize the eternal salvation of Adam and Eve. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). Jesus turned the light back on after darkness had engulfed His cross and the world to symbolize that He had accomplished salvation by His grace. It was still light when Jesus was buried, but He endured the darkness of the grave for three days until He turned the light back on when He rose from the dead with a complete and absolute victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil in order to save the entire human race from eternal death. Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit to descend into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus bore on the cross. Luke 23:46; I John 2:2 (KJB). This happens to be the burnt offering that God Himself made. And God forgives sins because of the burnt offering. Leviticus 5:10 (KJB). In the end of the world, while the rest of humanity remains engulfed in the night of sin and evil, Jesus will visit all of His living humans that He still loves confined within the regions of death and on the earth, and He will cause them all to partake of His Spirit by faith, like eating roasted flesh in the night, and He will return them all to faith in Him as their Savior, that He put into them when He created them, so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their saved lives from their dead natures so that He can recreate their saved lives with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; Luke 3:6 (KJB). After God has used His sin offering and His burnt offering to save the entire human race from all sins and evil and eternal death, He will thoroughly burn up and purge all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous, like completely burning the rest of the lamb in the morning. Exodus 12:10; Genesis 8:20-21; II Peter 3:9-13; I John 3:8; Romans 8:18-25; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).
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