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Guided Bible Studies for Hungry ChristiansThe Foundation of Jesus Christ
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And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. (Exodus 19:9-13 AV)67. The LORD GOD wills men to be sanctified in His presence. To be sanctified means to be both ceremonially and morally clean (clean both inside and outside). A person that is sanctified is made righteous and holy. 68. A person will die if he approaches the LORD GOD without being sanctified. 69. A person that is sanctified is purified and holy. The only way a person can be purified and holy is to be free from sin. The development of a sacrifice of life for the sanctification of a person To sin is to die, and the wage of sin is death. [Rom 6:23] The LORD GOD requires death for sin. If there is sin, there will be death. If there is righteousness, there will be life. The LORD GOD requires sacrifice of life for the sanctification of a person. Sin must die, righteousness must live. This is the Will of the LORD GOD. A life must be sacrificed for a sinful person to be sanctified and made righteous and holy. This Will of the LORD GOD to establish this process of a life sacrificed for sin can be traced through His Word. This Will was revealed to man over time, from: 1. the Lord God’s respect given to Abel for the life offering of a lamb [Gen 4:1-7] (Offering of animal life is accepted by the LORD God)2. to the substitution of a sacrificial animal for Abraham's son Isaac [Gen 22:11-14] (Animal life sacrificed as substitute for man) 3. to the institution of Passover [Ex 12:1-14] (Sacrifice of animal life for avoidance of judgment and death) 4. to the sacrifice of life for sin offerings [Lev 4: 1-12] (Animal life sacrificed for sin) 5. to the ultimate substitution of the sacrifice of the life of His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, for the redemption of men. [1Pet 2:24] (Jesus Christ sacrificed for man's sin) Offering of animal life is accepted by the LORD GOD And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.70. Abel brought the best of his flock to the LORD GOD. 71. When the LORD GOD gazed upon Abel's offering of the choicest animal life, He considered it and regarded it favorably. The LORD GOD saw that Abel's choice of firstlings of the flock and the fat thereof" symbolically represented that he was offering to the LORD GOD the "best" of the "men" who had a "birthright" to inheritance from the LORD GOD. 72.When the LORD GOD gazed upon Cain's offering of the "fruit of the ground", He considered it and it caused Him dismay. The LORD GOD saw that Cain's choice of fruit of the ground symbolically represented that he was offering the LORD GOD the best of the rewards that evolved from natural life. 73. The offering of animal life was thereby established by the LORD GOD to be pleasing and acceptable to Him, because of it’s representation to the LORD GOD of His choicest men being offered for service to Him. 74. The LORD GOD revealed to Cain that sin crouches close to persons who do not do well. Those who rely on natural life rewards to come close to the LORD GOD, are not doing well, and are very close to sin. Animal life sacrificed as substitute for man And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. (Genesis 22:11-14 AV)75. The LORD GOD allowed Abraham the choice of offering the life of a ram in substitution for the life of his son. Substitution means the act of replacing somebody or something for another. This first substitution of a ram for a man allowed by the LORD GOD later develops into a way for a sinner to be purified from their sin. 76.The LORD GOD instituted this substitution of an animal life for the life of a man, as a result of first establishing that Abraham was fearfully and morally reverent of Him. If the LORD GOD had not found this reverence in Abraham, the substitution would not have occurred. The LORD GOD Wills and demands fearful reverence from man as a condition for the “substitution of life” process to exist. Sacrifice of animal life for avoidance of judgment and death And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. (Exodus 12:1-14 AV)77. The LORD GOD first established His process of "the sacrifice of life, for the avoidance of judgment and death" with the Passover. 78. The blood from the sacrifice of life was required to be applied upon the houses as a token for the person to avoid judgment and death. Remember the typology for house? The token of blood shed in sacrifice is a mark and signal to the LORD GOD to avoid judgment and death to that person. 79. This institution of Passover by the LORD GOD was so important to Him and us, that He Willed that the event be memorialized and remembered forever. Animal life sacrificed for sin And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them: If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering. And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock’s head, and kill the bullock before the LORD. And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation: And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary. And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away, As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering. And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung, Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt. (Leviticus 4:1-12 AV)80. The LORD GOD established the "sacrifice of an animal's life for the sins of a person" to cleanse His chosen people (children of Israel) who had sinned through ignorance. 81. The sin of a person that was allowed by the LORD GOD to be transferred to the sacrificial animal had to be one of ignorance. This means that the sin must have resulted from a mistake or an inadvertent error. INTENTIONAL SIN IS NOT COVERED BY THE SACRIFICE OF BLOOD OF AN INNOCENT LIFE! 82. This succeeding process of "substitution" established by the LORD GOD, allowed a person to lay his hands on another life, and place his sins on that living thing. It is important to note that the resulting death
of the living animal is a direct result of the person's
sins being transferred, and the actual sacrifice is
accomplished through the hands of the sinner. In other
words........the sinner has the blood of the sacrificed
life on his hands. Jesus Christ sacrificed for man's sin Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24 AV)84. Jesus Christ bore our sins on his own body when he was crucified. 85. When Jesus Christ was punished and died because of our sins, we were healed and made righteous. 86. The substitution of a person’s death for sin for Jesus Christ’s death for all of our sin was a natural progression of the “life sacrificed for sin” process established by the LORD GOD. REVIEW: The shadow of Jesus Christ was as the Firstling of the flock, the Ram caught in a thicket, the Pascal Lamb and the Bullock without blemish. This process of life sacrificed for sin was established by the Will of the LORD GOD and can be traced through His Word. These steps of establishment were: 1. Firstling of the flock; the Lord God’s respect given to Abel for the life offering of a lamb [Gen 4:1-7] (Offering of animal life is accepted by the LORD God) 2. Ram caught in a thicket; to the substitution of a sacrificial animal for Abraham's son Isaac [Gen 22:11-14] (Animal life sacrificed as substitute for man) 3. Paschal Lamb; to the institution of Passover [Ex 12:1-14] (Sacrifice of animal life for avoidance of judgment and death) 4. Bullock without blemish; to the sacrifice of life for sin offerings [Lev 4: 1-12] (Animal life sacrificed for sin) 5. The only begotten Son of God; to the ultimate substitution of the sacrifice of the life of Jesus Christ, for the redemption of men. [1Pet 2:24] (Jesus Christ sacrificed for man's sin) |
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MLA Style Citation: About the Authors
Kathy L. McFarland is a Becker Bible Studies Teacher and Author of
Guided Bible Studies for Hungry Christians. She is a Religious Studies
student of Liberty University, Hebrew language student attending Israeli taught
Ulpan and a Homeschool parent teaching the things of God. She is also well-known
as a child advocate of innocent children tortured and suffering from the abuse
of sexual perversion, out-of-control violence, and pathetic neglect by a carnal
world gone mad. |
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