Let’s start it in the Garden of Eden when man can talk to God face to face.
BUT, when Sin enters man, they can no longer see God face to face, because God is holy and man is now stained with sin for man will die if God makes a face to face encounter with them.
In the Old testament, when man sinned, he has to bring to the temple an unblemished animals like, sheep as a burnt sacrifice to be offered at the temple.Every morning and evening there was a sacrificial lamb for sins.The blood is poured out at the based of the altar, and the meat is burned for feasting of the families inside the temple.
The high priests once a year would enter the innermost part of the temple called the Holy of Hollies, bringing with him burned incense and sprinkle sacrificial animal blood to expiate his own sins and those of the people of Israel. The priests would wear a particular garments pertaining to the priests, where there are small bells at the hem of his garment.This is so,.. if the bells no longer heard, other Levites priest outside will pull the dead body of the priest.No priest even the high priest can enter the Holy of Hollies without Gods prompting or they will die.They could not the stand the glory of God which was in form of the clouds or a fiery fire.
Therefore, based on the Old Testament, the blood of sacrificial animals is needed for the atonement of sins.God said that life is in the blood.
Leviticus 17:11, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by life.
In the New Testament, Jesus became the sacrificial Lamb for the atonement of our sins. He was the new covenant of God, because man cannot make it with the 10 commandments.One sin committed, you committed them all.So, Jesus who is the Sacrificial Lamb, bore all the sins of man at the cross. Before it was an unblemished animal, and when Jesus became man, he did not sin, so like unblemished animals, a perfect sacrificial offering.
At the cross, before His last breath, God’s wrath was poured out on Him, so that’s when He said,”Father why have you forsaken me”. That was the time when Jesus was temporarily separated from the Father, because Jesus became a sin for man, and God’s wrath is on the sins of man.
When Jesus died, the very long thick veil of the temple that separates the Holy of Hollies was torn in half, which means we can now go directly to the Father through Jesus, who now became the High Priest. Therefore, whenever we pray, we must always ask any request to the Father through Jesus,…in Jesus NAME. God has given His name , a name above every other name under heaven and on earth. So, just the name Jesus, saves, heals because His name is powerful.
Philippians 2:9-11
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
With Jesus, you just have to have faith in Him and you will be saved.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The opposite of life is death which means separation from God which is darkness and eventually goes to hell as judgement upon physical death in this world.Jesus is the light,..therefore if you believe in Him, you will be with Him in heaven , for in Him is life.
Therefore Jesus, became our mediator to the Father, No Other. A mediator should be alive and JESUS is alive forevermore.
SO WHENEVER WE ASK FORGIVENESS FOR OUR SINS, GOD SEES JESUS IN YOU AND REMEMBER YOUR SINS NO MORE
HE IS NOW THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, FOR HE IS THE ONLY WAY, THE ONLY TRUTH, AND THE ONLY LIFE,… Therefore, the rest are deception of Satan
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