Jesus and Atonement. What is Sin Really? A Prophetic Think Tank
Three, to accept Satan’s offer for the kingdoms of the world, as a replacement prophecy for the Messiah in Daniel 8 and Psalms 2, among many others, where the Messiah is granted his kingdom in the eschaton. Again, a temptation to drop the mantle of the Messiah for the self-aggrandizement as a worker of miracles, as the owner of a religious kingdom and a word of God gutted of its phenomenal attestation.
These temptations are those at which the church failed and continues to fail. His temptations are prophesied and are prophetic.
Please re-read.
“the only theory of the atonement which takes into account the necessity of the law’s curse being dealt out (a necessity grounded in the solemn promise of God), and which takes into account the fact that the curse of the law was dealt to Christ, who underwent the curse, even death,first as that threat of transgression demanded, and furthermore, who did this in our place, is a theory which accepts the idea of penal substitution..”
“Penal substitution” is entirely puerile, stripped of the miraculous and the prophetic, but does make it ameliorable for a world that would make the rejection of Christ into piety. A lot like what temped Christ by Satan.
Dealing with the Proof Texts: The Sacrificial System
The sacrificial system was instituted by the sovereign command of God. Lev 1:1
Leviticus 1:1: “And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying…”
Ok, I follow that.
The sacrificial system taught that God could not be approached apart from innocent, substitutionary blood being shed for the sinner. Lev 19:2, Lev 4:35
Leviticus 19:2: Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
”This substitutionary blood had appeased the wrath of God. This is all because, as God’s people, Israel was required to be holy as I am holy (Leviticus 19:2). And in the absence of that required holiness, substitutionary retribution was necessary.”
Why did the blood appease the wrath of God? What does it mean that it is Holy?
The blood signifies the blood of the Messiah, but the blood of the Messiah prophesied blood. The blood is the life force of the prophetic Word of God, which is the spiritual blood of the Messiah. It’s shedding in sacrifice is a figure of the life force being drained from the corpus of prophetic scripture and it being murdered, which is Jesus. This appeases God’s wrath because it is also vindication finally of his Holy Word, his honor, his faithfulness for all time in his promise to redeem those who will be born and come to believe it exclusively in a symbolic world (see above) given a reprieve. God’s wrath is one against Man unconverted by this Truth.
This wrath is also forestalled in part for the wicked, who will be allowed to continue instead of being instantly destroyed. Christ is the substitute of man under God’s wrath, but the substitute of a Holy Word so that the full influence of an evil one, a false prophet, and those that hold to their false prophecy, is not instead put to death, and those that will come to believe it will be given life. If the evil was destroyed in Toto the symbolic world would cease and no condition for a choice of Christ will be possible.
What is defeated is the unopposed, anti-revelational mind of Satan, the anti-prophetic influence, that can never again reign as it once did. For the evil and it’s word, it/they are allowed to continue, but this time opposed, with a sure means of affirming openly the justice of God’s wrath until the consummation. They are allowed to come into the world and live so that it/they repeat the benefit it/they unwittingly gave to Israel in their rebellion against Jesus. Their aim is to be the carnal masters of a universal religious infrastructure, but as religionists will unwittingly protect the prophetic Scriptures for the use of the faithful that will be born. God caused them to be instrumental for fulfilling, against their will, the last part of the Vision.
Leviticus 4:35: “And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
“It was only when sins penalty (death) had been exacted substituionally that the priest could make atonement for his sin that he has committed; and [thus] it shall be forgiven him.” See above: these are all prophetic types of Messiah in his crucifixion.
The sacrificial animals foreshadowed the self-sacrifice of Christ, the only sufficient substitute. Heb 9:18-28
Hebrews 9:18-28: Hebrews is dedicated to proving from the prophets that Jesus was Messiah and is alone sufficient. This sufficiency extends to that Prophetic Word of which He is in all matters of faith and practice.
“The sum of this is that the whole sacrificial system enjoined upon Israel bears witness to the fact that, unless the penalty of transgressing the law is exacted upon a flawless substitute, then there can be no forgiveness or reconciliation. And Christ is the only perfect substitute, as true man and wholly without sin.”
We can easily deal with this section since the sacrificial system is by just about every orthodox theologian I know admitted as a prophetic type of Messiah.
Taking the italics above one-by-one:
- Sacrificial system: a prophecy of Messiah.
- Penalty of transgressing the Law: Punishment for Messiah’s rejection by the rejection of his oracular revelation. Its the sin of the Church as much as that of the world.
- Flawless, perfect substitute: the one Devine being, God, who is able to fulfill the oracles.
- Forgiveness or reconciliation: the forgiveness of the sin of this rejection is by the belief in what was rejected: Jesus through His oracles.
- Wholly without sin: perfect faithfulness to the Devine redemptive plan that was foreordained and predicted.
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