I use to be confused like everyone about why Jesus had to
die on the Cross
John 3:16,
“For God so
loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life.”
John 1:26
‘The next day
John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who
takes away the sin of the world!”
Seriously, it confuses me but praises the lord I somehow knew
that he wants me to read The Old Testament when others say it has no importance
but luckily I never listen to them and it’s regret for them not to read it
because if we don’t read it then we don’t know God or what he is capable of, I
only able to read Genesis until Leviticus and let me tell you that though I
read parts of the Scriptures you somehow able to understand why God has to do
what he does. What I see is that ‘The Old Testament’ is how we understand God and
in ‘The New Testament’ we understand the Son of God which is Jesus.
So okay here is the Q&A.
"Why did God allow his Son to be a Sacrifice?”
Let’s go back to the Old Testament and this I believe is the
reason. In Genesis, the way for God is to accept us and forgive our sins comes
from Sacrifice. When Adam & Eve bore Abel & Cain, everything was of
course happy at first. One day, the brothers decided to offer an offering for
God. God accepted Abel’s offering and at the same time rejected Cain’s
offering. There’s the reason for this because Abel gave the best Lamb he had while
Cain gave not so much of the best crop for God.
So of course, let’s see it in another way. Like a Birthday
Present, imagine it’s for someone dearly. Would you rather give something you
know they really love or just give whatever that’s available and keep the good
one to yourself? Of course, you give the best one because you want them to know
how much you love them. That’s how we know if someone really cares for us. Let’s
skip until Exodus, you guys should seriously feel lucky when you hear this
because during Moses's time.
God instructed Moses to build ‘The Tabernacle’,
I was astounded how they manage to make this entire thing but thanked
God for the gift of talent they manage to finish this movable Holy Temple. So
the purpose of this was to connect God closer to his people and at the same time to make an offering for God to cleanse away their sins.
Exodus 25:8
" make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.”
Exodus 29:45-46
“Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. They will
know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I
might dwell among them.”
You be surprised to know that although we know there are 10 commandments there are actually like 613 commandments, so those 10 are just the Top 10 rules. That’s why if they did commit one of the rules or a bunch of them, all they have to do was to come to the Tabernacle and offer a Living Sacrifice and God was being
very precise on how he wants them to do it; like draining out their blood and
put the blood on the horns of the Altar, cutting off the fats and throw into the fire,
remove the blemishes because it was dirty and not right for the Lord or anyone by the way. That doesn’t end there he doesn’t
want the same kind of animal but other different kinds of animal for different
kinds of sins that you’ve committed.
So yeah, there’s a lot of procedure. It was tough back then to keep on killing animals just because of their
sins and what’s even harder they
have to do it personally to God and come to the Tabernacle. Don’t you think it’s
easy for us right now? For our Generation, we should consider blessed because how we want our sins to be forgiven is just by kneeling in our room alone, ask and believe in Jesus. During Moses's
time, they too have to pay for the Animals so they can offer a Sacrifice for
God, but now Christ is paying for us by being the Sacrifice. He has no ‘Blemishes’
in other words ‘Sin’, his blood is precious to God so that also explains why so many have asked to be cleansed by the Blood of Jesus because it is so pure, so holy, and just clean.
Praise be to God he has paid for our ransom! And for God proof
for his love for us all, he gave his only son, who also willingly being a sacrifice because he too loves
the people in this world.
In conclusion, God knows we are lazy, God knows we are busy. God knows our hearts better than anyone else. He was upset that his people stop following him because it's too tiresome for them to keep doing offerings, so they were led astray to follow other paganism. But God has a plan, and that was to make his only son become the living sacrifice. So, his people can have an easy connection to God by just believing. No more slaughter of animals, no more offering but just offer themselves and repent in the name of Jesus.
Don't worry about Jesus, he has the best reward yet for finishing his father's will. He has become our King. Seated beside the right hand of the father, looking out for us all in spirit, fighting against the forces that can't be seen in human eyes. I Love You, Jesus. Always and Forever.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Only through him, you can get to God ❤