76th Post Jesus and the "Cup" further discussion.

Understanding the full scope of what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross, is understanding "Propitiation". This is the term that describes what Jesus accomplished on the cross for us. His sacrifice had to be greater than the animal sacrifices had been. If you look at the book of Leviticus, it tells how animal sacrifices were carried out. The person brought their unblemished animal to the high priest, there in front of the high priest they would place their hand on the animals head and then confess their sins to the high priest. When they did this, they were transferring their sin to the unblemished animal thus making the animal guilty of their sin, the wages of sin is death, so the animal then had to die in the person's place. The animal sacrifice did not atone for the sin, but only covered it. In the Old Testament, the High Priest, before he could accept the sacrifices of the people, he had to sacrifice an animal also, to cover his sin. Jesus is Our High Priest, and being SINLESS, did not have to sacrifice an animal to cover His sin because He did not have any! He had to become our sin. If He did not, there would be no difference between what He did on the cross, and what the animals did that were sacrificed in the Old Testament. Only Jesus Christ can atone for sin. He had to have become the sin in order to get rid of it. This is a very hard topic to understand, I am running out of space so will continue next post.