We've seen from the previous section, how our forefathers were required by YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to offer sacrifices of animals DAILY, as a token of acknowledgement of their sins, which they confessed upon the animals which were in turn sacrificed, and how the blood (figuratively) carrying the confessed sins was then transferred by the Priest into the Qodesh (Holy) Place of the Temple.
We understood this process to be essentially how YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 deals with our sins . . . as the Scriptures say:
“without the shedding of blood, there can be no remission of sins.”
(Ibriym/Hebrews 9:22)
However, whilst this was absolutely necessary during the First Covenant, before YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 the Promised Redeemer was impaled as the ultimate sacrificial lamb of the atonement, it still did not cause that the participants who confessed their sins to no longer have any remembrance/recollection or conscience/consciousness of sin.
In other words, they could still recall their confessed sins to mind . . . specifically, the KNOWLEDGE of evil (lawlessness) that came through Adam, continued to be their daily experience.
The offering of animal sacrifices, whilst necessary to confirm one's contrite sorrow for sin as they confessed these iniquities by laying their hands upon the head of the sacrificial animal, served as evidence of their faith in a coming Promised Redeemer (who would shed His blood as an atonement for sin, as the ultimate kinsmen Redeemer); still could not make a sinner to be perfectly righteous so that he/she would cease to sin anymore or no longer be able to recall his/her past sins to remembrance!
This would only be possible through the inception of the Ruah Ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit), of the Promised Redeemer . . . which would impart to the believer the Redeemer’s own complete victory over sin and form within the believer the character of the Redeemer; by imparting to the believer YAHUSHA's very own righteous and sinless character in a very real and tangible way. This is something that all the animals that were sacrificed representing His death, could not do for the sinner.
Therefore this Infinite Gift of the Ruah Ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit), which would be imparted to the believer by faith, would be the means through which the sinner could obtain complete victory over sin.
The gift of the Ruah Ha’Qodesh would be to the sinner a regenerating agency by which Set-Apartness (Holiness) is created within, and transgressors would AT THE TIMES OF REFRESHING have the profound miraculous experience of no longer having any conscience (remembrance/knowledge) of evil (sin/lawlessness).
The gift of the Ruah Ha’Qodesh would cause them to literally walk in the strait path of YAHUAH’s law without wandering neither to the left nor to the right. This is the power of the enabling grace afforded to us through the Infinite Sacrifice of the MashaYAH YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏.
We will now proceed to further convey exactly HOW and WHY it was absolutely necessary that the Ruah Ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit), should come to be given to us as a gift in this way, because understanding HOW this was accomplished, helps us to understand the immense sinfulness of sin and what has been the corresponding infinite cost of our sins to the Father YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and to His Son YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏, in order to secure eternal life for us.
The {sacrificial} law was only a shadow of the good things that were to come {i.e the ultimate sacrifice of the promised Redeemer YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏} —not the realities in and of themselves.
"For this reason, YAHUSHA’s Sacrifice can never, by the same sacrifices {as it was the pattern under the First Covenant} repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have conscience (recollection/knowledge/awareness) of sin (after having confessed). But those sacrifices were an annual reminder of sins (it was inevitable that their sins were in this manner brought to remembrance). It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away (the knowledge and continued experience) of sin. Therefore, when MashaYAH YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased . . ."
"Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the Heavenly scroll— I have come to do your will, my Aluah.’” First He said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” — though they were offered in accordance with the law. Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first (covenant that was ratified by the blood of animal sacrifices) to fulfil the second (Renewed covenant that was ratified by His own blood). In this manner, we have been made Set-Apart through the sacrifice of the body of MashaYAH YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 once for all."
"Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away (the knowledge and continued experience of) sin. But when this priest (YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏) had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (He has presented Himself before the throne of the Father on our behalf as our the Mediator and Great High Priest of the Covenant), and since that time He waits for His enemies to be made His footstool. For by His sacrifice He has availed to us the possibility of eternal perfection for those who are being made Set-Apart through faith in Him."
"The Ruah Ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit) also testifies to us about this. First He says: “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” Then he adds:
Their sins and lawless acts I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE. And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary."
"Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter (by faith) into the Most Qodesh (Holy) Place (that is in the Shamayim) by the blood of YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 by a new and living way opened for us through the veil, that is, His Body, and since we have Great High Priest over the house of YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, let us draw near to Him with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from the conscience of sin and having our bodies washed with pure water (through immersion/baptism)." "Let us therefore hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful."
(Ibriym/Hebrews 10: 1-25)
*Note: When sin came into our world through Adam & Eve after ingesting the fruit from the forbidden tree of the knowledge/conscience of good and evil, up until that time, his human experience had been that of the knowledge of good only . . .
Then through sin (lawlessness/disobedience), his (and our) experience has been that of the knowledge of Good as well as Evil.
This is the “conscience of sin” by experience, that each individual born into this world has had since.
Yet the Great Mystery of YAHUAH's Salvation which is revealed through YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏, is that through His Infinite Sacrifice, this knowledge and ability to sin through experience shall be taken away (blotted out) -- forever, and we shall not remember them anymore!
HalaluYAH!
The Adversary deceived Adam & Eve to partake the forbidden fruit from the Tree of (the Con(science) of Good & Evil. Whatever was contained in that particular fruit, is something that corrupted the Neural Pathways of the Human Brain responsible for our Consciousness, by introducing a sin virus in the 'Software of Life' that opened pathways for the knowledge of lawlessness (evil).
Ha'Satan's doctrine is indeed this Science of Good & Evil . . . the mingling of both Good & Evil as co-existing principles, reflected through disobedience to YAHUAH's Law; whereas YAHUAH's Principle is that of only Good: Righteousness, Purity & Truth as reflected through obedience to His Law.
Therefore it is very critical for us, to DAILY seek the path of repentance from our sins through DAILY confession to our Redeemer and Great High Priest YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏, because it is only those sins that we confess to Him, that He takes upon Himself as our sin-bearer by merit of the sacrifice of His own blood, and has transferred our confessed and acknowledged sins into the Temple in the Shamayim, where He pleads on our behalf before the throne of the Father YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, as our Intercessor and Advocate . . . the Mediator of the Eternal Covenant.
Recap . . .
It is through the sacrifice of YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 that the “conscience of sin” or knowledge of evil through experience, and also the remembrance of all confessed and forsaken sins, is gracefully taken away or blotted out.
This is the critical difference between the First Covenant & the Renewed Covenant . . . such that whilst the sacrificing of animals under the First Covenant was valid and in fact required at the hand of our forefathers, as a token or evidence of their acknowledgement of sin; it was however incapable of removing this “conscience of sin,” which is the knowledge of evil and continual transgression through experience . . . that came into the world through Adam.
Under the Renewed Covenant which was ratified by the shed blood of YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 Ha'MashaYAH and which will be confirmed again at the coming Second Exodus, this “conscience of sin,” will in fact be removed from the experience of all who believe, since it is achieved through the Ruah Ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit) of YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏, which is availed to us a gift called 'The Comforter' . . . and this is what the sacrificial animals could not do for those who offered them upon the altar.
Therefore, whilst the shed blood of the lamb is all-sufficient to secure Pardon/Forgiveness, known as JUSTIFICATION -- for all who confess their sins by faith, it is the Infinite Sacrifice of YAHUSHA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 which occurred BEFORE the creation of the world, that is literally capable of causing us to cease from continual transgression, and to remove the remembrance or recollection of those sins, once they are confessed and forsaken . . . because it is accomplished by means of His Ruah (Spirit), which He sacrificed for us when He was slain before the foundation of the world, thus taking on flesh and becoming A MAN -- the Son of Man.
Whilst the sacrifice of YAHUSHA by shedding His blood on the cruel stake provides a means for us to obtain JUSTIFICATION, since His blood is the agency by which our sins are transferred from ourselves when we confess these to Him by faith; His Ruah (Spirit) which He sacrificed and set aside for us before the foundation of the world, is the means by which we obtain both SANCTIFICATION and PERFECTION.
In order for our individual characters to be fitted for YAHUAH's coming Eternal Kingdom of Righteousness, this equally important sanctifying work must be accomplished in the life of the believer through the baptism of the Ruah Ha'Qodesh.
Next, we shall discover exactly how this "mystery" of our redemption has been accomplished in much greater detail. So beloved, buckle-up as we embark on a trip into the supernatural . . .