Reconciled, Forgiven, Atoned, Justified, Sanctified, and Saved.

In English Bible there are many created words, which do not reveal their meaning unless it is explained. I do not know why it was made that way. For an example, the word baptism; in my language bible, it is bathing; or it is to take a bath. In English Bible, the word is baptism; the word will not reveal the meaning by itself, and someone must tell us what baptism means. False preachers make use of such situations, to promote false doctrine. False doctrines are from the devil. So, I am trying to give the true biblical meaning of such words, so that we may not be deceived by false preachers.

Atonement, Propitiation, and Consecration.

God wants people to live in obedience to him, which is righteous life. God wants them to live as holy as he is holy; that is to be heavenly minded. This is what he calls a perfect life. God chose the people of Israel for this purpose and implemented this system on them. When they disobey him, God's wrath was upon them, and the bond between God and his people was broken. In order to bring them back together as before, which is to restore their relationship; by the way, it is reconciliation, that they are in peace with each other as before. For that, God told them to do certain things. For example, God told them to sacrifice an animal. The animal that is sacrificed for the forgiveness of sins, is the atonement. The ram that is to be sacrificed, is set apart, cleaned, and so on, and the process is consecration. "Exodus 29:31 ... thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe (cook) his flesh in the holy place. 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: (here, the atonement is the meat and the bread; they are consecrated and sanctified; the people must eat them in order to be consecrated and sanctified). Continue 33, but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy. Please notice, here the covenant and the reconciliation were between God and Israel. Others have no part in it. So, they were not allowed to participate in the atonement. Further, how they become holy? The sacrifice became atonement and holy by ceremony, and people were made holy by eating the sacrifice; and that is ceremony. So, they were made holy by ceremony, but not in life. 36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement:..." Why every day? Because, they were not made holy in life, so they sin every day, and made atonement every day. God the Father did not like this repeated routine of sinning. Animal sacrifice could not take the sins away. Jesus Christ became a man, in order to change this covenant to establish another. He removed the animal sacrifice and gave himself as the sacrifice. It was not to save the life of the animals from being killed, but to change the repeated sinning of his people.

The Old Testament was the shadow of things of the New. Hebrews 9: says, "12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" Here God says that how much superior is the sacrifice of Jesus, comparing to the animal sacrifices. His sacrifice will purge the dead works. What is it? It is to do the ceremony of sacrifice and to obey God ceremonially. Religious people do that. But, how to serve the living God? Walk in the life that he has commanded us to walk. Only spiritual and godly people can and will do that. The old covenant was between God and Israel. The sinners provide the sacrifices. But in the New Testament, Jesus Christ "gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father." It is in Galatians 1:4. "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." It is in 1 John 2:2. Gospel of John 1:29 "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." So, it applies to the entire world, but not to Christians only. In the old testament, people provided for the atonement; both sacrifice and things they do. But here, God provided the atonement, both sacrifice and propitiation. The master sacrificed himself. Instead of telling us not to sin anymore; the master takes away our sinning from us, as a scapegoat, which is the propitiation. So, both are done by the master, instead of by the sinner. But, this new covenant of God, is offered to the entire world, but not limited to Christians only. For the last 2000 plus years, this atonement is available to all, who like to escape sinning and the evil of the world. If we are for it, then we are in it. Please listen to this. It is very important. God did not choose a family called Christians, as he chose the family of Israel for himself and called them as the people of God. Here, anybody who want to escape sinning, to escape from doing the evils of this world, and to call out for God; then God will choose them as his own. This group belongs to Jesus Christ and they are the true Christians. They are redeemed by the sacrifice and the propitiation of Jesus Christ.