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Renita says:

Serious question: As I understand, Jesus fulfilled the male sacrifices. But We understand that Jesus had to die because the male sacrifices consisted of killing the male animals. As I was taught, the heifer can only be fulfilled through the female Christ. According to the logic, "the animal died, so the Christ must die" the female Christ must also die. However, I was taught that Father was the example of the resurrection & Mother will be the example of transfiguration. In order to resurrect, you must die. According to the animal sacrificing logic, the female Christ must die. But she won’t because she will be the example of transfiguration. Those who are transformed will not die. How, then, is the Mother of the WMSCOG fulfilling the sacrifice of the heifer if She is not supposed to die?

admin says:

Renita,

Thank you for commenting but it is obvious that you didn’t take the time to actually read the article. Hebrews 9:13-14 clearly states the following: 13 The blood of goats and bulls [male cow] and the ashes of a heifer [female cow] sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! So Jesus fulfilled ALL of the animal sacrifices. Therefore, the gender of the animal was not relevant.

 

Renita says:

If the gender didn’t matter, why were all the animal sacrifices male except that one female? Does the bible explain why a female lamb could not be used for the Passover?

 

admin says:

Renita,

Yes a male lamb was required for the Passover but not for all animal sacrifices. See Leviticus 3:1: When his offering is a sacrifice of a peace offering, if he offers it of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD. Leviticus 1:14 does not specify whether the turtledoves or pigeons were male or female either. 1 Kings 8:63 talks about Solomon sacrificing 22,000 bulls and 120,000 sheep. Do you think that all of the sheep were male? If they had been male, they would have been referred to as rams (male sheep) like in other verses such as in Leviticus 8:21, 9:4, Psalm 66:15, etc. But still you miss the point…Jesus’ sacrifice was greater than all of these regardless of gender. Therefore, there is no need for another sacrifice.

Renita says:

The WMSCOG teaches shadow & reality. I’m asking questions about the shadow, not the reality. So, please, stop saying I’m missing the point. What I now see is that the shadow doesn’t specify whether the sacrifices were male or female. Therefore, the reality shouldn’t matter if Christ were male or female. Just as long as Christ was sacrificed. The Christ who was sacrificed was Jesus who fulfills all sacrifices, whether male or female, as A. Paul explained. But now I am confused about another point the COG makes. Perhaps you can explain to me this is wrong. The COG told me that God the Father & God the Mother are 1. That Adam & Eve represent them respectively. That Eve always existed inside Adam but was made apart from Adam later. Could it be that Jesus fulfilled both gender sacrifices because He is God? According to how I was taught about Eve being God the Mother & that she always existed inside Adam (God the Father) & Jesus is God the Father, it makes sense that He fulfilled the sacrifices. Because Mother was there. Father & Mother are 1 like Adam & Eve were (& other married people Eph 5:31). I don’t know.. I’m going to ask them about that. They didn’t tell me this concerning Jesus fulfilled the sacrifices because Mother was there. I just thought about it right now.