Red Heifer or Sin offering

[manichunter]

What Type of Offering was the Cross

Is this a red heifer offering or sin offering? Study the difference between the two and it will lead to some interesting information. It is possibly life changing information that could change our prospective. The sacrifice of Yeshua at the cross was a red heifer offering.
Yeshua was the slain lamb before the foundation of the world (Rev 13:8). He was our sin offering before mankind had the chance to sin. Yahweh cannot fellowship with sinners (2 Cor 6:14). Therefore, He created a means to associate and reach mankind before He created mankind. He knew man would sin and become dead to Him. However, Yeshua decided to breech the gap before creations (Gen 3) as prophesied by Yahweh. The sin offerings offering allowed temporary atonement and momentary forgiveness until a permanent solution could be introduced. A person would offer a sin offering and walk away the same person still in need of a sin offering within minutes. Yahweh was trying to show us symbolic that He had already accomplished. Otherwise, He would have never been able to relate to mankind in our condition and environment of sin. This is how he became our sin offering before the foundation of the world. He stepped down into His own creation that was corrupted by sin which was his initial offering for sin. He offered His person in the form of taking on flesh. So the innocent lamb who knew no sin came and took the same risk confronting mankind. Yeshua as our Bridegroom and kinsman redeemer was our permanent sin offering before creations.

Now let us look at studying the red heifer offering (Num 19:1-22). It was in the fashion of a typical sin offering except it allowed purification and reintroduction back into the community. A person was marked as a member of the community and restored back to their former status. So, the red heifer offering is an offering for sin and much more. It allowed even the stranger to be brought into the camp as a child of God. The cross became mankind’s doorway, back into the camp. The red heifer offered atonement, purification from death, and fellowship into life. It took the sin offering to another level. It literally marked us for a permanent fellowship and brought us into the third creation as sons of God.

Please offer input and critical study to help me further study this issue. My pastor taught this message about a year ago. I just went back to re-study it and share it.
Thanks brothers in Christ.
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[Catholic Crusader]

Christ's death is both the Paschal sacrifice that accomplishes the definitive redemption of men, through "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world", and the sacrifice of the New Covenant, which restores man to communion with God by reconciling him to God through the "blood of the covenant, which was poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins".

This sacrifice of Christ is unique; it completes and surpasses all other sacrifices.1 First, it is a gift from God the Father himself, for the Father handed his Son over to sinners in order to reconcile us with himself. At the same time it is the offering of the Son of God made man, who in freedom and love offered his life to his Father through the Holy Spirit in reparation for our disobedience.

It is love "to the end" that confers on Christ's sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction. He knew and loved us all when he offered his life. Now "the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died." No man, not even the holiest, was ever able to take on himself the sins of all men and offer himself as a sacrifice for all. The existence in Christ of the divine person of the Son, who at once surpasses and embraces all human persons, and constitutes himself as the Head of all mankind, makes possible his redemptive sacrifice for all.

The Council of Trent emphasizes the unique character of Christ's sacrifice as "the source of eternal salvation" and teaches that "his most holy Passion on the wood of the cross merited justification for us." And the Church venerates his cross as she sings: "Hail, O Cross, our only hope."

And our participation in Christ's sacrifice? The cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ, the "one mediator between God and men". But because in his incarnate divine person he has in some way united himself to every man, "the possibility of being made partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery" is offered to all men. He calls his disciples to "take up [their] cross and follow [him]", for "Christ also suffered for [us], leaving [us] an example so that [we] should follow in his steps." In fact Jesus desires to associate with his redeeming sacrifice those who were to be its first beneficiaries. This is achieved supremely in the case of his mother, who was associated more intimately than any other person in the mystery of his redemptive suffering.