Christ Covenant Church

God can restore to future generations what was taken from their ancestors due to sin (26:1-51, 57-65; Compare: Num 1:23, 27, 46 w/26:14, 22, 51).God’s justice does not negate His personal preference (26:52-56; Pro 16:33).Death is part of how we serve justice for our sin and the proof that what Jesus did on our behalf did not fulfill all the requirements of justice (27:1-3 w/Gen 2:17; Exo 34:7; 1Pe 4:17-18). The two parts of justice needed to be right w/God: 1) active justice/removal of corruption in re: to our behavior (what we must do) = obedience to the Law/righteous practice/repentance/cleansing thru punishment – Pro 20:30, 2) passive justice/removal of contamination in re: to our spirit (what God must do) = sacrifice according to the Law/atonement/forgiveness/pardon/propitiation/cleansing thru substitution – Eph 2:13-14).God doesn’t punish His food (28:1 – “My food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma” = He w/happiness becomes our sin-eater so that our position before Him can become clean and His disp