John 1:28This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.  29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'

What a great connection there is in the Gospels between the identification of the Passover Lamb that takes away the sins of the world and provides the sacrifice that allows man to draw near to YHWH.  This is mentioned within the context of baptizing, which is symbolic of the putting on of Yeshua’s flesh.  John is identifying for the world whose flesh we need to be baptized into.  We then take hold of His identify through becoming one flesh with Him by consuming His sacrifice.

Matthew 26:26And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.  27And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;  28For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.  29But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

It is this sacrifice that makes the individual/man reconciled to YHWH.  The man doesn't become the sacrifice.  The sacrifice doesn’t become the sinful man.  The sacrifice is without blemish/sin (not corrupted or fallen) and is of a different seed than man (typically a lamb, bird, grain).  What gets transposed upon the sacrifice is the fallen man's sin.  The torah shows us the transposition of sin occurs when the man giving the sacrifice  lays his hands on the head of the sacrifice before it is killed. 

Exodus 12: 4And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.  5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:  6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

Notice it is the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel that is responsible for killing it.  After it is burnt it is eaten by the people, the priests and by YHWH via the fire on the altar.  We must consume the offering to complete the sacrifice.  YHWH is the bread of life, the manna from heaven, which is unleavened, free from sin (without fallen nature) and His blood is the wine of the covenant.  We must eat/drink of the unleavened bread and the wine of the covenant via the Passover in order for it to be our Passover sacrifice.  This same offering allows us to draw near to YHWH without being killed by His holiness because the offering has taken our sins upon itself.  It is most holy and makes us most holy.

Leviticus 6:25Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.  26The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.  27Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.  28But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.

Leviticus shows us plainly that those who consume or touch the flesh of the sin offering become holy.  The import of the flesh of the sin offering imparting holiness to what it touches is monumental.  Yeshua told us that we must drink His blood and eat His flesh in order to be made holy and receive life, which is completely consistent with the Torah.  This has great consequences for those who claim that His flesh is of or part of fallen seed, Mary’s ovum.  Notice the earthen pot that contains the blood must be broken, just as Yeshua’s body was broken and died for us.  Any garment  that has His blood upon it needs to be washed in water.  Remember our flesh is considered a tabernacle or a temporary tent, and is often referred to a garment that needs to be changed.  These are important links to the Mikva and Baptism that those who partake of Yeshua’s sacrifice must perform.

I Corinthians 15: 49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.  50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.  51Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Corruption has no part of Incorruption.  You cannot mix them together.  You cannot mix leaven with bread and still have unleavened bread.  You are either fallen or not fallen.  There is no mixture.  You cannot approach the Mishkan (tabernacle) without the unblemished sacrifice.  Also, nowhere do I find any transubstantiation.  Otherwise you'd see the apostles literally chewing on Yeshua after the resurrection.  The only transference between the man and the sacrifice is the guilt/sin.  It need not be part of the man to redeem the man, it just needs to be as YHWH specified and without blemish. 

Leviticus 4:26And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.  27And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;  28Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.  29And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.

If you count from the Feast of First Fruits, where the wave offering is made of barley and do the counting of the Omer (50 days) you come to Pentecost (Shavout) where there is an offering of wheat.  Barley is typically fed to animals and wheat is typically fed to humans.  This shows the progress of a believer from raw animal emotion and passion to developing a mature human faith and relationship with YHWH.  Interesting that this may imply the gap from what we are, to what we should be, is about as far as an animal is from being a man. 

In this case YHWH is fulfilling the covenant on the part of both parties, since sinful man is incapable of redeeming himself.  He provides Himself as the sacrifice.  I think the confusion comes from the Protestant/Catholic syncretized belief that Yeshua is a God/Man.  And that He needs to be a mix of both in order to redeem man.  It is so deeply rooted in our teachings that Protestants don't even realize they hold a Catholic doctrine that is rooted in their change of  the apostle’s creed several hundred years after the lives of the apostles.

In fact, the mistakes of modern Christianity may not be far different than the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.  Obviously both of these religious groups misunderstand something of the same theme, otherwise Yeshua wouldn’t be correcting them at the same time by saying they have the same leaven.  What is it?  Could it be that YHWH cannot visit them in the flesh? 

Matthew 16: 1The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.  2He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.  3And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?  4A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.  5And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.  6Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.  7And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.  8Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?  9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?  10Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?  11How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?  12Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.  13When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?  14And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.  15He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?  16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.  17And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.  18And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  19And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.  20Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

He reminds them of the miracle of bread.  The group puzzles over what the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees means and then they finally get that Yeshua is criticizing their doctrine.  But which doctrine is it?  Is it all of it?  Is it there view of resurrections?  Yeshua does give as a sign of resurrection to life through the reminder of Jonah being 3 nights in the fishes belly and the being spewed up onto dry land (a type of resurrection to life from death). 

Luke 19: 43For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,  44And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.  45And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;

Or is it that they cannot discern the time of the visitation of YHWH to His temple in His own flesh?  Yeshua proceeds by asking His disciples who people say He is.  Some comment that He is John the Baptist, or Elijah, or one of the prophets.  This sounds like reincarnation was a popular belief of the time.   Yeshua could be taking issue with the idea that man is repeatedly re-incarnated, re-infleshed in repeating lives.  He is taking issue with the idea that man repeatedly comes back to earth in fallen and corrupted flesh.

The Pharisees and Sadducees ask for a sign from Heaven.  He tells them they cannot discern the times, much as he bemoans that Jerusalem did not know the day of her visitation.  Malachi goes on to describe YHWH coming to His temple. 

Malachi 3: 1Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.  2But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:  3And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

Hebrews 9: 26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.  27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:  28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

It is clear that man only dies once.  We are in corrupted and fallen flesh once, and then there is the judgment.  We do not come back repeatedly and reincarnate in corruptible flesh.  Yeshua came to save us from fallen flesh, not imprison us repeatedly within it.  He pushes His point to completion by asking Peter to share what YHWH had revealed to him.

Matthew 16: 16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Peter’s testimony, upon which Yeshua promised to build, was clear and simple, Yeshua is the Son, Flesh, Seed, Bread of the living YHWH.  He is not the flesh of fallen man.  He is the Bread from Heaven.  He is YHWH in uncorrupted, unleavened flesh.  He commends Peter and explains that only YHWH could have revealed this to him.  This must mean that collectively the Pharisees and Sadducees were corrupted with a teaching that was blinding them and preventing them from seeing and accepting YHWH’s flesh coming to His temple and their visitation by the Messenger of the Covenant.

Now we can understand the desperation of devout men in Acts.  They had been party to the death of the Messiah, our redemption. We should also ask the question posed in Acts 2.

Acts 2: 36Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.  37Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?  38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.  39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.

What shall we do?  Repent and return to the Torah, be baptized in the name of Yeshua and take on His flesh and His identity, become one with Him as He is one with YHWH.  This baptism into His sacrifice removes our sins.  We become crucified with Yeshua.  We then receive the gift of the Ruach Hakodesh, the Holy Spirit.  To participate in the offering, you place your guilt upon the offering, you consume it, and we take on the identity of the innocent by consuming its flesh.  We are crucified with Yeshua.

Galatians 2: 19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.  20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.  21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Can Paul make it any clearer?  What does John have to say?

John 3:15that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.[a]  16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[b] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

YHWH so loved the world that He gave His only begotten flesh so He could save the world through His sacrifice.  In order to be crucified with Yeshua we need to consume His sacrifice, which we commemorate every Passover.  He is our Passover lamb.  We consume the lamb and we become one with His flesh.  He doesn’t become one with our fallen, decaying flesh.  We get baptized into His resurrection and His flesh that we may come boldly before the throne of glory.

Hebrews 4:13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.  14Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.  15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.  16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

When we come before the throne of YHWH he sees what we really are.  Nothing is hidden from Him.  Our High Priest, Yeshua, has already come before the Throne of YHWH and presented His blood and sacrifice and it was found to be uncorrupted, pure, without sin, and unleavened.  It was not fallen in any way shape or form.  Because He has done this, we can come into the Throne of YHWH, because we are the Bride of Yeshua, one with His flesh, baptized into His resurrection.

Again the sacrifice does not become the fallen man.  The fallen man places his guilt upon the offering, the man takes on the identity of the innocent offering.  YHWH consumes the offering, the Priest consumes the offering, the man consumes the offering. 

Revelations 3: 19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.  20Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.  21To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

The offering need not be of the seed of the fallen man to redeem him.  It needs only to meet the requirements of YHWH given in the torah.  Man is incapable of redeeming himself.  Anything combined with fallen man cannot redeem the fallen man.  YHWH is fulfilling the whole covenant that he made with Abraham.  We are grafted into Yeshua’s tree, not Him into our dead tree.

Genesis 15:4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir." 5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."  6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.  7 He also said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."  8 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?"  9 So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."  10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. 11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.  12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."  17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land,

Notice Abram is in a deep sleep when the sacrifice is consumed.  It is through no action of his that the covenant is fulfilled.  In fact when Abraham and Isaac are living out the prophecy of the coming of the Messiah, Abraham sees that YHWH will provide “Himself” a lamb for burnt offering.  Little did Israel understand how literal YHWH was being.  YHWH came in unfallen flesh, flesh from heaven, and laid down His life so that our sin might be covered and that we could be baptized into His flesh and His resurrection. 

Genesis 22: 6And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.  7And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?  8And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

YHWH is fulfilling all the roles for Redemption, Issuer of Mercy and Judge on the Throne, High Priest bringing the blood of the redemptive sacrifice, and the sacrifice itself, uncorrupted blood and unblemished and unfallen flesh, Manna from Heaven which covers our sin and gives us an identity of innocence in Yeshua.