Why was Yeshua born into a human body to live with us?

Not to be funny or demeaning here but imagine trying to teach a bunch of highly intelligent ants about behavior, manners, your species, the future, etc. As the ant looks up at you in awe because of your size and miraculous abilities, he will only be able to relate to you as his mind allows him to comprehend you. But, if you became an ant… So G-d came in the form of a man to teach us. 

But His primary job can be summarized in one sentence. He came to be the final blood sacrifice to atone for our sins.

G-d showed us on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, that the blood of an innocent animal had to be offered up in payment for our sins. In the Torah, in Leviticus 17:11 , G-d said to Moses, "For the life of the creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for ones life."

But in 70 A.D. the temple and the altar were destroyed so we could no longer offer sacrifices for our sins. So since the temple was destroyed, did G-d just change His mind? Does He now accept charity and good deeds instead of a blood sacrifice? NO! G-d knew ahead of time that the temple would be destroyed, so He told us through His prophets in our Scriptures of the substitution system of atonement that He Himself would provide. G-d provided His own lamb, Yeshua.

What does the Talmud say about this? (The Talmud is the ancient Jewish commentary of the Hebrew Scriptures.)

The Talmud (Tractate Yoma 39:b) records in essence that on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) it was customary to tie some red wool to the temple gate. Miraculously, after the lamb died to take away or atone for our sins, the red wool always turned white as a sign to the people that they had been forgiven. But from 30 AD - 70 AD, the red wool tied to the temple gate remained red. The rabbis concluded G-d was saying, "I will not forgive, I will not forgive." Why is this relevant? The beginning of this 40-year period coincides with G-d providing His own lamb (Yeshua) to make one final atonement for all of our sins? In other words, G-d provided His lamb (Yeshua) to be the one sacrifice that would atone for all of our sins, forever.

John 3:16-18 “For G-d so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For G-d did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of G-d’s one and only Son.”  

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