We teach and believe that Jesus was a Sin Offering. We also teach that He was Holy and pure, just as the Old Testament Offerings foreshadowed. Isaiah said:

 

 

“Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him,” refers to the sufferings of Christ, which proceeded from the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God (Acts 2:23), and which, being permitted by Him, were in some way His doing. “It pleased Him” moreover that they should be undergone, for the Father saw with satisfaction the Son’s self-sacrifice, and He witnessed with joy man’s Redemption and deliverance affected thereby.

 

“He has put Him to grief,” actually says “He has put Him to sicknesses” or “He has made Him sick.” This spoke of the time He was on the Cross bearing our sins and “sicknesses” (Mat. 8:16-17; I Pet. 2:24). And yet, while all sin and sickness were atoned at the Cross, the total effects of such will not be completely dissipated until the coming Resurrection

 

(Rom. 8:23). “When You shall make His soul an offering for sin,” is powerful indeed! The word “Offering” in the Hebrew is “asham,” and means “a Trespass Offering,” an “Offering for sin.” Offerings for sin, or “guilt offerings,” were distinct from “Sin Offerings.” The object of the former was “satisfaction”; of the latter, “expiation.” The Servant of Jehovah was, however, to be both. He was both the “Sin Offering” and the “Guilt Offering.” 

 

This completely destroys the idea that Jesus died spiritually on the Cross, meaning that He became a sinner on the Cross, and died and went to Hell as all sinners, and was born again in Hell after three days and nights of suffering, etc. None of that is in the Word of God. While Jesus definitely was a “Sin Offering,” He was not a sinner, and did not become a sinner on the Cross. To have done so would have destroyed His Perfection of Sacrifice, which was demanded by God. In other words, the Sacrifice had to be perfect, and He was perfect in every respect.