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Do not present an animal with defects because the Lord will not accept it on your behalf
                                                    Lev:22:20
You must not offer an animal that is blind, crippled or injured or that has a wart, a skin sore or scabs. Such animals must never be offered on rhe altar as special gifts to the Lord.
                                                    Lev:22:22

It is a general rule that the animal that is offered to the Lord has to be without a defect, blameless and blemishless.
I remember a story heard a long time back.

A man is acquitted for a crime and he has to either face a capital punishment or pay the penalty of a sum of money. If he has neither money nor assets, his only option is to ask someone. Of course he wouldn't ask anyone whom he is sure not to have that money 💰.
But he would rather ask someone whom he is sure to be able to give him. And is definitely kind enough to give him.

You and I do not have holiness. And you can be sure that if you are not holy you can't stand in the presence of God. All we can do is to ask someone who is holy. And we can be sure it's absolutely absurd to ask someone who is not.


Rom:3:23 For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
Rev:15:4 says about God " You alone are holy" and 1Pet:1:19 says about Jesus Christ "the sinless, spotless Lamb of God" 

That is why the death of Jesus Christ on the cross becomes relevant and significant. The law says the wages of sin is death. Death is the punishment of breaking the standards of God, be it in words or deeds or thoughts and the penalty of it all is dealt on the cross.

Heb:9:22 For without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Dear one, time is fleeting. If you have not accepted the sacrifice that is given for saving you from the punishment once and for all, there in no point running.
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