August 23, 2025

Back in the days, when people had to buy new smartphones, it was difficult to transfer over all the phone numbers you had saved over time in your contacts list. So when you get a new phone, and someone calls you, you wouldn’t recognize their numbers. Many people would have to manually type in the numbers. Also, people didn’t want to get new phones because of all the photos that were saved and did not know how to transfer those photos to the new phone. People didn’t want to lose their wonderful memories.

Now we don’t have to worry about that anymore. Since many years ago, whenever we have to get a new phone, you can easily migrate all the data to your new phone. This is not just contact info and pictures, but literally everything to your new phone. It’s like cloning. When you follow instructions of the migration process during the setup, after some minutes, you will see that the new phone looks exactly like the old phone. All the apps, the way it’s set up, all the settings you designated over the years, it’s all there. Then, with the old phone, you will erase all the contents and settings in easy steps.

Jesus did something similar when He was hung up on the cross 2,000 years ago. As we know from the Sanctuary ministries, the sinner had to lay his hand on the head of the sacrificial animal, followed by killing it. The laying of hands signified the transferring of your sins to the animal, and the animal paid the price of sins by dying on your behalf. That’s what Jesus did for us. John the Baptist proclaimed, “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” John 1:29. It means that when Jesus was on the cross, He took our sins and became sin itself, thus freeing us from my sins. He cloned our sins like a new phone but for us we can be free of our sins like the old phone being able to erase all contents and settings after the migration. I am so grateful for our wonderful Savior who showed us His love by doing such a thing. I hope you’re grateful as well.

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