The following is from - "LET THEM MAKE ME A SANCTUARY" XXXV - 1 (02)-
(((We did this study yesterday, but today I'm going to add my two cents here and there as I personally try to fully comprehend the truth. Please, God, please bless us as we study Your truth. Please, open our hearts and our minds to all You would have us know. Give us all we need to live the truth, all through the Holy Spirit, the Comforter that the Savior has sent to us, to guide us in all truth. ))))
The Day of Atonement is listed among the "feasts of the Lord" in Leviticus 23.
Today, in Judaism, this Feast is the most important day of their yearly religious rites; YET in the Old Testament, there is NO record of any celebration of this feast.
In the Gospels there is NO mention of Christ ever attending this feast as He did the Passover.
This we can understand; Jesus needed NO cleansing since He did NO sin.
(((Truly, our Savior needed no cleansing at all. There was not a single stain of sin upon Him. Yes, He was tempted and yes, He felt the temptation as only a human being can, but He never once yielded to the temptation, it was never once conceived in Him. No sin of His own was ever recorded anywhere. There was absolutely NO need for our Savior to be cleansed. He didn't need to afflict His soul over His many sins, He had none. Yet you can be assured He kept this feast just as He did all the others, as a part of His life upon earth as a son of Joseph and Mary growing up as one of God's chosen people.))))
There is an allusion to the day in Acts 27:9. (((Act 27:9 Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because THE FAST was now already past, Paul admonished them, ))))
"The day" in Hebrews 10:25 could refer to the Day of Atonement.
The preface to the listing of the "feasts" in Leviticus 23 notes the Sabbath commandment as a "holy convocation" even as the "feasts" were to be so proclaimed (verses 2-3).
There is a reason.
Concerning the Sabbath, the commandment specifies - "ye shall do no work therein: it is a sabbath of rest in all your dwellings" (ver. 3).
ALL the other feasts - the Passover, Pentecost, the Memorial of the Trumpets and the Tabernacles, the command was simply - "Ye shall do no SERVILE work therein" (verses 8, 21, 25, 35).
However, the command concerning the Day of Atonement carried the SAME injunction as the Sabbath - "Ye shall do no manner of work" (ver. 31).
The significance of the Sabbath rest would likewise be the significance of the rest for the Day of Atonement.
In Hebrews (4:10) speaking of the Sabbath in connection with the "rest" of God promised in Christ Jesus (Matt. 11:28-30), it reads that one who enters into that rest "hath ceased from his own works." Likewise, the one who receives the final atonement must cease from his own works, and rely solely on the High Priest. If not, he will be destroyed "from among his people" (Lev. 23:30).
(((Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Lev 23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. ))))
((( The Day of Atonement a feast among other feasts kept by God's chosen people. A feast that like all others had a significance, a reason behind its being kept. This was the ONLY feast of all the feasts God's people were told to keep that had the same wording as the fourth commandment-
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Lev 23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Lev 23:28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
Lev 23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
Lev 23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Yet for the other feasts--
Lev 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
Lev 23:35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no SERVILE work therein.
Lev 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete….
Lev 23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no SERVILE work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Do you see the difference? It's there! And it's for our comprehension! For our learning!
This Day of Atonement, this Day of Cleansing was something so important it demanded no only the servile work to cease but ALL work to cease just as each and every seventh day Sabbath is kept! ALL work ceasing!
Heb 4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Heb 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Cease from OUR works as GOD ceased from His!
Cease from OUR works!
An the Day of Atonement everyone was to cease from their own works, completely cease from their own working. When we stop working our own works to rest we are doing so in order that we may connect fully with God. We stop doing our own things, our own will, our own desires, our own workings. We stop and by the grace of our God we learn, when we stop working our own works, dependency upon our CREATOR, our REDEEMER. We shift our self-centered focus from ourselves to God. We acknowledge the God has commanded and we choose to obey His command. We say we are NOT our own, we are GOD'S. We say we are POWERLESS, GOD is ALL POWERFUL! We say, THY WILL BE DONE.
The Sabbath is a weekly opportunity for us to recall our total dependency upon God for our Salvation. Not that we shouldn't recall this daily, but the Sabbath specifically calls for us to STOP doing our own will in all things and do God's.
The Day of Atonement was such a feast day it was so important.
And our Savior who is even now, right at this moment in time, in the Heavenly Sanctuary living in the time of the cleansing day that encompasses all humanity, wants us to understand that now more than ever before in all time we must seek God's will, His perfect will and not our own wills. We are living in holy time as our Savior as our High Priest performs His ministry of cleansing the heavenly sanctuary. Sin in all its horror is being brought closer and closer to its end.
Remember our previous study on the Times of the Gentiles being fulfilled? Remember that in 1980 that was accomplished? That sign was given and in connection with it we traced through history that the people chosen in the early 1800's to bring the Everlasting Gospel, to preached the unfolding prophecy to all had themselves become corrupted. In 1980 these people as a corporate body apostatized from the truth. This cannot help but remind us of the atonements made on that Day of Atonements. Remember a few days ago we talked about the High Priest making and atonement for the rulers, and for the congregation? What happened to those of the rulers and congregations who chose NOT to cease from their work, but continued on in their sins? They were NOT cleansed. Why? Because they did not confess! The atonements, the forgiveness only extends to those who confess! It is their sins that are cleansed, those same sins they placed there all throughout the year. If you do not place something where it can be cleansed, can you truly expect it to be made clean? No. In type, we comprehend that the cleansing that our Savior is undertaking in the heavenly sanctuary is just as active as was the High Priests on the Day of Atonement. He moved from one cleansing to the next, one phase to the next. We will study this even closer in days to come, by the Grace of God.))))
There is another interesting aspect to the Day of Atonement not indicated in the KJV. The text reads:
On the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonements (plural in the Hebrew): it shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is the day of atonements (plural in the Hebrew), to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. (Lev.
23:27-28).
Why the plural?
There are two possibilities.
In the outline of the services to be performed on the tenth day of the seventh month, there is enumerated a SERIES of atonements to be accomplished by the High Priest (Lev. 16:32-33), thus it was literally a "day of atonements."
(((Lev 16:32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:
Lev 16:33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation. ))))
The other possibility is that it is the use of the pluralis majestaticus v. excellentiae (majestic plural) as is ascribed to the word, Elohim, the plural form for God in the Hebrew. If it is this latter possibility, the use elevates this day above ALL the other ceremonial feast days.
The services to be performed by the High Priest alone on that day are outlined in Leviticus 16.
There are some details of a typical nature that need to be carefully considered not only for "learning" but also for some "unlearning."
[It needs to be kept in mind that the term, "holy" coupled with the supplied word, "place" in this chapter refers to what we often call the "Most Holy Place," or the inner apartment of the sanctuary. The phrase, "tabernacle of the congregation" (v.17) is used to designate the first apartment, which we often refer to as, "The Holy Place."]
The instruction given to Moses for Aaron begins with a specific warning. He was not to come into the Most Holy Place except on one day of each year the Day of Atonement (v.2).
He was told what to bring: "a young bullock as a sin offering, and ram for a burnt offering" (v.3).
The first thing which must be decided is the question - Is this offering to be considered typical, or was it just a part of the ceremonial procedure? In other words, did Aaron function on the Day of Atonement in his High Priestly capacity as a type of the ministry of the great High Priest of the "true tabernacle which the Lord pitched"?
If Aaron so functioned, then there is significance in the fact that he provided the "young bullock" which he offered. Since the great High Priest must Himself "have somewhat also to offer" (Heb. 8:3), He presents Himself as the Mediator of His own blood.
(((Heb 8:3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.---
This man being - JESUS. Jesus offered HIMSELF a Sacrifice, and Offering.))))
In the typical services of this day, the blood of the young bullock is carried into the Most Holy Place prior to the blood of "the Lord's goat" (16:14).
Further, when the last act of atonement was made on the Day, the blood of the bullock, and the blood of the Lord's goat were mingled to accomplish the final cleansing (v.18).
This is saying something.
The accomplishment of the last act of the atonement is by the power of both Him that sits between the cherubim, and He who ministers as the Divine Intercessor.
(((The Father and the declared Son))))
This typical message dare not be overlooked. It will appear again as we continue our study.
Two other factors need to be observed in regard to Aaron's offering.
In both his corporate capacity, should he lead the congregation into sin, and now in his functioning on the day of Atonement, a "young" bullock was involved (Lev. 4:3; 16:3).
In the reality of the offering provided for both forgiveness and for cleansing, it was made by One who "was cut off out of the land of the living" (Isa. 53:8). He gave Himself in the prime of His earthly experience.
In Leviticus 16, the offering of Aaron is defined as "for himself, and for his house" (v.6).
Is this to be considered as "for himself" as a sinner, or is it typical of the fact that the great Antitype gave Himself for us, as just noted above?
NO hands of confession were laid on this bullock by Aaron, even though designated as a "sin offering." It was a sin offering "for his house." Was this for his own family? It does say in a summary of the "atonements", that one was an "atonement for the priests" (v. 33). It needs to be kept in mind that the take off point in the book of Hebrews for the discussion of the high priestly ministry of Jesus Christ was His being "a son over his own house."
Hebrews 1 presents Christ as God, worthy of worship, and as a Son through whom God has spoken.
Hebrews 2, presents Him as a man of "the seed of Abraham, ... made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest."
Then Chapter 3 asks us as "partakers of the heavenly calling" to "consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession."
The first thing Paul presents is a comparison between two "houses" - the house of Moses, and the house of Christ.
It also needs to be remembered that Aaron was to be only a spokesman to Moses (Ex. 4:16). It was Moses who erected and anointed the tabernacle of the congregation, as well as dedicating Aaron to the priesthood (Exodus 40). Aaron served as Moses' "alter ego" with whom God had made the "typical" covenant (Ex. 34:27).
Exo 34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Exo 40:13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
*******
Do you see, there is so much to learn, so much.
We were guided to the truth and to pull back rather than seek a deep comprehension of the truth would be wrong. The Sanctuary in Heaven is REAL. The earthly was but built after the pattern of the original. To stop right there and shove the Sanctuary aside as unimportant would be tragic, eternally tragic.
May God help us as we delve deeper and deeper into the truths of His Sanctuary. We know our Our High Priest, our Savior is there right now and when He stands up, finishing His work there then our probation is over and all things are decided, the end of all things as we know it will come. Our Savior will return for His people and only by HIS GRACE and MERCY, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, HIS LOVE will we be HIS, accounted worthy through HIS WORTH!
All praise, all glory, all honor to You, Savior! Always!
(((We did this study yesterday, but today I'm going to add my two cents here and there as I personally try to fully comprehend the truth. Please, God, please bless us as we study Your truth. Please, open our hearts and our minds to all You would have us know. Give us all we need to live the truth, all through the Holy Spirit, the Comforter that the Savior has sent to us, to guide us in all truth. ))))
The Day of Atonement is listed among the "feasts of the Lord" in Leviticus 23.
Today, in Judaism, this Feast is the most important day of their yearly religious rites; YET in the Old Testament, there is NO record of any celebration of this feast.
In the Gospels there is NO mention of Christ ever attending this feast as He did the Passover.
This we can understand; Jesus needed NO cleansing since He did NO sin.
(((Truly, our Savior needed no cleansing at all. There was not a single stain of sin upon Him. Yes, He was tempted and yes, He felt the temptation as only a human being can, but He never once yielded to the temptation, it was never once conceived in Him. No sin of His own was ever recorded anywhere. There was absolutely NO need for our Savior to be cleansed. He didn't need to afflict His soul over His many sins, He had none. Yet you can be assured He kept this feast just as He did all the others, as a part of His life upon earth as a son of Joseph and Mary growing up as one of God's chosen people.))))
There is an allusion to the day in Acts 27:9. (((Act 27:9 Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because THE FAST was now already past, Paul admonished them, ))))
"The day" in Hebrews 10:25 could refer to the Day of Atonement.
The preface to the listing of the "feasts" in Leviticus 23 notes the Sabbath commandment as a "holy convocation" even as the "feasts" were to be so proclaimed (verses 2-3).
There is a reason.
Concerning the Sabbath, the commandment specifies - "ye shall do no work therein: it is a sabbath of rest in all your dwellings" (ver. 3).
ALL the other feasts - the Passover, Pentecost, the Memorial of the Trumpets and the Tabernacles, the command was simply - "Ye shall do no SERVILE work therein" (verses 8, 21, 25, 35).
However, the command concerning the Day of Atonement carried the SAME injunction as the Sabbath - "Ye shall do no manner of work" (ver. 31).
The significance of the Sabbath rest would likewise be the significance of the rest for the Day of Atonement.
In Hebrews (4:10) speaking of the Sabbath in connection with the "rest" of God promised in Christ Jesus (Matt. 11:28-30), it reads that one who enters into that rest "hath ceased from his own works." Likewise, the one who receives the final atonement must cease from his own works, and rely solely on the High Priest. If not, he will be destroyed "from among his people" (Lev. 23:30).
(((Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Lev 23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. ))))
((( The Day of Atonement a feast among other feasts kept by God's chosen people. A feast that like all others had a significance, a reason behind its being kept. This was the ONLY feast of all the feasts God's people were told to keep that had the same wording as the fourth commandment-
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Lev 23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Lev 23:28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
Lev 23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
Lev 23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Yet for the other feasts--
Lev 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
Lev 23:35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no SERVILE work therein.
Lev 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete….
Lev 23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no SERVILE work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Do you see the difference? It's there! And it's for our comprehension! For our learning!
This Day of Atonement, this Day of Cleansing was something so important it demanded no only the servile work to cease but ALL work to cease just as each and every seventh day Sabbath is kept! ALL work ceasing!
Heb 4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Heb 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Cease from OUR works as GOD ceased from His!
Cease from OUR works!
An the Day of Atonement everyone was to cease from their own works, completely cease from their own working. When we stop working our own works to rest we are doing so in order that we may connect fully with God. We stop doing our own things, our own will, our own desires, our own workings. We stop and by the grace of our God we learn, when we stop working our own works, dependency upon our CREATOR, our REDEEMER. We shift our self-centered focus from ourselves to God. We acknowledge the God has commanded and we choose to obey His command. We say we are NOT our own, we are GOD'S. We say we are POWERLESS, GOD is ALL POWERFUL! We say, THY WILL BE DONE.
The Sabbath is a weekly opportunity for us to recall our total dependency upon God for our Salvation. Not that we shouldn't recall this daily, but the Sabbath specifically calls for us to STOP doing our own will in all things and do God's.
The Day of Atonement was such a feast day it was so important.
And our Savior who is even now, right at this moment in time, in the Heavenly Sanctuary living in the time of the cleansing day that encompasses all humanity, wants us to understand that now more than ever before in all time we must seek God's will, His perfect will and not our own wills. We are living in holy time as our Savior as our High Priest performs His ministry of cleansing the heavenly sanctuary. Sin in all its horror is being brought closer and closer to its end.
Remember our previous study on the Times of the Gentiles being fulfilled? Remember that in 1980 that was accomplished? That sign was given and in connection with it we traced through history that the people chosen in the early 1800's to bring the Everlasting Gospel, to preached the unfolding prophecy to all had themselves become corrupted. In 1980 these people as a corporate body apostatized from the truth. This cannot help but remind us of the atonements made on that Day of Atonements. Remember a few days ago we talked about the High Priest making and atonement for the rulers, and for the congregation? What happened to those of the rulers and congregations who chose NOT to cease from their work, but continued on in their sins? They were NOT cleansed. Why? Because they did not confess! The atonements, the forgiveness only extends to those who confess! It is their sins that are cleansed, those same sins they placed there all throughout the year. If you do not place something where it can be cleansed, can you truly expect it to be made clean? No. In type, we comprehend that the cleansing that our Savior is undertaking in the heavenly sanctuary is just as active as was the High Priests on the Day of Atonement. He moved from one cleansing to the next, one phase to the next. We will study this even closer in days to come, by the Grace of God.))))
There is another interesting aspect to the Day of Atonement not indicated in the KJV. The text reads:
On the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonements (plural in the Hebrew): it shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is the day of atonements (plural in the Hebrew), to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. (Lev.
23:27-28).
Why the plural?
There are two possibilities.
In the outline of the services to be performed on the tenth day of the seventh month, there is enumerated a SERIES of atonements to be accomplished by the High Priest (Lev. 16:32-33), thus it was literally a "day of atonements."
(((Lev 16:32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:
Lev 16:33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation. ))))
The other possibility is that it is the use of the pluralis majestaticus v. excellentiae (majestic plural) as is ascribed to the word, Elohim, the plural form for God in the Hebrew. If it is this latter possibility, the use elevates this day above ALL the other ceremonial feast days.
The services to be performed by the High Priest alone on that day are outlined in Leviticus 16.
There are some details of a typical nature that need to be carefully considered not only for "learning" but also for some "unlearning."
[It needs to be kept in mind that the term, "holy" coupled with the supplied word, "place" in this chapter refers to what we often call the "Most Holy Place," or the inner apartment of the sanctuary. The phrase, "tabernacle of the congregation" (v.17) is used to designate the first apartment, which we often refer to as, "The Holy Place."]
The instruction given to Moses for Aaron begins with a specific warning. He was not to come into the Most Holy Place except on one day of each year the Day of Atonement (v.2).
He was told what to bring: "a young bullock as a sin offering, and ram for a burnt offering" (v.3).
The first thing which must be decided is the question - Is this offering to be considered typical, or was it just a part of the ceremonial procedure? In other words, did Aaron function on the Day of Atonement in his High Priestly capacity as a type of the ministry of the great High Priest of the "true tabernacle which the Lord pitched"?
If Aaron so functioned, then there is significance in the fact that he provided the "young bullock" which he offered. Since the great High Priest must Himself "have somewhat also to offer" (Heb. 8:3), He presents Himself as the Mediator of His own blood.
(((Heb 8:3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.---
This man being - JESUS. Jesus offered HIMSELF a Sacrifice, and Offering.))))
In the typical services of this day, the blood of the young bullock is carried into the Most Holy Place prior to the blood of "the Lord's goat" (16:14).
Further, when the last act of atonement was made on the Day, the blood of the bullock, and the blood of the Lord's goat were mingled to accomplish the final cleansing (v.18).
This is saying something.
The accomplishment of the last act of the atonement is by the power of both Him that sits between the cherubim, and He who ministers as the Divine Intercessor.
(((The Father and the declared Son))))
This typical message dare not be overlooked. It will appear again as we continue our study.
Two other factors need to be observed in regard to Aaron's offering.
In both his corporate capacity, should he lead the congregation into sin, and now in his functioning on the day of Atonement, a "young" bullock was involved (Lev. 4:3; 16:3).
In the reality of the offering provided for both forgiveness and for cleansing, it was made by One who "was cut off out of the land of the living" (Isa. 53:8). He gave Himself in the prime of His earthly experience.
In Leviticus 16, the offering of Aaron is defined as "for himself, and for his house" (v.6).
Is this to be considered as "for himself" as a sinner, or is it typical of the fact that the great Antitype gave Himself for us, as just noted above?
NO hands of confession were laid on this bullock by Aaron, even though designated as a "sin offering." It was a sin offering "for his house." Was this for his own family? It does say in a summary of the "atonements", that one was an "atonement for the priests" (v. 33). It needs to be kept in mind that the take off point in the book of Hebrews for the discussion of the high priestly ministry of Jesus Christ was His being "a son over his own house."
Hebrews 1 presents Christ as God, worthy of worship, and as a Son through whom God has spoken.
Hebrews 2, presents Him as a man of "the seed of Abraham, ... made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest."
Then Chapter 3 asks us as "partakers of the heavenly calling" to "consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession."
The first thing Paul presents is a comparison between two "houses" - the house of Moses, and the house of Christ.
It also needs to be remembered that Aaron was to be only a spokesman to Moses (Ex. 4:16). It was Moses who erected and anointed the tabernacle of the congregation, as well as dedicating Aaron to the priesthood (Exodus 40). Aaron served as Moses' "alter ego" with whom God had made the "typical" covenant (Ex. 34:27).
Exo 34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Exo 40:13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
*******
Do you see, there is so much to learn, so much.
We were guided to the truth and to pull back rather than seek a deep comprehension of the truth would be wrong. The Sanctuary in Heaven is REAL. The earthly was but built after the pattern of the original. To stop right there and shove the Sanctuary aside as unimportant would be tragic, eternally tragic.
May God help us as we delve deeper and deeper into the truths of His Sanctuary. We know our Our High Priest, our Savior is there right now and when He stands up, finishing His work there then our probation is over and all things are decided, the end of all things as we know it will come. Our Savior will return for His people and only by HIS GRACE and MERCY, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, HIS LOVE will we be HIS, accounted worthy through HIS WORTH!
All praise, all glory, all honor to You, Savior! Always!
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