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THE DAY OF AT0NEMENT.
LESSON VII, THIRD QUARTER, IN
TERNATioNAL SERIES, AUG. IL.


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V. l. "The Lord spaken This sentence
should always command our most reverent
attention.; we want to bow our heads and
hearts in loving submission and say "Speak,
Lord, for thy servant heareth."
1.-The death of the two sons of Aaron.n This
was because of disobedience tx, y; they will
fully did what God had commanded them
not TO do (Ex. xxx, %, and fire from the Lord
devoured them
''They offered before the Lord" All our
service as Christians is before the Lord and
ought to be unto Him in the power of the
Spirit; all else is as strange fire.
V. 2. "Come not at all times within the
vail" for the way into the holiest of all was
not yet made manifest; but now we have bold
ness to enter at all times into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus. Heb tx, s; x, l9l
"The cloud upon the mercy seat" What a
glorious new and living way it is that not
only gives US access to, but permits to abide
in Him who is our Ark and Mercy Seat and
cloud and Holy Of HOLES, in whom we have
redemption not for year, but eternal re-
demption. Heb. tx, 12.l
V. 3. THUS shall Aaron come into the
holy We will best understand this lesson
by looking at it under the following head
ings: l, the person of Aaron; 2, the sacri-
fees for himself and his house; 3, the sacri-
fees for the people; a, his entrance TO the
holiest; 5, the disposal of the blood; 6, the
disposal of the sin offering; z, the disposal of
the scapegoat; 8, the burnt Offering; o, the
grand result
l. The person of Aaron Verse says that
he was to wash his flesh in water and put ON
holy linen garments-breeches, coat, girdle
and miter. this signifies that he put off the
beautiful garments ordinarily worn by him,
and described in Ex. xviii; thus he stands
before us typifying the Lord Jesus, who laid
aside all his glory and beauty and as the
holy spotless one became our substitute. The
garments of glory and beauty Eek xviii, p
speak to us of the present work of our High
Priest making continual intercession for us
Rev. xix, s, gives US the significance of linen,
and Eek xiv, IL, is, tells why it was worn.
The word sweat is only found in two other
places in Scripture-Gen. iii, 10; Luke xxi,
44-and the lesson is the surface for
opened eyes,
2. The sacrifices for himself and his house
These are found in verses g. g. IL, "a, and
included both sin offering and burnt Of
fering, which were explained in the last les
son. Being a sinful man, he had to offer sac
rifice for himself as well as for the sins of
the people Heb tx, n, but our High Priest is
holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from
sinners.
B The sacrifices for the people. These are
found in verses 5, ITO, and also included
sin offering and burnt Offering. The burnt
offering in each case was a ram, but the sin
offering was, for Aaron, bullock, and for
the people, two goats: the reason may be
found in my comments upon the last lesson
A. The entrance to the HoIiest. is de-
scribed in verses 12-17 We must under
stand the arrangement of the tabernacle,
and remember that into this room went the
high priest alone, and only once every year
I1eb. TX, ~ He was to take the censer of
burning Goals from off the golden altar be-
fore the vail and carry it, within the vail,
putting on the fire handfuls of sweet incense
beaten small, that a cloud of incense might
cover the mercy seat, that he die not. The
precious truth Of the merits Of Christ as a
sweet incense before God on our behalf will
fill our souls if we only receive it. One not
acquainted with this days services might
think from reading Heb. tx, 3, Al that the
golden censer belonged within the vail, but
that chapter has special reference to this one
day, and the usual place of the golden censer
is found in Ex xl, 4, 5; Xxx, l, TO-
s. The disposal of the blood. d.-This was
the all important part of the days work.
"For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and
have given it to you upon the altar, to
make an atonement for your souls: for it is
the blood that maketh an atonement for the
soul" Qev. xvii, H. Verses l4-16, IS, 10,
tell US what was done with the blood; on the
mercy seat and seven times before the mercy
seat, on the horns Of the altar and seven times
on the altar.
6. The disposal of the sin offerings. Verses
%, q, %. The fat burned upon the altar, for
even in Christ as our sin Offering bearing
our sins there was an excellence that only
God could appreciate; the bodies burned with
out the camp. wherefore Jesus also, that
He might sanctify the people with His own
blood, suffered without che gate. Let us go
forth therefore unto Him, without the camp,
bearing His reproach. For here have we no
continuing city, but we seek one to Gomez
Heb. xiii, 11-14)
2. The disposal of the scapegoat. Vs. /.
20-22, 26) Two goats were taken for the
peoples sin offering. One was slain and
the blood sprinkled, as we have learned, on
the head of the other, as these verses tell
US The priest laid both his hands and con-
fessed all the iniquities, transgressions and
sins of all the people, putting them on the
head of the goat, and he was then led away.
into the wilderness, bearing them all into
land not inhabited
8. The burnt offerings. vs. %, 24) The
whole sin question having been now attended
to Aaron again washes himself, having put Off
the white linen garments and put on his
other garments, and comes forth to offer the
burnt offerings for himself and for the peo-
PIE, and make an atoncment.
0. The grand result s'Clean from al your
sins before the Lord" all iniquity, transgres-
sion and sin borne TO a laD1 Of separa-
ton. (Vs. q, @, %. 3ol What day It was,
A y.of affection Of scul, but no work
might be done in it, Their part was penf-
tence. The priests work Was to make atone
ment, and in that he was perfectly alone.
". III They did not help Kim in any way.
Clean from all sin was Gods gift to them
through the work Of another and by the sac
rice Of a euhgtifute Hosr rlad fhav ,,,,.sf