The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-10-18

ilkASlOk kU29Elll is in the blood
Heviticus xvii. III:
hence the shedding Of blood represents
death; and death may be spoken Of as
the shedding of blood. regardless of
whether or not single drop of blood
be spilled literally. Thus the presenta-
ton of the blood of the sacrifices of old
represented the offering to God Of their
lives as. typically. an offset to the for
feited life of Adam and his children.
who lost life through his disobedience.
lsraei's Atonement Sacrifices.
Each year. at approximately this sea-
son. the Jews celebrate their Atone
ment Day. by which their sins are
thought to be covered afresh for the
year begun. The underlying thought is
a reminder that they are sinners, and
that without the shedding Of blood.
without sacrificial death. there can be
no Divine forgiveness Of sins.
For more than sixteen centuries Is
rael observed these typical Atonement
Day services. up to the timethat Jesus
came Since then the Jews can have no
Atonement Day. really. because their
priestly line is lost. and they have no
Holy and Most Holy in which to make
the Atopement. and no Shekinah
Mercy Seat on which the blood Of
Atonement may be placed. and from
which Divine blessing and forgiveness
should proceed.
In their typical procedure the Day of
Atonement included all the Atonement
work Of the priest on the tenth day Of
the seventh month. His Atonement sac
ri6ce consisted of two parts-frst. a
bullock, which he slew, and afterward
a goat, which he treated in like man.
ner. He took the blood Of the bullock
into the Most Holy and applied it, not
on behalf of Israel. but simply on be-
half of the priestly tribe of Levi
After accomplishing this he came
out and slew the secondary part Of
his offering, the Lords goat. which
typified those consecrated to be his
under priesthood. After treating the
goat precisely as the bullock had been
treated. it's blood was taken into the
Most Holy and there was sprinkled on
the Mercy Seat, not on behalf of the
tribe of Levi. but on behalf Of all the
other tribes-on behalf of "all the peo-
ple," representative of all humanity
thus showing that eventually they will
be brought into harmony with God.
"The Better Sacrifices"-Antitypical.
In the type the bullock represented
Jesus, consecrated to death, and dy-
ing and dead: and the high priest rep
resented The Christ. spirit begOtten.
Jesus, as the appointed antitypical
Priest after the order of Melchisedec,
offered up Himself His human body
when He reached manhood's estate
thirty years Gradually He fulfilled
His baptism unto death, for three and
half years, completing it at Calvary.
During His earthly ministry, as
Priest He was in the Holy, having
fellowship with the Father. At Cal
vary. as Priest, He passed under the
second veil, and in His resurrection
arose on the other side Of the veil, in
the Most Holy-in the perfect spirit
condition.
Our Lord remained for forty days to
manifest Himself to His disciples, at
ter which He assembled on high and
presented the merit Of His sacrifice
(Hebrews TX, "a on behalf Of the
Church. just as Aaron presented the
blood Of the bullock on behalf OF his
household. the tribe Of Levi. The Di-
vine acceptance OF this merit on be
half Of the Church was manifested by
the giving Of the Holy Spirit at Pente-
cost. And this represents Gods &C
ceptance. not only of the faithful who
were there, but all of the same class
from then to the end Of this Age.
Members Of Jesus Still Dying.
The Scriptures set forth that the
faithful few OF Jesus followers who
will constitute the Royal Priesthood
by and by have been represented as
the antitypical Lords Goat Of the
Atonement Day. which Is caused to
pass through the same experiences ex-
actly as the antitypical Bullock. our
Lord. (Heb. xiii. 11-13o IF we suffer
with Him we shall reign with Him.
| The exalted High Priest. since Pen
tecost. has been Staying His secondary
sacrifice His consecrated followers
permitting them to thus represent Him
/ in the flesh. While they suffer. the
! sufferings Of Jesus are not completed
as He Himself said to Saul Of Tarsus.
saul, Saul. why persecutest thou Me?'
II am Jesus whom thou persecutest
+ Not Until the foreordained number OF
these better sacrifices" shall have
been completed in glory will the for
giveness Of the worlds sins be accom-
| plished. AT that time the antitypical
Priest will make the secondary appli-
cation Of His blood on behalf Of IAN
the people. !"