Charles Taze Russell
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 36
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. THE GREAT "DAY OF ATONEMENT." LEVITICUS 16:3-33. The Oedee Of The Type And Its Antitypical Significations.--The Bullock. --The Peiest.--The Enteance Of The Holies With The Blood.--The InCense, The Sweet Odoe, And The Stench.--Enteeing The Most Holy.-- The Loed's Goat.--The Scapegoat.--T.he Blessing Of The People. THE Day of Atonement as a type should be considered -*. as separate from and yet a part (r)f and related to other Tabernacle types. Indeed, these types are each separate piftures, so to speak; each has its own subject and teaches its own lessons, and yet all are in agreement--parts of one gallery, and harmonious as the work of one great Artist. In all of them we are to look first for the Head and then for his body, the under priests, the Church. To understand the significance of the Day of Atonement and its work, we must realize that while our Lord Jesus personally is the Chief Priest to the under priesthood, the Gospel Church, "his body," yet in the more full and complete sense he is the Head and we are the members of the body of the world's High Priest. Just so Aaron was chief over his under priesthood, while really in its general and proper sense, and representing the under priests, he was ordained to minister as High Priest "for all the people" of Israel, --the typical representatives of all humanity, desirous of having atonement made for their sins and to return to divine favor and obedience. 4 T 49 As the consecrating of the antitypical priesthood includes all the members of the body, and requires all of the Gospel age to complete it, so also with the sin-offering, or the sacrifice of atonement: it commenced with the Head, and we, the members of his body, fill up the measure of the sufferings of Christ which.