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141 The Tabernacle we might be made the righteousness of God in him" (II Cor. 5 :21). He poured out His precious blood at the altar, which was His cross, when He "suffered without the gate" of Jerusalem, upon the accursed tree (Heb. 13: 10- 12). After His death and resurrection, He ascended into heaven, and presented unto the Father "his own blood," "the blood of sprinkling," in that "more perfect taber- nacle, not made with hands"; and "obtained eternal re- demption for us" (Heb. 9:11, 12; 12:24). As each individual in Israel had to present his own sin offering, so every sinner of all ages has to look to Jesus, the only Sin-Bearer, for personal salvation. None can be saved for another; every sinner bears a personal responsi- bility before a holy God. As each Jew had to place his hand upon the head of the animal sacrifice, confessing his sin, so every child of Adam has to confess before God and man, angels and demons, his need of a Redeemer, and identify himself with the Christ of the cross, if he would be saved. As the sin offering had to be slain, so Christ had to die, a Substitute for the sinner; His holy, sinless life was not enough to save the guilty soul. As the fire outside the camp consumed the sacrifice, so the :fires of divine jus- tice burned with awful fierceness as the Sin-Offering died outside the city gate. As the wind carried the ashes of the animal sacrifice away, so God will remember our sins no more forever. And as the earthly priest sprinkled the blood of the victim before the Lord, so Christ presented His own precious blood unto the Father in "the holiest of all," even heaven itself. The sinful Israelite was ac- cepted before God by faith in the atoning blood of the Saviour who was t_o come, even as we are "accepted in the beloved" Son of the Father! "Without the camp" Christ died for our sins; "within the vail" He "ever liveth to
The Tabernacle ance," he was commanded to bring his offering for sin (4:22); and "if any one of the common people" did sin "through ignorance," he was to sacrifice his sin offering unto the Lord ( 4:27). Rich and poor, the self-righteous, moral man and the flagrant sinner-all possessed the old sinful nature inherited from Adam. And for all a Sav~ iour had to die! . Although the ~ifferent classes in Israel did not always bnng the same ammal for the sin offering, yet the ritual was practically the same. The sinner, of whatever class, t~ presen~ his own offering, thus recognizing his own md1v~dual gmlt that, in type, was being laid upon his Substitute who was to come. He took his offering "unto the door of the tabernacle ... before the Lord," publicly a~lmowledging his sin and his need of a Saviour. He placed ~1s h~n~ upo~ the head of the innocent victim, figuratively 1dent1fymg himself with the promised Sin-Bearer, even the Lord Jesus Christ. The priest sprinkled the shed blood "seven times before the Lord, before the vail of the sanc- tuary," and "upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the Lord," or "upon the horns of the altar of burnt- offering." The blood was to be poured out "at the bottom of the altar of burnt-offering." The fat was to be burned upon the ~ltar of ~urnt offering; it was Jehovah's portion, well-pleasmg to Him. But the flesh, bones, and skin, "even ~.he whole bullock," had to be carried without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes" were poured out· and there burned with :fire. None of these parts could be burned upon the altar; they had to be burned "without the camp." The sin offering thus became a graphic picture of the Lord Jesus, our Substitute, who, though He "knew no sin" in His holy Being, yet was "made sin for us ... that
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