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The Tabernacle to turn back to Chapter VI of these studies, to refresh your memory. Otherwise, you will miss much of the blessing God has for you in the teaching concerning Christ, our Sin-Offering; and Christ, our Burnt-Offering, upon the altar which is Calvary's cross. For some 0£ the other highly typical teaching concern- ing the ritual of the Day of Atonement, we want to con- sider a few of these details now: A Day of Mourning for Sin "They shall mourn for him" whom they crucified. The Feast of Atonement was possibly the most solemn of all the feasts of Jehovah. Three times in the twenty- third chapter of Levitcus and twice in the sixteenth chap- ter we read God's commandment to Moses, "Ye shall afflict your souls ... whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people." It was a time of weeping and mourning in Israel, a time of sorrow for their sins. Israel's grief on the Day of Atonement was but a shadow of the still future affliction of their souls when «they shall look upon" Him "whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn" (Zech. 12:10). "His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives" (Zech. 14:4). "And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends" ("Zech. 13:6).
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uratively laying them upon the head of the sinless Substi- tute who was to come, even Jesus. (See verses 5-10, 21-22.) 5. Aaron took the blood of the bullock and of the slain goat into the Holy of Holies, and sprinkled it "upon the mercy seat eastward, and before the mercy seat ..• with his finger seven times" (verses 11, 14, 15). 6. In his hands Aaron also took the golden censer, "full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small." The smoke of the incense went up before the Lord, cover- ing the mercy seat with its fragrance (verses 12, 13). 7. Aaron was alone in the tabernacle when he minis- tered before the Lord on this sacred day (verse 17) . 8. As he came out of the tabernacle, after having entered into the Most Holy Place, he sprinkled the blood upon the horns of the altar. 9. Then it was that the scapegoat was sent away into the wilderness, symbolically bearing afar off the sins of all Israel. Afterwards the man who led the scapegoat away had to go through ceremonial cleansing (verses 21, 22, 26). 10. Aaron, while in the tabernacle, took off the holy, linen garments and left them there; washed his flesh; and put on once more the beautiful garments (verses 23, 24). 11. Then he sacrificed the burnt offering, as "a sweet savour unto the Lord" (verse 24). 12. The fat of the sin offering was burned upon the altar; the remainder was carried without the camp, and burned with fire (verses 25, 27). 13. This was a day of mourning for sin (verse 29). 14. It was a day of rest (verse 29). 15. It was to be observed "once a year" (verse 34). If you are not clear on all the symbolism of these different offerings, my friend, let me urge you once more
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