Hi Harry:
It has always amazed me in reading the Word that we learn each time a new insight or revelation that God brings to our attention.
Sometimes He brings people into our lives that causes us to dig even deeper than we may have done before, for gems that we never would have seen or understood before.
This is what I have come to understand. This synopisis is the outgrowth of this study that we have been following for some time now in this topic of the Hebrew Sanctuary.
There are many steps the earthly High Priest had to do. Because he as such, as the rest of us are sinners need of a Saviour. Therefore there were procedures that the earthly High Priest had to follow in order to be able to be a representative of the children of Israel. These steps of washing, special garments to wear, of cleansing and atonement was only necessary for the earthly High Priest. For he had to be free from sin in order to be the role as the representative for the congregation. This process was the offering of the bullock which represented in the blood of Jesus.
In this process there is no counterpart for Jesus as the High Priest, but only as our Saviour is it revealed as the sin offering of the bullock for the sins of the earthly High Priest and his own household.
But in the similarities we see several significant works that took place on the Day of Atonement.
1. Both acted as the representatives of the people of their sins and the offering of the blood for the sins of the congregations. Just as the earthly High Priest acted as the representative of the Children of Israel, so Jesus acts as the representative of the whole world as the second Adam.
2. It is in verse 15 of Leviticus that Jesus as the High Priest and as the goat can be seen. Here Jesus not only has a counterpart as the High Priest, but as the sin offering. Both Jesus and the earthly representatives are doing the work of the blood for sin offering of the people. It is seen that Jesus has a duel role.
3. We also see the counterparts of both in the atonement (purging) of the sins of the cleansing of the Sanctuary starting with the Most Holy Place, the Holy Place and in the courtyard.
4. In verse 20 it is stated "And he hath made an end of the reconciling." It is noted here that Jesus has not left the Most Holy Place, so therefore the process of the Holy Place and the Courtyard has not been fulfilled.
The world has not yet come to its end.
5. But when it does, we will see Jesus come out of the Most Holy Place to finish the work of reconciliation by the offering of the blood in the Holy Place and the Altar in the courtyard.
6. When this has been done, Jesus as the High Priest will place his hands on the head of the live goat/Satan and confess the iniquites, all their transgressions in all the sins of the people. Just as the earthly High Preist did this with the live goat, so will Jesus do with Satan at the end of the earth.
7. Just as the live goat was sent into the wilderness to die, which more than likely took many days, so will Satan be sent to the abyss of the earth for a 1000 years awaiting for the time of his death. Who will be the fit man is my guess, Gabriel.
8. When we get to verse 23 and part of 24, then again there is no counterpart of the earthly High Priest with Jesus.
9. But I do see something in the end part of verse 24 and 25. But that is for futher study and will be brought forth sometime later this week.
In the big picture just as in the earthly daily, the sins of the people were brought into the Holy Place. Just as our sins have been brought into the heavenly Holy Place since the fall of Adam.
Just as on the Day of Atonement once a year the earthly High Priest brought the sin offering into the Most Holy Place, Jesus as our High Priest is now making atonement (purging) the sin offering for the sins of the people.
This is where we are at right now in the course of the heavenly work of Jesus. To go beyond this is to step into the future. A future work of Jesus yet to be completed in the work of the Sanctuary.
Liane