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Show BLOOD ATONEMENT WAS NECESSARY. Failure to Understand This Leads Many to Unbelief. Noed of th Hour In Pulpit and Pow It a Corroot Appreciation of tho Value of Blood Atonement For Sin, Declared Pastor Rue II at Lynn. BRnsselVa discourses here today was dint; of blood there Is no remissiou of sins," (Hebrews lx, dprlnro thnt the life (POR.(lU5SELU;i3 in the blood (Leviticus xril. 11): hence the shedding of blood represents death: and death may be spoken of an the shedding of blood, regardless of whether or not a single drop of blood be spilled literally. Thus the pre.seuta tlon of the blood of the sacrifices of old represented the offering to God of their lives us, typically, an oCfsct to the for felted life of Adam and his children, who lost life through his disobedience Isrnol's Atonement Sacrifices. Each yenr, at approximately this season, sea-son, the Jews celebrate their Atonement Atone-ment Day. by wliich their sins nre thought to be covered afresh for the I yenr begun The underlying thought Is J a reminder thnt 'they are sinners, and thnt Trlthout the shedding of blood. without a sHcriflcInl death, there can be no Divine forgiveness of sins For more thau sixteen centuries Is rnel observed these typical Atonement Dnr services, up to the time that Jesus come. Since thn the Jews can h.iTe no Atonement Day. really, because their priestly line h lost, and they have no Holy and Most Holy in which to make the Atonement and uo Shcklnah 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 prlost on the tenth dny of the seventh mpnrh. Hl Atonement sac-ritice sac-ritice consisted of two parts first, a bullock, which be slew, and afterward a goat, which he treated In like manner. man-ner. He took the blood of tho bullock Into the Most Holy and applied it. not on behnlf of Israel, but simply on behalf be-half of the priestly tribe of Levi After accomplishing this he came out and slew the secondary part of his offering, the Lord's goat, which typified those consecrated to be his under-prlesthood. After treating the goat precisely as the bullock had been treated. Its blood was taken Into the Most Holy and there wns sprinkled on the Mercy Sent, not on behnlf of tho tribe of Levi but on behalf of all tbe other trlbes-nn behalf of ''nil tbe people." peo-ple." representative of all humanity thus showing that eventually tbey will uc uiuujh into niiri iuny wuii .inu. J "The Better Sacrifices" Antitypical. 1 In the type the bullock represented Jesus, consecrated to death, and dying dy-ing and dead, and the high pj-let represented rep-resented The Christ, spirit-begotten. Jesus, as the appointed nntltyplca! Priest after the order of Melchlsedec. offered up Ulmself Ills human body-when body-when He reached manhood's estate-thirty estate-thirty years tJruduiilJy He fulfilled His baptism unto death, for three and a half years, completing It at Calvary During Ills en rl lily ministry, as a Priest He was In the Holy, having fellowship with the leather. At Cal vary, as I'rlcMt. He passed under the second veil, and lu His insurrection arose 00 thp other side of tbe veil, In tho Most Holy In the perfect spirit condition Our Lord remained for forty dayp to manifest EUmself to His disciples, after af-ter which lie ascended on high and presented the merit of His sacrifice (Hebrews Li. 2-1) on behnlf of the Church, n.st as Aaron presented tho blood of the bullock on behalf of h! household, the trllK? of l.evi Tho DI vine acceptance of this raorit on be half of the Church wan manifested by tho giving of the Holv Spirit at Pentecost. Pente-cost. And this represents God's acceptance, ac-ceptance, not only of the faithful who were there, but all of the same clnct from then to the ond of this Age. 1 WJombers of Jeaua Still Dying. Tho Scriptures set forth that the fnltbful few of Jesus' followers who will constitnto the Hoyal Priesthood by antf by hnvc betin represented as the nntityplcnl Lord's Goat of the Atontm-uT Day, which Is caused to pats through the snme experiences exactly ex-actly an the antitypicnl Bullock, our Lord. (Hob. xlfi. 11-1., "If we suffer with Him we shall reign with Him." 'i'he exalted High Priest, since Pen tecost, Jns been slaving His secondary saciiflce His consecrated followers-permitting followers-permitting them to thus represent Him In the Uesti. While they suffer, the sufferings nf .le.sns are not completed hs He, Hiuirfplf said to Saul of Tarsus, "Saul. Saul, why perseculeHt thou Me?' "I am Jesus whom thou persecuteHt1' Not until the forpordnlned number of thee "better sacrifices" shall have been completed in glory will the forgiveness for-giveness of the world's sins be nccom pllshcd. At thnt time the antitypicnl Priest will mnke tho secondary application appli-cation of Ula blood on behnlf of "all ike people." |