Leviticus Chapter 9 As we found in Leviticus Chapter 16, a detailed account of the work of the great day of atonement, so in Chapter 9, we have a brief outline of the same which shows some of the features of the work quite prominently. Chapter 8, closes with an account of the seven days (or complete) consecration of the priests, and this ninth chapter pictures the work which follows the consecration of each individual priest. It began with the Head, and…
“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which shall try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice, inasmuch as you are part-takers of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory shall be revealed you may be glad also with exceeding joy.” (1 Pet 4:12). Since recognizing this as the meaning of the goat sacrifice, we see a force and meaning in some of the New Testament utterances relating to our death, and etc., which we never…
In the type it was not the sufferings of the bullock or goat, but the DEATH, by which an atonement was affected, though they suffered, of course, because death involves suffering. “The Man, Christ Jesus,” “tasted death for every man,” by being crucified – a gradual or lingering death – but the giving of his life in any manner would have paid the price. Now, all who would be “members of his body” must die to the world, give up the flesh life, so that they can, with Paul,…
The bullock having been slain, its body was taken outside the camp and burned with fire; representing that when Jesus died for our sins, his flesh life was counted as though sinful and consumed. “His flesh saw not corruption” yet his flesh life was destroyed. “He took upon him the form of a servant for the suffering of death. There that form of life (his perfect human life) ended, and though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him (so) no more.”…
“Thus, Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering.” Lev 16:3 In considering this type we must, to appreciate it, remember that it is a picture by itself, of one particular part, of the work of the World’s High Priest. It is a comparatively easy matter to talk or write about the High Priest anointed and etc., going into the Holy Place and coming out, etc., in a general way, but…
“Then (at the time that when Adventist and others were awakening and looking for the bridegroom’s arrival) all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.” Their lamps once pointed them to A.D. 1844, but He “tarried.” A cry is now made that the tarrying time was thirty years (from A.D. 1844 to A.D. 1874), as paralleled by the thirty years of the Jewish age, from the birth of Jesus until He “came,” being thirty years of age. This cry proclaimed to the…
Unlike many of our Lord’s parables this one is placed and fixed by the word “then.” Taken in connection with the preceding Chapter (Chapter 24), it is fixed as belonging to the last generation of the church living when the Lord comes. The kingdom of heaven is a term applicable to the church, which, from its establishment at Pentecost has always been God’s kingdom in which He is King and over which his will is law. True, in the future it will be “set…
But would it be right for God to reckon the one righteous life given, as a full payment for the lives of the millions of sinners who have died? Does not the price – one life, for a billion or more – seem like a short (or insufficient) payment? This is a reasonable question, and we will allow Paul to give it a reasonable answer. He is a logical reasoner, as well as an inspired Apostle, and argues that, as God had seen…
But when will the law of God release the sinner from the bondage of death? Never; if he could not obey the law while partially dead, he certainly cannot when completely so. Ever since the “fall” from perfect manhood through sin, man has been in a dying condition, sometimes spoken of as already dead (see Matt 8:22.) And none but a perfect man could keep a perfect law. But, says one, did not God send his Son into the world to show us how we could work our way…
Christians are in the habit of looking at “the law” as a great enemy. Why? Because it does not countenance the least sin. It says, “walk before me and be thou perfect.” Is that not right – could a perfect God recognize or make a law in any way imperfect? Surely not. The reason men count the law their enemy is that all have sinned, and ever since the disobedience of Adam they have been in the condition known as “sinful flesh.” Prior to sin’s entrance, the law was…