“He (Aaron) shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some blood with his finger seven times.” (Lev 16:14)
“And it was only a few days thereafter that he ascended on high and approached the Mercy Seat, there to appear in the presence of God for us, as the Scriptures declare. Bear in mind that he did not appear for the world, but for us, for believers. He is NOT the world’s advocate before the Father, but rather ours, the consecrated, however in due time we along with him (if proven worthy) shall jointly compose the world’s mediator.
We have an advocate with the Father, he is our representative, and now speaks for us alone. (1 John 2:1)
In the type this is shown by the statement that the priest sprinkled the blood upon the Mercy Seat and before the Mercy Seat in the shape of a cross, the head of the cross being on the Mercy Seat, the lower end of it pointing and extending toward the veil.
The Apostle tells us that Christ offered up his own blood, but by this we do not understand him to mean that any of the literal blood of Jesus was taken into heaven, but rather as the bloodshed represented the sacrificed life of the Lord, so in the antitype our Lord presented before the Father the evidences of his death, applying a measure of that benefit, a measure of the merit of his sacrifice on behalf of the church, his body, and all the household of faith, but none of it on behalf of the world, none of it outside the household of faith. This is clearly shown in the type, for the priest, we are told, made an offering for himself and his house (Verse 11). His house, the Levites, typified the household of faith, himself represented his sons the under priests, and in the antitype represented the Church, the members of the body of Christ under Jesus as the Head, as it is written, `God gave Jesus to be the Head over the Church, which is his body'.
The statement of the type is most explicit; that the atonement made for this sacrifice, by the sprinkling of the blood of the bullock, was atonement NOT for all the people but merely for a limited, special class of them, all belonging to one tribe, the Levites, who represent here the household of faith. (Lev 16:6, 17)” R 3708:5, 6
“The type shows that the great Priest not only sacrificed, but additionally that he made appropriation of the merit of that sacrifice in the `Most Holy’ before he offered the second sacrifice—the `Lord’s goat.’
How was this fulfilled? We reply that forty days after our Lord completed his sacrifice at Calvary and rose from the dead, he ascended on high, appeared in the presence of God for us (his members or body and for his house). He applied the merit of his sacrifice on our behalf, and secured for all fully consecrated believers of this Gospel age full reconciliation with the Father (justification), and full privilege to become dead with him to earthly interests and restitution favors, and alive with him to the glories, honors and immortality of the Spirit nature.” (R 4546:2)
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