“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin-offering, which is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.” (Lev 16:15)
“Both of these animals [the bull and the goat] represented the High Priest; the bullock our Lord and Head, and the goat, his body, the church. When the high priest sprinkled the blood of the bullock, it represented, ‘his own blood’, the merit of his own sacrifice. He applied it for us, NOT for the world; hence only believers (those fully consecrated), and not the world in general have received the blessing secured by our Lord’s sacrifice, thus far, (those blessings consisting of the At-one-ment with God, and the rights to restoration and restitution).
Meantime, according to divine intention the church has gradually been in the process of selection, this according to each ones willingness in sacrificing (foregoing) earthly interest (both the interest of the present earthly life and that of the future, secured through Christ sacrifice, i.e. their earthly life rights or restitution rights). These choose rather to walk in the footsteps of their master; filling up the sufferings of Christ; laying down their lives for the brethren.
Our presentation of ourselves (our consecration) to the Lord was at the door of the Tabernacle, as represented by the tethering of the goat there, thus we offered ourselves (Rom 12:1), and when we were accepted our sacrifice as the Lord’s goat class begun. This acceptance was indicated by the killing process. Henceforth we ceased to be men and were recognized on a new plane (of existence) as ‘members of the body of Christ’, without any headship of our own. Consequently when at the end on the Day of Atonement, the antitypical high priest shall make a further presentation of the blood of the goat upon the mercy seat, it will be ‘his own blood’ in two senses of the word;
1) It will be his own in the sense that all the merit was originally his and only appropriated to us in order that we might have the opportunity to share with him in sacrifice, the sacrificial merit merely passed through us, ‘the Lord’s goat’ class. We were favored by privilege accorded of ‘suffering with him that (in due time) we might be also glorified together with him’. It is not necessary to question whether our sacrifice could add anything to the merit of the transaction, because no more merit was necessary than that which our Lord had and which he applied on our behalf.
2) The blood (merit) which our Lord will apply as soon as the church shall have finished her share in his sacrifice will be ‘his own blood’, in the sense that he accepted or adopted us as his members, we losing our personality in the transaction in the same manner that a bride loses her name and her individuality at marriage. All that we have and are belong to the great bridegroom, and we are delighted that he is pleased to count us in with himself in any sense of the word in connection with his sufferings of this present time, and the glories which shall follow.” (R 4493:2-4)
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