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LOOKING UNTO JESUS OR CHRIST IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE. BY ...

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considered; and as such is pursued by the avenging power of<br />

the law till it is chased out of existence. If sins were<br />

not there, considered as concrete things, and by Aaron's<br />

hands transferred to the head of the scapegoat, and by the<br />

goat borne away and lost in the wilderness, the record is<br />

fictitious and misleading. But no ordinance of God should<br />

be charged with being of such a character. p. 96, Para. 3,<br />

[<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

The question why the offering brought by the sinner under<br />

the Mosaic economy, did not sufficiently put away his sin,<br />

may be answered from another standpoint, and that is, the<br />

words of Paul in Heb. 10:4: "For it is not possible that<br />

the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." The<br />

highest type of sacrifices available under that dispensation,<br />

were not sufficient to meet the case. The life of an<br />

animal was not equal to the life of a man. By no possibility<br />

could it atone for his sins, without degrading man, or<br />

degrading the character of God's government. Not a sin,<br />

therefore, was really taken away by all that service. Why,<br />

then, was it maintained at the cost of so much blood and<br />

labor for the long period of fifteen hundred years? Answer:<br />

As a channel through which to manifest faith. That blood<br />

could not take away sin; but it could, appropriately to all<br />

parties, represent the fact that a better sacrifice had<br />

been provided, and was in due time to be revealed to the<br />

world; and by using, in the way prescribed, this representative<br />

blood, this figure, this type, the sinner could show<br />

that he believed in this coming Saviour, and that he laid<br />

hold upon his merits by faith as his only hope of salvation<br />

from sin. Here was all the merit of the sacrificial system.<br />

Without this faith on the part of him who brought his offering,<br />

all his efforts were a vain and useless ceremony.<br />

p. 97, Para. 1, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

But the time at length came when men could no longer express<br />

their faith in this way. The sanctuary and its services<br />

were not in themselves an end, and to be perpetual.<br />

The more perfect condition which it foreshadowed was in the<br />

lapse of ages surely to appear. As already noticed, the<br />

sanctuary itself disappeared in A.D. 70, and its service<br />

virtually came to an end when Christ declared to the Jews,<br />

"Behold your house is left unto you desolate," and when,<br />

amid the scenes of the crucifixion, the vail of the temple<br />

was rent in twain from top to bottom, exposing the shrine,<br />

so long and so sacredly guarded, to the rude and curious<br />

gaze of unhallowed men. p. 97, Para. 2, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].

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