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OVERCOMING CONFUSION 61victim. A means was thus provided by which it was transferredto the sanctuary. By the offering of blood the sinneracknowledged the authority of the law, confessed his guilt intransgression, and expressed his desire for pardon throughfaith in a Redeemer to come; but he was not yet entirelyreleased from the condemnation of the law. On the Dayof Atonement the high priest, having taken an offering fromthe congregation, went into the most holy place with the bloodof this offering, and sprinkled it upon the mercy seat, directlyover the law, to make satisfaction for its claims. Then, in hischaracter of mediator, he took the sins upon himself and borethem from the sanctuary. Placing his hands upon the head ofthe scapegoat, he confessed over him all these sins, thus infigure transferring them from himself to the goat. The goatthen bore them away, and they were regarded as foreverseparated from the people. The Great Controversy, 420.All emphases supplied unless otherwise noted.Thus we can conclude the following:1. Atonement for sin was made with the slain substitute’s blood.2. Atonement required that the blood was to be applied as well asshed. For the anointed priest and also for the congregation(see Leviticus 4:13–21), the blood was applied to the horns ofthe altar of incense and also sprinkled before the veil. The bloodof the sin offerings of the individuals of the common peoplewas applied to the horns of the altar of burnt offerings.3. The confessed and forgiven sins were not cancelled but wereregistered in the holy place. The sin bearing blood of the sinofferings of the priest went directly to the holy place. By eatingof the sin offerings of the people, the priest became their symbolicsin bearer and when he next sacrificed a sin offering forhimself, the sin bearing blood of the people was also placedsymbolically in the holy place. See C. Mervyn Maxwell, GodCares, vol. 1, 169.4. The repentant sinner was not fully released from the condemnationof the law during the daily services of the sanctuary. Thesinner was on probation until the yearly day of atonement ser-