And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger,
and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering,
Leviticus 4:30
The blood is shed to represent the place of the sinner's life. It is shed to satisfy the demand of the law.This is held until the Day of Atonement when the redemption is finalized.
The priests dipping of his finger in the blood and placing it on the horns of the altar represents sort of a mark that the sin is recorded. A finger print blood mark. Evidence a death had taken place for the sin. By this action, the altar had become, in a sense, defiled. And would remain so until the Day of Atonement when the pure blood of the Lord's goat was placed on the altar to purify it.
So too, is the process in the heavenly sanctuary. The Jews call the Day of Atonement 'Yom Kippur', or Judgment Day. The day when your sins are finally blotted out during your judgment. And when does this "cleansing" take place in the anti-type? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Daniel 8:14
Gabriel told Daniel when it would begin: Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem...... Daniel 9:25
457 B.C.
Gabriel told what would happen in the midst of the "70th" week: And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, Daniel 9:27
31 A.D.
So that takes us to the end of the 2300 days (years): ......then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. Daniel 8:14
1844 A.D.
And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.
Leviticus 16:18
But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, ....Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For where a testament is,
there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
For a testament is of force after men are dead:
otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews 9:7,11,12,16,17,24-27
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