Lesson 25

So last week, as everyone is settling down Leviticus 16, last week we left off with a concept of mercy. 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 And we saw that the tabernacle, remember the tabernacle is also called the sanctuary. 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:20,000 And the whole point of the sanctuary was so that God could dwell among the people. 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them to get the God on the mountain, the holy God on the mountain down with unholy people. 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:32,000 All right. So this is where we were. We had a sanctuary with two rooms. 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:42,000 And then this is the Ark of the Covenant or a box that had the Ten Commandments in it. 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:51,000 And on that box there was a lid. And who can remember what the lid was? It was called what? A mercy seat. 00:00:51,000 --> 00:01:06,000 And so we started talking about the concept of mercy. We've already looked at a table with bread on it. 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:14,000 And then the candlestick, the shine light on that bread. 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:22,000 And so we talked about the concept of mercy. The only way God, a holy God, can dwell with unholy people. 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:28,000 The only way God can accept us, because we've all broken those Ten Commandments. 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,000 We've all broken His law. 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,000 The only way God can accept us is on the concept of mercy. 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,000 And so this mercy seat in this sanctuary is going to show us how God rightly gives mercy. 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:51,000 And we looked at last week that mercy is not just saying, "Well, you're forgiven. Don't worry about it." 00:01:51,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Because remember, Chris was the offender, he was the offender. And if I just do away with his crime, then the offender is not made whole. 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:15,000 And so there has to be some way where I can make him not be a thief anymore and make him not be a victim anymore. 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:26,000 And if not, you don't have mercy, then it's cheap if you just say, "Oh, don't worry about it." 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Which is what people think mercy is. 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 If I stole from Chris and he says, "I forgive you," well, he can forgive me up to a certain extent. 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:49,000 But true forgiveness, there has to be something made whole there, or else the offense still exists. 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:59,000 And so until he's paid back and until I'm not a thief anymore, there really is no forgiveness. 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:08,000 All right, so let's go ahead and look here now and look in Leviticus 16, "And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord and died." 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:23,000 So let me give you a little explanation on that. And if we read all this, we wouldn't be able to get through the class. 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:30,000 But here's what happens. With this sanctuary, all the people aren't going to be able to -- because God's going to be right here at the mercy seat. 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:45,000 The people still can't approach God. They're still unholy. They still can't come in there. 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:51,000 And so something has to happen, and it has to be on the basis of this concept we learned before, which is mediation. 00:03:51,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Remember we learned about a mediator? Who was the original mediator? Between God and the children of Israel? 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Moses. 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Moses. Remember they said, "Don't let us speak to God anymore. You go speak to him. We'll listen to you." 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:16,000 He was the go-between. Remember Moses was the go-between. 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,000 So now what God is going to do, now that God is off the mountain, he's going to be inside the Most Holy Place, 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:27,000 God is going to designate a particular man to be the official go-between in the sense of having a priestly work. 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:40,000 And this is where we get to this priest here. The people can't come in here and go to God on their own. They're all sinners. 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:51,000 So what God is going to do, he's going to show the people how sinful people can approach God and come into his presence. 00:04:51,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Unlike how they did on the mountain. They couldn't do it. It's going to be done through a priest. 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Now here's the difference between a prophet and a priest, okay? 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Moses was never a priest. He was a prophet. He did have some kind of priestly work in the sense of mediation, but he never was made a priest. 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:34,000 A prophet represents God to the people. God tells the prophet something. The prophet goes and says, "Thus says the Lord." 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:44,000 This is what the Lord says. And he represents God to the people. A priest on the other hand, he does it in reverse. 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:52,000 He represents the people to God, okay? When we send, as a republic, our nation is a democracy, but it's based on a republican platform. 00:05:52,000 --> 00:06:07,000 So when we send people to Washington, D.C., all the people aren't going to Washington, D.C., but we send people to represent us. 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:20,000 They're our representatives. And they go and they speak on our behalf and they vote on our behalf. We may not like how they vote, but they do exercise our representation. 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:36,000 So a prophet represents God to the people. A priest represents the people to God. 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:45,000 So there will be a priest who will go into the most holy place, and when the priest goes into the most holy place, it will act as the people going into the most holy place. 00:06:45,000 --> 00:07:04,000 When the priest stands before God and is accepted by God, then all the people the priest represents are going before God and being accepted by God. Does that make sense? 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:18,000 All right. So that's a priest. 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Now, one man can't do all of this work for two million people. So the priest is going to have subordinate priests under him. 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:40,000 And so you're going to have a high priest, and then you're going to have other priests beneath him. 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:56,000 OK, there's only one high priest and the high priest is the only priest who can represent the people by going and standing before God and being accepted by God. 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:12,000 The only priest that can do that, none of the other lower priests can do that. OK, they can work for the high priest, but they cannot perform the office of the high priest. 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:29,000 They cannot do and accomplish what the high priest does. They can only do the lower work for the high priest. Does that make sense? 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Now, in doing this, God is showing us incredible pictures. 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:49,000 The high priest, when we're looking at prophecy here and illustrations in the Old Testament, based on everything we've learned so far, who is this high priest going to represent? 00:08:49,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Who is he a picture of? 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Jesus. 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,000 He'll be a picture of the coming Savior because the coming Savior is the only one who can bring the people to God and stand before God's presence and be accepted. 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Does that make sense? The only one. 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,000 So he represents the problem of Savior. Who do the priests under him that serve him represent? 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:34,000 They represent us who are close relation to him because the high priest is kin to the lower priests. 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Now, the original high priest was a man named Aaron, and Aaron was Moses' brother. 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:58,000 He was the original high priest. 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 When Aaron dies, then one of his sons will be appointed by God as the next high priest. 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:13,000 And on and on and on is how it's supposed to work. 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 All right. 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 So let's go ahead and look here now. 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Chapter 16. 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Verse 2, "And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times..." 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:30,000 I'm sorry, verse 1, "And the Lord spoke unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they offered before the Lord and died." 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:37,000 So here's what happened. 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Two of Aaron's sons decided that they were going to offer to God an offering that was not according to the way God said to offer it. 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:58,000 They broke God's law and they thought, "Hey, we're priests. We're sons of the high priests. 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:07,000 We'll do things different. 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Let's come up with something new." 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,000 And they made an offering that was against, that was not the way that God said to do. 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Guess what God did to them? 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 He killed them. They died. 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,000 And the two sons of Aaron show us that when it comes to the gospel message, which this is a picture of, 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:38,000 the tabernacle is a picture of the gospel message. It's a picture of salvation. 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:43,000 When it comes to salvation, you don't tamper with it. 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:48,000 You don't mess with it. 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 There's only one way to be saved. That's through the high priest. 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,000 And it will be exactly the picture of what we see right here. 00:11:54,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Exactly how God showed in the Old Testament is how the real high priest, when he comes, will do it in the New Testament. 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:10,000 And so if you tamper with it, it doesn't matter if you're still the son of Aaron and you're a priest. 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:16,000 It doesn't matter if you're still using the tabernacle. 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:22,000 So the picture is this. Okay, so you're in church. 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,000 You got something that looks like this. 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 So you say you worship Jesus, the high priest. 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,000 All right. So you say you're a child of God, son of Aaron. 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:37,000 But you don't come to God the way he says. 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,000 You do something different. You add to it. 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 You tell people, well, you got to be dunked in water. 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 You got to do this. You got to do that. You got to do something else. 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,000 And you tamper with the way God said that we're to have mercy. 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:58,000 You mess with it and God does not accept it. 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Just like he didn't accept Cain's offering. Remember? 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,000 The sons of Aaron that offered this false offering were no different than Cain when he offered his false offering. 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:12,000 And God didn't accept him. Okay? 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 So religion can look like the real thing, just like a counterfeit dollar bill. 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:23,000 But a counterfeit is a counterfeit is a counterfeit. 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,000 If you were to go to a bank with a stack of counterfeit $100 bills, 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:36,000 and you were to go to that teller and say, I'd like to deposit these into my account, please. 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Would you think the banker is wrong for not accepting your counterfeit money? 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:49,000 No. It looks like real money. 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:54,000 It's got the United States of America. It says $100. It's close. 00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Why do we want to be so nitpicky for? 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,000 See how silly that sounds? 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,000 But it's the same way when it comes to religion. 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Do you know what the thing about a counterfeit $100 bill is? It's not true. 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:15,000 It's a lie. It's not real. 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000 So the government's not going to accept it. Why? 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 It wasn't issued by the government. 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 The gospel was issued by God. 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,000 And if you counterfeit the gospel, God's not going to accept it because it's a lie. 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:35,000 It's not real, even though it may appear to be very similar to the real thing. 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Okay? So with that understood, let's go ahead and look here now. 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Verse 2, "And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil." 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,000 That's the veil right there. The veil was a curtain, a dividing curtain. 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,000 So he says, "You tell him, you can't just come in here just any time, Aaron. 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Not just any time." So let's go ahead and look here now. 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,000 "Before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark, that he die not, 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:16,000 for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat." 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:23,000 That's right, Michelle. She says, "The gospel most we're preaching today is not from God." 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:28,000 That's exactly right. And so he says, "You make sure and tell Aaron, 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Aaron, you can't just walk in here any time you want to. 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:36,000 There's got to be a certain way you come. 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:41,000 And you can only come one time. 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:47,000 You can only come one way, and it's the way I say." Okay? 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:54,000 So this is very important, because if he were to go in any other time, just walk in there, 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Aaron's going to die too. Why? Because Aaron is a sinner, 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:05,000 just like the rest of the people of Israel. 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 He just can't. Walt's right in before God. He's a sinner. All right? 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:14,000 So let's go ahead and look here now and see what's got to happen for Aaron 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,000 to get into the most holy place before God, 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 so that the people can get into the most holy place before God. 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,000 All right? So they can be accepted. 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Look here now in verse 3. "Thus," or this is how, 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,000 "Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place, with a young bullet for a sin offering 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:37,000 and a ram for a burn offering." All right? 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 Since Aaron is a sinner, he has to have an offering made for his sin 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:47,000 to put his sin away before he can ever come in here and represent the people. Why? 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Because the coming Savior, who is the true High Priest, he will have no sin at all. 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:03,000 So Aaron can't just walk right in and say, "Well, I'm a picture of the coming Savior." 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,000 He just will walk right in here, because Aaron is a sinner himself. 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:14,000 The true High Priest, when he comes, he won't be like Aaron. 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,000 He won't be like Aaron in the sense that he will never die like Aaron, 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:24,000 so there will be no sons to replace him. 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 But when the true High Priest comes, he will never need a replacement. 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,000 He will represent the people forever. 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 That's why the people live, how long? Forever. 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 They shall not perish but have everlasting life, 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 because they will have an everlasting High Priest who never dies. 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:46,000 So the true High Priest, the true coming Savior, will have no sin, 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:52,000 but Aaron does, so he's a picture of the coming Savior, 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:57,000 but we still have to deal with the sin. 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 So he's going to have to issue an offering here, 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,000 a bowl for a sin offering, a ram for a burn offering. 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Verse 4, "He shall put on the holy linen coat, 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:11,000 and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 and shall be girded with a linen girdle, 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,000 and with a linen miter shall he be attired. 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,000 These are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh with water. 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Then so put them on." 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Now, I know this is very detailed here, but the Gospel is very precise. 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:34,000 So here's what's happening. 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Not only does he have to have offerings to put away a sin before he ever comes into here, 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:44,000 but he also has to wear special clothes, 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,000 and the special clothes is going to represent wonderful things 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:54,000 about the special Savior to come. 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 The special clothes are going to have stones on them, 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,000 on the heart and on the shoulders. 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 It's going to have things that represent the people that he represents. 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:08,000 So as he walks in with these on him, 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,000 these stones and colors that he's wearing, 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:17,000 and clothes he's wearing, and the hat that he's wearing, 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,000 it represents the people coming in, 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,000 and all the wonderful things he's done. 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 His clothing will match the main colors of the rainbow 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,000 that represent God's promise to never destroy the world again. 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:35,000 So in the same way, when he comes in with these rainbow clothes, 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:41,000 he comes in, it's like God's covenant coming in saying, 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,000 "Hey, based on the offering I just made, the people won't be destroyed." 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:52,000 All right? 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,000 And so it's just a wonderful representation coming in here. 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,000 He's got special clothes that represent special truths. 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,000 He's got to wash his flesh with water, 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,000 which means he's got to bathe and wash himself with water. 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,000 This is where baptism began, okay? 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:12,000 The washings here are baptisms. 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 So as he's washing, he's washing the filth of his flesh off of him, 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:21,000 which represents someone clean. 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,000 It's all symbols. It's all symbolic. 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,000 And so this is the first picture of baptism that we see here is in the priesthood, okay? 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Now, let's go ahead and look. 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Verse 5, "And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:47,000 two kids of the goats for a sin offering, 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000 and one ram for a burnt offering." 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,000 So two goats, one ram. 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:59,000 "And Aaron," verse 6, "shall offer his bullock," 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,000 that is the offering for himself of the sin offering, 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,000 "which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself and for his house." 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Now we get back to the word "atonement" again. 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Who can remember what the word "atonement" means? 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,000 It means to what? 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:20,000 No. 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Basically, like, absolve yourself? 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,000 No. 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Remember? 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Huh? 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 No. That's covenant. 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,000 When we first learned about the word "atonement," 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:40,000 we learned about "atonement" mainly in two places. 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,000 The first time we learned about "atonement" was when God covered Adam and Eve 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:51,000 with the skins of those animals. 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 The word "atonement" means to cover, okay? 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:58,000 So when God covered them in the skins of those animals, 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,000 there was an atonement being made. 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 The second time we learned about "atonement" was with Noah's ark, 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:10,000 because God told him to put "pitch," that is tar, to waterproof that ark all over the ark. 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:17,000 And that word, Hebrew word for "pitch" or "tar," literally is "atonement." 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:25,000 The word "atonement" here in Leviticus, where it says, 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:31,000 "and make an atonement for himself," that is the exact same Hebrew word used for the pitch 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:37,000 when they put "pitch" on the ark. 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,000 All right? 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 So he's going to make a covering for himself. 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,000 So when he offers the--if you'll look here-- 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:50,000 "and Aaron shall offer his bullet of the sin offering, 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,000 which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself and for his house." 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:58,000 So when he offers this sin offering, the sin offering becomes an atonement. 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Again, go back to Adam and Eve. 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:11,000 When God killed the innocent substitutes in the guilty party's place, 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,000 he clothed them in the innocence of the substitutes that died for them. 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:20,000 So Aaron is killing an innocent substitute in his place, 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:26,000 just like God killed an innocent substitute in Adam and Eve's place. 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 When he kills it and makes this offering to God, 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,000 then that in God's eyes will be a covering. 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:38,000 When he looks at Aaron, he will not see Aaron's sins. 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,000 He will see the innocence of the bullock that died in his place. 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Make sense? It's a covering. 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Someone said "wash away" or something like that earlier. 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,000 That is a different thing. That's forgiveness, not atonement. 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Atonement covers, forgiveness puts away. 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,000 We'll look at that here in just a moment with the day of atonement. 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:11,000 It does both, cover and put away. We'll see that here in just a moment. 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,000 I know we're getting complicated here, but we're at this stage in the class 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,000 where we're now putting pieces together and making a bigger picture. 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,000 We're getting a little deeper here, actually quite a bit deeper. 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,000 Let's look here now. That's right, Michelle. 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:32,000 That's the atonement covers, forgiveness puts away. 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Verse 6, "And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,000 which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself and for his house. 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,000 And he shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:50,000 at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:56,000 So now we've got these two goats. 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000 "Aaron has now offered a sacrifice for himself. 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 Now that he's got that done, his sin is atoned. 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Now he can represent the coming Savior and make an atonement 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:11,000 for the people he represents." 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 This is fun. Watch how this works. 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Now he's picturing the coming Savior Jesus. 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Verse 7, "He takes these two goats, 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:26,000 he presents them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle." 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:31,000 He presents them before the Lord. He stands out here. 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000 He presents them before God. God, here are these two goats. 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:39,000 This is the tabernacle of the congregation. 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,000 In other words, this is the people's house, the people's tabernacle here. 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:49,000 And he offers them before the Lord. 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,000 Verse 8, "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,000 one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat." 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Y'all heard of scapegoats before? That's where this came from. 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,000 When you hear of a scapegoat, people use it. 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 They don't realize it comes from Leviticus 16. 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,000 So when he says he casts lots, we're going to put it in modern terminology. 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,000 He flips a coin. 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 One of these animals is going to die. 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,000 The other animal is going to be taken away alive. 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:24,000 All right? 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,000 So he flips a coin. Which one's going to be which? 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Verse 8, "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,000 one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat. 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,000 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord's lot fell 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:44,000 and offer him for a sin offering." 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,000 The scapegoat goes away. All right? 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,000 The Lord's goat dies. 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,000 It gets presented to the Lord. 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,000 The other one gets taken away from the Lord. 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000 You getting that? 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000 One is given to the Lord. The other is taken away from the Lord. 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:06,000 The scapegoat's taken away from the Lord. 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,000 It's going to make sense here in just a minute. 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Verse 9, "And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord's lot fell 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:20,000 and offer him for a sin offering." 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Now here's what happens. 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Outside here, there is an altar. 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Altar is made out of brass. 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Inside here, there is another altar. It's overlaid with gold. 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Sin offerings, there's horns on this altar too. 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:46,000 Horns represent power. 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:51,000 It's funny. You read through here, it's funny. 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,000 It says you're going to put horns on the altar. 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,000 Why would you have horns on an altar? 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Because Paul said, "I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:05,000 for it is the power of God unto salvation." 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,000 See how that works? 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000 It's so precisely pictured here. 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,000 You have horns on this altar. 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,000 The Lord's goat, you have two goats. 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Now do you remember the dream that Pharaoh had? 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:31,000 You'd have these fat cows, I think it was seven fat cows, 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,000 you'd have these fat cows and then these other lean cows would come and eat them up. 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,000 Then you'd have fat corn and the lean corn would come and eat the fat corn up. 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Do you remember that? 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,000 When Joseph interpreted the dream, he told Pharaoh, "It's just one dream." 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Pharaoh thought it was two dreams. 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000 He said, "No, it's just one dream. It's the same thing. 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Whether it's cows or whether it's corn, it's all the same meaning. 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,000 You have seven good years that's going to be eaten up by seven bad years of famine." 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:04,000 The same thing here. 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000 The two goats are one offering. It's not two offerings. 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:11,000 It's two goats representing two wonderful truths of the one offering 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:19,000 that the true high priest will accomplish when he comes. 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,000 Make sense? 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000 Here you have an altar of gold and they offer sweet incense on this. 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:33,000 When they burn the incense, the sweet incense goes to God. 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:40,000 Any of y'all into essential oils? 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Man, my wife burns this stuff. She puts this in this little diffuser or whatever. 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,000 I was laying in bed the other night and it smelled so good in my room. 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,000 It smelled so good. 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,000 That was the idea here with the incense. 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:01,000 It was always offered on the gold. 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,000 It represented the acceptable prayers being made to God. 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:14,000 The high priest intercedes for his people. 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:20,000 Make sense? 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000 In fact, when you go into the New Testament, 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000 you will actually hear the high priest praying for his people. 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,000 That is the true prayers going up. 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,000 Then when the people pray in the high priest's name, their prayers are accepted. 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:39,000 So what we have here is prayers accepted on the basis of the work of the high priest. 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:46,000 That is why we pray. 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000 How do we pray? 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000 When we say in Jesus' name, amen, we are saying we are offering this prayer to you, God, 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:58,000 so it will be acceptable to you. 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000 We are sinners, but we are offering this to you in the name of the high priest 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:05,000 who made this all sacrifice for us. 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000 Make sense? 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,000 So gold is never about sin. 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,000 A gold altar is about the sin being gone in righteous people able to pray to God. 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Now on the basis of what happened here on the brass altar. 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,000 The brass altar is about God's judgment. 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:32,000 That God's judgment comes down and an innocent substitute dies in the guilty party's place. 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,000 So we have one goat here. 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,000 That goat is going to die. 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,000 It is an innocent goat. 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,000 And the sins of the people will be put on this goat. 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:51,000 And the goat will die in the people's place. 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Okay? 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,000 Let's look at this now. 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Verse 9, "And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord's lot fell and offer him for a sin offering, 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:08,000 but the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:14,000 to make an atonement with him and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness." 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:23,000 What is this all about? 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,000 Both of these animals are presented to God. 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000 One is presented to God in the door of the tabernacle. 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000 That's where the brazen altar is. 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,000 How is he presented to God? 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000 As a sacrifice. 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,000 Dead. 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,000 Look, the people's sins have been put on this goat. 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000 What Aaron would do, Aaron would put his hands on the head of that goat. 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,000 He would then confess, "All the people of Israel, we have all broken your commandments, God. 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:53,000 We are all sinners." 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000 And once he put those sins on that goat, 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,000 now the goat is bearing the sins of the people. 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Now the goat dies, sheds its blood in the people's place. 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:11,000 The other goat is presented to God alive. 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,000 And then God, when you read, God would say, 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,000 "You take a strong man who can carry this goat a long way, 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,000 and you take him out of town where he'll never see a man again. 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:30,000 You take him far, far out of town where the people and the goat will never see each other again." 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:41,000 That is forgiveness. 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,000 The word forgiveness means to put away. 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:49,000 Now, how does this work? 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,000 Because God said there would be an atonement made by this scapegoat. 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,000 Here's how it works. 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,000 Have y'all ever heard of the old saying, 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:04,000 "Like if someone does something wrong and they don't deal with it?" 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000 They'll say, "We'll just sweep that under the rug." 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,000 Have y'all ever heard that before? 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,000 Now, there was a man I know that used to work for the state police where I retired from. 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:28,000 And as the story goes, he went to a party one time, 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:34,000 and as he was backing out, which he probably had too much to drink, 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,000 as he was backing out to leave the party, he ran into another co-worker's vehicle. 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:47,000 He hit it and he drove off. 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000 And so I was told that someone went into the management's office at the headquarters a little later on 00:34:50,000 --> 00:35:03,000 and said, "Hey, what did y'all do about this man running into those people's car? 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:10,000 I know the man's name, but he's not going to mention it. 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000 What would y'all do about this man running into the co-worker's car?" 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,000 And his response was, "Come on in the office and I'll show you the rug we swept it under." 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:22,000 That was his response. 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000 Now, if an atonement is simply this, if I am a sinner and you cover me with the innocence of someone that died for me 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:42,000 and I'm covered in that innocence, but if you were to pull that cover back, you're still going to see my guilt. 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:50,000 It just sweeps the guilt under the rug. 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,000 Oh, it covers it all right. 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000 I look innocent on the outside, but I'm still sinful on the inside. 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:04,000 When God atones, he does not sweep our sin under the rug. 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:11,000 He puts it away. 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,000 So here's what happens. 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,000 This is why on the day of atonement, 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000 this one day of the year is the day when Aaron can go into the most holy place. 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:24,000 The one day of the year, remember God said, 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000 "You tell Aaron he can't come just any time into the most holy place. 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000 He can only come one day out of the year." 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,000 That is the day of atonement. 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000 I believe on the calendar in the Jewish language is Yom Kippur. 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:40,000 So when you see that on the calendar, I hope I'm not wrong. 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,000 Someone will be commenting on there, tell me. 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000 But it's the day of atonement. 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000 And only on that day could Aaron go in here and represent the people coming to God. 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:55,000 And the only way he could do it is if he had no sins first, 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,000 his sins had to be put away. 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000 And then as a sinless high priest, he takes one goat, kills it. 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:06,000 What does that do? 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000 It satisfies the punishment of the guilty party. 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:14,000 All right. 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,000 What does a live goat do? 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,000 It shows, because when that man takes that goat away, 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,000 and God said it has to be so far away that the goat and the people 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,000 will never come into contact again. 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000 When that goat gets taken away, do you know what that's, 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,000 what is that a picture of? 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,000 Just think, what is that a picture of? 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,000 It's a picture of our sin, what? 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000 How far away? 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,000 That's it. 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000 So far away, we never come into contact with that sin again. 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,000 So far away that the sin is forever removed from the people 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:55,000 for whom the animal died. 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,000 Isn't that good? 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000 Oh, by the way, Yom Kippur was it. 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Day of atonement. 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,000 Good. 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,000 All right. 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000 So don't get any nasty comments in. 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,000 That's great. 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,000 Thank you. 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,000 Thank you for looking that up. 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,000 So when you see Yom Kippur on the calendar, that is the day when 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:16,000 the high priest represented the people to God. 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:21,000 Two goats, one goat dies for the people, sheds its blood. 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:27,000 Here's what Aaron would do. 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,000 God would have Aaron take the blood of that animal that died 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,000 in the people's place, come in here, come in around the veil 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:39,000 that blocked the people away. 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000 The veil says, you can't come here. 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000 You're a sinner. 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,000 Oh, but I got this blood. 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,000 This blood, there is a sacrifice that had been made. 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,000 And now here's the high priest with the names of all the tribes 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,000 of Israel on his uniform. 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,000 And he comes in and the veil is there to say, you sinful people 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:03,000 can't come in here. 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000 You can't come up this mountain to where God is. 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,000 And the high priest says, I come as a sinless representative 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:15,000 of the people for whom I died. 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:21,000 He takes that blood. 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000 You know what God told him to do with that blood? 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,000 The blood goes right here on the mercy seat. 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,000 It gets sprinkled right there on the mercy seat. 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,000 So on the basis of the sack of the innocent party that died 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:41,000 for the people, God gives them mercy. 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000 And their sin is forever put away, not swept under the rug 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:53,000 because the sin was dealt with. 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Punishment was made. 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,000 The sin was put away. 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,000 And now sinless, innocent, righteous people enter before God 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:08,000 and are given mercy through the substitute that died for them. 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:14,000 That's the only way guilty, sinful people can stand before 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:20,000 a holy and a righteous God. 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,000 Here's the difference between Aaron and the coming high priest. 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:29,000 Aaron will die. 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000 The promised Savior will not. 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000 Aaron will have a replacement. 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000 The promised Savior will forever be the high priest. 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,000 Aaron offered a substitute to die for him. 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:45,000 The high priest will have no substitute. 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000 He will have to die himself. 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000 He is the substitute. 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,000 He is the substitute. 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000 Very well said, Chris. 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,000 He is the substitute. 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,000 I said this way. 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,000 In the gospel, there was no substitute for the substitute. 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:06,000 All right, with that said, I know we went through a lot of tiny little details, 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:13,000 but man, when you get those details down, you start realizing 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,000 this is indeed a powerful gospel. 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,000 All right, with that, we'll go ahead and stop. 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000 Lord willing, we'll see you next door. 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,000