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The Everlasting Gospel

(from pages 11, 18, 19)

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1 And the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered [presumptuously] before the LORD, and died [because they rejected His protection]; 2 and the LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the Mercy Seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the Mercy Seat.

[Aaron needed special protection to come so near to God,

and could only come at certain times.]

3 Thus shall Aaron [first] come into the holy place [the second room]: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

["Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who shall stand in His holy place?

He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity,

nor sworn deceitfully.

He shall receive the blessing from the LORD,

and righteousness from the God of his salvation". Psalm 24:3-5.]

4 [After that] he shall put on the holy linen [white] coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments [different from his coloured ones]; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.

[These were stored in the first room to be used for a few hours on the one day each year,

the Day of Judgment.]

5 And he shall take of [set aside for] the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

6 And [but first] Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering [in his coloured robes], which is for himself [and confess all his sins over it], and make an atonement for himself, and for his house [with its blood].

[After this ceremony the priest and his family of Christians

would stand "clean" of all their sins,

for the bull’s blood has recorded their "deaths" for all of them.]

7 And [then] he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. 9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering [God’s word decides. "This is My beloved Son", Matthew 17:5].  Back to page 19.

10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement [cleansing] with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

[In The Revelation this is described as;

"And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit

and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent,

which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:

and after that he must be loosed a little season". Revelation 20:1-3.]

11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house [family], and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself [this is the first ceremony of the Feast, and the third time it has been mentioned. This repetition is to draw our attention to the fact].

[Now we are told how he was to do this safely.]

12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the [golden incense] altar before the LORD, and [with] his hands FULL of sweet incense beaten small [representing the powerful righteousness of the Son of God], and bring it within the veil [and place it on the Mercy Seat while he is wearing his coloured clothes]: 13 and he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the Mercy Seat [God’s throne, the seat of mercy] that is upon [above] the testimony [the Ten Commandments], that he die not.

[Jesus used this thought in His parable of the ten virgins. Five of those had EXTRA oil which they used at that time, for it was a more than normal experience. Matthew 25:4.]

14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the Mercy Seat eastward [the front of it]; and before the Mercy Seat shall he sprinkle of the blood [on the ground] with his finger seven times [signifying completeness].  Back to page 20.

[He is carrying God’s people on his shoulders and over his heart while he does this. Exodus 28:12 and 21. Through the blood, their "deaths" to the power of sin are shown directly to God.]

15 Then [after changing into the white clothes] shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people [without confessing any sin on to it], and bring his blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the Mercy Seat, and before the Mercy Seat:
16 and he shall make an atonement for the holy place [the second apartment], because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation [the first room], that remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

[This repeated ceremony is now PICKING UP the record of death.]

17 And there shall be no man [no ordinary priests] in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goes in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel [those near and far].

18 And he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD [the golden incense altar], 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 [incense] altar round about. 19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

[He is now carrying all the "deaths" on himself

as a picture of the Son of God carrying ours.]

20 And when he has made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the [prayer] altar, he [the "fit" man] shall bring the live goat [to him at the door of the tabernacle]: 21 and Aaron shall lay both his hands [through the curtain] upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him ALL the iniquities of the children of Israel, and ALL their transgressions in ALL their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat [who represents Satan], and shall send him away by the hand of a fit [capable] man into the wilderness.     Back to page 21.

[The "fit" man represents all the living Christians in the last days.]

22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities to a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness [where no man lives, but where a goat can find plenty of sustenance].

23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there. 24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his [normal] garments [his coloured uniform], and come forth [as a picture of the second coming], and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people [the second ram], and make an atonement for himself, and for the people [as a dedication for the next year, representing eternity].   Back to page 23.

25 And the fat of the sin offering [the bullock and the goat] shall he burn upon the altar.

26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat [the "fit" man] shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.

27 And the [bodies of the] bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung [none of these were needed to cleanse the sanctuary]. 28 And he that burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

29 And this shall be a statute for ever to you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, [for the whole day] you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourns among you: 30 for on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. 31 It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

[While the work of the day is being done by the high priest and the fit man,

the rest of the congregation were to check their lives to see

if there was any unconfessed sin in them!

They were praying, "Search me, O God, and know my heart:

try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting". Psalm 139:23-24.

On the real Day of Atonement (the great Judgment Day), however, by the time

the real "cleansing" begins, all the Christians except a special group

will be in their graves and helpless,

so we need to accomplish this experience BEFORE we die. Hebrews 9:27.]

32 And the priest, whom He shall anoint, and whom He shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead [every subsequent high priest], shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments: 33 and he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.

34 And this shall be an everlasting statute to you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he [Aaron] did as the LORD commanded Moses [as a picture of the Son of God in the last period before the second coming].    Back to page 11.

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