[233]Looking back, then, at the picture that Jehovah made by the use of
the Jewish people and their ceremonies, we see that the bullock slain on
the atonement day pictured Jesus the perfect man at the age of thirty
years. The court surrounding the tabernacle was a picture of perfect
humanity. Therefore the bullock slain in the court foreshadowed or
pictured the fact that the perfect man Jesus died in that condition on
earth as a perfect man. By his death he provided the ransom-price. He
did this to carry out the Father's plan.
[234]In the picture, the slaying of the bullock was the beginning of the
sin-offering. After the bullock was slain its blood was put into a
vessel and the high priest carried it in this vessel, ultimately
reaching the Most Holy, where it was sprinkled, as above mentioned. The
high priest in the Holy pictured Jesus during the three and one-half
years of his sacrificial ministry; and the high priest's appearance in
the Most Holy pictures Jesus the high priest, resurrected to the divine
nature, appearing in heaven itself in the presence of God, there to
present the merit of his sacrifice as the sin-offering on behalf of
mankind.--Hebrews 9:24.
[235]The Scriptures clearly show that Jesus was the antitypical bullock
and was made an offering for sin on behalf of mankind; first on behalf
of the church, subsequently on behalf of the whole world.
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