"Christ died
for our sins according to the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3); "who
gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present
evil world, according to the will of God and our Father" (Galatians
1:4); "for he hath made him to be sin [an offering for sin] for us, who
[Jesus] knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in
him".--2 Corinthians 5:21.
[236]The law that God gave to the Israelites merely foreshadowed what
great things Jesus would do. Because of the imperfections of
mankind--Moses and others--that law could not accomplish the deliverance
of mankind from death. "For what the law could not do, in that it was
weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh."--Romans 8:3.
[237]In the type, the slaying of the bullock and the carrying of its
blood into the Holy as a typical sin-offering foreshadowed the fact that
the redemption of man's sins could be accomplished only through the
blood of the perfect sacrifice. And for this reason says the apostle
Paul: "Without the shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore
necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified
with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices
than these." (Hebrews 9:22,23) The patterns here referred to are the
Holy and Most Holy in the tabernacle picture, which foreshadowed or
pictured the heavenly condition; and the entrance of the high priest
into the Most Holy of the tabernacle with the blood foreshadowed Christ
Jesus entering heaven.
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