In other words, for all the real anxiety that would have attended the high priest’s entrance into the far end of the tabernacle, it actually predicted a situation in which there would be no anxiety, but joy and glory in the service of God. That was the situation for which man had been first created; but after the Fall, that reality would only be accomplished by the Lord’s death, burial, and resurrection. One important point of the Day of Atonement was to proclaim how that joy and glory would be reclaimed by a death.

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