The Reality of Redemption.
WE earnestly hope that our readers will study our Bible-reading on "Types and Symbols," on pages six and seven of this paper. Let them there learn that it was not the hecatombs of sacrifices, not the blood of bulls and goats, which took away sin. They were but the symbols of the faith which God's devoted children offered in the days before Christ came. They were object-lessons showing the destructive nature of all iniquity, God's hatred of all sin, and yet His effort to save the sinner in making that Sacrifice to which all others pointed. Thru the blood of his slain lamb, Abel saw "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." Thru the sacrifices which Noah offered he saw the great Sacrifice of Infinite Love who could truly give rest to His people, and was the Ark of Safety to all who would enter. Thru the ram which Abraham offered on Mount Moriah in lieu of his son of promise, he saw the greater Seed, God's only-begotten Son, who gave Himself for the world. Jesus says, "Abraham rejoiced to see My day; and he saw it, and was glad." John 8:56. Thru all the types and symbols of the sanctuary and its priesthood, Moses and Samuel and David and Hezekiah and Jeremiah and all the good of that age looked forward to the temple not made with hands, to Jehovah Our Righteousness, to the effectual Sin-bearer and eternal Priest, who is able to save to the uttermost. They did not see all that those living since in the days of fuller development saw, but by faith they saw sufficient to regenerate character thru life-connection with God, saw far beyond what many see in the fuller, clearer light. Now, in these later days, how much more diligent students of the great plan of redemption ought the children of God to be. The sanctuary with all its types and symbols will form a great key which will open the portals of divine love and knowledge to the earnest seeker.