Question: Did the high priest, after coming out of the sanctuary on the Day of Atonement, bless the people?
D. T.
Answer: People confound that day’s rites with the eighth day of priestly consecration, Lev. 9 There we find the figure of Aaron as Christ, the Priest after the sacrifices, blessing the people; then under the combined types of Moses and Aaron i.e. King and Priest, going in and coming out to bless them, the glory of Jehovah only appearing on this. But the holy force of Atonement Day is kept intact as the judgment and remission of sins. Only in Aaron and his sons we have the Christian place, indeed better than even Aaron’s, as made free of the holiest at all times while Christ is within on high.