ATONEMENT FOR SIN eo
THE LAW.

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This is a picture of the tabernacle which God com-
manded Moses to build for a place of worship. It was
made out of very costly materials, and was where God
came to meet his people.

What are those men doing in the center of the picture?
One man stands with - his hands upon the head of the
beast; he is confessing his sins. Then the beast is slain,
and the priest sprinkles the blood around about on the
altar, and burns part of the slain beast, as you see smok-
ing in the picture. What did this do for the man who
made confession? It cleansed him from sin.

God gave his holy law to the Jews for them to keep,
but sometimes they would break it. So God told them how
they might be forgiven, by offering the sacrifice of blood.

These offerings for sin, the slaying of beasts, and the
sprinkling of blood, all pointed forward to Jesus, the Lamb
of God, who was to be slain for the sins of the world.
These offerings of slain beasts would not have answered
for the sins of the people, if they had not been offered in
faith of the promised Savior.

One of the early lessons in this book was about Cain
and Abel.. Cain brought simply the fruit of the field,