The Day of Atonement

points forward to · once for all

Hebrews reads the annual entry behind the veil as the shape of what Christ did once: he enters the true sanctuary not with the blood of goats but with his own.

points forward to · blood on the lid

The whole day converges on the mercy seat, where blood is sprinkled between the covenant words and the God who gave them.

grows out of · two goats, one atonement

One goat dies and one is sent away — the price paid and the guilt carried off, two pictures of a single act.