The Blood within the Tabernacle
Leviticus 16: 16
The blood was not only sprinkled in the holiest of holies but then it was sprinkled outside in the tabernacle. This is a shadow of Christ applying the blood to the hearts of those for whom he died. It was in the tabernacle of the congregation that God's priests served God. Every sinner called of God is a priest unto God (I Peter 2: 9.) These bodies are the tabernacle in which we serve him (I Corinthians 6: 19; 2 Corinthians 6: 16.) God shows how much our hearts need to be purified, when even the tabernacle, only by standing in the midst of such an impure and sinful people, needed this expiation. The blood of Christ made effectual atonement in God's presence in the holiest of holies, and also, the blood of Christ purges the sinner's conscious from dead works to serve the living God through the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 9: 12-14.)