HE FIXED IT ONCE FOR ALL BY HIS BAPTISM AND BLOOD
"Laying hands on the head of the sin offering" in the Old Testament stands for "the baptism" in the New Testament The meaning of baptism is "being immersed." It includes "being buried, being washed or passing to." People in the Old Testament brought goats or lambs without blemishes and laid their hands on the head of the offering to pass their sins onto it. This is similar to the act of baptism in the New Testament. The goat took away sins by "the laying on of hands" and was slain. Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, who is the representative of all humankind, to take away all the sins of the world and was crucified. Aaron, the high priest and Israel's representative, laid his hands on the head of the goat to pass the sins of Israelites to it, slew the goat, took its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering. Therefore, Luke said that John the Baptist, who was born in the family of Aaron,...