How is the atonement accomplished?

Answer 1

from the beginning God has required a blood sacrifice for atonement. Leviticus 17:11 clearly states, for the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Our new life is found only in the blood of Jesus, which was poured out for us. when we believed in the atoning work of calvary, we receive a transfusion of the life of Jesus Christ.---- by 123

Answer:

It hasn't been accomplished, yet.

If you read about the Day of Atonement described in Leviticus 16... you'll notice that following the sacrifice of the lamb [which pictures Christ's sacrifice]... the high priest [who now represents the "risen Christ"] goes into the Most Holy Place in the Tabernacle with that blood, where the Ark of the Covenant was [which pictures the risen Christ, our High Priest - Heb.4:14; who has GONE TO HEAVEN to the throne of the Father to intercede on our behalf for our sins].

THEN -- the high priest COMES BACK out from the Most Holy Place [picturing Jesus returning to the earth and the people of the earth].

THEN -- the high priest lays his hands on the head of the "azazel" goat [scapegoat, as some say]... and confesses all the sins of the people upon its head. And the "azazel" goat is removed from the presence of the people.

THIS is the completion of the "atonement."

Jesus Christ, our High Priest who has ascended to the Father's throne in heaven has not yet returned to "complete the atonement."

The annual Holy Day, the Day of Atonement, is a prophecy, like the rest of God's annual Sabbaths that picture to us His plan.

This prophecy reveals Jesus returning to earth with the Kingdom of God, and laying all the sins of the world [that He has borne for us] upon the head of he whose sins they truly are -- SATAN THE DEVIL.

Notice, the 19th chapter of Revelation, which pictures Jesus' return from heaven [the Most Holy Place]. At the beginning of the 20th chapter, Satan [pictured by the "azazel" goat] is bound and removed for a thousand years from influencing the nations of the world [as pictured by the Day of Atonement proceedings].

THIS will be the final atonement... when Jesus rids Himself of the sins of the world that He has borne for us, and PLACES THEM ON SATAN'S HEAD where they truly belong.

Until then... Jesus has not yet returned... Satan is still running free... and this Satan-guided world and the deceived nations on it are still wallowing in the sins of its god.