Who alone was allowed to go behind the veil and sprinkle blood on the mercy seat in the tabernacle?
The High Priest alone was permitted to go behind the veil and sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat. Only one man in Israel could perform this work, and that was the High Priest, who alone also laid hands on the scapegoat to symbolically place Israel’s sins upon it.
Les explains that the other goat was immediately killed, and its blood was used for sprinkling on the mercy seat behind the veil. But only one man in Israel could do all this: the High Priest. He alone could go in behind the veil and sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat, and he alone could lay his hands on the scapegoat and symbolically place all the sins of Israel upon it. That was the work of the High Priest.