What does the work of propitiation include according to the tabernacle?
According to the tabernacle, propitiation includes every aspect of Christ's salvation work at the cross: His high-priestly work, the shed blood of the sacrifice, and His interceding in the Holy of Holies. The tabernacle's gold, silver, and stones pictured this whole work, which God accomplished for the sins of the whole world.
Les explains that every single aspect of the tabernacle—its composition, the gold, the silver, and the stones—was a picture of the work of salvation Christ accomplished at the cross, and he calls that whole work propitiation. Everything seen in the tabernacle is the work of propitiation, and that included Christ's work as high priest, the shed blood of the sacrifice, and His interceding in the Holy of Holies. Les further emphasizes that this propitiation is still appropriate, and not for our sins only, but God has done it for the sins of the whole world. He contrasts this with the idea that Christ only died for the believer, saying the Bible says Christ died for everyone, though not everyone will be saved because not everyone will appropriate it; the potential is there.