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If I may interject, wasn't the blood of bulls and goats collected and poured out upon the mercy seat of the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle by the high priest? If ALL of the blood was poured out on the Day of Atonement for the sins of the people, then isn't it logical that the blood of Jesus was also fully poured out upon the heavenly mercy seat?

Scripture tells us "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable." (I Cor. 15:50). Our glorified bodies, which are like unto Christ's glorified body, will be given to us or eternity at our resurrection. Will it have blood? If it does, it will not be any kind of human blood.

No, BB, The high priest was to identify one bullock for himself, and rwo kid goats and a ram sheep for the people, to be used in the offering. It's all in Leviticus 16, which MHGinTN summarized a little upthread.

First, the high priest had to make an atonement for himself successfully, in the Holy of Holies, by using the blood of the bullock:

"And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense
may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward;
and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times"
(Lev. 16:15,16 AV)

That is on behalf of him and his own family I think, or maybe for all the Aaronic priests.

Then he goes back outside, into the killing yard, and kills one of the goats; then brings its blood into the inner rooms of the temple, behind the veil, and sprinkles the goat's blood on and before the mercy seat, just as he did before, but this was for all the people of Israel.

Then he goes out of the tabernacle and does some more finger-sprinkling.

So the blood of the bullock and the goat was not poured, it was finger-sprinkled, which really did not use much in the Holy of Holies. The rest of it was used up outside on the external big altar in front of the tabernacle.

You can read more at your convenience. It is not too complicated, but most churches don't get into studying it much, if at all, these days. I never heard my Dad preach about it or refer to it while I was growing up, so I never knew of the significance of Yom Kippur until after I was saved and hung around with Plymouth-type brethren.

But thanks for asking.