Hebrews assures us that we have a strong consolation and comfort in God's unchangeable counsel and promises.
The strongest consolation is this: that God has sworn and will not repent of His oath to Christ, to make Him a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. That oath entails a great number of things that will thus surely come to pass, including Christ's offering and intercession for us.
Hebrews draws out the implications of this oath to Christ, by comparison with the Mosaic/Aaronic priesthood, the superlatives of Christ's priesthood, the ways in which it differs from that of Aaron, and the way Christ certainly and surely saves all His people, when Aaron never could.
Like Melchizedek, Christ is the King of Righteousness, the King of Peace for us unto God. He is without end or beginning, and His priesthood is forever, by oath of God to Him.
Melchizedek was far greater than Abraham, since the patriarch paid tithes to that great priest of the most high God.
The Mosaic law and the Aaronic priesthood could make nothing perfect, and thus there was a need for a better priesthood, not called after the order of Aaron.
Furthermore, the priests of Aaron were made after a carnal commandment of the law, but Christ is made forever a priest by the power of an endless life. As God's oath to Him stipulated, He is a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
The law has therefor been annulled, because it is weak and unprofitable. It could never save a single soul.
Rather, we are saved by the bringing in of a better hope by the Lord Jesus, and it is in Christ, and not the law, or the Aaronic priesthood, that we come nigh unto our holy God.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
