God comforts us by the oath He made to Christ, appointing Him our high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
In Hebrews 9, the writer takes up the question, where is the priest's work done? Where is the sacrifice presented to God for the propitiation of our sins?
The Aaronic priests practiced their services as pictures foretelling the true services which Christ now performs. Through the veil, inside the holy of holies, there was the ark of the covenant and atop it, the golden mercy seat, where the sacrificial blood was sprinkled in the presence of God's glory. At the mercy seat, the animal blood was for the appeasement of God's wrath for the sins of the people. That was where mercy for sins was found.
The writer of Hebrews points out the deficiency of the old tabernacle system: because the people could never enter that holiest place in the presence of God's glory, and because the priests were barred except for once a year, and because they were required to bring the blood of atonement each time, the Holy Ghost thereby signified that the way into the holiest place had not yet been made manifest in the old tabernacle.
What was done there was but a figure or picture, using sacrifices which could not make anyone perfect, nor cleanse the guilty conscience of its sin.
But now Christ is made our great high priest of good things to come, of a better covenant, with better promises, and He performs His priestly duties in a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands!
Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us!
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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...
