Hebrews demonstrates that Christ's sacrifice and priesthood are far better than Aaron's, since Christ's sacrifice never needs repeating and forever put away sin.
Another argument in favor of Christ's one-time sacrifice is that sinful men are appointed to die only once, and after that they are judged.
Therefore, being made a man by the incarnation, Christ could only die once, not for His sin, for He had none, but for the sins of those whose place He took on the cross and in the judgment.
Just as His people were all doomed to die and then condemned in the judgment, so Jesus, taking our place in the judgment, satisfied it for us all, by dying once for us all on Calvary's tree.
The treating of our sins as if they were Christ's was foretold by Isaiah and by the psalmist David in Psalm 69. There David described how Messiah bore reproach and shame and dishonor, and all His sins were laid bare before God. Those were our sins taken up by Christ, that He might be punished in our place.
When lost men die, they face the judgment and wrath for their sins.
Therefore, Jesus died only once for our sins, but when He died, the judgment was cut off for us all – for Christ and for His beloved people!
Christ's propitiatory death put an end to judgment for our sin.
This is why the death of believers is no longer penal in nature, for it is not our entrance to judgment and wrath. Rather, our death is our entrance unto everlasting life and glory beyond comprehension!
The finality of Christ's death was declared by Jesus Himself at Calvary, when Christ declared, "it is finished!"
Aaron could never finish it for our sins. He could only continue it on and on and on.
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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...
