Hebrews states very clearly, that God provided the blood of the sacrifice to make an atonement for the souls of His people!
Just as God gave the people the sacrificial animal's blood as a temporal, earthly atonement for their souls, so He gave His Son's life and blood to forever purge our sins!
Hebrews again compares the heavenly reality with the earthly types and shadows: while both required innocent blood for an atonement, in the heavenly tabernacle, the sacrifice offered must be far better than that offered by the Aaronic priests.
Christ, in His incarnate human body, raised to glory now, appears in heaven before God, to carry out His everlasting high priestly duties for us!
He is a far better priest than Aaron, who was broken and polluted by his own sin and failure.
Aaron had to appear repeatedly to offer an animal sacrifice, that could never take away the guilt of sin, because they all were mere pictures of the true sacrifice of Jesus.
Christ does not appear often to make new sacrifices in the heavenly tabernacle, for His one offering finishes the work of atonement for His people for all time.
That's because Aaron only appeared with "the blood of others," that is, with animal sacrifices.
Here lies another glorious contrast between the Aaronic priesthood and Christ's priesthood: were Christ like Aaron, He would have to enter over and over into the heavenly tabernacle, bringing sacrifice after sacrifice of Himself, suffering over and over for our crimes.
That would have meant that Christ's sacrifice possessed the same defect as the animal sacrifices – they both couldn't settle the sin debt for God's people once and for all.
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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...
