A Word of Encouragement

June 30, 2025

West of Leavenworth, WA - Aug 2001

Grace, Hope & Peace, Friend;

After showing that Jesus is our eternal High Priest - "A high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not man." - (Hebrews chapters 7 & 8) Chapter 9 shows that everything, in the old covenant - the one God made with Abraham and his descendants - was a picture of what was to come. The regulations for worship, the outer and inner rooms of the tabernacle, everything in the tabernacle, even the sacrifices that were offered, all pointed to the new covenant that God has made with humanity. (Hebrews 9:1-10)

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things having come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made by hands, that is, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all time, having obtained eternal redemption.
	Hebrews 9:11-12

The rituals, the observances, the sacrifices, even the blood of the sacrifices were all pictures of Jesus' death, burial and resurrection, and of what He is doing today as our High Priest. (Hebrews 9:18-22)

It was necessary for the COPIES of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these things, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a holy place made by hands, a mere COPY of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Holy Place year by year with blood that is not his own.

Emphasis mine

Hebrews 9:23-25

The earthly sacrifices had to be offered over and over, but Jesus, as the eternal High Priest, made the perfect sacrifice of His own blood to deal with sin for eternity. (Vs. 26)

Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
	Hebrews 9:27

Yeshua, Seh HaElohim - Jesus, Lamb of God - Thank You that Your sacrifice was sufficient.

He entered the holy place once for all time, having obtained eternal redemption
	Hebrews 9:12cd

It is finished,