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Meanwhile, Christ has taken his place as our high priest, to win us blessings that still lie in the future. He makes use of a greater, a more complete tabernacle, which human hands never fashioned; it does not belong to this order of creation at all.✻ (Hebrews 9, 11)
and shall not the blood of Christ, who offered himself, through the Holy Spirit, as a victim unblemished in God’s sight, purify our consciences, and set them free from lifeless observances, to serve the living God?✻ (Hebrews 9, 14)
Thus, through his intervention, a new covenant has been bequeathed to us; a death must follow, to atone for all our transgressions under the old covenant, and then the destined heirs were to obtain, for ever, their promised inheritance. (Hebrews 9, 15)
Where a bequest is concerned, the death of the testator must needs play its part; (Hebrews 9, 16)
When he had finished reading the provisions of the law to the assembled people, Moses took blood, the blood of calves and goats, took water, and scarlet-dyed wool, and hyssop, sprinkled the book itself, and all the people, (Hebrews 9, 19)
and said, This is the blood of the covenant which God has prescribed to you.✻ (Hebrews 9, 20)
The tabernacle, too, and all the requisites of worship he sprinkled in the same way with blood; (Hebrews 9, 21)
and the law enjoins that blood shall be used in almost every act of purification; unless blood is shed, there can be no remission of sins. (Hebrews 9, 22)
And if such purification was needed for what was but a representation of the heavenly world, the heavenly world itself will need sacrifices more availing still. (Hebrews 9, 23)
The sanctuary into which Jesus has entered is not one made by human hands, is not some adumbration of the truth; he has entered heaven itself, where he now appears in God’s sight on our behalf. (Hebrews 9, 24)
Nor does he make a repeated offering of himself, as the high priest, when he enters the sanctuary, makes a yearly offering of the blood that is not his own. (Hebrews 9, 25)
If that were so, he must have suffered again and again, ever since the world was created; as it is, he has been revealed once for all, at the moment when history reached its fulfilment, annulling our sin by his sacrifice. (Hebrews 9, 26)
