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Into the Holy Place, July 14
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he
entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us.
Hebrews 9:12
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In the spring of A.D. 31, Christ, the true Sacrifice, was offered on
Calvary.
When Christ on the cross cried out, “It is finished,” the veil of the
temple was rent in twain. This veil was significant to the Jewish nation.
It was of most costly material, of purple and gold, and was of great
length and breadth. At the moment when Christ breathed His last, there
were witnesses in the temple who beheld the strong, heavy material rent
by unseen hands from top to bottom. This act signified to the heavenly
universe, and to a world corrupted by sin, that a new and living way had
been opened to the fallen race, that all sacrificial offerings terminated in
the one great offering of the Son of God.
Type ... met antitype in the death of God’s Son.... The way into the
holiest is laid open. A new and living way is prepared for all. No longer
need sinful, sorrowing humanity await the coming of the high priest.
Henceforth the Saviour was to officiate as priest and advocate in the
heaven of heavens.... There is now an end to all sacrifices and offerings
for sin. The Son of God is come according to His word, “Lo, I come
(in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.”
“By his own blood” He entereth “in once into the holy place, having
obtained eternal redemption for us.”
Hebrews 10:7
;
9:12
.
The Holy Spirit which descended on the day of Pentecost carried
the minds of the disciples from the earthly sanctuary to the heavenly,
where Jesus had entered by His own blood, to shed upon His disciples
the benefits of His atonement.
The eyes of men were turned to the true sacrifice for the sins of the
world. The earthly priesthood ceased; but we look to Jesus, the minister
of the new covenant.
The Elder Brother of our race is by the eternal throne.
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