New Covenant, One Sacrifice

Hebrews 9:6-15, ´When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry. But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing. This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. They are only a matter of food and drinks and various ceremonial washings – external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

When Christ came as high priest of good things that are already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man made, that is to say, not part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance – now that He has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.´

The sacrifices offered by the high priest on the Day of Atonement were not perfect and incomplete since they had to be offered annually again and again. The sacrifices were also for the sins of the high priest because he was weak and susceptible to committing sin. They were representation of the perfect sacrifice to be offered by the Lamb of God, Jesus the Christ.

But Christ came with a new order, a new covenant, and in His single act of love, He offered Himself unblemished with sin, as the perfect sacrifice, once for all, for the atonement of our sins, and as the high priest, entered the Most High Place in heaven with the blood of His sacrifice, His own blood, when He ascended to heaven, having obtained eternal redemption and offering this promised eternal redemption from sin to those that heed the call and believe in Him .