The Perfect Sacrifice

Hebrews 9:16-18 and 9:22-28, ´ In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living. This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. It was necessary, then, for copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a man made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true on; He entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God´s presence. Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, the way the High Priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Just as man is destined to die once, and after that face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.´ We are under a new covenant with God, that is, the covenant of Grace that came to us through Jesus the Christ. Under this covenant, we are credited with the righteousness of Christ Jesus and He takes on our all our sins once and for all. After coming to do what was His mission on earth, that is, to die for our sins at the cross and face separation from God the Father, He ascended into Heaven, where He intercedes on our behalf to this day and thus we can now enter the Heavenly throne with confidence not because we are holy but because of Jesus’ holiness that we are credited with or gifted by the will of God. Those of us that believe in Him anxiously and gladly long for His return when we shall receive the promises He made to us.