After delivering the astonishing declaration that the veil torn at the moment of Jesusโ death was nothing less than Christโs body torn asunder, throwing open the gates of heaven to every person, the author offered five ways every Christian responds to the magnificent good news of the Gospel.
Hebrews: The Veil Is Torn
There was no mistaking the connection, for first century Christians. The heavenly reality, revealed on the day of Jesusโ baptism became the earthly reality at the moment of Jesusโ deathโheavenโs gates are open wide!
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Hebrews: Sealed by the Blood
This sprinkling of blood refers to a different action than having had propitiation made, or being cleansed by. Sprinkling was symbolic of cutting a solemn and sacred covenant, just as the first covenant had been cut between God and humanity, through the people of Israel.
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Hebrews: The Fulcrum
Scholars often divide the Epistle to the Hebrews into two parts. The first, chapters 1-10, teach on the supremacy of Messiah (chapters 1-8) and the new covenant cut in Messiahโs blood (chapters 8-10). The second part, chapters 10-13, is exhortation on how we are to respond to the truths found in the first part.
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Hebrews: And He Sat Down!
Messiah, having completed his mission, can take His seat on the royal throne of heaven, and rest His foot on restored creation, joining heaven and earth, the spiritual and physical realms, in a sacred whole.
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Hebrews: แฝฯฮญฯ | huper
In Greek, the word for substitute is แฝฯฮญฯ| huper, meaning on behalf of or in anotherโs place.
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Hebrews: Perfect, Permanent Propitiation
Since Jesus offered perfect and permanent propitiation, it means what was damaged is now perfectly and permanently repaired.
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Hebrews: A Better Sanctuary
The Mosaic covenant had a pattern for the tabernacle, worship, and sacrifices. The old sanctuary merely represented the better sanctuary in heaven.
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Hebrews: A Better Covenant
the writer would now explain why the covenant Christ has cut in His own blood is better than even the covenant God made with the Israelites at the foot of Mount Sinai, sealed with the blood of sacrificed animals.
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Hebrews: A Better Hope
It had taken two chapters to establish the superiority of the Lord Jesus Christ, as fully God the Son, above every earthly and heavenly principality. Now, the writer was establishing Jesusโ work as also superior, pre-eminent, far above any human priestโs work, even of Aaron himself.
