As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
For Who is this Christ our High Priest, Who is seated with the Father, what are His workings, for He is the High Priest to all the Protestant Faithul?
St. Paul, by Holy Ghost Inspiration, explains, as no religion can, for the Jew, the Muslim, the Hindu, the witch are even lower than satan, for satan knows that Jesus is the Son of God, these religions even deny what is evident and ban themselves from the Gift of Salvation offered through Christ alone.
To understand Christ the High Priest one has to understand the office of the High Priest of the Levitical line of Aaron. Their office was one of offering blood sacrfice of animals for healing and forgiveness, in a Temple where only once a year could the High Priest enter the Holy of Holies to come into contact with God.
These were physical things, which were barred into coming into contact with the Spiritual.
Fittingly these were the children of Abraham. The children of Promise but only made Righteous if believing that Promise would come. Christ is that Promise and did come, and all who believe on Him as the Son of God for Redemption will have eternal Life.
It is this Life, the Spiritual Who Christ is, which sets Him apart from earthly priests, for these priests are of an age where the heavens and the earth will pass away, so will their fuction, for the dead and the risen do not require anyone to offer for their sins, for they are either unredeemed or redeemed.
Jesus then is the bridge to Heaven. Jesus is that Spiritual High Priest forever. Sacrificing Himself, pure in crucifixion, He took upon Himself all of our sins in the physical and wiped them away forever.
This is the complete Sacrifice of Christ in once is always, while animals are daily and yearly, a perpetual slaughter of sin offerings which can never appease God nor Redeem people to Him. Christ is complete and in Him the Faithful Protestant is presented before the Father as pure.
This is our Advocate, Christ the Lord, Who presents us, and confesses us before the Father as the children of Spirit. We are His, for He made us. We are His for He Redeemed us and Regenerated us in Spirit.
But this is not the complete Office of Christ, for where the earthly priests were ministered to, Christ is the One Who serves us for the Glory of the Father, not as a slave in chains, subordinate, but as the Son of God, choosing to show Mercy and Grace upon all those Who come to Him to reach the Father.
This coming is more than the earthly priest, for what is gold, silver and the fat of lambs, but nothing to God for all is Gods. What Chirst offers and brings is us, the Living Offering of obedience and hearkening.
Our prayers, praise, thanksgiving are the offerings before the Father, delivered by Holy Angels, filling censors and offered up as Holy Incense pleasing to the Father. Our songs, our joys, our love, are the gold and gems more precious, because they are living offerings from living beings, rightly we are the first fruits of the offering of the Perpetual High Day, and we are known to God by the goodness we discipline ourselves to be, to be transformed perfect before Him.
This is our Lord, our High Priest and we are His children, children of the Light of God, of the Love of God, of the Life of God. No one comes to the Father, but by our Advocate, who Redeems and Restores us unto God, where no priest or relgion of deniers can.
This is most certainly True.
Hebrews
The Mediator of a New Covenant
8 1 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being. 3 Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer. 4 If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law. 5 They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."[1]
6 But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises. 7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8 But God found fault with the people and said[2] : "The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. 9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord. 10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."[3] 13 By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
For by Christ, we are admitted to the Heavenly Holy of Holies, we are not separate from God as Protestant Christians, but we are not God with us alone, but God in us, and we are in Him. We are Spiritual children in the family or Spirit of God. Where earthly priests have buildings, we are the living Temple of the children of God, who surrounds Christ in the Tabernacle of Heaven, coming into the Holy of Holies with Him.
He that believes and is baptized shall be saved. This does not end with forgiveness of sin. This begins with forgiveness of repented sins. Ours is a living Spiritual High Priest and we are living Spiritual offerings to the Heavenly Father. We begin in Christ and enter in to the Spirit of God Who is our Comforter and Help, making all One in the Lord.We are no longer people barred by Temple doors and guards, but we are admitted in as the Royal Priests of our High Royal Priest in Christ. Our's is eternal and made that Way in the New Covenant or Testament in Christ, for the Spirit is eternal and we the Redeemed have an eternal Way, Truth and Life, in the Office of Christ the High Priest.
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