You said it was "real simple."
If Christ is our High Priest, the Old Covenant had to be cancelled...entirely.
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A NT Sermon Using Only OT Passages
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If Christ is our High Priest, the Old Covenant had to be cancelled...entirely.
Hebrews 10:19-10:22 New Living Translation
Key takeaway:
Hebrews 10:19 NLT - And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven's Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.
Hebrews 10:20 NLT - By his death, [Gr. through his flesh] Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.
Hebrews 10:21 NLT - And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God's house,
Hebrews 10:22 NLT - let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
Key takeaway:
- The veil of the Temple represented Christ's flesh. The law is fulfilled in Christ.
Hebrews 10:19 NLT - And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven's Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.
Hebrews 10:20 NLT - By his death, [Gr. through his flesh] Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.
NASB20 - by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, through His flesh,
Hebrews 10:21 NLT - And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God's house,
Hebrews 10:22 NLT - let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
Exodus 26:31-33 - And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Exodus 36:35 - And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
Hebrews 9:1-3, 6-8 - Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; ... Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Hebrews 10:20 - By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Matthew 27:50-51 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
We can clearly see
1) While Christ's body was yet unbroken, we were separated from God.
2) It was the breaking of Christ's body that opened the way.
3) The veil was not torn by men. God broke Christ's body.
I can also see the mystery of the Incarnation in the veil.
The Tabernacle was made up to two rooms. The first room was called the 'tabernacle of the congregation', or the 'tent of meeting.' This was in front of the veil.
The second room was the 'most holy place.' This was behind the veil, where the glory of God dwelt between the cherumbim of the Ark.
The interiors of both rooms were identical in every way, except by dimension, furnishing, and the presence of Yahweh. They had the same gold-plated walls set in the silver sockets, and the same ceiling, which was in material, colors and patterns, identical to the veil.
Both rooms represent the ministry of Christ. The tent of meeting, His earthly ministry, the holy of holies His heavenly.
When the Word became flesh, and 'tabernacled' among us, He was separated from the presence of the Father. His flesh was a veil, not only to us, but to Him as well. As flesh He was subject to weakness, and was dependent upon the power of the Spirit to perform His ministry. Luke 4:18, Matthew 12:28. The limitations of the flesh were evident, not only in the need of sleep and the need of food, but also in His need of learning, and of some of the knowledge that was hidden from Him. He doesn't know the date and the hour of His coming. He had to ask a demon its name. He had to ask a blind man if he could see after putting His hands on him the first time.
Christ's flesh was a veil to Him as it was to us.
When the veil was torn, there was no more division between the two rooms. Christ's earthly and heavenly ministries are now one and the same.
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Sinai is fulfilled, and with it, the Prophets.
John 1:14 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 5:46 - For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
2 Corinthians 3:7-16 - But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
Christ embodied the law. When Christ's body was broken, the law was fulfilled, and cancelled, and taken out of the way.
Colossians 2:13-14 - And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Matthew 27:50-51 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
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Hebrews 10:23 - 10:25 New Living Translation
An exortation to remain firm in the faith, and not to yield to the temptation to return to Judaism.
Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
An exortation to remain firm in the faith, and not to yield to the temptation to return to Judaism.
Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
Hebrews 10:26-31 New Living Translation
OT References cited:
[Deuteronomy 32:35 KJV] To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
[Deuteronomy 32:36 KJV] For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
(26) Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. (27) There is only the terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
(28) For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. (29) Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God's mercy to us. (30) For we know the one who said, "I will take revenge. I will pay them back." He also said, "The LORD will judge his own people." (31) It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Key take away
- Returning to Judaism after confessing Christ is an apostacy for which there is no promise of rescue, but only of vengeance.
[Deuteronomy 32:35 KJV] To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
[Deuteronomy 32:36 KJV] For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
(26) Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. (27) There is only the terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
This was touched on in the comments concerning Hebrews 6. The sinning spoken of here is not common sins. Common transgressions are not in view here. One is not in a hopeless state, even if he, knowing better, gives in to drunkenness or adultery, or swearing, etc. Neither are they hopeless who in fear give in to the temptation to momentarily deny Christ, as did Peter, or as did the martyr, Thomas Cranmer. They both found repentance.
It is not by the common moral lapses that we trample upon Christ as if He were dirt, and that profane the New Testament in His blood, and that blaspheme the Holy Ghost (verse 29). It is the return to Judaism that does that. By doing so Christ is called a liar, and the son of a harlot, and is made the minister of sin.
Galatians 2:17-19 NLT - [17] But suppose we seek to be made right with God through faith in Christ and then we are found guilty because we have abandoned the law. Would that mean Christ has led us into sin? Absolutely not! [18] Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down. [19] For when I tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So I died to the law--I stopped trying to meet all its requirements--so that I might live for God.
2 John 1:7 NLT - I say this because many deceivers have gone out into the world. They deny that Jesus Christ came in a real body. Such a person is a deceiver and an antichrist.
(28) For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. (29) Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God's mercy to us. (30) For we know the one who said, "I will take revenge. I will pay them back." He also said, "The LORD will judge his own people." (31) It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
This apostacy was forshadowed in the law, in the very chapter from which the Apostle gleaned his warning to the Hebrews:
[Deuteronomy 32:15, 17-18 NLT] (15) "But Israel soon became fat and unruly; the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed! Then they abandoned the God who had made them; they made light of the Rock of their salvation. ... (17) They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God, to gods they had not known before, to new gods only recently arrived, to gods their ancestors had never feared. (18) You neglected the Rock who had fathered you; you forgot the God who had given you birth.
...and that Rock was Christ (1 Cor. 10:4)
Do you see how Premillennialism, and especially Dispensationalism turns Christianity upside down? How it makes light of Christ and His Work? Paul said that rebuilding that old system is sin—grievous sin. but Dispensationalists teach that it is righteousness. They go as far, in my judgment, as to look at Judaism as the true worship of Yahweh, when it is in truth a denial of Him.
According to John (and Paul), antichrist opposes Christ. The Beast makes war with the saints—the believers. Revelation 13:7, Revelation 20:9.
But Dispensationalism substitutes the Jews—unbelievers—for Christ.
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Christ is supreme