Before the coming of the Great High Priest: Jesus our Lord and God, Israel used a human priestly system. This sytem involved many things, including the most holy place where the human high priest would enter, carrying stones that symbomized the people of Israel. In doing this the human high priest represented the people of Israel before the holy throne of the Lord their Maker.
But today we don't have a human high priest in the same way they did. We have God the Son who incarnated into human flesh - Jesus our messiah - who is truly God and truly man and truly our High Priest forever.
Jesus, because He will never die, holds the role of High Priest forever. Therefore He is able to save all those who come to Him because He makes intercession for them into eternity. As our High Priest He is able to stop us from falling and to present us faultless on that day when He returns to judge the living and the death.
Therefore since we have such a great High Priest, who has passed into the heavens, Jesus who is God the Son, let us hold tightly onto the faith we confess. Since we have a High Priest who can identify with our weakness, He was tempted by sin as we are, yet He never sinned, let us boldly come before His throne and find grace in time of need.
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