Bible Question:
Hi Emmaus, If you would, please give further comment to the statement below. Specifically offering (present tense) his sacrifice to God. "The heavenly Liturgy is still real with Jesus as our eternal High Priest always interceding for us and offering his sacrifice to the Father." According to Hebrews 10 Jusus presented Himself once and sat down... there is no further offering sacrifice. Although we do have to ask for forgiveness when we sin, the sacrifice for that sin was made already. I know the Holy Spirit Old Covenant Hebrews 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. New Covenant Hebrews 10:10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, 13 waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. |
Bible Answer: gracefull, Everthing is in the eternal present to God who is not subject to time. Jesus is the sacrifice who sits forever in the presence of the Father, so that his sacrifice , which is Himself, is ever in the presence of the Father, as the Lamb in Revelation 5. I am sorry if my phrasing has disturbed you, but the sacrifice of Jesus is still efficaious even today as it was efficaious for the saints of the Old Testament. It is the one sacrifice. If Revelation 4 and 5 does not depict a heavenly Liturgy with all the elements found in shadow in the earthly Temple, I don't know how else to describe it. Emmauws |