The Smoking Flax He Will Not Quench - Part 1512

"But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." (Hebrews 9:11-12)

Herein, He is talking about entering into the Holiest of all. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make, the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year. For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Wherefore, when He cometh into the world, He saith, "Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not but a body hast Thou prepared Me; in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had no pleasure." Then said I, "Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me) to do Thy will, O God." (Hebrews 10:1-8)

It is here that the Lord Himself comes to take away the first (the old covenant ordinances and law) so that He may establish the second. And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." (Hebrews 9:15-19)

How was this accomplished?

"By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all." (Hebrews 10:9-10)

"And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant ..." (Hebrews 9:3-4; Exodus 25:16) 

The "vail" dividing between the holy [place] and the most holy "and thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy [place]." (Exodus 6:31-35)

"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 9:8)

But the Holiest would be made manifest in the new testament. God manifest in the flesh. (I Timothy 3:16) The Lord coming forth as a mighty man. (Isaiah 42:13; Isaiah 9:6) He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not. (John 1:10-11) The Word made flesh and dwelt among us ... (John 1:1-18) Behold, the Lamb of God!

Jesus -- King of kings and Lord of lords. Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending. (Revelation 1:8, 11)

"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh, and [having] an high priest over the house of God." (Hebrews 10:19-21)

We see this when Jesus was on the cross. The sun was darkened "and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst." (Luke 23:45)

But not just rent in the midst but more specifically, "the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom." (Luke 15:38)

"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 ..." (Matthew 27:51)

The veil was rent from heaven to earth. The Lord Himself declaring peace and good will to one and all. (Luke 2:14) "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes ..." (Romans 10:4-9)

"The SAME Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him. For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:12-13; Romans 10:9-13)

"Blessed be the King that comes in the Name of the Lord; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest." (Luke 19:38; Psalm 118:26; Ephesians 2:14)  Isaiah 57:19

"That in the ages to come, He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:4, 7; Titus 3:4-7; Romans 10:12; John 3:16)

"Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise, the immutability of His counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath, that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we must have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us ... which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec  ... being by interpretation, King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace, without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God, abides a priest continually." (Hebrews 6:17-)

"And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all ..." (Hebrews 9:3)

Indeed, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh, we have found redemption for our souls. As Isaiah said, "I was found of them that sought Me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after Me." (Romans 10:20)

There is so much more to understand here. However, for now let me end with a scripture from Titus, that is so telling of the love and mercy of God our Saviour.

"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ..." (Titus 3:5)

Stand in the offering plate.