Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:19-22.

Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:

When I raised Jesus from the dead with all your sins paid for and gone, I raised Him as the great good Shepherd and the great High Priest.

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 6:19-20.

These ministries are both for you and they function as one. That is why you have everything you need for life and godliness in Jesus.

Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 2 Peter 1:2-3.

You have the provision, healing, care, direction and ever watchful eye of your great good Shepherd for your material, physical, mental, and emotional needs each day and you have the redemption, eternal life, spiritual gifts, spiritual guidance, teachings, atonement, forgiveness, revelations, and intercession of your great High Priest.

With Jesus as your High Priest, you have one who fits your humanity into My divinity and My divinity into your humanity in one seamless life. As your High Priest, He has entered Covenant with Me, representing each of you, your names being in and on His heart before Me as on the breastpiece on the ephod of the High Priest, and He has also entered Covenant with you when you received Him as Lord and partook of His body and blood in the Covenant communion meal which seals you as one.

Why do you need a High Priest? It all started with Adam’s rejection of My Word and his turning to another for his direction, an angelic being made to serve him who became the father of all lies. He chose lawlessness and rebellion over My Word of perfection and created a division between us so that we were no longer walking as one.

The need for a high priest stemmed from the inability of Adam and all his descendants (which is all of you) to put things right again in our relationship since corrupted and evil seed has nothing to do with the incorruptible seed of My Word and there was no way that those born of Adam’s seed could get past the dividing wall of sin without an atonement being made. To approach Me directly something had to be done about your sinful nature. And that is what being born again from above by My Word is all about. But before new birth can occur the sin has to be dealt with. You have to be released from your sins by the giving of an eternal life for the eternal life in the flesh that Adam lost, for sin is in the flesh, and the life is in the blood.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement. Leviticus 17:11.

I saw that there was no man capable of paying the price of your judgment in full satisfaction of your sentence of eternal death because no one any longer was born from above with an eternal life to give. Through Adam death descended to all men.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned. Romans 5:12.

But I am the LORD who sees ahead and provides. Yahavah Yireh, as Abraham named Me when he prophesied that I Myself would supply the sacrifice that would take away the sin of the world, and that was the Lamb slain since the foundation of the world, the knowledge of Him as Savior, Messiah and Lord is the cornerstone on which the foundation of all I have made was laid.

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. Romans 5:6-11.

When Peter had the revelation that Jesus was the Messiah and My Son, Jesus told him of the cornerstone. That is the rock on which I have built the Church and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it. On whomever it falls in judgment is totally destroyed, but whoever builds their life on that rock will live forever in the beauty and blessedness of My Kingdom.

And until the fullness of time came when My Son was birthed according to the flesh into the earth as He descended from His throne with Me in Heaven, I was teaching the way righteousness would be won by My Son in the shadows of the Passover Lamb and the sacrifices of the Tabernacle of Moses. But they were a covering for sin, but not the removal of it. Like a credit card will purchase something but there comes a day when the real price must be paid in full.

No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. John 3:13-15.

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Hebrews 1:1-4.

Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but Jesus, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet. For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. Hebrews 10:11-14.

The sacrifice of the lamb started after Adam’s fall; Abel offered a lamb, which pleased me. It was credited to him as righteousness. And how did he know to do that? I offered it for Adam and Eve and clothed them in its skin.

The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. Genesis 3:21.

One of the outer coverings for the Holy place in the Tabernacle of Moses was rams’ skins (sheepskin) dyed red. Exodus 25:5.

So until the time Jesus paid in full once for all and released you from your sins by His eternal blood in the flesh, not having been born from below of Adam’s perishable seed but from My Word spoken from on High and made flesh in the virgin’s womb by the power of My Spirit, just as all creation began and the first man was formed on the eighth day when birthed into the earth and given the breath of life from My own breath, your sins were covered by the atonement of the blood of unblemished lambs, rams, goats, bulls, and oxen. And it was the High Priest’s role to oversee these sacrifices of atonement were properly and reverently done. He was essential in maintaining the relationship between Me and My people by providing a way for sins to be atoned and for divine communication to occur.

And that is what Jesus has done completely and perfectly. Being the Lamb sacrifice and the High Priest who comes before Me and puts His eternal blood on the mercy seat in Heaven to not only atone for but remove every stain of sin as if it had never been. He has reversed the curse of the law of sin and death by becoming a curse for you and freeing you from all that hinders your relationship with Me.

And He has opened the new and living way in His blood for you to come to Me with no divisions and no condemnation between us.

Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:19-22.

He is your great High Priest that ushers you with Him through the cloud of prayer on the golden altar of incense right into My presence in the throne room of Heaven, the true Holy of Holies and the command center of the universe. And I have seated you there with Him.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16.

I love you and that is why I gave you such a wonderful great High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. More about this in another Life Lesson. There is so much for you to know that it will take eternity. But we have eternity.