And so he is able. I have followed MacKnight in viewing this through Jewish eyes. "Christ offered his crucified body as a sacrifice in heaven (Hebrews 8:2-3), and as he is continually there in his crucified body, this one and the same sacrifice is always present before God! This continually declares God's ACT in Christ, and Christ himself continually pleads with God for us on that basis (compare Romans 8:34). The Jewish high priest sprinkling blood on the HILASTEHION (mercy seat) on top of the box of the covenant on the Day of Atonement (each year) was symbolic of what Jesus would do. Blood, as the symbol of death, opened the earthly place for worship until the next Day of Atonement (the following year). Christ's blood = death = the one sacrifice which never needs to be repeated!!! Compare Hebrews 9:11-14."

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