'Heb 9:11-14

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Priestly work under the new covenant (Heb 9:11-14)

When the Jewish high priest entered the Most Holy Place, God’s symbolic presence, he took the blood of the sacrificial animal with him. This was a sign that an innocent substitute had died for the guilty sinner, so that the barrier to God’s presence through sin might be removed. Jesus Christ, the great high priest, offered himself as the sacrifice, and through his blood (i.e. by means of his sacrificial death) entered the presence of God, obtained eternal salvation from sin, and cleansed the sinner’s guilty conscience. Ceremonial cleansing through animal sacrifices is replaced by actual cleansing through Christ’s sacrifice (Heb 9:11-14).