6:11-20 What do we learn from what is said here?

We learn from this that persevering faith will enable all who have laid hold of God's salvation promise in Christ to inherit eternal life (CP 4:1, 3; 9:15; 10:36-37 with Mt 24:12-13; Mk 13:13).

Hope for the fulfilment of God's salvation promise is the anchor of the soul. This hope is embodied in Christ Himself who sits at the right hand of God in Heaven as our eternal high priest, ever living to make intercession for us (CP Ro 8:34; He 7:25-26; 8:1-2; 9:11, 24; 10:19-21; 1Jn 2:1).

Christ's eternal priesthood was marked by the character of the Old Testament priesthood of the high priest Melchisedec. He is an Old Testament type of the eternal priesthood of Christ. He was beyond ancestral limitations, having no recorded genealogy, and no beginning or end was ascribed to his priesthood (CP He 5:6, 10; 6:19 - 7:3).