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The Promises of God: Part CCCLII
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
Nov 25, 2025
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For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another, He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Hebrews 9:24-26
For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another, He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Hebrews 9:24-26
The high priest of old entered the holy of holies once a year with the blood of bulls and goats to atone for the sins of the people. Jesus, our High Priest, suffered once on the cross to shed His blood, in seven places for us.
After He communed with His disciples, they went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray, and in agony, He prayed until His sweat became blood, and then He was arrested and brought before Pilate, where He was interrogated, beaten, and whipped with a cat of nine tails. Then they crowned Him with a crown of thorns as King of the Jews!
Forced to carry His cross to His crucifixion, they nailed His feet and hands to the rough wood and hoisted Him up. Jesus suffered greatly for us to whom the punishment was due, and then He yielded up His Spirit and died of a broken heart. The last place He bled for us was a spear thrust into His heart to tell if He was dead!
And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him, He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. Hebrews 9:27,28
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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