The Judgement of the Cross - The Great High Priest - He Tasted Death for Every Man

 The Great High Priest - He Tasted Death For Every Man One in the midst of the seven candlesticks clothed with a garment down to the feet and girt about the Paps with a golden girdle.  Our Great High Priest.  Seeing Jesus and His Priesthood is one of the most glorious realities I have ever began to see.   In our relationship with God, He is our Priest.    In the simplicity of that understanding we do not come to the Priesthood of Aaron or to the Priesthood of man, period.  We come to the Priesthood of Christ, and the summation of His Priesthood (Hebrews 8:1).  This is what we must set our hearts on the sum of His Priesthood.  What does it account for?  What does it do?   By one offering He has completed forever, them who are sanctified (Hebrews 10:14).  The offering is in Him.  The completion is in Him.  The sanctification is in Him.  All these things pertain to Him and His Priesthood.    Under the law, none could come to completion.  Year after year the comers to the atonement would have to wait for their sins to be covered by the Blood of an animal.  They never could come to a clear conscience before God.  They could never fully enjoy His presence.  Those animals pointed to one who was going to bear our Sin and put it to death.  Jesus did just that.  He became sin, and died, making His grave with the wicked.    Jesus not only died on Calvary, He entered death.  In Psalms 16:9 and Acts 2:27, it speaks of Christ and says He cried out thou shalt not leave my soul in hell.  The word for hell in your Bible is a Greek word Hades, and means the unseen.  In the Old Testament it is Sheol and means the place of the dead.  Jesus entered into the unseen place of the dead and brought forth victory.  His soul was not left in hell but came forth in the light of life.    In Revelation Chapter 1, it is recorded that Christ says to John, I am He that lives and was dead.  He tasted DEATH for everyman.  Then He continues I am alive forevermore.  The entirety of our salvation rests with those words.  The entirety of scripture points to those words.   The cross of Christ.  His death to Sin, His burial putting Sin away, and His resurrection in Newness of Life.  To us this is the cross.  Jesus died and rose again.    In that statement I find life.  He died for me and as me and brought me to death.  He rose in the power of the Spirit and brought from the tomb a New Man.  This man is of Spirit and Life.  This is our completion, and the completion of all those who believe.  We must give our hearts to the knowing of this man.  Glory to God!