Sunday, April 13 He entered into the holy place, not with the blood of goats and of young bulls, but with his own blood, once for all time, and obtained an everlasting deliverance for us.—Heb. 9:12.

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Sunday, April 13

He entered into the holy place, not with the blood of goats and of young bulls, but with his own blood, once for all time, and obtained an everlasting deliverance for us.—Heb. 9:12.

 

After Jesus was resurrected, he entered the Most Holy of the spiritual temple. Here we can clearly see the superiority of Jehovah’s arrangement for pure worship based on the ransom sacrifice and the priesthood of Jesus Christ. The high priest in Israel entered a man-made Most Holy with the blood of animal sacrifices, but Jesus entered “into heaven itself,” the holiest place of all, to appear before Jehovah. There he presented the value of his perfect human life in our behalf “to do away with sin through the sacrifice of himself.” (Heb. 9:24-26) Whether our hope is heavenly or earthly, we all can worship Jehovah in his spiritual temple. w23.10 28 ¶13-14

 

Memorial Bible reading: (Daytime events: Nisan 14) Luke 22:66-71