Christ has become our great High Priest, and He is not one made with human hands! That’s part of the redemptive work He accomplished for us. Now, the high priest was the only man in the whole of Israel who could enter the holy of holies, carrying the blood of animals to sprinkle upon the mercy seat and cover up the sins of the people for that year. It was his responsibility as the high priest to pronounce God’s blessings upon the people after he had offered sacrifices to God on their behalf.
In Jesus’ day, the high priest and chief priests were corrupt, and in their own ignorance of God’s plan clearly recorded in the Scriptures, they crucified the Son of God, not knowing that it had been prophesied and that the ultimate sacrifice performed by Jesus Christ would cost them their jobs! Afterwards, they couldn’t operate in the positions of high priest and chief priest anymore because Jesus Christ had become the great High Priest.
The veil that separated the inner court from the most holy place was torn from top to bottom, signifying that the way into the holiest place of the temple was free for all to go in. There was no need for any earthly high priest to carry blood into the holiest place once in a year anymore. Jesus had gone into the heavenly holy of holies and sprinkled His own blood on the mercy seat, not to cover sins for just one more year, but to wipe away completely the sins of all men, for all time!
Now, the Bible says we are seated together with Him at the right hand of God. That was a place the earthly high priests could never get the children of Israel to; they themselves were restricted from entering the holiest place of all except for once in the whole year! But praise God, because of the sacrifice of Jesus, our great High Priest, we’re living right in there within the veil, in the very presence of God!
