The Truly Holy Place

Hebrews 9:24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, 26 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

We have seen in the past few chapters the superiority of Christ as priest to the preceding system. Now the writer goes a step further, showing the superiority of His ministry to what took place in the temple system. There, every day sacrifice had to be made and the priest would go into the holy place to offer incense. One day a year a lot of sacrifices were made and the High Priest would enter into the inner Holy of Holies. Even before sacrifices began there, lots of blood sacrifices took place to initiate the building. Christ gave His own blood once for all - not to enter a manmade building, but the very presence of the Father, where He now intercedes for us and will stand up for us when judgment comes. He will be our Savior indeed.