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Hebrew chapter 10 verse 12

but when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins he sat down at the right hand of God.

Oh I love this picture.

Like, just think about it.

Old Testament, you have priests who would go into the Holy of Holies, like think the day of atonement,

when the high priest would go into the Holy of Holies to offer a sacrifice for

sin and he would go in in trembling with fear and trepidation like they would tie a rope to his ankle.

He would have bells on his garments

so that he was walking around, you could hear

that he was still alive, like still moving.

And if he was struck down in the presence of God, so the sound of the

bells stopped, then they have a rope they can pull him out with. Like imagine being that high priest. Like you

are strapping this rope to your ankle knowing it's a possibility you're about to be struck down and

pulled out dead and you're going in with Belles on, you're just hoping to keep moving around, like because you

were going into the presence of a holy God to offer sacrifice for sins.

So you don't hang around in there longer than you need to.

Like you go in there, you do what you were supposed to do,

and then you get out alive.

But that's not the picture we see in Hebrew chapter 10,

verse 12, when Christ, so now with that background read

this verse again when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for

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