Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story

of redemption, and we want to spend five minutes every day, journeying through

the Bible from start to finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hi friends and welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is

Shelby Turner. I'm one of your hosts for this podcast and today we're going to talk

about chapters seven through nine of the book of Hebrews. The book of Hebrews is

all about exalting Jesus as supreme or better than any other. And today's reading

talks about Jesus as the great high priest of a better covenant. Now we talked

about Jesus as the great high priest yesterday and today is just going to

continue on that same topic. There's a lot of Old Testament verbage in these

chapters. So if you felt bogged down or confused at any point, that's okay. We're

going to talk about it in hopes that we can better understand what the author was

trying to teach us. First, let's talk just a little bit about the role of a high

priest in the Old Testament. They were the mediators between God and man under the

Old Covenant. They were the only ones allowed in God's presence and they oversaw

all sacrifices to the Lord. Chapter seven talks about a different kind of

priest. It says the priestly order of Melchizedek. Now Melchizedek is someone

that we really don't know a whole lot about. He was first mentioned in Genesis

chapter 14 when he blessed Abram who would become Abraham after he defeated

his enemies. Here it says Melchizedek was the king of Salem, which was

probably a shortened version of Jerusalem. So he may have been the king of

Jerusalem and it also says that he was a high priest of God most high. So he was

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