The Holy Spirit is Signifying This
If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 9. We continue to make our way through this epistle together. The argument has been made already in this book that Jesus is a better High Priest and is a mediator of a better covenant. One of the ways that the author of Hebrews argues that Jesus is a better priest is to say that He is a priest according to the order of Melchizedek. That is, unlike the Old Testament Levitical priesthood that descended from Aaron and which offered animal sacrifices, men who lived and died in their ministries and were replaced year after year offered animal sacrifices, Jesus’ priesthood was an eternal priesthood like unto Melchizedek. And so the author argues that Jesus is a better priest because His priesthood is like the…