I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins,
and build it as it used to be, so that they may posses the remnant of Edom
and all the nations that bear my Name," declares the Lord, who will do these things.
(Amos 9:11)
"New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from the hills." (V.13)
And in the New Testament this "wine" represents Jesus Christ who died on the
Cross for us, for the forgiveness of sins so that we will have eternal life.
It is the covenant of remembrance of His blood that we partake and participate
in communion with Him as children of God.
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The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had
given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this
in remembrance of me."
In the same way, after suffer he took the cup, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it,
in remembrance of me."
For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's
death until he comes. (1Corinthians 11:23-27,15:3-8, Mat.14:22-25)
Christ is the new meditor of a new covenant, that those who are called
may received the promised eternal inheritance. (Hebrew 9:15)
The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless
(for the law made nothing perpect), and a better hope is introduced,
by which we draw near to God (Heb.7:18-19)
...One who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry
but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. (Heb.7:16)
...And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath,
but he became a priest with an oath when God said to Him:
"The Lord had sworn and will not change his mind: You are a priest forever."
(v.20-21)
Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. (v.22)
Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from
continuing their duties; but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.
Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him,
because he always lives to intercede for them. (v.23-25)
Such a high priest meets our need--one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from
sinners, exalted above the heavens.
Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day,
first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people.
He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.
For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came
after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever. (v.26-28)
We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in heaven, and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up
by the Lord, not by man. (Heb.9:1-2)
The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are
ceremonially unclean sanctified them so that they are outwardly clean.
How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead
to death, so that we may serve the living God! (Heb.9:13-14)
For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one;
he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence.
Nor did he enter heaven to offer himsdelf again and again, the way the high priest
enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world.
But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin
by the sacrifice of himself.
Just as a man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people;
and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those
who are waiting for him. (v.24-28,10:1-8)
Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will."
He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made
holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.
(Heb.10:9-10,8:13)
Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties;
again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins,
he sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time he waits for his enemies
to be made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever
those who are being made holy. (v.11-14)
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
"This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.
Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more." (v.15-18,8:7-12,Jer.31:33)
And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.
What a great news and a better promises of God! God has drew us closely to Himself
in behalf of His Son Jesus Christ as our Mediator, Priest. Amen!
(Heb.10:20-22)
...By a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is his body,
and since we have a great priest over the house of God, Let us draw near to God
with a sincere heart and with a full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
to cleanse us from agulity conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
