The Messiah's Work in the Heavenly Sanctuary

The Messiah’s Work in the Heavenly Sanctuary
Hebrews 9.23-28

‘It was such a great day,’ she said. ‘I’d really like to do it all over again!’

We were looking at the photographs two weeks after the wedding. All their friends and relatives had been there. The sun had shone. The music was magnificent. The reception had been grand, the speeches good, the late-night party enormous fun. The sort of day that comes, to most of us, once in a lifetime, if that.

That, of course, is the point. You don’t get married every year, every month, every week. The reason you have such a big party is precisely that this is supposed to happen once and once only. (Of course, the world being what it is, with marriages ending through death or divorce, people do sometimes have more than one wedding; but the point still holds, in that you don’t get married again and again to the same person.) Some events mean what they mean precisely because they are one-off. To repeat them would be to show that you hadn’t understood, or that somehow it hadn’t worked the first time...

Taken from Hebrews for Everyone – by Tom Wright