15.3 SIT – The Old Covenant priest could never sit in the tabernacle

In the Old Covenant, the priest worked in the temple. Day after day, and week after week they tended to the temple – the animal sacrifices at the Brazen Altar, oil for the Golden Candlestand, Change of bread and wine for the Table of showbread, etc. Every year, the high priest would enter the holy of holies to sprinkle the blood of animals on the mercy seat. The blood could not wash away sins – it only covered sins for a year.

For 1,500 years under the system of law, the priest could never sit – the work was never completed. They were always “WALKING”. Righteousness could not be attained by the works of the law. As they repeated the animal sacrifice year after year, it was simply a reminder that the they needed Jesus, the true Lamb.

(Hebrews 10:1-4)
1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they OFFER CONTINUALLY YEAR BY YEAR, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a REMINDER OF SINS EVERY YEAR. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Then God sent Jesus to this earth. He was the fulfillment of each of the furniture in the tabernacle. He fulfilled all righteousness. He offered Himself as the true Lamb for slaughter.

(Hebrews 9:26)
He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the SACRIFICE of HIMSELF.

He became our priest who entered the true Holy of Holies in heaven, to present His own blood to put away sins forever. And something happened for the first time. The perfect sacrifice was accepted as the one sacrifice for sins forever (past, present & future). So Jesus SAT DOWN! No priest sat down after 1,500 years – but Jesus sat down.

(Heb 10:11-14)
11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, SAT DOWN at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

The work was finished. Today, we start seated in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. You are not an Old Covenant priest – you are a New Covenant priest.