Our High Priest Sat Down!

Hebrews next provides another contrast between the priesthoods of Aaron and Christ: Aaron's sacrificial work never ceased, because the same old animal sacrifices could never take away our sin.

In all the detailed depictions of tabernacle and temple furnishings, there weren't any chairs at all!

But there is a chair in glory, a throne in fact, where our Lord Jesus has sat down!

Christ sat down at the right hand of God, after He had offered Himself as the one-time and sole sacrifice for our sins.

Aaron's sacrifices went on forever, but could never take away sin.

Christ's sacrifice was once for all for our sin, and it took them all away.

And therefore, Christ sat down.

And because Christ rests from His sacrificial work for us, we rest in Christ's perfection of our redemption and justification!

But note well the exalted place Christ sits – our great Man of Calvary, the Lord Jesus, is enthroned at the right hand of power and glory now!

This resting place of exaltation for Christ comes as no surprise. After all, Jesus promised it would be so, at His trial before the Jewish leaders.

There, Jesus declared Himself to be Messiah, God manifest in the flesh, and that someday, His haters and murderers would see Him in the glory, seated with power.

In rage, they killed the Lord of Glory, and so our Lamb was slain for us then.

But previously in Hebrews, reference to the glory of Christ's situation has been described repeatedly. In the third verse, after He had by Himself purged our sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.

Hebrews quotes from Psalm 110, where God commanded Christ to sit at His right hand, until He makes Christ's enemies His footstool!