CHRIST WAS SACRIFICED ONCE FOR ALL

 

23 It was necessary, then,

For the Copies of the Heavenly things

To be Purified with these Sacrifices

(the sacrifice of animal blood),

But the Heavenly things themselves

With better Sacrifices than these.

24 For Christ did not enter a Sanctuary

Made with human hands

That was only a Copy of the True One;

He entered Heaven itself,

Now to Appear for us in God’s Presence.

25 Nor did He enter Heaven

To offer Himself again and again,

The way the high priest

Enters the Most Holy Place every year

With blood that is not his own.

26 Otherwise Christ would have had to Suffer

Many times since the Creation of the World.

BUT HE HAS APPEARED ONCE FOR ALL

AT THE CULMINATION OF THE AGES

(The Last Two Thousand Years of Time)

TO DO AWAY WITH SIN

By the Sacrifice of Himself.

27 Just as people are Destined to Die Once,

AFTER THAT TO FACE JUDGMENT,

28 SO CHRIST WAS SACRIFICED ONCE

TO TAKE AWAY THE SINS OF MANY;

AND HE WILL APPEAR A SECOND TIME

(At the End of Two thousand Years)

Not to bear Sin,

BUT TO BRING SALVATION

TO THOSE WHO ARE WAITING FOR HIM.

(Hebrews 9:23-28, NIV)