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Post by civic on Aug 6, 2022 5:46:59 GMT -8
Without the bodily resurrection which was permanent one has no Savior and you are still dead in your sins according to the Apostle Paul. 1 Corinthians 15:17
Many deny Jesus was Resurrected and Ascended into heaven bodily( a human body with real flesh and bones) and are still dead in their sins even though they might claim to be a christian. That is an oxymoron.
Luke 24:37-43
37 But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit. 38 And He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 "See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have." 40 And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. 41 While they still could not believe it because of their joy and amazement, He said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" 42 They gave Him a piece of a broiled fish; 43 and He took it and ate it before them.
John 20:24-25
24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples were saying to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."
John 20:27-28
27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe." 28 Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
There is one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. (1Timothy 2:5) post ascension.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.(Hebrews 13:5) Changeless, Immutable. Jesus was a man when He walked this earth, when He Ascended and when He will return again at His 2nd Coming.
1 Corinthians 15:1-8
Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; 7 then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; 8 and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.
1 Corinthians 15:14-18
14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. 15 Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; 17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
2 Corinthians 5:1-10
For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. 2 We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. 3 For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies. 4 While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it's not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. 5 God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.6 So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. 7 For we live by believing and not by seeing. 8 Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord. 9 So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him.
In Heaven.... Hebrews 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken [this is] the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Look up the meaning of the word soma below, it always means a physical body in relation to anthropos(man).
His Body.....Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Matthew 27:52-53
52 The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
Philippians 3:20-21
And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
1 Corinthians 15:44-45
44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15 that if Christ be not risen your faith is in vain and you are still dead in your sins- an unbeliever who is lost. Those who deny the physical bodily resurrection of Jesus such as the JW's who teach that Jesus is now a spirit based being fit into this camp. They deny the resurrection.
If we look at what Paul is saying in this passage, it is that corruptible flesh and blood shall not enter the kingdom. Paul says corruptible does not inherit the incorruptible. Paul is not saying the resurrection body will not have flesh but what he declares is that the resurrected body will not have perishable flesh. Remember in Luke Jesus said see here My hands and feet, touch Me a spirit/ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have. Peter, Paul and John all agree that Jesus still had flesh well after His ascension. 1 John being the last of the books of the three Apostles declared that Jesus having come in the flesh and those who deny this are the spirit of antichrist. John makes it clear that the Incarnation was permanent. Jesus is forever both God and man. This is what Paul teaches in the whole 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians. The glorious physical bodies that we will have in the resurrection. We will have incorruptible bodies just as Jesus now has in heaven.
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Post by civic on Aug 6, 2022 5:47:53 GMT -8
Correcting the false teaching that flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God, a spiritual body is immaterial and the meaning of a life giving Spirit. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:50: “Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.” Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that Jesus could not have risen in His human body of flesh and bones, because Scripture states that “flesh and blood” cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Notice that Jesus did not say that His resurrected body was made of “flesh and blood.” Rather, He said His body was made of “flesh and bone” (Luke 24:39). This is significant because the term “flesh and blood” is often used in Scripture to refer to mortal humanity,in contrast to the imperishable, resurrected body alluded to by the phrase, “flesh and bones.” Far from claiming that the resurrected human body cannot inherit God’s kingdom, this passage asserts that the mortal, perishable human body (made of flesh and blood) cannot inherit the immortal, imperishable kingdom of God. Indeed as 1 Corinthians 15:53 states, “this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.” A spiritual body denotes an immortal body. A spiritual body is one that is dominated by the spirit, not one that is devoid of matter. The Greek word pneumatikos means a body that is directed by the spirit as opposed to one under the dominion of the flesh. It is not ruled by the flesh that perishes but by the spirit that endures. (1 Corinthians 15:50-58). A spiritual body does no mean immaterial or invisible but immortal and imperishable. Paul makes these parallels: Earthly- Heavenly (verse 40) Perishable- Imperishable (verse 42) Weak- Powerful(verse 43) Natural-Supernatural(verse 44) Mortal- Immortal(verse 53) The content shows that spiritual (pneumatikos) could be translated supernatural in contrast to natural from the parallels of perishable and imperishable, corruptible and incorruptible. Pneumatikos is translated supernatural in 1 Corinthians 10:4 regarding the supernatural rock that followed them in the wilderness. In the translation spiritual refers to physical objects. In 1 Corinthians 10:45 Paul spoke of the spiritual rock that followed Israel in the wilderness from which they got spiritual drink 1 Corinthians 10:4.But the OT story (Exodus 17,Numbers 20)reveals it was a physical rock from which they got literal water to drink. The actual water they drank from the material rock was produced supernaturally. Further Paul spoke about a spiritual man 1 Corinthians 2:15 he obviously did not mean an invisible, immaterial man with no corporeal body. He was as a matter of fact speaking of a flesh and blood human being whose life is lived by the supernatural power of God, a literal person whose life is Spirit directed. A spiritual man is one who is taught by the Spirit and who receives the things that come from the Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 2:13-14). The resurrection body can be called a spiritual body in much the same way we speak of the bible being a spiritual book. Regardless of their spiritual source and power both the resurrection body and the bible are material objects. Life giving Spirit does not speak of the nature of Christ’s resurrected body but of the divine origin of the resurrection. Jesus physical body came back to life only by the power of God.(Romans 1:4). Paul is speaking about its spiritual source not its physical substance as a material body. If spirit describes the nature of Christ’s resurrected body then Adam with whom He is contrasted must not have a soul since he is described as of the earth, made of dust (verse 47). But the bible clearly says that Adam was a living soul(Genesis 2:7). Christ’s body is called a spiritual body(soma) which always means a physical body when referring to an individual human being. The resurrected body is called spiritual and life giving spirit because its source is in the spiritual realm, not because its substance is immaterial. Christ’s supernatural resurrection body is from heaven as Adams natural body was from the earth. (verse 47). But just as the one from earth has an immaterial soul even so the One from heaven has a material body.
1 Corinthians 15:38-41
But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
A summary of the bodies mentioned above are all PHYSICAL in nature
1- people
2- seed
3-animals
4-birds
5-fish
6- heavenly - the sun, moon and stars
7- earthly- all inclusive 1-5
So as we can see BODY above are all PHYSICAL in nature.
These Greek Lexicons agree that soma is physical just like Paul declares in 1 Corinthians 15
Every Greek Lexicon and Dictionary agrees that the Resurrected BODY(SOMA) is physical and not immaterial.
Strong's Concordance
sóma: a body
Original Word: σῶμα, ατος, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: sóma
Phonetic Spelling: (so'-mah)
Definition: a body
Usage: body, flesh;
HELPS Word-studies
4983 sṓma – the physical body.
NT:4983) is "the body as a whole, the instrument of life," whether of man living, e. g., Matt 6:22, or dead, Matt 27:52; or in resurrection, 1 Corinthians 15:44; or of beasts, Heb 13:11; of grain, 1 Cor 15:37-38; of the heavenly hosts, 1 Cor 15:40.
(from Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words, Copyright © 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers.)
More proof soma is physical
as in Greek writings from Hesiod down, the living body: — of animals, James 3:3; — of man: τό σῶμα, absolutely, Luke 11:34; Luke 12:23; 1 Corinthians 6:13, etc.; ἐν σώματι εἶναι, of earthly life with its troubles, Hebrews 13:3; distinguished from τό αἷμα, 1 Corinthians 11:27; τό σῶμα and τά μέλη of it, 1 Corinthians 12:12, 14-20; James 3:6; τό σῶμα the temple of τό ἅγιον πνεῦμα, 1 Corinthians 6:19; the instrument of the soul, τά διά τοῦ σωματου namely, πραχθεντα, 2 Corinthians 5:10; it is distinguished — from τό πνεῦμα, in Romans 8:10; 1 Corinthians 5:3; 1 Corinthians 6:20 Rec.; ; James 2:26 (4 Macc. 11:11); — from ἡ ψυχή, in Matthew 6:25; Matthew 10:28; Luke 12:22 (Wis. 1:4 Wis. 8:19f; 2 Macc. 7:37 2Macc. 14:38; 4 Macc. 1:28, etc.); — from ἡ ψυχή and τό πνεῦμα together, in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (cf. Song of the Three, 63); σῶμα ψυχικόν and σῶμα πνευματικόν are distinguished, 1 Corinthians 15:44 (see πνευματικός, 1 and ψυχικός, a.); τό σῶμα τίνος, Matthew 5:29; Luke 11:34; Romans 4:19; Romans 8:23 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 187 (176)), etc.; ὁ ναός τοῦ σωματου αὐτοῦ, the temple which was his body, John 2:21; plural, Romans 1:24; 1 Corinthians 6:15; Ephesians 5:28; the genitive of the possessor is omitted where it is easily learned from the context, as 1 Corinthians 5:3; 2 Corinthians 4:10; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Hebrews 10:22(23), etc.; τό σῶμα τῆς ταπεινώσεως ἡμῶν, the body of our humiliation (subjective genitive), i. e. which we wear in this servile and lowly human life, opposed to τό σῶμα τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ (i. e. τοῦ Χριστοῦ), the body which Christ has in his glorified state with God in heaven, Philippians 3:21; διά τοῦ σωματου τοῦ Χριστοῦ, through the death of Christ's body, Romans 7:4; διά τῆς προσφοράς τοῦ σωματου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, through the sacrificial offering of the body of Jesus Christ, Hebrews 10:10; τό σῶμα τῆς σαρκός, the body consisting of flesh, i. e. the physical body
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Post by bobcarabbio on Aug 7, 2022 17:43:29 GMT -8
Without the bodily resurrection which was permanent one has no Savior and you are still dead in your sins according to the Apostle Paul. 1 Corinthians 15:17 True - because if Jesus WAS NOT resurrected, then His sacrifice would NOT have been accepted, and there would have been NO GOSPEL. Simple as that. |
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Post by e v e on Aug 7, 2022 18:26:59 GMT -8
replying to a comment in
the op post
about flesh entering heaven
i’d say it cannot…
and He won’t allow that…
same as paul says, understanding as he does
the horrible situation we are in…
the term body
is not just what we assume…
this corrupt
type fleshbody we have because of adam
cannot enter heaven
but that’s not the type body
God made for us
when He created paradise
and not the body Christ has either
there was a blurring of greek
and christian archetypes
and this caused so much confusion,
and still causes, about many concepts
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Post by e v e on Aug 7, 2022 18:38:51 GMT -8
in paradise ,
before we had to come here,
our bodies were of eden nature,
His creation
and the term for this is npsh…
which means in ancient hebrew both soul
and body.
these in paradise are one, a whole
and not separated.
the hebrew translates to ‘living being.’
in contrast in the greek theology
the soul and body are different entities
the soul is psuche, an entity which is bodiless.
the body is made of matter… their union is a chimera.
the greek form of 'soul' and 'body' is the same form that all pagan theologies pose…
and represents the satanic type of ‘nature’
which is - psuche + soma.
and that is the nature of all ‘life’ (if you can call it that, thus in quotes)
here on this current corrupt earth and reality which
God calls Death
and adam touched.
it conforms to the satanic model.
in this context, we live in a foreign type carnal body
and it’s minds. in the sin realm and sin body.
this body is a Chimera…a horrible idol.
and ruled by the law of sin and death.
only our souls are His.
and also in that context, what a huge step down
and sacrifice Christ made
for Us….
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Post by e v e on Aug 7, 2022 18:46:12 GMT -8
a man in eden context
before adams crimes
was a npsh soul.
a soul in that eden context being
one undivided living being
since npsh means body and also means soul
and not as a mixture or union.
the mixture is a pagan form.
the tripartite model of a soul is pagan.
there is no disembodied soul in christian and eden context…
for we are never to be without a body (covering).
yet because of adam, sin,
man on the current satanic earth
is a soul plus a foreign fleshbody…
this is the dead body described in haggai
..the realm of Death
after leaving eden
thus pauls horror…
at our situation.
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Post by e v e on Aug 7, 2022 19:13:54 GMT -8
this mixup of npsh and psuche
is a terrible translation error
where terms belonging to entirely different contexts,
npsh being the hebrew one,
were used interchangeably.
the disembodied spirit being defined as a ’soul’ is 100x pagan.
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Post by e v e on Aug 7, 2022 19:38:32 GMT -8
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Post by civic on Aug 8, 2022 4:59:49 GMT -8
Without the bodily resurrection which was permanent one has no Savior and you are still dead in your sins according to the Apostle Paul. 1 Corinthians 15:17 True - because if Jesus WAS NOT resurrected, then His sacrifice would NOT have been accepted, and there would have been NO GOSPEL. Simple as that. Amen |
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Post by lazarus on Aug 8, 2022 8:51:39 GMT -8
When Thomas stuck his finger in the place of the nails and saw his hands, Jesus was obviously not bleeding. I agree 100% he Rose bodily and ascended bodily even a "physical" body, just seems to me its somehow different. Guess my question is
do you think his ressurected body has blood flowing thru veins? thoughts? Thanks.
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Post by Obadiah on Aug 8, 2022 9:06:35 GMT -8
When Thomas stuck his finger in the place of the nails and saw his hands, Jesus was obviously not bleeding. I agree 100% he Rose bodily and ascended bodily even a "physical" body, just seems to me its somehow different. Guess my question is do you think his ressurected body has blood flowing thru veins? thoughts? Thanks. Hi lazarus and welcome to the Forum. I read some on this topic awhile back and my thoughts are "I don't know". Some say blood is bad and therefore cannot be in heaven. I'm glad you posted this as now I have something to go and study. If I find anything interesting, I'll share it. I'm a man on a mission! |
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Post by civic on Aug 8, 2022 9:27:41 GMT -8
When Thomas stuck his finger in the place of the nails and saw his hands, Jesus was obviously not bleeding. I agree 100% he Rose bodily and ascended bodily even a "physical" body, just seems to me its somehow different. Guess my question is do you think his ressurected body has blood flowing thru veins? thoughts? Thanks. Good questions . I’m not sure the new bodies will require blood like ours do now . The Bible is silent on that as far as I know . |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2022 12:48:21 GMT -8
The Book of Hebrews says Jesus Blood speaks better things than Abel's.
I believe Jesus blood is on the heavenly mercy seat pleading on our behalf.
Paul said:
And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be (1 Cor. 15:37 NKJ)
Whatever Jesus' body is, it is fundamentally transformed according to Paul.
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Post by Obadiah on Aug 8, 2022 13:02:10 GMT -8
The Book of Hebrews says Jesus Blood speaks better things than Abel's. I believe Jesus blood is on the heavenly mercy seat pleading on our behalf. Paul said:
And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be (1 Cor. 15:37 NKJ)
Whatever Jesus' body is, it is fundamentally transformed according to Paul. Same here. That what I believe also. Makes me want to break out in song. "You know it was the Blood for me. One day when I was lost He died upon the cross for me." |
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Post by Obadiah on Aug 8, 2022 13:38:32 GMT -8
When Thomas stuck his finger in the place of the nails and saw his hands, Jesus was obviously not bleeding. I agree 100% he Rose bodily and ascended bodily even a "physical" body, just seems to me its somehow different. Guess my question is do you think his ressurected body has blood flowing thru veins? thoughts? Thanks.
After today study I believe so but let's take a look at both side of this topic. So what we are talking here is the idea that the glorified Body of Jesus Christ contains Flesh and Bones, but no Blood. This is what Calvinist apologists adhere to. But this theory suffers from a number of problems: the Scriptural support is virtually non-existent, it’s never endorsed (or even alluded to) by any of the New Testament authors or the Church Fathers, it runs directly contrary to the Church’s consistent Eucharistic theology, and the evidence offered could just as easily justify rejecting the physical Resurrection and Ascension. Dig DeeperHere is what Matt Slick has to say on it. Didn’t Jesus simply rise in a non-physical, spirit form? Sorry I can't go for that, no can do. Here is and answer in I found that makes the most sense to me from The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Adam Clarke.
He says: However, I do believe the answer resides in Hebrews. First, Christ is explicitly stated in Hebrews to represent in His own Person three aspects related to the atonement ceremony: 1. Jesus is the High Priest (Heb 2:17, 3:1, 4:14-15, 5:5, 9:11 [more specifically in context to 9:12], et. al.; though of a different order than the Levitical ones, Heb 5:6, 10). 2. Jesus is the Sacrifice (Heb 7:27, 8:3 [implied], 9:26-28 [very explicit], 10:12, et. al.) 3. Jesus is the Veil that separated the holy place from the most holy place (Heb 9:3, 10:20) Second, the book of Hebrews is also clear as to what the "holy place" He entered into was, for while the OT priest entered into two "holy places" (since access to the most holy place where the mercy seat resided was only by passing through the holy place where the table, lampstand, etc. were, i.e. the "first part" of the tabernacle Heb 9:6), but Christ entered "into heaven itself" (Heb 9:24). Heaven is paralleled only to the one holy place that could only be entered once a year, which was "the most holy place," or the "second part" of the tabernacle (Heb 9:7), where the mercy seat was, and which place believers are now boldly to enter into (Heb 10:19) because the veil to that place was Christ (Heb 10:20). So heaven is the most holy place entered by blood that Heb 9:12 refers to, which blood is from Himself as sacrifice done by Himself as high priest by going through His own flesh as the veil of separation. But to answer this question as well, it must be determined for what purpose was this bloody death, especially in Heb 9:12? There are three chief purposes that parallel with the day of atonement, while two more chief purposes are wrapped inside other parallel pictures between the Old Testament and Hebrews: Day of Atonement Pictures (Leviticus 16) 1. Purchasing of redemption—animal sacrifices to redeem from another year of sins (Heb 9:7, 10:3), Christ's sacrifice for eternal redemption from sins (Heb 2:14-15, 17; 9:12). 2. Cleansing of the holy place(s)—once a year cleansed the mercy seat, tabernacle, and its instruments with animal sacrifices (Heb 9:12, 21, 23a, 25; 10:3), but once forever cleansed heaven with Christ's sacrifice (Heb 9:12, 23b). 3. Cleansing corporately of the people related to God in covenant, the animal sacrifices cleansed the flesh (Heb 9:13a), while the sacrifice of Christ cleanses the conscious (Heb 9:14, 10:22). Other Pictures
1. Mosaic Covenant (cf. Exodus 24): Making of covenant—animal sacrifices made the first covenant by Moses (Heb 9:18-22), Christ's sacrifice makes the new, everlasting covenant by Christ (Heb 9:15; 10:29; 12:24; 13:20). 2. Water of Cleansing (cf. Numbers 19): Making of water for individual cleansing—the burnt sacrifice of a heifer, the ashes of which were used to create water for individual purifying of the flesh (Heb 9:13b; cf. Numbers ch. 19), the sacrifice of Christ cleanses from an evil conscious (Heb 9:14, 10:22). There were both corporate (at day of atonement) and individual (at other times) cleansing provided in the OT picture, but Christ's sacrifice is able to fulfill both purposes. Wrapping it Up
So the picture in question here in Heb 9:12 relates directly to the cleansing of the Most Holy Place. It performed the actual function of temporarily cleansing the mercy seat itself within the Most Holy Place (Lev 16:16-17. 20a, 33a) while also picturing the cleansing of the "heavenly things" (Heb 9:23) within the parallel to the Most Holy Place which is heaven itself. In Levitical work, to cleanse the Most Holy Place, one had to first enter. This is where Heb 9:12 comes in, it states Christ entered heaven through some relation to His blood. But when did Jesus enter heaven? After His resurrection is when He ascended (cf. John 20:17), which was the day of His resurrection and after His sacrifice was made. But does ascension and entry relate to an offering of blood in heaven? We know there is a function of the blood of Christ in cleansing heavenly things (Heb 9:23). By the Levitical picture, the cleansing occurs by entering into the Most Holy Place, so entry into heaven (Heb 9:24). The Levitical priest would do this both "by" means of blood and "with" blood. But does this mean Jesus brought His blood into heaven to do so exactly like the Levitical priests did? survey says...No! Hebrews explicitly indicates that "by Himself" Christ purged sins (Heb 1:3), that by His sacrifice sin is put away (Heb 9:26), that sin was carried upon Him during the offering of Himself (Heb 9:28), so that sin would be taken away (Heb 10:11-12). Christ's body (including His blood) was a prepared body for such a sacrifice (Heb 10:5-10), and His offering on the cross had a spiritual aspect involved in the offering (Heb 9:14). His death broke the veil of His mortal flesh (Heb 10:20), which veil had separated humanity from direct access to God in heaven (Heb 10:19; so now one can have hope through Jesus, Heb 6:19). By putting away sin during His sacrifice, Christ performed a cleansing work that is stated to have affected the "place" of heaven and the things within it. But the blood was "applied" to heaven on the basis of His sacrifice alone. When He entered heaven, He did so already "having obtained eternal redemption" from sin (Heb 9:12).* So when Christ ascended the morning of His resurrection to enter into heaven, the purging of sin had already been completed by the blood shed at His death. But He could not have entered back into heaven alive at all except "by His own blood" through making such a sacrifice for sin. |
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