The Atonement of Our True High Priest
Χριστος ανεστι! Christ is risen! Indeed, Christ our High Priest has died so we may die to sin and risen that we may rise to eternal life. He has redeemed us: He has atoned for our sins. Under the Old Covenant, the Jewish High Priest prayed his hardest and tried all that he could to atone for the sins of himself, his house, and his people, Israel, yet he still had to try to make atonement year after year on Yom Kippur. The true High Priest, Jesus Christ, had only to suffer once for our atonement, and He has attained all. In reading the accounts of the Jewish High Priest's preparations for atonement, one can possibly see a type of our true atonement through the Son of God. As it says in the Mishnah , "He sanctified his hands and his feet and stripped off his clothes...He went down and immersed himself, came up and dried himself. They brought him white garments; he put them on and sanctified his hands and his feet" ( Yoma 3:6). Do we not ...