(9) Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will [that will was to become the perfect and ultimate sacrifice], O
God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second". (Heb 10:5-9)
The original agreement with national Israel was set apart and sealed by the blood of sacrificial animals. The
new agreement is also set apart and sealed by blood – the blood of Y‘shua:
(10) ―By the which will we are sanctified [i.e., set apart] through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all.
(11) And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins:
(12) But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God".
(Heb 10:10-12) (See also 2 Cor 5:21.)
Y‟shua is the perfect and final sacrifice for sin:(13) ―From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
(14) For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
(15) Whereof the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
(16) This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into
their hearts, and in their minds will I write them". (Heb 10:13-16)
Here, we see a new covenant that is established by a blood sacrifice.
(17) ―And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
(18) Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin". (Heb 10:17-18)
Once Y‘shua died by offering His blood (His life), there could not be a more valuable sacrifice made;
therefore, those who have this sacrifice applied as payment for their sins obtain forgiveness.
―Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus". (Heb 10:19)
Notice it is by the blood of Y‘shua that we are able to come into the Father's presence. Y‘shua‘s blood makes
this possible because his life was in his blood, which he freely gave as an offering for our sins. If this were
not so, there would still be no access to YHWH except through a physical priesthood and the sacrificial
worship system. If Y‘shua did not die from the loss of his blood, all of the Scriptures that speak of our being
justified and having access to the Father through his blood would be meaningless.
Eph 2:13-18 KJV:
―But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of Christ". (Eph 2:13
KJV)
Here, Paul speaks to those who are non-Israelites: people who had no promise before Y‘shua died and was
resurrected.
(14) ―For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition
between us;
(15) Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances;
for to make in himself of two one new man, so making peace". (Eph 2:14-15)
With the giving of his life-blood, Y‘shua opened the way for Israelites as well as non-Israelites called to
salvation during the Gospel age to access Avinu the Father without a sacrificial system of worship, which had
been necessary under the former agreement with national Israel.
Y‘shua abolished the necessity of animal sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin and for justification; because His
blood sacrifice was more valuable than any animal life, including human life. His sacrifice was a perfect
sacrifice.
(16) ―And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity
thereby:
(17) And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were near.
(18) For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father". (Eph 2:16-18)