Jesus is your Priest and King. His sacrifice gave you access to God.

Jesus is your Priest and King. His sacrifice gave you access to God.

“Take the silver and gold, make an elaborate crown [atarah], and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.” (Zech 6:11)

“For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.” (Heb 4:15)

“Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God” (Heb 4:14)

“We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens” (Heb 8:1)

“So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: You are My Son, today I have begotten You.” (Heb 5:5)

“For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens” (Heb 7:26)

“But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands” (Heb 9:11)

“Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.” (Heb 10:19-22)

“For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus” (1Tim 2:5)

“But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant” (Heb 8:6)

“And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.” (Heb 9:15)

“Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.” (Heb 12:24)

Reading: Zech 5-7; Heb 4