20/01/2025

The writer of the letter to the Hebrews knows Jesus to be the supreme perfection of the High Priesthood. The Temple priests of his day were responsible for the Temple Rites. They act as intermediaries between the people and IAMIAM.

They slaughter the animal sacrifices and use the blood and burnt flesh to sanctify themselves and the people.

All around them in the Nations, the heathen were doing the same thing to appease the life-less objects of their own creation that they called gods.

Jesus knew that his people Jew, Greek and we their descendants could not live our lives dependent on our own freedom alone. He knew that we would get ourselves lost in the material wonderland of his creation and that we needed to understand more of his being than had his chosen people who had lost sight of him in their absorption into the joys of their own intelligence and beings in this world.

In the Annunciation to Mary he reveals himself to be IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and it is to confirm this that Jesus lives his life of loving example completely for us by becoming the completion of all blood sacrifices and teaches us that we can become holy as he is by focussing on our inner-beings, our souls and their worship of him.

The Church he founded on Peter soon became as wrapped up in its own self as its predecessors the Jews had ever been and also became just as tangled up in this world as Israel had also always been.

Although we have to doubt the legalistic priesthood of  all the Christian Churches (by their deeds you shall know them) we can rest in the arms of our Saviour outstretched to embrace the whole world as he utters his last words to Mary and John. This is the kingdom that is not of this world, the completely spiritual "New Holy Family", Jesus' Church of Love which will be with us till the end of time.