He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,

But to what angel did He ever say: "Just keep your seat at my right hand, until I make your foes a footstool for your feet"?

This is why we must pay much closer attention to the message once heard, to keep from drifting to one side.

For someone somewhere has solemnly said: "What is man that you should think of him, or the Son of Man that you should care for Him?

You made Him inferior to angels for a little while, yet you have crowned Him with glory and honor, you have set Him over the works of your hands,

and set at liberty those who all their lifetime had been subject to slavery because of their dread of death.

but Christ as a Son set over the house of God was faithful; and we are that house, if we keep up our courage and the joy that hope inspires to the very end.

So I was indignant with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have never come to know my ways.'

For we who have believed are being admitted to that rest, just as He has said: "As in my anger I took oath, they shall not be admitted to my rest," although God's works had been completed at the creation of the world.

No creature of His can escape God's sight, but everything is bare and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we have to give account.

So Christ too did not take upon Himself the glory of being appointed High Priest, but it was God who said: "You are my Son; I have today become your Father,"

For He of whom this is said became a member of a different tribe no member of which ever officiated at the altar.

For it is very clear that our Lord sprang from Judah, a tribe about which Moses said nothing as to priests.

for the Levitical priests were appointed without His taking an oath, but He with His oath, when He said to Him: "The Lord took oath and will not change, You are a priest forever" --

Now the main point in what I am saying is this: We have such a High Priest as this, one who has taken His seat at the right hand of God's majestic throne in heaven

as officiating Priest in that sanctuary, which is also the true tent of worship, which the Lord and not man set up.

and yet they officiate in a sanctuary that is a mere copy and shadow of the heavenly one, as Moses, when he was about to make the tent of worship, was warned, for, said He, "See to it that you make it all just like the pattern shown you on the mountain."

For, because He was dissatisfied with His people, He said: "'See; the time is coming,' says the Lord, 'When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,

and above the chest were the winged creatures, the symbols of God's glorious presence, overshadowing the mercy seat, of which I cannot now speak in detail.

So, when Christ was coming into the world, He said:

Then I said, 'See, I have come, just as the Scripture writes about me in the book, O God, to do your will.'"

Although at first He said, "You never wished or took delight in sacrifices and offerings, burnt-offerings and sin-offerings" -- all of which are repeatedly offered in accordance with the law --

He afterward said, "See, I have come to do your will." He is taking away the first to let the second take its place.

But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,

For we know who it was that said, "Vengeance belongs to me, I will pay back!" and again, "The Lord will be His people's judge."

of whom it had been said, "Through Isaac your offspring must be traced."

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Yes, to keep from growing weary and fainthearted, just think of the examples set by Him who has endured so great opposition aimed at Him by sinful men!

and so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am terrified and terror-stricken!"

You must have a turn of mind that is free from avarice; you must be content with what you have, for God Himself has said, "I will never fail you, I will never forsake you."