OUR FATHER WHOSE SON'S MISSION WAS WRITTEN OF IN THE SCROLL

The writer of the book of Hebrews chapter 10 verses 1 -  10, continues the discussion of the relationship between the shadows that the law represented and the actual things of heaven.

The law, having provided for sacrifices needed also to provide for repeated sacrifies because the sacrifices did not make those being sacrificed for perfect and the proof of this was that they needed to repeat the sacrices. The blood of bulls and goats, being shadows of an ultimate sacrifice, could not take away sins from men.

The writer points to Psalm 40 verses 6 - 8 which fortells of the arrival of the Son of God who would say that God did not take pleasure in the sacrifices but that He (Jesus) found Himself written of in the scroll and that He was ready to do the will of God with the body that was prepared for Him.

This revealed the intention of God to displace the original animal sacrifices  provided for under the law with a sacrifice of the Son of God whose sacrifice would be eternal and based on this, a santified  people would be established under a new eternal covenant.

 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:

“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,

But a body You have prepared for Me.

6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin

You had no pleasure.

7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—

  In the volume of the book it is written of Me - To do Your will, O God.’ ”

8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Amen.

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