Hebrews for Everyone

so that the entire world,

thus established the new covenant, in which sins have been fully and finally dealt with.

Some of the temporary roadways are still standing, but you shouldn’t mistake them for the real thing. His readers need to know that they can now travel by the main highway straight into the heart of the city. If anyone tells them they should still use the old roads, the answer is not that those old roads were a bad thing, but that they were a good

properly dealt with and forgiveness not only promised but accomplished.

could be ‘put into proper order’ (verse 10).

In Jesus the great high priest, God has put things into proper order at last.

First, he sees Jesus as the pioneer:

The point of the present passage is that Jesus, the older brother of a much larger family, could and did come to where his siblings were, wallowing in the land of sin and death. He identified with them, shared their fate, and thereby rescued them from it.

The second element is that Jesus has done all this specifically through his death.