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

so that the entire world,

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

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

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

The main point to which Hebrews now comes – in one sense, this is the very heart of the letter – is that God has all along had a master plan for how the world would be put to rights. He has envisaged from the beginning the way in which the wickedness and frailty of his human creatures would be dealt with,

the third element, which introduces another major theme of the whole letter. In suffering and dying on behalf of his people, Jesus has become the true high priest who makes atonement for their sins.

properly dealt with and forgiveness not only promised but accomplished.

He has