“There is no need for a continual priesthood because there is no continuing sacrifice.”
Hebrews 9:24-28 24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 NOR WAS IT TO OFFER HIMSELF REPEATEDLY, AS THE HIGH PRIEST ENTERS THE HOLY PLACES EVERY YEAR WITH BLOOD NOT HIS OWN,
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Christ’s one time “BLOODY” Sacrifice. The same sacrifice in
an UNBLOODY manner is offered to the Father in Heaven AND on earth in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
The Mass is prefigured from the Old Testament, The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the “continual sacrifice” spoken of in the Book of Daniel. It is the “clean oblation” the Eucharistic Sacrifice prophesied in Malachi 1:11.
In the New Covenant, Judaism and Protestantism have no “continual sacrifice”, no priesthood, seee...only found in the true faith.
Malachi 1:11
For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.
Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins.
A bloodless sacrifice is USELESS.
Jesus is currently sitting at the right hand of the Father waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool.
He is NOT in heaven being sacrificed.
Holy Spirit inspired Scripture tells us that.
So I either believe the Catholic church which tells us that Jesus is being continually offered as a sacrifice in heaven, or I believe the Holy Spirit inspired Scripture that Jesus died once for all and is now seated in heaven at God's right hand waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool .
It's kind of a no brainer there. I KNOW God can't lie.
The ONLY sacrifice that we Christians offer to Almighty God is our sacrifice of PRAISE and we don't need a priest to do that:
Hebrews 13:15
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.
The BLOODY sacrifice of Christ FOR our sins is DONE. There is NO MORE A NEED for a blood sacrifice. When you believed in Christ and received Him as your savior, your sins were blotted out and God says he will remember them NO MORE. He does not judge us according to our sins ANYMORE. We stand holy and blameless before Him because of Christ. We praise him because of what HIS grace did for us. The sacrifice of praise is what God wants from us - NOT a replay of Christ's sacrifice. Believing on Him is receiving him is eating and drinking him is being born again is being saved for eternity. THIS is the TRUE faith!