The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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XLIX.
THE FORERUNNER WITHIN THE VEIL.
VI. 18. That we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for
refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us ;
19. Which we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and stedfast
1 and entering into that which is within the veil ;
20. Whither as a Forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a High
Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
IN chap, v., speaking of the priesthood of Jesus,
the writer
had twice cited the words of Psalm ex., with its prophecy of a
Priest after the order of Melchizedek (v. 6, 10). But he feared
that the Hebrews were, by reason of sloth, too far back in the
Christian life to be able to receive this higher teaching.
It was
on this account he interposed his words of reproof and warning.
From these he had passed to exhortation and encouragement,
and is now ready to address himself to what is the central
teaching of the Epistle. There are specially two great heavenly
mysteries he is commissioned to unfold. The one, that of the
heavenly priesthood of Christ ;
the other, that of the heavenly
sanctuary in which He ministers, and into which He gives us
access.
In the two last verses of our sixth chapter we have the
transition to the new section, and in it these mysteries are both
mentioned as the hope set before us. Hope
enters within the
veil ;
it finds there the Forerunner, who has entered for us,
Jesus a High Priest, after the order of Melchizedek.