Steven Avery
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colossians 1:20 Hebrews 9:22 "ron wyatt"
The Church Fathers don't seem to believe that the Lord did any such thing after His death on the cross. Cyril of Jerusalem refers to Hebrews 9:12 in his explanation of the Lord's last words, It is finished [John 19:30]:"So, how should Heb. 9:12 be understood? Did the Lord Jesus Christ bring his blood into heaven and offer it on the mercy seat in the heavenly Temple?"
Unless one speculates that somehow the Lord bilocated during his last moments, what Hebrews is describing took place as the Lord died on the cross.Having drunk wine mingled with myrrh, and vinegar, after receiving which, He said, It is finished. For the mystery has been fulfilled; the things that are written have been accomplished; sins are forgiven. For Christ being come an High-Priest of the good things to came, by the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, nor yet by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, entered in once far all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption; for if the bland of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh, how much more the blood of Christ? [Hebrews 9:11-14]. And again, Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh[Hebrews 10:10]. And because His flesh, this veil, was dishonoured, therefore the typical veil of the temple was rent asunder, as it is written, And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom[Matthew 27:51]; for not a particle of it was left; for since the Master said, Behold, your house is left unto you desolate [Matthew 22:38], the house brake all in pieces.
These things the Saviour endured, and made peace through the Blood of His Cross, for things in heaven, and things in earth [Colossians 1:20].
Catechetical Lectures, Lecture XIII