'without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.' (Hebrews 7:3 NKJV)
This fact, the unending of our relationship with God the Father through Jesus the Son, is most often given the proper Scriptural description of 'eternity' with never a thought of how much of a change this was to the status of man before God. It doesn't take much time studying the days of the public ministry of Christ to realize that He had at least as much resistance from the Jews themselves, who'd been waiting for the Messianic prophecy to be fulfilled for almost four thousand years, as He did from the Gentiles. A lot of the Jewish 'establishments' resistance was over this very issue, the changes to how God was worshipped and how man worshipped. The whole concept of not having a new bunch of priests every ten or twenty or thirty years wasn't welcomed. The priests, and their supporters, didn't want to give up their positions, and when the time came to step down, they already knew who would be taking their seat, which most of the time would be a blood relative. This is the same situation we have going on today in our political systems, with the same abuse and corruption, and with the same resistance to any type of change. Also, just as happened in the land of Israel and beyond back in what we call Biblical times, every time there was someone new in the limelight, they came with promises of how things were going to be better than before. Things will be changing though, but not in any way that those of the world will like. When we have people, who are supposed to be our elected representatives, who have no idea what the shrinking middle-class, or growing lower-class (however you want to say it), lives with on a daily basis telling us what we need, we have major problems.
I remember several years ago when the 'Big Four' oil producers were in front of some committee in Washington D.C. and one of the politicians asked one of them what they should tell the American people about the cost of gasoline. The guy from the oil company started his answer with the assurance that he knew exactly what the American consumer felt like every time they pulled into the fuel pumps. The politician interrupted with the remark that anybody who makes tens of millions of dollar a year in salary has no idea what the average American felt like.
The moral of my little story here is that when our newly elected Representative [before God] accepted the position, and let's never forget that He had that choice to make, before He said a word, or undertook an action, He lived the life that those He represents lived. He was cold and hungry. He felt thirst and pain. He suffered emotional anguish and frustration. Let's not make an all too common mistake and say, "If He were here, He would do this or that..." Let's get it right and say, "Because He is here...."
'by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing. But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered Himself.' (Hebrews 7:22-27 NKJV)
What it all boils down to is that Christ, as each and every ones of ours Representative before God, eliminated the space, or gap, between us and God. When He stood before man, He did so by choice, which is another things we loose sight of sometimes. When we come to Him in prayer, needing to be counseled and comforted, and we need someone to understand what we're going through, He does. He lived our lives, He felt our hunger and pain, and that's the only way He could stand before God as our Representative. We know that the ways of the world are contrary to the ways of God. While a lot of our worldly politicians talk about getting out and meeting the people, name me one who got out and bled and died for the people.
We are always hearing someone say that "We [I] know just how you feel" when there is no way they possibly could. So who do you choose to rely on, someone who only says they know how your life is, or Someone who really does know?
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