![]() ![]() Jesus lets us see how He’s always been there, eternally holding humanity as the Father writes His redemptive story. I see these connections across the entire narrative of Scripture as evidence of how completely fulfilling Christ’s salvific work is. The cloud of God’s presence takes the living, resurrected Jesus up into heaven to sit down “at the right hand of God” (Hebrews 10:12). Remember the pillar of cloud leading God’s people out of Egypt (Exodus 13:21) and the cloud that settled over the first tabernacle (Exodus 33:9)? That’s the visual I’m reminded of when I read Luke’s account of Jesus’s ascension in Acts: “After he had said this, he was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight” (v.9). ![]() When Luke writes about Jesus’s ascension in Acts, he says, “After he had said this, he was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight” (Acts 1:9). He did this once for all time when he offered himself” (v.27). The Old Testament priests continually offered sacrifices for sin, but Hebrews says of Jesus, “He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do-first for their own sins, then for those of the people. When Hebrews 7:26 says, “For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens,” we can remember the places in Leviticus and Deuteronomy where God spoke about imperfect priests who temporarily made a way for God’s people to be in relationship with Him. Today’s Scripture is a great opportunity for us to hunt treasure together. As we do this, we find a million little clues leading us to the true treasure, Jesus Himself. We trace storylines like the dots on a map, hunting for the hope of God’s great restoration. When I listen to that soundtrack, you might as well grab me a parrot and an eye-patch, because I suddenly think I am as capable of taking on the high seas as the ever-witty Captain Jack Sparrow.Īs Bible readers, we get to go on a treasure hunt in our own way. I often listen to film scores when I write, and a never-skip on my curated soundtrack playlist is the theme from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean. ![]()
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