Jesus Opens the Way to the Cosmic Mountain

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The Mountain E12 — If Jesus’ role as the promised mountaintop intercessor was unclear from the mountain stories in the Gospels, the author of the letter to the Hebrews wants to make it explicit. Drawing together imagery of Moses on Mount Sinai, the levitical priesthood, and the Old Testament sacrificial system, Hebrews declares that Jesus is the eternal high priest who can ascend to the holy mountain for the people through the blood of his own sacrifice. In this episode, Jon and Tim wrap up our series on The Mountain by exploring Jesus' ascension to the heavenly cosmic mountain, thereby opening the door for humanity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bible Project podcast. Today, we finish our conversations on the theme of the mountain.
0:12.1	In this series, we've learned that in the ancient world, mountains are transcendent,
0:17.6	overlapping spaces where heaven and earth connect. And the story of the Bible begins
0:22.0	with God planting a garden on a mountain, a place where humans are meant to connect to God's life
0:29.0	and spread blessing to all the land. But the humans fail to trust God's wisdom and as a result
0:36.2	are exiled down the mountain. As the story of the
0:39.4	Bible continues, God invites people to come back up the mountain. But everyone who does
0:45.9	fails to surrender their version of life and never learn how to connect to the true
0:51.2	life of God on the mountain. However, in our last conversation,
0:55.0	we walked through the Gospel of Matthew,
0:57.0	which shows seven mountain stories
1:00.0	where Jesus not only connects to God's divine presence,
1:04.0	but he's also revealed to be God's divine presence.
1:08.0	Today, we look at the letter to the Hebrews, which describes Jesus as
1:13.0	ascending one final cosmic mountain. To offer his body as a sacrifice of atonement on behalf of
1:22.5	all those dying at the bottom of the mountain. And the good news of Hebrews is that not only has Jesus ascended,
1:30.4	he has also opened up the life of the mountain for us.
1:33.6	God the sun went into heaven and opened up the portal back into Eden
1:37.8	so that the life of Eden is now available to those down the mountain like me.
1:42.6	So we can ascend the mountain, and we can do it with confidence.
1:47.5	Because when we ascend, we ascend with Jesus.
1:51.1	He is there sitting at the Father's right hand interceding for me right now.
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