looking at Jesus
Jesus sat down in heaven (two gracEmails) The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the most gospel-packed yet least-studied books of the New Testament. It focuses squarely on Jesus Christ as our high priest and personal representative before the Father. Jesus is indeed "Our Man In Heaven." Our greatest need is to keep need is to keep our eyes fixed firmly on Jesus. Three times the author of Hebrews urges us to do just that.
"What does it mean that Jesus sat down at the right hand of God in heaven? It seems the New Testament mentions that several times."
Jesus entered heaven for us The following is an excerpt from my booklet titled One Life, Death and Judgment, which summarizes the gospel as found in the Epistle to the Hebrews.
holding the world lightlyWe live during an interim on God's calendar, a defined but unknown period of time that began . . . when Jesus was enthroned at God's right hand in heaven and will continue until the last enemy, death, has been destroyed (Psalm 110:1). It is simultaneously the period of heaven's reception of Jesus, which will end with the redemptive restoration of all things spoken by the ancient prophets (Acts 3:20-21). In both respects, we live between the Already and the Not Yet.