<p>10:20 <em>By the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh</em>- The Lord Jesus inaugurated the &ldquo;new and living way&rdquo; for us <em>dia</em>, on account of, &ldquo;his flesh&rdquo; (Heb. 10:20). It was exactly because of &ldquo;the flesh&rdquo; of the Lord&rsquo;s humanity that He opened up a new way of life for us. Because He was so credibly and genuinely human, and yet perfect, the way of His life becomes compellingly the way we are to take, and enables every man to become &quot;in Him&quot;. Once we grasp this, we can better understand the anathema which John calls down upon those who deny that Jesus was &ldquo;in the flesh&rdquo; (2 Jn. 7-9). We are cleansed by an ever 'freshly slain' sacrifice (Heb. 10:20 Gk.). The cross is ongoing; the Lord's blood is &quot;new&quot;, fresh, not coagulated, unlike the blood sprinkled each Yom Kippur which was dead and dried.</p><p>On one level, the atonement can be logically explained. On another, it cannot be. The veil, an eloquent symbol of the flesh of Jesus, was made of mixed fibres, something which was otherwise forbidden under the Law. This perhaps reflected how the Lord&rsquo;s nature and the atonement God wrought through Him was and is in some ways contradictory, to human eyes.</p><p>Through His death, the veil was torn open, so that we might enter into the Holiest &ldquo;by the blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us... through the veil, that is to say the sacrificing of his flesh&quot; (Heb. 10:19-22 Gk.). This assumes that the followers of Jesus are already in the position of the High Priest standing in the Holy Place, but through what He opened through the cross, each of us must now go through into the Most Holy. And what was the purpose of the High Priest&rsquo;s entry? To obtain forgiveness <em>for others, to mediate for them</em>, just as the Lord Jesus did on the cross and continues to do for us. His cross compels us to not merely passively contemplate our own salvation, but to go deeper into the very presence of God in our ministry <em>for others</em>. Yet the High Priest had to cleanse himself meticulously; access had been limited to the Most Holy as a result of inadequate preparation by some in the past (Lev. 16:1,2). The Lord&rsquo;s death opened up the veil, for us to pass through with the utmost effort made by us in personal sanctification, in order to further God&rsquo;s glory in the salvation of others. We cannot simply refuse to enter, turn away from the torn veil. To do so is to turn away from what the cross has achieved, and to place ourselves outside its scope. We must go forward, go onwards into the presence of God to replicate in essence the Saviour&rsquo;s work, with the awed and humble spirit of the High Priest entering the Holiest on the day of atonement. He would surely have carefully analysed his motives, as to <em>why</em> he was passing through that veil, and whether he was sufficiently personally sanctified for the work he was doing. He would have been comforted by knowing that his motives were solely for the glorification of his God in the redemption for his people which he was seeking to obtain.</p>