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106 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
that he is also the mediator of a correspondingly
better covenant, which has been legally established
upon better promises ." Hebrews 8 :6, NW
"For there is one God, and one mediator between
God and men, a man Christ Jesus, who gave himself
a corresponding ransom for all-this is what
is to be witnessed to at its own particular times ."
-1 Timothy 2 :5,6, NW.
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Under the old Law covenant there was a
priesthood in the Levite family of Aaron, with
Aaron as high priest, and all the rest of the tribe
of Levi were made temple servants of this Aaronic
priesthood. These priests of the tribe of Levi
were all sinful descendants of Adam and under
the condemnation of death . Moreover, because
they were under the Mosaic law and were condemned
as violators of it, they were under the
curse of the Law. The animals they sacrificed on
the altar could not take away sins . So those priests
could not individually continue in office forever,
but died off and had to be replaced by new priests .
Certainly, then, the old Law covenant could not
make anything perfect, because of the weakness,
imperfection and sinfulness of the human flesh
contaminated by Adam's sin . So Jesus was made
Jehovah's High Priest for a better ministry, not
by being descended from the tribe of Levi and
family of Aaron, but by Jehovah's oath at Psalm
110 :4 concerning the priesthood like Melchizedek's.
By his perfect sacrifice of himself he proved
6 . How did Jesus become a better priest than Levite
priests?