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SECOND PRESENCE OF LIFE'S AGENT 219
shall give is my flesh in behalf of the life of the
world."-John 6 :51, NW.
6 To be born in flesh was a humiliation for the
heavenly Son of God, since man is created a little
lower than angels. Psalm 8 :5 ; Hebrews 2 :9 But
for Jesus' absolute faithfulness to the death on the
torture stake God glorified Jesus by resurrecting
him an immortal, incorruptible spirit . As such
Jesus could ascend to God, whose face no man of
flesh and blood could see with the possibility of
remaining alive . But as a divine spirit Jesus the
High Priest appeared in God's presence with the
value or merit of his sacrifice of perfect blood
and flesh. This he presented as a sin offering to
God. "Christ entered, not into a holy place made
with hands which is a copy of the reality, but into
heaven itself, now to appear before the person
of God for us ."
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On the following day of Pentecost his faithful
disciples on earth began to receive the benefits of
this surrender of his ransom sacrifice to God in
heaven. So High Priest Jesus could never take
that ransom sacrifice back again. Having given
up his flesh for the life of the world he could never
assume it again and become a man once more .
For that basic reason his return and his second
presence could never be in the flesh and blood
which he sacrificed once for all time . Nor is his
return in flesh necessary, for he does not return
to die again for sins . So he returns without flesh
6. How was he thus glorified? How could he serve as
High Priest?
7. Why could he not return in flesh? Why is that not
necessary?