Philip Dampier's Blog

“So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.” Christ is the offering. He offered Himself. God offered Him as Abraham would have Isaac. They did not…

“And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes the judgment…” Death is the penalty of sin. Sin caused mankind to lose the right to the tree of life. Without the tree of life, mankind will die. All of them will die barring the…

“…for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” This is a powerful and profound verse. We often focus…

“Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own…” Not only was the place where Christ took the sacrifice much different than that of the old priesthood, but the blood He took there was totally different. The…

“For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.” So we see that the entire Old Testament system was merely a mock-up of what the ‘real…

“Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.” We have shadow and image, copies and originals and there is a great similarity and yet a vast difference in the two things.…

Early this morning, my good friend Ron Catalona claimed his victory in the name of Jesus. He fought a good fight and now he’s in the winner circle. Ron will be greatly missed as we were very close and spent time together almost every day. He died in his sleep…

“Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.” The evidence of the importance of blood is everywhere in the establishment of the covenant with Moses. Blood was used as the cleansing agent for all things related…

“And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.” We’re beginning to get the picture, aren’t we? Blood was needed to ratify the covenant and that blood was used on everything and everyone. That sprinkling of blood signified to…

“…saying, ‘This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.’” The blood commanded for them was the blood of animals. They had no choice in this particular use of the blood as it was commanded by God. When God made the covenant with Israel, He foresaw the…