according to the order of
Melchisedec (v:10). We gaze into the opened heavens and we see Jesus
who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of
death, crowned with glory and honor (ii:9). Now a summary of the
things of which we are speaking is: We have such a one high priest
who has sat down at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in
the heavens; minister of the holy places and the true tabernacle,
which the Lord has pitched and not man (vii:1). He has a priesthood
unchangeable. Whence also He is able to save to the uttermost those
who approach by Him to God, always living to intercede for them
(viii:25). For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with
hands, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in
the presence of God for us (ix:24). But, He having offered one
sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at the right hand of God,
waiting from henceforth until His enemies are made His footstool
(x:12). Such and much more is His "to-day." All power in heaven and
on earth is given to Him.

His "forever" will begin when He leaves the Father's throne and when
He is brought into the world again, when all things are to be
subjected under His feet and He will be in the fullest exercise of
His Melchisedec priesthood, a priest upon His throne. And in all,
yesterday, in the days of His humiliation, to-day upon the Father's
throne as our advocate and priest, in His glorious future, upon His
own throne He is the same, the mighty Jehovah, who changeth not, the
Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last. He is the unmovable
rock, no storms, no changes can move the rock upon which we stand,
and though heaven and earth pass away neither He, the living,
eternal Word, nor His written Word will change.

His power, His grace, His love, His patience, is kindness, His
sympathy is ever the same towards His own beloved people, who have
trusted in Him and share His life. Having loved His own, who are in
the world, and loved them to the end (John xiii:1); and that end is
eternity. In the beginning of the last book of the Bible, we hear
the voice of the Holy Spirit in the church, worshipping Him, in that
matchless outburst "Unto Him that loved us and has washed us from
our sins in His own blood." But it does not say "loved," but it
reads "Unto Him that _loveth_ us." The love He has for His own is an
abiding, an unchanging love. Oh to think more of that love, that
changeless love, which passe