Priest at the right; pioneer’s joy is deity in flesh

Offering gifts and sacrifices is taken up; those called to priesthood do not perform the worships for themselves, but rather for God, to whom reverence from all creation is owed. And the one who ministers to God will not lie in equal measure with God. Then how, having become our high priest, does Christ sit at God’s right and have the throne of majesty in the heavens and is minister of the holies and of the tent above and true, bringing forward to himself and to the Father the worships from all? So there is one Christ and Son, yet he has also been styled priest and minister economically through the human.

“Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight and the easily besetting sin, let us run with endurance the contest lying before us, looking away to the pioneer and perfecter of faith, Jesus, who for the joy lying before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has sat at the right of the throne of God.” If Christ were a common human and not truly God in flesh and as we are, what joy does it say lay before him? Or how has he sat at the right of God’s throne? But indeed joy did lie before him; for he is in unending glory as God.