"Now, however, JESUS enjoys a much higher ministry, in being the mediator of a better Covenant, founded on better promises. If all had been perfect in the first Covenant, there would have been no need for another one. Yet GOD sees defects when HE says:
The days are coming--it is the word of the LORD--when I will draw up a new Covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
It will not be like the Covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. They did not keep MY Covenant, and so I MYSELF have forsaken them, says the LORD.
But this is the Covenant that I will make with the people of Israel in the days to come: I will put MY laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their GOD and they will be MY people.
None of them will have to teach one another or say to each other: Know the LORD, for they will know ME from the least to the greatest. I will forgive their sins and no longer remember their wrongs.
Here, we are being told of a new Covenant; which means, that the first one had become obsolete, and what is obsolete, and aging, is soon to disappear." - Hebrews 8:6-13
(JESUS enjoys a much higher ministry. Our liturgical service on earth is glorious inasmuch as we try to associate with the perfect praise of GOD in HIS "heaven." It is the sunshine of our week, but it cannot be our essential duty unless we have received a special charism. Here below, we must follow JESUS who did not envy the priests of HIS time but labored and died to reconcile humans with one another and with GOD.
Those who wish to meet JESUS in real life where truth must be observed will be easily accused of meddling in politics [which is not a sin]. However it is a fact that JESUS did not die to defend religious practice, but to show that it is not what is most important. HIS "baptism" was a real death, likewise HIS "Eucharist": it is not the case of a beautiful liturgy, in which no one [of course] risks life.)
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