presence of God and comes before God’s throne, just as the high priest entered the inner sanctuary on earth on the day of atonement and sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice before the ark of the covenant.43 Where the two part company, however, is when Jesus sits down on the throne. Not only did the levitical high priest not do this; it would, of course, have been unthinkable for him to have done so. Hebrews clearly sees this difference in terms of the finality and permanence of Christ’s atoning