Yakoub's Confusion!

Heb 10:2 ..because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Let’s imagine that Yakoub is an Israelite from the days of the Old Covenant. On the Day of Atonement, Yakoub is participating in and watching the rituals being performed at the temple. The High priest kills a bull and a goat and enters the Holy of Holies and sprinkles blood for the covering of sins. Then he takes another goat and transfers the sins of the entire nation to that goat by laying his hands on it. They confess their sins and this goat is driven away to the wilderness never to come back again. Now Yakoub has been fasting for this event. He goes away happy that his sins have been taken care of. But this forgiveness that he received lasts only for a year. The next year on the same day, he has to participate in this annual fasting prayer, where he has to confess his sins again, the substitutionary sacrificial animals are slain and the scapegoat is driven away.

The reason this had to be done over and over and over again was because the blood of bulls and goats could only "cover" sins and not take them away completely (Heb 10:4). Yakoub thought to himself, "If there was a perfect sacrifice that would completely take away all the sins that I would commit in my lifetime, then there would be no need for this annual sacrifice year after year. One sacrifice would take away all my sins and make me clean and perfect before God forever. I would never have to think about sins ever again and walk with a guilty conscience."(Heb 10:1-4)

Fast forward to the days of John the Baptist. Beholding Jesus he says, "Behold the lamb of God that “takes away” the sins of the world." Seems like Yakoub's dream is about to become a reality. The writer of Hebrews hammers away at the truth that Jesus offered Himself as "ONE sacrifice for all time". Why not over and over again like the old covenant sacrifices? Because by ONE sacrifice He completely took away our lifetime of sins, removed guilt and gave us a pure conscience, and made us clean and perfect in the sight of God. This is what Yakoub has been longing for. He is now happy that the perfect sacrifice has been made once and for all.

Now let’s fast forward to the modern church. Imagine Yakoub attends one of our services. He watches people fasting and moaning and groaning and confessing their sins. He begins to scratch his head. The scene reminds him of his old days when he used to do the same thing pondering over all his rotten sins while waiting for the animal to be slain on his behalf. He says, "Something is wrong with the picture here. Jesus' sacrifice was supposed to deal with the sin issue once and for all. People were supposed to be forgiven once forever by His ONE time sacrifice. People were never supposed to be conscious of sins anymore. People were supposed to be made clean and perfect. I guess the sacrifice of Jesus only “covered sins” and did not “take them away” completely. I guess the sacrifice of Jesus did not do its job. If the sacrifice of Jesus was 100% effective then the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins!(Heb 10:2) I used to only have an annual reminder of sins; these people seem to be having a monthly, weekly and, in most cases, a daily reminder of sins. My forgiveness by the blood of bulls and goats lasted for one full year; these people's forgiveness seems to last only till the next time they mess up. I guess the blood of bulls and goats was superior than that of Jesus. What's wrong with this picture?"