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The author of Hebrews wrote his letter while the Temple was still standing. He did not know that the great building would be destroyed in just a matter of years. However, his letter to a group of Jewish Christians in Rome provided the answers to the questions that their Jewish family members would have been asking them repeatedly: "You have no priests in this new Christian religion. How do you have access to God?" Little did their Jewish friends and family know that they would face the same situation in a very short time. The desire for a "stand-in" or mediator between God and man is a real one and a good one. As Protestants, we rarely consider the importance of a priest. we do need a priest and we have the ultimate High Priest representing us before God - Jesus Christ. With Jesus as our Great High Priest, We have a great hope. That particular understanding is the goal of the author of Hebrews and that answer is the one he wanted his readers to be able to give to questioning Jews and pagans.