I would also like to submit to this discussion ... that I believe that
Hebrews 9 is misapplied to this topic of Christ's glorification and understanding it.
Christ hung on the cross is the mercy seat.
Jesus said:
32But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself." 33He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
One theologian elaborates saying:
Quote:
Based on a superficial reading of Hebrews 9:7 and 12 -- some Bible teachers have proposed that Christ took His literal blood into heaven and sprinkled it upon the heavenly mercy seat.
However, a detailed study of the passages in question leads to the conclusion that Christ did not offer His blood upon the heavenly mercy seat, but that His sacrifice for sin was completed at the cross of Calvary.
The basis for much of this erroneous view of the blood of Christ can generally be traced to the teachings of the Socinians in the seventeenth century and John Albert Bengel (1687–1752), a German Lutheran Greek scholar and textual critic, in the eighteenth century.
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http://chafer.edu/journal/back_issues/v8n2_3.pdf