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sacred or footstool?

Hebrews 10:1-18 (JDV)

Hebrews 10:1 You see, the law has only a shadow of the good things about to come and not the reality itself of those things. It can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.
Hebrews 10:2 Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of failures?
Hebrews 10:3 But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of failures year after year.
Hebrews 10:4 You see, it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away failures.
Hebrews 10:5 That is why – as he was coming into the universe, he said: You did not desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.
Hebrews 10:6 You did not delight in whole burnt offerings and failure offerings.
Hebrews 10:7 Then I said, “See – it is written about me in the scroll – I have come to do your will, O God.”
Hebrews 10:8 After he says above, You did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and failure offerings (which are offered according to the law),
Hebrews 10:9 he then says, See, I have come to do your will. He takes away the first to establish the second.
Hebrews 10:10 By this will, we have been made sacred through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
Hebrews 10:11 Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away failures.
Hebrews 10:12 But this man, after offering one sacrifice for failures forever, sat down at the right hand of God.
Hebrews 10:13 He is now waiting until his enemies are made his footstool.
Hebrews 10:14 You see, by one offering he has perfected forever those who are made sacred.
Hebrews 10:15 The Sacred Breath also testifies to us about this. You see after he says:
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, the Lord says, I will put my laws on their hearts and write them on their minds,
Hebrews 10:17 and I will never again remember their failures and lawless acts.
Hebrews 10:18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for failure.

sacred or footstool?

This passage speaks of all humanity in two categories. There are those who have been made sacred by Christ’s death on the cross. His blood was the only sacrifice needed for that change. Those have been perfected forever.

The other category includes all those who refuse to accept the death of Christ as their atoning sacrifice. Those still await a change as well. They will have to suffer death for their own sins since they have no high priest to make atonement for them. These will be made a footstool for the victorious and glorious Savior when he comes.

What fate do you prefer?