The Earthly and the Heavenly Sanctuaries Hebrews 9.1-22
Now even the first covenant had its own rules and regulations for divine worship, and it had a sanctuary [but one] of this world. [Exod 25.10-40] 2For a tabernacle (tent) was erected, in the outher division or compartment of which were the lampstand and the table with [its loaves of] the showbread set forth. [This portion] is called the Holy Place. [Lev 24.5,6]. 3But [inside] beyond the second curtain or veil, [there stood another] tabernacle [division] known as the Holy of Holies. [Exod 26.31-33] 4It had the golden altar of incense and the ark (chest) of the covenant, covered over with wrought gold. This [ark] contained a golden jar which held the manna and the rod of Aaron that sprouted and the [two stone] slabs of the covenant [bearing the Ten Commandments]. [Exod 16.32-34; 30.1-6; Num 17.8-10]
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These arrangements having thus been made, the priests enter [habitally] into the outer division of the tabernacle in performance of their ritual acts of worship.11
But [the appointed time came] when Christ (the Messiah) appeared as a High Priest of the better things that have come and are to come. [Then] through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with [human] hands, that is, not a part of this material creation, 12He went once for all into the [Holy of] Holies [of heaven], not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves [by which to make reconciliation between God and Man], but His own blood, having found and secured a complete redemption (an everlasting release for us). 13For is [the mere] sprinkling of unholy and defiled persons with blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a burnt heifer is sufficient for the purification of the body, [Lev 16.6,16; Num 19.9,17,18] 14how much more surely shall the blood of Christ, Who by virtue of [His] eternal Spirit [His own preexistent divine personality] has offered Himself as an umblemished sacrifice to God, purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the [ever] living God?15
[Christ, the Messiah] is therefore the Negotiator and Mediator of an [entirely] new agreement (testament, covenant), so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance ─ since a death has taken place which rescues and delivers and redeems them from the transgressions committed under the [old] first agreement. 16For where there is a [last] will and testament involved, the death of the one who made it must be established, 17for a will and testament is valid and takes effect only at death, since it has no force or legal power as long as the one who made it is alive.
Christ's Sacrifice Takes Away Sin Hebrews 9.23-28
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By such means, therefore, it was necessary for the [earthly] copies of the heavenly things to be purified, but the actual heavenly things themselves [required far] better and nobler sacrifices then these. 28Even so it is that Christ, having been offered to take upon Himself and bear as a burden the sins of many once and once for all, will appear a second time, not to carry any burden of sin nor to deal with sin, but to bring to full salvation those who are [eagerly, constantly, and patiently] waiting for and expecting Him.| Sign Our Guestbook | View Our Guestbook |
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