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“(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper…” Everything about the tabernacle service was looking forward to the time of Christ. The old arrangement did not provide a permanent solution for the sins of…

“By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing…” As long as the priests were limited to one day a year in their approach to the mercy seat of God the access to…

“…but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.” Leviticus warns against the high priest entering the Most Holy Place at any time he wanted to.…

  “These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties…” We must keep in mind that the tabernacle was divided into two separate sections or rooms. The first room was the Holy Place. The writer has given us a list of…

“Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.” If you went back to Exodus and read all the verses describing the Tabernacle and the items in it and how they were used and how often you fully understand…

“…having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding manna and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.” By the time of the New Covenant the items belonging to the Most…

“Behind the second curtain was a section called the Most Holy Place.” Moses was completely concerned with detail, our author is not. The temporary structure had to be made correctly by the Israelites in order to be pleasing to God and to serve Him. The permanent one, made in the…

“For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place.” We know from studying the Old Testament that the tabernacle was a rectangular divided into two uneven rooms. The first of those…

“Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.” What follows is a description of the earthly place of holiness. By describing it in detail the writer makes sure we don’t get confused about his subject. If the first covenant had regulations concerning where,…

“In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.” New replaces old. That is the way it is whether it is a car or a law. When we change one thing for another that…