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(vs 1) "Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a WORLDLY sanctuary. (vs 2-4) For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; which had the golden censer, and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant (the ten commandments)... (vs 7 & 9) But into the second (the Most Holy place) went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people... Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the sacrifice perfect, as pertaining to the conscience... (vs 11) But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle (Christ ministers in the heavenly sanctuary which the earthly tabernacle represented), not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building... (vs 13-15) For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause, He is the Mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the trangressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance... (vs 245) For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are THE FIGURES of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us..." Hebrews 9 (select verses) |