teaching · New Testament

The heavenly sanctuary

Hebrews 9

The tent Moses built was a copy; Christ enters the true one with his own blood.

DwellingPriesthoodSacrifice

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Priesthood

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grows out of · once for all

Hebrews reads the annual entry behind the veil as the shape of what Christ did once: he enters the true sanctuary not with the blood of goats but with his own.

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grows out of · a new and living way

Hebrews urges believers to enter the holy places by a new and living way opened through the curtain, 'that is, through his flesh'.

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points forward to · one argument

Hebrews runs sanctuary and priesthood together: a better priest ministering in a better tent under a better covenant.

Dwelling

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grows out of · a copy of the true

Moses was told to build 'according to the pattern shown you on the mountain'. Hebrews takes that instruction seriously: the tent was a scale model of a heavenly reality Christ has now entered.

Covenant

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grows out of · quoted in full

Hebrews quotes Jeremiah 31 at length and draws the conclusion that calling one covenant new makes the first obsolete.