Now indeed even the first 1 covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary. Exo 25:8Heb 9:10-11Heb 8:2Lev 18:30Lev 18:3-4Lev 22:9Col 2:8Ezk 43:11 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread, which is called the Holy Place. Exo 40:4Lev 24:5-8Exo 26:35Exo 26:33Exo 40:18-20Exo 40:22-24Exo 25:23Exo 25:8-9 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, Exo 26:31-33Exo 40:21Exo 40:3Mat 27:511Ki 8:6Heb 9:82Ch 3:14Heb 10:19-20 having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; Num 17:102Ch 5:10Exo 26:33Exo 40:3Lev 16:12Exo 16:32-34Exo 34:29Exo 40:20-21 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail. Lev 16:2Num 7:891Ki 8:6-7Exo 25:17-22Lev 16:13Psa 80:1Psa 99:11Ch 28:11
Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, Num 28:3Exo 27:21Luk 1:8-112Ch 26:16-19Dan 8:11Exo 30:7-8 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people. Lev 16:34Lev 5:18Exo 30:10Heb 10:19-20Heb 7:27Heb 9:24-25Hos 4:12Isa 28:7 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing. Jhn 14:6Heb 3:7Eph 2:18Heb 10:19-22Jhn 10:92Pe 1:21Gal 3:8Heb 9:3 This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect, 1Pe 3:21Heb 5:1Heb 10:11Psa 51:16-19Rom 5:14Gal 3:21Heb 10:1-4Heb 11:19 being only (with foods and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. Col 2:16Eph 2:15Heb 7:16Lev 11:2-47Deu 21:6Deu 23:11Eph 1:10Exo 30:19-21
But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, Heb 9:23-242Co 5:1Act 17:24-25Heb 8:1-2Heb 10:11Jn 5:20Act 7:48Heb 2:17 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. Heb 10:41Pe 1:18-19Heb 9:15Eph 1:7Heb 5:9Heb 9:24-26Gal 3:13-14Lev 9:15 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh, Num 19:2-21Lev 16:14-16Act 15:91Pe 1:222Ch 30:19Psa 51:7Num 8:7 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Heb 10:221Pe 1:191Jn 1:7Heb 9:121Pe 2:241Pe 3:18Tit 2:141Pe 4:2 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. Rom 3:24-26Rom 8:30Heb 9:12Rom 8:28Heb 10:361Ti 2:5Heb 12:241Pe 3:18 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. Jas 2:101Co 15:22Rom 5:12Rom 6:23 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives. Gen 48:21Gal 3:15Jhn 14:27 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. Exo 24:3-8Heb 8:7-9Heb 9:14Heb 9:22Exo 12:22 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, Exo 24:5-11Ezk 36:25Heb 10:4Heb 9:12Num 19:18Num 19:61Pe 1:2Lev 14:4-7 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.” 2 Exo 24:8Mat 26:28Heb 13:20Deu 29:12Zec 9:11Jos 9:6
He sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood. Lev 8:15Lev 8:19Exo 29:12Exo 29:36Ezk 43:18-26Lev 16:14-19Lev 9:18Lev 9:8-9 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. Lev 17:11Lev 6:7Lev 4:35Lev 5:18Lev 14:14Lev 14:6Lev 5:10Lev 4:20
It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 1Pe 1:19-21Heb 10:4Heb 9:14Heb 9:9-12Heb 9:24Heb 8:5Rev 5:9Col 2:17 For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; Heb 12:2Heb 9:11-12Heb 9:23Heb 8:2Jhn 16:28Act 3:21Col 3:2Eph 1:20-22 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, Heb 9:12Heb 9:7Heb 9:14Heb 10:19Heb 9:26Exo 30:10Heb 10:10Lev 16:2-34 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 1Pe 1:20Heb 9:12Heb 1:21Pe 3:18Heb 10:4Mat 25:341Jn 3:51Pe 2:24 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, 2Co 5:10Ecc 12:14Ecc 12:7Act 17:312Sa 14:14Jhn 5:26-29Ecc 9:5Jud 1:15 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. Tit 2:131Pe 2:24Isa 25:9Rom 6:102Ti 4:8Rom 8:231Jn 3:21Th 1:10