CHAPTER 9 THE ORDINANCES OF THE FIRST COVENANT DESCRIBED AND COMPARED WITH THOSE OF THE NEW COVENANT. The fact of ‘Jesus the Son' as our great High Priest having been established as the great reality, and the ministry of the old covenant having been established as copies and shadows, Jesus' ministr... [ Continue Reading ]
‘For this reason even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. 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... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CENTRALITY OF DEATH IN GOD'S SAVING PURPOSES IN ORDER FOR ALL THINGS TO BE CLEANSED AND PURIFIED (HEBREWS 9:18). We are now looking at the detailed explanation of Hebrews 1:3. How did the Son make purification of sins? By coming as the Christ Messiah and shedding His blood for all who would rec... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he sprinkled in like manner with the blood.' And not only was blood applied in the covenant ceremony, but later everything connected with the covenant, the Tabernacle and all the vessels of ministry, were sprinkled in the same way with sa... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.' Indeed the Law made it quite clear, that ‘apart from the shedding of blood' there is no cleansing, there ‘is no remission (of sin)'. It tells us that all in the... [ Continue Reading ]
‘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.' Thus the copies of heavenly things, all that was involved in the ritual of Israel, had to be cleansed with the shedding of bl... [ Continue Reading ]
‘For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us.' And the reason that the better sacrifice is required is precisely because Messiah is not entering an earthly tabernacle, one made with human... [ Continue Reading ]
‘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, otherwise must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages has he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of hims... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And inasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those who wait for him, to salvation.' ‘It is appointed to men once to die.' That was the sentence in... [ Continue Reading ]