So, then, the first tabernacle, too, had its ordinances of worship and
its holy place, which was an earthly symbol of the divine realities.
For the first tabernacle was constructed and in it there was the
lampstand and the table with the shewbread, and it was called the Holy
Place. Behind the second... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GLORY OF THE TABERNACLE (Hebrews 9:1-5)... [ Continue Reading ]
Since these preparations have been made, the priests continually enter
into the first tabernacle as they perform the various acts of worship.
But into the second tabernacle the High Priest alone enters, and that
once a year and not without blood, which he offers for himself and for
the errors of the... [ Continue Reading ]
But when Christ arrived upon the scene, a high priest of the good
things which are to come, by means of a tabernacle which was greater
and better able to produce the results for which it was meant, a
tabernacle not made by the hands of men--that is, a tabernacle which
did not belong to this world or... [ Continue Reading ]
It is through him that there emerges a new covenant between God and
man; and the purpose behind this new covenant is that those who have
been called might receive the eternal inheritance which has been
promised to them; but this could happen only after a death had taken
place, the purpose of which w... [ Continue Reading ]
So, then, if it was necessary that the things which are copies of the
heavenly realities should be cleansed by processes like these, it is
necessary that the heavenly realities themselves should be cleansed by
finer sacrifices than those of which we have been thinking. It is not
into a man-made sanc... [ Continue Reading ]