HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 8:1 Jesus is the eternal high priest, ministering from heaven in the true tabernacle and enacting the better promises of the new covenant. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 8:4 Jesus could not serve in the earthly tabernacle because the law requires that a priest from Levi’s family do this (Hebrews 7:11). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 8:5 The earthly tabernacle (TENT), in which the Levite priests served, was a lesser COPY of the heavenly PATTERN shown to Moses (Exodus 25:40). The heavenly place is greater. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 8:6 The BETTER PROMISES of the new covenant are cited in vv. Hebrews 8:8. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 8:7 IF THAT FIRST COVENANT HAD BEEN FAULTLESS. The Mosaic covenant was not wrong. Rather, it was weak and ineffective (Hebrews 7:18) by comparison to the new covenant. God had never intended for the Mosaic covenant to bring people to perfection. Jesus was always to have that... [ Continue Reading ]
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 8:8 HE FINDS FAULT WITH THEM. God blames sinful humanity for the failure of the first covenant. Jeremiah 31:31 is quoted here. That passage supports several arguments in Hebrews 1:1: (1) this “second” covenant (Hebrews 8:7) comes after the Mosaic covenant (THE DAYS ARE COMING... [ Continue Reading ]