Hebrews 3:3. For this man (Jesus)
was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, in as much as he who built
the house has more honor than the house. 4. For every house is built by
some man; but he that built all things is God. 5. And Moses truly was
faithful in all his house, as a servant
testifying to what would be said in the future; 6. But Christ as
a son over his own house; whose house are we.....
Hebrews 4:1. Let us therefore fear, lest, a
promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem
to come short of it.2. For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to
them (Israel in Moses' day) : but the word preached did
not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it....6.
Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter (the promised
rest), and they to whom it was first preached entered not in
because of unbelief: 7. Again, he sets a
certain day, saying through David, Today, after so long a time;
as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts. 8. For if Joshua (of Moses' day) had given them
rest, then would he not afterward have spoken
of another day. 9. There remains therefore a rest to the people
of God.
Hebrews 7:11. If therefore perfection were by
the Levitical priesthood, for under it the
people received the law (of Moses.) What further
need was there that another priest should rise after the order of
Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 12. For the
priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity
a change also of the law......18. For
there is truly a disannulling of the
commandment (the Law of Moses) which came first,
because of it's weakness and unprofitableness. 19. For the law
(of Moses) made nothing perfect, but
the bringing in of a better hope did (The Second Covenant);
by the which we draw close to God. Hebrews 8: 1. Now of the things which
we have spoken this is the summery: We have such an high priest
(Jesus), who is set on the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens; 2. A minister of the sanctuary,
and the true tabernacle, which the
Lord built (as opposed to the tabernacle Moses built)
, and not man. 3. For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and
sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man (Jesus)
have somewhat also to offer. 4. For if he were on earth, he should not
be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to
the (Mosaic) law: 5. Who serve the
copy and shadow of heavenly things,
as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle:
for, See, he said, that you make all things according to the pattern
showed to you on the mountain. 6. But now he (Jesus)
obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator
of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have
been sought for the second. 8. For finding fault with them, he
says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9.
Not according to the covenant that I made
with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them
out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my
covenant, and I regarded them not, says the Lord. 10.
For this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will
put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will
be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11. And they shall
not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and
their iniquities will I remember no more. 13.
In that he says, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that
which decays and growing old (the Old Covenant) is
ready to vanish away.
It needs to be re-stated about the
tabernacle that Moses built and what exactly it was a copy or shadow of.
It was a copy and shadow of Gods people, his church made up of people
from all nations through the second covenant. In other words the
"heavenly things" that Moses' tabernacle symbolically represented were
the people in whom God dwells here on earth and not some physical
building one might find in heaven.
Hebrews 9 1. Then truly the first covenant had
also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly (physical
building) sanctuary. ... 6. Now when these things were thus
ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle,
accomplishing the service of God. 7. But into the second went the high
priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for
himself, and for the errors of the people: 8.
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was
not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9. Which was symbolic for the present time, in which were offered both
gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service
perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10. Which stood only in meats
and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances (rituals
and rites), imposed on them until
the time of reformation. 11. But Christ being come an high priest
of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not
made with hands, that is to say, not of this building (Moses'
Tabernacle) ; 12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but
by his own blood (his own death) he entered in once
into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. .....
15. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by
means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under
the first testament, they which are called might receive the
promise of eternal inheritance. 16.
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of
the testator. ..
Hebrews 10:1. For the law having a shadow (the
law being symbolic) of good things to come, and not the very
image of the things (not the reality of those things),
can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year
continually make those who come to it perfect. 2. For then would they
not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged
should have had no more conscience of sins. 3. But in those sacrifices
there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4. For it is not
possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5.
Wherefore when he (Jesus) comes into the world, he
says, Sacrifice and offering you did not want (Psalm 40),
but you have prepared a body for me: 6. In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. 7. Then said I, Look, I
come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O
God. 8. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings
and offering for sin you didn't want neither had pleasure in them; which
are offered by the law; 9. Then said he, Look, I come to do your will, O
God. He takes away the first, that he may
establish the second.
Hebrews 12:18. For you are not come unto the
mountain that might be touched (Sinai were Moses received the
Law), and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and
darkness, and tempest, 19. And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of
words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be
spoken to them any more: 20. (For they could not endure that which was
commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be
stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21. And so terrible was the
sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 22. But you are
come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem (as opposed to the physical city in the mid-east),
and to an innumerable company of angels, 23. To the general assembly and
church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the
Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24. And to
Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of
Abel. 25. See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped
not who refused him that spoke on earth (Moses), how
more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from
heaven: 26. Whose voice then shook the earth (at Mount Sinai):
but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth
only, but also heaven. 27. And this word, Yet once more, signifies the
removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made (the
thing removed is the law, the tabernacle, the rites and rituals),
that those things which cannot be shaken may remain (that which
cannot be shaken is the New Covenant. Or as the next verse says...)
28. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which
cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29. For our God is a consuming
fire.
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