Culmination –Paid In
Full!
HEBREWS 9
V1 The first covenant (‘suzerainty’ treaty = the Creator
unconditionally provides for the receiver) designed with
regulations and an earthly sanctuary
(Tabernacle & Temple)
Now the law is the law of love and the sanctuary is in
each heart and we, as believers, are the sanctuary of
praise and worship. As we gather together, the
believers create the ‘church’ – sanctuary of worship
to the Lord Jesus
V2 – 5, “A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were
the lampstand and the table with its consecrated
bread; this was called the Holy Place.
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most
Holy Place, which had the golden altar of incense and
the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark
contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that
had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory,
overshadowing the atonement cover.”
Tabernacle
V 2 - 5
Lamp stand, Table of Bread &
Altar of Incense
Jesus: Light of the world, bread –His body and the
New Covenant, Incense = our worship & praise
*The Ark of the Covenant & Mercy Seat of
God: Manna = His provision; Laws =
guidance to right living; and Aaron’s
blooming rod = life rising from the dead
and dry branch
*Cherubim & Mercy Seat = God’s glory
V6 –10: The High Priest would enter the
Holiest of Holies with blood to cleanse his
and the people’s sins ... Sins done often in
ignorance...
These gifts and sacrifices could not clear the
worshipper’s conscience...external
regulations ... Until the new covenant
came...
Conscience: the inner feeling/sense/voice
acting as a guide to the rightness or
wrongness of one’s behavior
Jesus enters the
eternal Tabernacle
v 11
-15
Jesus enters by His own eternal
blood, obtaining eternal
redemption. Cleansing our
conscience from sin & guilt
Because of
this...Jesus
is the
Mediator
of a New
Covenant.
He died as
a ransom
to make us
free!