(Thursday February 2, 2017)

The Sanctuary in the Book of Hebrews Parable-

First Apartment: Symbolising the 1th Covenant called the Tabernacle; (7-Branched Candlestick & Table Showbread)

Second Apartment: Symbolising the 2th or New Covenant called the Holy Place. (Altar of Incense & Ark of the Testament)

Paul uses the Sanctuary as an object lesson to make clear the Covenants. Hbr 9:1 Then verily the First Covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly Sanctuary. 2 For there was a Tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the Candlestick, and the Table, and the Shewbread; which is called the Sanctuary.

 What is the difference between the Old and the New Covenant ?

To make the Sanctuary fit of to use it as a parable he changes a few things.

1. He puts the Altar of incense in the Most Holy. But it was never there, it was always in the Holy Place. The rod of Aaron and the pot of Manna he puts under the mercy seat, but they were never in the Ark. 1 King 8:9 “There was nothing in the Ark save the Two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a Covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.” The book of Moses completely disappears.

2. The services are changed too. The actual sevice was for both apartments a service for sin in the first apartment. He said that the

Holy Place had to be broken down before the High Priest could enter the Most Holy Place. Hbr 9:6 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:

3. Paul talking about the materials is mentioning Gold in the Holy Place. Then he tells us it is a parable, a figure. Hbr 9: ”Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;” Of what? Of the Covenants? As Jesus come to this Earth, He came under the Law. Gal 4:4 “But when the fulness of the time was come, GOD sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law,” He lived the Old Covenant symbolized by the  first apartment. He could not transgress once, because for Him there was no forgiveness. He lived though the Word (the Table with Bread) and through the Holy Spirit and led by the Spirit. But no Altar of incense for forgiveness. Having lived a Perfect Life He Died for us. Through this Death He broke down the Old Covenant and opened the door to the New Covenant (Most Holy Place). So the New Covenant was ratified “for the Redemption of the Transgressions that were under the First Covenant”. Hbr 9: “15 And for this cause He(Jesus) 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.” So Christ on Earth, in His Redemptive Work, by His Life, went through the Tabernacle (the first Apartment symbolizing the first Cofenant) and through His Death went into the Holy Place (the Second Apartment symbolizing the Second or New Covenant). By doing this He obtained an Eternal Redemption for us. Hbr 9:”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; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His Own Blood He entered in Once into the Holy Place, having obtained Eternal Redemption for us.”