Christ serves in heaven in the true tabernacle
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📚✭Now the main point of what we have been saying is this: We have such a high priest who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 📚a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle✭ that was erected by the Lord, and not by man. 3 📚For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this man✭ also have something to offer. 4 📚If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the Law, 5 📚✭who serve as the representation and shadow of heavenly things. So Moses was warned✭ by God when he was about to make the tabernacle. He said, See that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.
The New Covenant is greater than the Old Covenant
6 📚✭But now Jesus has received a more excellent ministry, and by so much more he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises✭.
The New Covenant does what the Old could not do
7 📚✭For if that first covenant had been without fault, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 📚✭But finding fault with them, he said,
See, the days are coming, 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 did not continue in my covenant✭,
and I disregarded them, 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 in their mind,
and write them in their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they will be my people✭.
11 📚And among them no one will teach
his neighbour, and no one his brother,
and say:
“Know the Lord”, for everyone,
from the least to the greatest,
will know me✭.
12 📚✭For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and their lawless deeds
I will remember no more.
13 📚By his saying “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. Now that which is old and has become obsolete✭ is ready to vanish away✭.