Hebrews 9
Jeremiah 31:31Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD,
Hebrews 9
Before we start into Hebrews 9 it seems to be a good idea to
review Hebrews 8.
Hebrews 8:6 Now, however, Jesus has received a much more
excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded
on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been without fault,
no place would have been sought for a second. 8 But God found fault with the
people and said:
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
9 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their fathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of the land of Egypt,
because they did not abide by My covenant,
and I disregarded them,
declares the
Lord.
Israel never did their part in the covenant lets take a look
at it.
Levitucus 26:3 If you follow My statutes and
carefully observe My commandments, 4 I will give you rains in their
season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear
their fruit. 5 Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the
grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food
to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
6 And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down
with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword
will pass through your land. 7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall
by the sword before you. 8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of
you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before
you.
9 I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply
you, and I will fulfill My covenant with you. 10 You will still be eating the
old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
11 And I will make My dwelling place among you, and I
will not reject you. 12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be
My people. 13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your
yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
There are many Punishments for Disobedience it is a long
section which I have put up a link Here
The covenant is not over yet it will be upgraded when the
king returns to the earth because we are now in the age of grace. This will be
the new covenant.
Jeremiah 31:31Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32It will not be like the covenant
I made with their fathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt—
a covenant they broke,
though I was a husband to them,f ”
declares the LORD.
33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of
Israel
after those days, declares the LORD.
I will put My law in their minds
and inscribe it on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
34 No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his
brother,
saying, ‘Know the LORD,’
because they will all know Me,
from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD.
For I will forgive their iniquities
and will remember their sins no more.”
Lets go back to Hebrews 8
10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one
obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
Look at verse 13 the last words “will soon disappear” that
means it is still around and not gone. Those who teach that the new covenant is
gone are mistaken. Right here it says it will soon go away not it is gone and
this verse was written in the age of grace. The word c ovenant could also
be testament that is why you will hear me refer to the Hebrew and Greek
scriptures not the new and old testaments.
1 Now the first covenant had
regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. 2 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. 3 Behind the second curtain was a room
called the Most Holy Place, 4 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. 5 Above
the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But
we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
The word
Holy Place is the Greek word hagion The same word used for
holy in holy spirit. This place was a holy place because this is where the
Hebrews believed God Lived. This is where the curtain that ripped when Jesus
Christ died ripped in half and thus made God accessible to man was. This was on
man’s side of the curtain not God’s side. On God’s side was the holy of hollies.
It contained the Ark of the Covenant a place to burn incense called a censor
which is what Zechariah was doing when the angel
came to him with the news he was going to have a son. This is what the Arch looked like.
Aron rod
was also in the room I have no idea what it looked like.
Hey Don it
also had a jar of mana. Inside Joke Never mind.
Here is
what the censer is depicted as
So that is
what the objects looked like supposedly.
6 When everything had been
arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry
on their ministry. 7 But only the
high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never
without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had
committed in ignorance. 8The Holy
Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet
been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. 9 This is an illustration for the
present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not
able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. 10 They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial
washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
So these
two rooms had very specific purposes as well as specific regulation. Just
outside these rooms was a courtyard were any Jewish man could stand the door to
the outer court I have been told was
called the way the door into where the priest could enter was called the truth
and the way into the holy of hollies was called the life. Thus the quote from
Jesus I am the way the truth and the life (John 4:16).
So until
Jesus had been killed there was no way to get to God directly. We of course are
filled with holy spirit and are directly connected to God since the day of
Pentecost.
The high
priest always had to take a blood sacrifice in for the sins of the people we
don’t have to worry about this our blood sacrifice was Jesus Christ the perfect
sacrifice.
11 But when Christ came as
high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect
tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of
this creation. 12 He did not enter
by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place
once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining
eternal redemption. 13 The
blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are
ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then, will the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God,
cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
The word
here in verse 13 some of the earlier manuscripts have are to come. Bullinger
translates it Christ having come.
Here is how
Young’s Literal translation handles it:
And Christ
being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and
more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --
In verse 12
it flat out states Christ entered by his own blood not that of animal sacrifices.
It goes on to say that all the stuff before the blood of Christ was all
ceremonial by the way that includes water baptism. Water baptism cleans the
outside, baptism (means to be immersed has nothing to do with water) of the
holy spirit cleanses us from within. This is all done so we can serve God.
15 For this reason Christ is
the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the
promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free
from the sins committed under the first covenant.
We have
been set free by Christ from the chains of sins.
Here is how
the Revised English Version handles this verse:
And for
this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has
taken place for redemption from the transgressions that were committed under
the first covenant, those who have been called will receive the promise of the
inheritance in the age to come.
Commentary for: Hebrews 9:15 
And for this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called will receive the promise of the inheritance in the age to come.
“in the age to come.” This is the new Messianic Age, the Millennial Kingdom. [See Appendix 2: “Life in the Age to Come”.]
16 In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one
who made it, 17 because a will is in
force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made
it is living. 18 This is why even
the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. 19 When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the
people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and
branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. 20 He said, “This is the blood of the
covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”
21In the same way, he sprinkled
with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. 22 In fact, the law requires that
nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood
there is no forgiveness.
The word
will is the same as covenant in 17. The covenant with Israel was in effect when
Christ came and he ended it with his death The new covenant is still with
Israel according to Jeremiah 31:31:
"The
days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
It says nothing about the church of the body which is what we are. We have a promise not a covenant the promise we have is in 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-17
It says nothing about the church of the body which is what we are. We have a promise not a covenant the promise we have is in 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-17
We are to
be spared from the wrath that is to come
1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven,
whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from
the wrath to come.
The first covenant
was put into effect with a blood sacrifice. The substitution by animals goes
all the way back to when the man and woman were driven from the garden. The
animal skin did not grow on trees after all.
I love verse 22 “In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be
cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no
forgiveness.” There can be no forgiveness without the shedding of blood.
Here is how the 1599 Geneva Bible (GNV) Translates this verse:
22 And almost all things are
by the Law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be
purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better
sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human
hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to
appear for us in God’s presence. 25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself
again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year
with blood that is not his own. 26 Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer
many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at
the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27
Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so
Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a
second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting
for him.
24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was
only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in
God’s presence.
The holy of hollies in the temple was just a copy when he ascended he
entered the real thing.
So Christ died once to take
away the sins of the world. It was done he took away any sin you have or will
commit. To say any less would bring Christ down and need to be re-sacrificed.
Read Romans 5 and Romans 10:6. Christ sacrificed himself once and then he sat
down on the right hand of God because the job was finished.
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