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
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.

Hebrews 9
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   PDF  MSWord


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
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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