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Lecture 16 6-12th
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The Tabernacle Its makeup
and typical meaning as a shadow of Salvation in
Christ
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The Tabernacle A Shadow of Jesus New Covenant

• Hebrews 101. For the law having a shadow of
  good things to come, and not the very image of
  the things, can never with those sacrifices which
  they offered year by year continually make the
  comers thereunto perfect.

ARK and mercy seat Gods throne and dwelling place
Holy of Holies
Veil
Lamp stand Light
Table of Show Bread Gods presence and sustenance
Holy Place
Altar
Blood atonement
Laver
Washing/cleansing
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Furnishings of the Tabernacle

• The ark of the covenant Ex. 2510-22
• A box approx. 39 long X 23 wide high
• Overlaid with pure gold.inside was placed the
  tables of stone (Ex. 2516) A jar of manna (Ex.
  16 33-34) and Aarons rod that budded (Nu.
  174-10)
• On top was the mercy seat of pure gold 39 X
  23. Pure gold (Ex. 2517)
• On either end were two cherubim of pure gold
  facing each other with wing covering the mercy
  seat and their tips touching.
• Here God promised to meet Israel. (Ex. 2518ff
  Nu. 789)
• The H. Priest only entered here once a year.

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Meaning of the Ark of the Covenant

• The ark seems to have symbolized the throne of
  God
• Ps. 801 thou that leadest Joseph like a flock
  thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine
  forth.
• Ps. 991 The Lord reigneth let the people
  tremble he sitteth between the Cherubims

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A symbol of Atonement for Sins

• 1614. And he shall take of the blood of the
  bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon
  the mercy seat eastward and before the
  mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with
  his finger seven times.
• Lev. 1630. For on that day shall the priest
  make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that
  ye may be clean from all your sins before
  the Lord.
• 1634. And this shall be an everlasting statute
  unto you, to make an atonement for the children
  of Israel for all their sins once a year. And
  he did as the Lord commanded Moses.

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But was formality enough?
What about Mercy/grace?

• Hos. 6 6. For I desired mercy, and not
  sacrifice and the knowledge of God more than
  burnt offerings.
• Matt. 913. But go ye and learn what that
  meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice
  for I am not come to call the righteous, but
  sinners to repentance.
• Matt. 12 7. But if ye had known what this
  meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye
  would not have condemned the guiltless.
• Never worship as a mere ritual. The right
  attitude of heart is indispensable to acceptable
  worship.

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Jesus alone was the fulfillment of the true
meaning of the Ark of the Covenant

• He is Gods covenant to man, his mercy, his
  atonement, his acceptable sacrifice, his just
  requirement.
• Rom. 83. For what the law could not do, in
  that it was weak through the flesh, God sending
  his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and
  for sin, condemned sin in the flesh
• 4. That the righteousness of the law might be
  fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh,
  but after the Spirit.
• 5. For they that are after the flesh do mind
  the things of the flesh but they that are after
  the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
• 6. For to be carnally minded is death but to
  be spiritually minded is life and peace.
• Let our prayers rise from humility of heart
  realizing that the atonement at the ark was but a
  shadow of Jesus to come.

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The Table of Showbread

• Instructions are found in Ex. 2523ff. The
  construction in Ex. 3710ff. It was 3 feet long,
  1-1/2 feet wide by 2-1/3 feet high overlaid with
  pure gold.
• 12 loaves were set (6X6) upon the table with
  dishes and incense holders (Le. 245dff)
• Eaten every Sabbath by Aaron sons.
• New loaves and incense were placed there weekly.

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Meaning of the Showbread

• Not for form. It signified the coming Messiah. As
  some of the manna from heaven was placed in the
  ark for remembrance by future generations, so the
  loaves were on the table continually. It was
  called the bread of the Presence (Ex. 164,33).
  God was ever caring and providing for His people.
  He was always present (Dt. 32. Is. 4010-11, I
  Cor. 103).
• Jesus was born in Bethlehem (house of bread)
  significant of the heavenly bread. Jesus said he
  was the bread of life. (John 635)

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The Lampstand

• The golden lampstand (not candlestick) was to be
  of pure gold (Ex. 2531ff).
• It had a stem and six branches, three on each
  side, making seven. The cups on each branch
  burned with pure olive oil from evening til
  morning. (Ex. 2720ff) They were cleaned each
  morning and kept in immaculate condition.

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Meaning of the Lampstand

• It is obviously connected with light. The
  meaning was far beyond formality. As the light
  penetrated every part of the holy place, so does
  God the heart Jesus said that He (His teaching)
  is light in the worlds darkness (Jn. 812) To
  receive Jesus into the heart is to receive the
  love of his teaching concerning what to do to be
  saved, how to worship, and how to live a holy
  acceptable life.
• Jesus said we are the light of the world
  (reflective of the light of his teaching (Mt.
  514).
• Light is a servant and never served, so are his
  disciples. Never should the Christian life
  become a dull routine.
• Mt. 516 Let your light so shine.

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The Meaning of the Altar of Incense

• It seems to symbolize a communion with God
  through prayer and daily holiness of life.
• The Jews associated prayer with the altar of
  incense.
• Amos 521. I hate, I despise your feast days,
  and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
• Luke 110 And the whole multitude of the people
  were praying without at the time of incense.
• Rev. 84. And the smoke of the incense, which
  came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up
  before God out of the angel's hand.
• Prayer is not a ritual to be said at set
  intervals. It is a privilegethe heart communing
  with God in deep reverence

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The Great Altar Ex. 271-8, 381-7

• 7.5 feet square x 4.5 feet high
• Made of acacia wood overlaid with bronze.
• All utensils were bronze. Here the sacrifices
  were burned . There were daily offerings as well
  as offering on special occasions.

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The Meaning of the Altar of Sacrifice

• The killings and blood cleansing offering were
  done over and over for centuries. Without a deep
  spiritual mind one can see how that the priests
  could become bored, even disgusted. To the deep
  spiritual mind who sought to penetrate the
  reasons, it would become evident with an
  increasing awareness of the principle of the
  innocent being sacrificed for the guilty. This
  should have been evident in the offering of Jesus
  , and was to many like Paul (I Cor. 57)

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The Great Tragedy

• The Priests missed the spiritual implications of
  the tabernacle and temple worship system. They
  became mercenary with the sacrifices and turned
  the temple into a den of thieves.
• Christ was the sanctuary of God on earth, the
  mercy, the altar atonement, light, life, bread,
  and communion of God with men.
• So sad, that many have apparently turned worship
  into entertainment. For many the singing,
  praying, the Lords supper, giving and preaching
  seem to have become mechanical acts of ritualism

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Disrespect for Worship as God Would Have it
Idolatry Emerges Read Exodus 32-34

• Moses was forty days in the Mt. Receiving Gods
  Word.
• Aaron bows to pressure from the people to make a
  golden calf.
• Moses returns, in anger breaks the ten
  commandments,

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• All things pointed to the coming of Jesus, His
  church, and to final salvation in heaven.

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Shadows of the Heart as the True Temple of God
Heaven glory-light Rev. 21-23
Christians glory-light Mt. 514,16
Jesus glory/light
Tabernacle glory/fire
Most Holy
naos
naos
naos ETERNAL HEAVENLY Rev. 2122
TEMP. EARTHLY Ex. 2633
TEMP. EARTHLY- HEAVENLY Jn. 2. 20-21
TEMP. EARTHLY- HEAVENLY 1 Cr. 619
heiron
heiron
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Pentecost Lev. 239-12 Num. 2826-31
Passover Unleavened Bread Pentecost,
Booths/Tabernacles

• LEV. 239. The Feast of Pentecost (50) or Feast
  of Weeks (7 weeks 1). That as the first fruits
  of harvest were offered to God, then He should be
  first in ones life because of great gratitude
  for His sustenance in life.
• Jesus was the first fruits and Christians are the
  latter harvest that follows. As Jesus offered
  Himself to God, should we follow His example.

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10. . Annual Atonement Lev. 16 23 Num. 29
(10th day of the 7th monthTishri)

• Besides other animals such as a bull for a sin
  offering for the high priest, two goats were
  offered.
• 1. The goat for Jehovah.. The atoning sacrifice
  for the peoples sin
• 2. The goat for Azazel (removal) The putting away
  of sin in their lives

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Feast of Booths- Harvest Last Feast of the year.
7 joyous days -14th to 21st Day of Tishri
Sept./Oct. Lev. 2343
DAY BULLS RAMS LAMBS GOATS 1st 13 2
14 1 2ND 12 2 14 1 3RD 11 2 14 1 4TH 10
2 14 1 5th 9 2 14 1 6th 8 2 14 1 7th 7
2 14 1 Total 70 14 98 7 8th 1 1 7 1
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Putting it All together What the Shadows Portray

• 1. Pharaoh --- A shadow of Satan
• 2. Egypt --- as shadow of slavery to sin
• 3. The death angel wages of sin is death
• 4. The Passover. Depicts the death of the Lamb of
  God, deliverance from Pharaoh and Egypt, viz.
  Satan and the bondage of sin. Jesus is our
  Passover (I Cor. 57)
• 5. The Crossing fo the Red Sea. The separation
  from sin at baptism and from the old life of
  slavery.

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• 6. The song of deliverance. The joy of
  deliverance from sin. (Ex. 1515 Cp. Acts 239
  839)
• 7. The feast of Unleavened Bread. The clean/holy
  life to be lived after afterward.
• 8. The Feast of Pentecost or Feast of Weeks.
  Give God the first fruits.
• 9. Annual Atonement This was a fast day. 10th
  of Tishri

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• 10. The wilderness of Wandering. The trials of
  life that test faithfulness between conversion
  and death
• 11. Feast of the Booths (Tabernacles) Joy of
  faithful life. 15th of Tishri (7 days in 7th
  month)
• 12. Crossing Jordantransition into the promised
  land(Heaven for us!)

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THE SABBATH SYSTEM
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The Pyramidical Sabbatical system

• There was the weekly Sabbath celebrated each 7th
  day because God rested from creation on the 7th
  dayGen. 22-3 Ex. 1622-30 208-11
• HOW WERE THE JEWS SUPPOSED TO KEEP THE WEEKLY
  SABBATH? WHY?
• 1. 2 male lambs were sacrificed as burnt
  offerings, along with cereal and drink offerings.
• 1. No work was to be done.. They were to cook
  sufficiently on the 6th day for the next. No
  traveling was to be done (Ex. 1623-30).
• 2. Penalty for breaking the Sabbath was death
  (Ex. 3115 Nu, 1532)
• WHAT WERE THE JEWS SUPPOSED TO LEARN FROM THIS?

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The New Moon Monthly Sabbath

• 1. Offering of 2 young bulls
• 2. One ram and 7 male lambs a year old without
  blemish.
• 3. Flour, oil and wine were also offered
• 4. A male goat was sacrificed as a sin offering.
• All theses offering were in addition to the
  regular daily and Sabbath offerings.
• Num. 2811-15

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The Seventh Sabbatical Month

• 1. At the beginning of the month trumpets were
  blown signifying the beginning of a holy day
  (Lev. 2323-25 Nu. 291)
• 2. One young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a
  year old without blemish accompanied with cereal
  offerings were offered as a pleasing odor to the
  Lord (Num. 292-6)
• 3. According to the Jews observance of the New
  Moon Sabbath was symbolic of surrender to the
  Lord. This was called a day of gladness as
  trumpets were blown over the burnt and peace
  offerings. (Num. 1010)

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The Seventh Sabbatical Month

• 4. What were they to do and learn from the
  monthly sabbath?
• 4. The Jews gradually drifted from the spiritual
  significance of the Sabbaths. Amos 84-6) Says
  that they were glad when they were ovcer so they
  could sell grain.

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The 7th or Sabbatical year

• For additional emphasis God prescribed the
  observance of a Sabbatic year for Israel (Ex.
  2310-11 Lev. 252-7) Deut. 151-18 3110-13).
• In the seventh year the land was left unplowed,
  unsown, and unharvested by the owner. Any crops
  which germinated naturally were for the slaves to
  gather and the animals to eat (Lev. 252-7)

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Jubilee or 50th Year Sabbath

• In order for Israel to reach a pinnacle height of
  spiritual observance twice each century, God gave
  the year of Jubilee (5oth). The land was to be
  left unplowed and the people ceased from all
  physical work (Lev. 258-34 2717-24 Num.
  364).
• The year began on the annual Atonement Day (Lev.
  1629, 259) on the 10th day of Tishra (7th
  month). It began with trumpet blowing (Lev.
  259) and with Jubilee (loud shouting).

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• Since it was preceded by a sabbatical year
  (49th), God said if they were faithful He would
  provide an abundant crop year in the 6th and 48th
  year (Lev. 258) and with fruit for three years
  Lev. 2521).
• All land was to be returned to the original
  owner, and all indentured servants freed and
  debts forgiven (Lev. 2513-55).

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Note the Accumulations of Sabbaths, special days
and years leading to the 50th year.

• 1. Approx. 2,184 regular Sabbaths plus special
  Sabbaths (feasts). All Sabbath days in the 7th
  year and in the year of Jubilee were omitted
  because the entire year was a Sabbath of
  cessation of laborious work.
• 2. Each year the 7th months was observed as a
  Sabbatic month.

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• 3. The 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, 35th, 42nd, and
  49th were Sabbatic years
• 4. The 50th year followed the 49th which meant
  two Sabbath years in a row twice per century were
  to eb observed. God would provide for them (Lev.
  2519-22).

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• THE SPIRITUAL APPLICATION
• The Sabbath, seventh month, Sabbatic year, and
  Jubilee year all were joined in principle and
  should have portrayed increasingly for the
  Israelite the supremacy of the SPIRITUAL over the
  PHYSICAL.Every seventh day, he was re minded in
  cessation from labor that it was God ordained.

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• As God ceased from creation (Gen. 22-3), so man
  ceased his daily work which was a means in
  contemplation of the end eternal life. Because
  of sin, the joy and blessings of God's original
  creation were lost in toil, sweat, and labor. But
  each Sabbath was a reminder that God would
  eventually redeem man. Thus, every seven days he
  should have appreciated anew God's pledge of
  eternal blessing when man enters his True
  Restfellowship with God apart from sin.

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The Seventh month was inaugurated by the special
holy day and blowing of trumpets. It introduced
the month in which the annual atonement and feast
of the tabernacles was celebrated. It should have
reminded the rulers, priests and nation that God
had blessed them, through the year and had
providentially met their every need. Therefore,
with the harvest complete, they were prepared in
an attitude of thanksgiving and humility to seek
His mercy in atonement despite their sin and to
prepare as a joyous nation to dwell in booths.
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• In like manner, the Sabbatic year was to more
  deeply impress upon the spiritual man that God
  would provide throughout the year SPIRITUALLY as
  He most certainly had PHYSICALLY. Thus, man's
  sowing and reaping each year was not an end, but
  simply a means until redemption was complete.

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The cessation every seven years for a YEAR (not
just a day as on the Sabbath) could not help but
deepen insight into the mercy, grace and love of
God for man. Separated from material pursuits, he
could cultivate the spiritual by meditation and
thanksgiving. It foreshadowed an eternal rest
from the physical and simultaneously depicted
eternal spiritual service to His blessed Lord.
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• The Jubilee year climaxed God's covenant of
  redemption. Although there is no record of
  national reaction in the Bible to its observance,
  it should have enabled the spiritual Israelite
  to perceive the eventual eternal bliss with God.
  After 48 years of weekly Sabbaths, interspersed
  with 48 seventh months' introducing atonement and
  the feast of the tabernacles, and six sabbatic
  years, the 49th year as a seventh sabbatic year
  was followed by the jubilee year.

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Thus for two consecutive years every fifty years,
the Israelite should have been made deeply
conscious of the SPIRITUAL and how trivial and
inconsequential were the material means of life.
God completely provided for his every need during
the three yearsa period of gracethe two while
he was devoting himself WHOLLY TO HIS CREATOR,
and during the sowing and growing of a crop in
the 51st year (Lev. 2521).
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• Such a life for the period must have enabled the
  man of faith to draw as close to God as possible
  on earth in realizing the future glory of the
  heavenly realm. Also, the return of land and the
  freeing of slaves should have impressed indelibly
  upon the individual soul the concept that all of
  the earth is a means to the end of serving God
  TOTALLY, ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY.

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All here was transitory, not eternal. It would
serve its purpose until salvation was fully
accomplished. When redemption was realized, the
land or property which he might have thought as
valuable was gone forever the service from his
fellow manno longer needed or wanted. ALL MEN
were to serve GOD WHO ALONE WAS THEIR MASTER.
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• To convince the doubter, who might withhold from
  the needy because the jubilee was approaching
  that he was not a master but a servant, the Lord
  said, " To me the people of Israel are servants,
  they are my servants whom I brought forth out of
  the land of Egypt I am the Lord your God". (Lev.
  2517, 51-55). What a marvelous provision by the
  Lord! Therefore, two years of meditation,
  appreciation and spiritual communion with God
  unhindered by toil in the field, etc. should have
  made everyone GOD CONSCIOUS and fervently
  desirous of eternal life with God.

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Fellow Christians! How we should recognize our
privileges and opportunities in Christ. The
truths of the sermon on the mount, and the
parables of the value of the kingdom take on new
meaning. Our citizenship is in heaven (Phil.
320 ASV)I Since our hearts are there, let us lay
up treasures there by seeking the Kingdom of God
and His righteousness FIRST (Matt. 633). Thus,
everything other than Christ and being found in
Him is refuse-garbage-loss-and should be so
counted (Phil. 37-8).
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May everythinghouses, jobs, possessions,
MONEYall be used as means for the TRUE
ENDeternal life with Christ and God. Since we
live jn an era of grace, we Jive constantly in
the jubilee year IF WE CHOOSE by a RICH
PRODUCTION OF THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT (Gal.
522-23). AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO-LAW. May we so
live here that we may finally by His Grace enter
the TRUE REST and serve God forever in
thanksgiving for His glorious salvation bestowed
upon us (Heb. 49-10).
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Weekly Sabbath one day living for/with
God Monthly New Moon Sabbath Additional
emphasis on living wholly form God Seventh Month
one whole month living for/with God. Every
Seventh Year one whole year liivng for/with
God 49th year plus Jubilee two whole years
living depending complete on God and living for
and with Him spiritually. One must surely see the
cause for this.

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The pyramidical system of the Jewish law was
intended to reflect a constant growth pattern for
developing faith in Israel toward their eventual
dwelling with God Christians should seek to
follow a growth pattern in life to do the same.
Romans 121ff.
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Application of the Pentateuch to the New Age

• We will let the author of Hebrews summarize the
  Pentateuch for us
• 1. Jesus is now our high priest and functions for
  us in a better tabernacle (worship center) than
  the old.
• Heb. 911. 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

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2. Jesus died once for eternal forgiveness

• Heb. 912. 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.

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Animal blood and Water made only the body
presentable to God. Jesus as a sinless
sacrifice made the conscience clean

• Heb. 9 13. For if the blood of bulls and of
  goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the
  unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the
  flesh
• 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ,
  who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
  without spot to God, purge your conscience from
  dead works to serve the living God?

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A better and different High Priest offering a
better and different sacrifice meant a new
testament had to be forthcoming

• Heb. 915. And for this cause he 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.
• His sinless death for their sins (and ours) meant
  the end of all sacrifices for sin.

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The New Testament could Not begin without Jesus
sinless death

• 16. For where a testament is, there must also
  of necessity be the death of the testator.
• 17. For a testament is of force after men are
  dead otherwise it is of no strength at all while
  the testator liveth.

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The Old Testament Was Instituted by the inferior
sacrifice of animals

• HEB 918. Whereupon neither the first testament
  was dedicated without blood.
• 19. For when Moses had spoken every precept to
  all the people according to the law, he took the
  blood of calves and of goats, with water, and
  scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the
  book, and all the people,

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• 20. Saying, This is the blood of the testament
  which God hath enjoined unto you.
• 21. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the
  tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
• 22. And almost all things are by the law purged
  with blood and without shedding of blood is no
  remission.

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The Old Covenant was only a pattern of the
Better Covenant to Come

• Heb 923. It was therefore necessary that the
  patterns of things in the heavens should be
  purified with these but the heavenly things
  themselves with better sacrifices than these.
• 24. For Christ is not entered into the holy
  places made with hands, which are the figures of
  the true but into heaven itself, now to appear
  in the presence of God for us

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Effective Sacrifice is permanent and need not be
repeated

• 25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often,
  as the high priest entereth into the holy place
  every year with blood of others 26. For then
  must he often have suffered since the foundation
  of the world but now once in the end of the
  world hath he appeared to put away sin by the
  sacrifice of himself. 27. And as it is
  appointed unto men once to die, but after this
  the judgment 28. So Christ was once offered to
  bear the sins of many and unto them that look
  for him shall he appear the second time without
  sin unto salvation.
• Thus the old system was fulfilled and gave way to
  the new.

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The Necessity of Jesus Coming to Earth

• Heb 101. For the law having a shadow of good
  things to come, and not the very image of the
  things, can never with those sacrifices which
  they offered year by year continually make the
  comers thereunto perfect. 2. For then would
  they not have ceased to be offered? because that
  the worshippers once purged should have had no
  more conscience of sins.
• 3. But in those sacrifices there is a
  remembrance again made of sins every year. 4.
  For it is not possible that the blood of bulls
  and of goats should take away sins.

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• 5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he
  saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not,
  but a body hast thou prepared me 6. In burnt
  offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no
  pleasure.
• Heb. 107. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the
  volume of the book it is written of me,) to do
  thy will, O God. 8. Above when he said,
  Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and
  offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst
  pleasure therein which are offered by the law

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9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O
God. He taketh away the first, that he may
establish the second. 10. By the which will we
are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all. 11. And every
priest standeth daily ministering and offering
oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never
take away sins 12. But this man, after he had
offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down
on the right hand of God 13. From henceforth
expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
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Heb. 1014. For by one offering he hath
perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15.
Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us
for after that he had said before, 16. This is
the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws
into their hearts, and in their minds will I
write them 17. And their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more. 18. Now where
remission of these is, there is no more offering
for sin.
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