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Hebrews 8:
Jesus is a high priest set up
in the heavenly place on the right side of God's throne by God, not by man.
High priest make offerings on behalf of self and the people on earth at the
sanctuary and that is why God told Moses to make sure that he was careful to
build the sanctuary as a replica to the one in heaven. The offering
of Jesus as high priest was more superior to that of Moses and the Jewish law.
Jesus was the sacrifice for all, yet was sinless as the mediator between God and
man, and he was founded on an eternal promise. God found fault with the
Jews under the Jewish laws that he replaced the covenant of the Jewish law with
the covenant of the faith in Jesus. Prophet Jeremiah testifies that
God will give the Jews a new covenant where no one has to teach their neighbor,
but all will know God by faith (hearts and minds) and sins will be forgiven.
So holding on to or support for Judaism and not the faith in Jesus Christ
means that you are still living under a curse or sin.
Hebrews 9:
The Jewish covenant with
Moses had an earthly sanctuary built by human hands and had rules for worship.
The first room was the Holy Place and had consecrated bread, a lampstand, and a
table. The second room was the Most Holy Place that had the Ark of the
Covenant, which held manna (Jewish food in the desert while leaving Egypt),
Aaron's budded staff (God used it to choose him as first priest of Israel), and
the 10 commandments of Moses (Foundation of Jews laws). All priests enter
the first room to minister, but only the high priest enters the second room
annually with animal blood sacrifice on behalf of his sins and that of the
masses. These were just food and drinks for ceremonies washings that
did not cleanse the conscience of the Jewish worshippers. Jesus
enter the heavenly place with his own blood and he did it once and for all for
the forgiveness of sin, not annually. There is no forgiveness of
sin without sacrifice of blood. Jesus will come a second time not to
bear sacrificial sins of the world, but to bring salvation to those who believe
by faith in his earthly death and heavenly resurrection as a way of life.
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The Political & Spiritual Purpose of the
Holy Land
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Hebrews 10:
The Jewish law was just a
shadow of God's reality to come. If the Jewish law was God's
perfection, we would not need animal blood sacrifices annually to be cleanse off
our sins. King David even testified in Psalms that God was never
pleased with animal blood for sacrifices, so Jesus offered himself as a human
sacrifice. So the ancient kingdoms (Benin & Roman) that believed in
human scarifies as the ultimate sacrifice were not wrong even in God's eyes.
God even told Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac. Abraham saw
nothing wrong with it and was going to sacrifice his only son of God's promise
until an angel stopped him. Let us hold on to the faith of the second,
final, and perfect sacrifice of God that was done once and is now seated on the
right side of God's heavenly throne awaiting the destruction of the godless and
the unfaithful in the perfect covenant of faith. Meet regularly and
encourage each other in the faith in Jesus Christ.
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