heavenly tabernacle
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Once a year, the high priest went behind the veil alone, with borrowed blood, for a reprieve that would need repeating. Christ entered the Most Holy Place with his own blood and obtained eternal redemption — once, not annually. Hebrews 9 declares the sacrifice final, the covenant in effect, and the veil torn. There is…
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God quotes himself in Hebrews 8, calling his own covenant faulty and announcing its replacement. The new covenant is better in every way — administered by a better priest in the true heavenly sanctuary, written on hearts rather than stone, and open to all who believe. The old is obsolete. There is no going back.