The First and the Second Tabernacle

[marks]

Hebrews 9:6-14 KJV
6) Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
7) But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8) The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

While the first tabernacle was yet standing. It's not the entire tent structure that is in view here.

The priest went always into the first tabernacle, but into the second, only once yearly.

So then we know the first tabernacle is the part with the Menorah, and the showbread. The second tabernacle is the Holy of Holies, with the ark of the covenant, and the the altar of incense.

9) Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10) Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11) 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;
12) 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.

You could only enter the second tabernacle, the holiest place, passing through the first.

The torn veil is His body, broken for you, through which we enter the holy of holies, a completely new way. Not of the priesthood, through the first tabernacle, but a New Priest, and a new Way.

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?

Why would He say, Purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

It it because we think we have to come in the old way?

Much love!

 

[quietthinker]

consider this marks...there was one tabernacle with two sections, not two tabernacles. Each section has a role, each section a symbol. Question is, of what?

 

[marks]

consider this marks...there was one tabernacle with two sections, not two tabernacles. Each section has a role, each section a symbol. Question is, of what?

Hi!

I'm looking at the wording here:

Hebrews 9:6-14 KJV
6) Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
7) But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

So that while we normally think in terms of the Tabernacle being a single unit, and not wrongly, still, the writer here treats it as two, the first, into which the priest went continually, the second, once a year, and not without blood.

The first was the way to enter into the second, as established in the Law.

11) 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;
12) 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.

Jesus passed, not through the earthly tabernacle, the way written in the Law, but into the heavenly Holy Place.

8) The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

Jesus having fulfilled the Law became our Way into the Holiest Place.

Human sacrifice was NEVER written into the Law. The way in the Law was by the blood of animals. But by His Own blood, He entered, and not into the copy of the heavenly, but into the heavenly Holy Place.

We are hid with Christ in God. Not through any act of Law, but through the blood of our Redeemer forgiven, and by immersion into our Creator alive.

Much love!

 

[quietthinker]

The whole sanctuary system is symbolic of the Plan of Redemption/Salvation....a plan from woe to go. Unravelling the various items of operation/ furniture / dress / compartments / High Priest roles at various times. Each has a symbolic role/purpose and as Salvation is not complete in the sense that we are still on a sin infected Earth with mortal bodies, the plan of Salvation is still incomplete.

My suggestion is that the Sanctuary system symbols are a window into what has transpired, what is transpiring now and what will transpire till the whole thing is wrapped up.

 

[Enoch111]

Why would He say, Purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

This is addressed to Hebrew Christians who did the works of the Law at that time. They are called "dead works" since they could not give anyone eternal life. Those was failed to do the works of the Law before Christ would have a guilty conscience. But the finished work of Christ sets people free after they repent and are forgiven of their sins. Then it is by the power of the Holy Spirit that they serve the living God, through faith and with the good works produced by the Holy Spirit.

As long as the temple was standing in Jerusalem, the works of the Law were required. On the day Christ died the veil in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom by the hand of God. Therefore everything connected to the Law of Moses came to an end on that day (even though the priests failed to stop doing what they had been doing).