"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” These opening lines of the Bible reveal an often overlooked truth: heaven and earth serve as two realms of God’s creation that interlock and mirror one another. Hebrews focuses on how Jesus brings about a new priesthood, sacrifice, and covenant that fulfills and makes obsolete the old. In response, non-Christian Jews accuse their Jewish Christian brethren of innovation. They’re departing from the law of God, the Old Covenant, into heresy by following Jesus. Here’s the brilliance of Hebrews 9:1-10:18 — the Old Covenant itself down to the architecture of the Tabernacle that Moses built points to Jesus and the New Covenant. God never intended his story to end with the Old Covenant Tabernacle, priesthood, and sacrifices. These all serve as earthly shadows of the heavenly reality into which Christ enters and accomplishes an eternal redemption. This is Understanding Hebrews.

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