Okay ..
The same issues are presented again...
THE OLD AND NEW COVENANTS
This has been dealt with but people don't seem to listen.
The old and new covenants do not mean the 10 commandments changed in any way.
Heb 8 begins by talking about the true sanctuary.... and comparing the heavenly and earthly ..... A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore
it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. 4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he,
that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
It is clear that the shadow was of the heavenly things.... the Earthly sanctuary was a shadow of the heavenly. A pattern of the heavenly and Jesus is not an earthly priest.
6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant. Established on better promises.....
In context the better is Jesus being our high preist in heaven, much better then lambs and goats on earth.
7 For if that first
covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Why was there fault with the first???
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Israel failed to continue in the covenant.
10 For this
is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
7 For if that first
covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
We're the 10 commandments faulty? No God gave them and He does not give us faulty Commandments. Israel didn't see the heavenly in the shadow. They failed to understand the meaning of the Earthly sanctuary.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
findind fault with Israel, God set up a new covenant. And God said He will put His laws in our minds and hearts.
The shadow that was given to Israel is not able to save and is ready to vanish away. The sanctuary was to point Israel to the coming Christ. the sanctuary laws and offerings were replaced by the true lamb at the cross.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 In that he saith, A new
covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old
is ready to vanish away.
Heb 9:1-2
1 Then verily the first
covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein
was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
It explains the Earthly tabernacle and what it contained.
Heb 9:9-15
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;
A shadow that could not save them
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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. 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? 15 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.
The old was a figure, a shadow of the better.... the old could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; the old was faulty because it couldn't save us.
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle. The old system was not able to save anyone but Christ can and the new is perfect. Not 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.
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, (covenant) that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions
that were under the first testament (covenant) they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
By reading things in context it makes a lot more sense.... the 10 commandments have not changed or been removed. The shadow laws have been replaced by the better system in heaven.
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