Hebrews 9
Berean Study Bible
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The Earthly Tabernacle
(
Exodus 25:1-9;
Exodus 40:1-33)
1Now the first covenant
a had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
2A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
3Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
b 4containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
5Above the ark were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat.
c But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
6When everything had been prepared in this way, the priests entered regularly into the first room to perform their sacred duties.
7But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
8By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.
9It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.
10They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
Redemption through His Blood
11But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come,
d He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not of this creation.
12He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify oure consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
the above passage from Hebrews 9 clears any misunderstanding regarding the blood of Christ and does away with the oneness misapplication of the OT cleansing ritual as a comparison to immersion in water (baptism)
it is ONLY the blood of Christ that has obtained forgiveness for sin from God
your continued insistence otherwise, marks you as someone Paul would have not problem telling others to steer clear of
this, is why I continue to refute your heretical teaching that baptism cleanses from sin