06/15/2024
If you read Hebrews 9 you will see; that Jesus was born under the law kept the law perfectly. As a Jew he kept the Law of Moses perfectly but that law was a reflection of the true law of God. As Paul says in Romans 2:14-29; the Gentiles were still under the law of God but not under the Mosaic Law. Jesus kept the Law of God perfectly for all who believe. The sacrifice of Christ was not made in the Temple itself, His blood of His sacrifice was brought into the true Heavenly reality and accepted once for all. The earthly temple of Israel was a type and shadow copy of that Heavenly reality. With the finished work of Christ we see that the Old Covenant has been both fulfilled and made obsolete. The New Covenant has come. It is this New Covenant that Christ is the High Priest of and that He mediates. The temple described in Hebrews 40-48 is given in full description as the perfect temple in language that those who were familiar with the temple in Jerusalem could understand and for believers after to be able to compare with the true Heavenly temple, the true faithful high priest who offers Himself as the sacrifice and who now mediates a better covenant. He is the high priest of a better priestly system. Believers also are priests not according to the Old Covenant but of the New Covenant.
