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Hebrews: Comparing the Earthly and the Heavenly Sanctuary

Moses & Christ Compared
The Old & New Covenant
The Earthly & Heavenly Sanctuaries

The Earthly & Heavenly Priesthoods
The Earthly & Heavenly Ministrations
Our Privileges & Responsibilities

3 AM
Revelation 17 & 18
1888 Reexamined

The Earthly

The Heavenly

I. Moses and Christ Compared as Leaders of God's Chosen People

1:1 "God, who . . . spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

1:1,2 "... hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son."

3:2 "Moses was faithful in all his house"

3:1,2 "Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; who was faithful to Him that appointed Him."

3:3 Who was counted greater ... ". . . than Moses?"

3:3 "This man was counted worthy of more glory . . ."

3:3 Who has more honor ". . . than the house?"

3:3 "He who hath builded the house hath more honor . . ."

3:5 "Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;"

3:6 "... but Christ as a Son over His own house."

II. The Old and New Covenant

8:7,9 "That first covenant," "the covenant that I made with their fathers," "My covenant"

8:8,9,6; 13:20 "A new covenant: . . . not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers," "a better covenant," "the everlasting covenant."

8:9,8,13 "Because they continued not in My covenant, and I regarded them not," "finding fault with them," "He hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."

9:8,10 "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel," "the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days."

8:7 "If that first covenant had been faultless,"

8:7 "... then should not place have been sought for the second."

III. The Earthly and Heavenly Sanctuaries

9:1,2; 8:5 "The first covenant had . . . a worldly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle made." "Make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount."

8:2 "The sanctuary, . . . the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man."

10.

9:24 "Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true;"

9:24 "... but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us."
10:19-22 "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."

IV. The Earthly and Heavenly Priesthoods

11.

8:4,5; 7:23 "If He were on earth, He should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things," "many priests."

7:12; 6:20; 8:6 "The priesthood being changed," "Jesus, made an High Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." "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."

12.

5:1 "Every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God."

5:5 "So also Christ glorified not Himself to be made an High Priest; but He that said unto Him, Thou art My Son, today have I begotten Thee."

13.

7:21 "Those priests were made without an oath [they were born to the office];

7:21,22 "... but this with an oath:. . . by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament."

14.

7:28 "The law maketh men high priests which have infirmity;"

7:28 "... but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore."

15.

7:23 "They truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:"

7:24 "... but this Man, because He continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood."

16.

7:8 "Here men that die receive tithes;"

7:8 "... but there He receiveth them."

17.

7:11 "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, . . ."

7:11 "... what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not . . . Aaron?"

18.

7:28; 8:4 "The law maketh men high priests," "that offer gifts according to the law," "the law having a shadow of good things to come."

7:12-18 "For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. . . . there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof."

19.

7:19 "The law made nothing perfect,"

7:19 "... but the bringing in of a better hope did."

V. The Earthly and Heavenly Ministrations

20.

8:3 "Every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices:"

8:3 "... wherefore it is of necessity that this Man have somewhat also to offer."

21.

9:22 "Almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is not remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these;"

9:23 "... but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these."

22.

9:13 "If the blood of bulls and of goats, . . . sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:"

9:13 "... How much more shall the blood of Christ, . . . purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"

23.

9:6-10 ". . . The priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, . . . The Holy Ghost thus signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: Which was a figure for the time then present, . . . imposed on them until the time of reformation."

9:11,12 "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; 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."

24.

7:27; 9:25; 10:11 ". . . daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices," "often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others." "Every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices."

7:27; 9:26; 10:12 But Christ "... needeth not daily as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice: . . . for this He did once, when He offered up Himself." "But now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." "But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God."

25.

13:11 "The bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp."

13:13 "Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach."

26.

10:1-4,11; 9:9 "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. . . . For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." "sacrifices, which could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience"

10:14 "By one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified."

27.

10:6 "In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had no pleasure."

10:5-7 "Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith, Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me. . . . Then said I, Lo, I come . . . to do Thy will, O God."

28.

10:9 "He taketh away the first,"

10:10 "... that He may establish the second, By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."

VI. Our Privileges and Responsibilities

29.

12:18 "Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, . . .

12:19-25 "... but ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, . . . and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant. . . . See that ye refuse not Him that speakest."

30.

12:26 "Whose voice then shook the earth:"

12:27 "... but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven," "that those things which cannot be shaken may remain."

31.

1:1 "God, who . . . spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,"

1:2 "... hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son."

32.

4:2 ". . . as well as unto them" . . .

4:2 "... Unto us was the gospel preached."

33.

3:9,10 "Your fathers tempted Me, . . . I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart"

3:8-12 "Harden not your hearts. . . . Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief."

34.

3:11-19; 4:6-8 "I sware in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest. . . . They would not enter in because of unbelief." "They to whom it was first preached entered not in. . . . If Jesus [Joshua] had given them rest, the would he not afterward have spoken of another day"

4:9, 6, 1, 11 "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." "It remaineth that some must enter therein." "Let us therefore fear, lest . . . any of you should seem to come short of it." "Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief."

35.

2:2 "If the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

2:3 "... how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord?"

36.

12:25 "For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth,

12:25 "... much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven."

37.

10:28 "He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses;

10:28 "... of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, . . . and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?"

38.

11:2 "By it [faith] the elders obtained a good report." "And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

11:39,40 "... God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."

39.

12:1,2 "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, "

4:14,16 "... let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus." "Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. . . . Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."

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