1. Hebrews Chapter 8
The True Tabernacle
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2. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews Chapter 8
Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews 8:1 1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
SUM: After all the previous studies the writer wants to sum up what we have talked about earlier

3. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews Chapter 8
Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews 8:1 1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
SUM: After all the previous studies the writer wants to sum up what we have talked about earlier

4. Hebrews Chapter 8 Such as Who? Jesus is our High Priest
Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews 8:1 1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
HAVE SUCH: Such as who? As Melchisedec. We today, not in the Old times or to the Jews not under the Old Law
This is the KEY. This High Priest is not something in the future. We “Have” this High Priest NOW.
Such as Who?
Jesus is our High Priest
We “Have” our High Priest now

5. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews Chapter 8
Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews 8:1 1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
No place can be better than sitting at the right hand of the throne of God
The Jews knew this was the place of Majesty
When did this happen?

6. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
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Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Acts 2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
On the day of Pentecost, Peter declares that this Jesus who has been resurrected and exalted, sets on the right hand of God.
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But he uses the word “Therefore” reminding them what he has said in this first sermon.
But when?

7. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews Chapter 8
Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Acts 1: And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
On the day of Pentecost, Peter declares that this Jesus who has been resurrected and exalted, sets on the right hand of God.
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But he uses the word “Therefore” reminding them what he has said in this first sermon.

8. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews Chapter 8
Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Verse 2
Hebrews 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Verse 2: MINISTER: Means a public officer of high and honorable rank, whether it was civil, military or religious
MINISTER:
Means a public officer of high honorable rank whether it was civil, military or religious.

9. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews Chapter 8
Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Verse 2: SANTUARY: Means Heaven itself. The most Holy Place of the ancient Tabernacle.
The same Greek word is found in. NEXT SLIDE
SANTUARY: Means Heaven itself. The most Holy place of the ancient Tabernacle. The same Greek word is found in the next four verses.

10. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews Chapter 8
Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
HOLIEST OF ALL – Same as Sanctuary
HOLIEST - Sanctuary

11. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
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Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews 9: 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.
HOLY PLACE: – Same as Sanctuary
HOLY PLACE - Sanctuary

12. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
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Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews 9: For Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
HOLY PLACES: – Same as Sanctuary
HOLY PLACE - Sanctuary

13. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
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Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews 10: Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
HOLIEST: – Same as Sanctuary
HOLIEST - Sanctuary

14. Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews Chapter 8
Christ’s ministry from the heavenly tabernacle
Hebrews 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
TRUE TABERNACLE: The adjective TRUE denotes not only the REAL compared to the FALSE, but the PERFECT compared to the IMPERFECT
The Tabernacle of Moses was a real structure. A shadow of the TRUE
Let’s stop here for a moment and look at the TABERNACLE of Moses

15. Tabernacle/Shadow Vs True Tabernacle

16. Tabernacle constructed by Moses
TRUE TABERNACLE:
Notice the Twelve Tribes of Israel pitched their tents around the Tabernacle.
Notice the Tribe of Levites pitched on three sides.
Notice the households of Moses and Aaron pitched at the entrance.
Notice the Entrance
Notice the Bronze Alter and the Laver in the courtyard
Notice inside the Holy Place: Table of Shewbread, Candlesticks and the Alter Incense
Notice the VEIL between the Holy and the Most Holy places
Notice inside the Holy of Holies: Ark of the Covenant

17. Instructions for Tribes to camp around Tabernacle
South: Reuben – Simeon – Gad
Numbers 2:10-17
West: Ephraim – Manasseh – Benjamin
Numbers 2:18-24
North: Naphtali – Asher – Dan
Numbers. 2:25-30
Levites: North-West-South
Numbers. 3:23-35
Moses and Aaron: East
Numbers. 3:38

18. Furniture in the Tabernacle Alter of burnt offering
Laver
Table of Shewbread
Candlestick
Alter of Incense
Ark of the Covenant
Exodus 40

19. Tabernacle constructed by Moses
Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, ….
If the O/T Tabernacle is a shadow, then what is the TRUE TABERNACLE?

20. The SHADOW 100 x 50 Cubits or 172 x 86 Feet
Football field 300 x 150 Feet
The
church
The Kingdom
The SHADOW

21. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
The Kingdom
Shadow
The SHADOW

22. The Courtyard represents the world
The church/Kingdom constructed by God
The
church
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Church of Christ
The Courtyard represents the world

23. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
The Holy place represents the church

24. The Veil represents death
The church/Kingdom constructed by God
The
church
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
The Veil represents death

25. The Holy of Holies represents heaven
The church/Kingdom constructed by God
The
church
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
The Holy of Holies represents heaven

26. Lets ponder these Shadows
The church/Kingdom constructed by God
The
church
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Lets ponder these Shadows

27. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Church of Christ
World
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (Tabernacled)
Jesus came into the courtyard – the world !!

28. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
The Kingdom
Lev 5:15 .. Then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish
John 1:29 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, Behold the Lamb of God

29. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Exodus 20: Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.
Rev 7:14 We become Priest when we are washed by the blood of Jesus

30. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
2 Chronicles 5:11 It came to pass, when the priest were come out of the Holy place
Acts 2:41 ..And the Lord added to the them daily such as should be saved

31. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Exodus 25:30 Thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me always. (They changed this each Sabbath)
I Cor 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup…

32. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Exodus 40:24 He put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation…
Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path

33. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Exodus 30:1 And thou shalt make an alter to burn incense upon...
Revelation 5:8 ..and golden bowls of incense, which are the prayers of the saints

34. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Church of Christ
The
church
What’s missing in the Holy place - If it represents the church?
Giving – The Tabernacle was a free will offering – Exodus 25:1-9
Did they sing in the tabernacle?
The absence of any instrument is worth pondering.

35. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Luke 23:45 The sun was darkened and the veil of the temple was rent
Heb 6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor to the soul, and we enter into that within the veil

36. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Church of Christ
Heaven
Hebrews 9:7 ..the way into the Holiest of all was not made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.
Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into heaven, Jesus the Son of God…

37. The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Exodus 26:34 …thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of testimony in the most Holy place
Col 1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven …

38. Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things,
The church/Kingdom constructed by God
Church of Christ
The
church
Church of Christ
The Kingdom
Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things,

39. The True Tabernacle Hebrews Chapter 8 What is the message of
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The True Tabernacle

40. Comparison of the Two Covenants
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41. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Taken away
Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second.
2nd Covenant – Establishes a new
Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second.

42. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant - Old
2 Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ.
2nd Covenant - New
2 Corinthians 3:6 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.

43. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Given to Jews
Genesis 17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
2nd Covenant – To every creature
Mark 16: And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

44. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Written on stones
2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
2nd Covenant – Written in hearts
2 Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

45. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Offered often
Hebrews 10:11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
2nd Covenant – Offered once
Hebrews 7:27 Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

46. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Blood of Animals
Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
2nd Covenant – Blood of Christ
Hebrews 9:14 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?

47. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Dead Sacrifice
Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
2nd Covenant – Living Sacrifice
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

48. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Remember sins
Hebrews 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
2nd Covenant – Remember no more
Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

49. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Nothing perfect
Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
2nd Covenant – Perfect in Christ
Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

50. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Fleshly circumcised
Genesis 17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
2nd Covenant – Circumcised of heart
Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

51. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Condemnation
2 Corinthians 3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
2nd Covenant – Righteousness
2 Corinthians 3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

52. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Levitical Priest
Hebrews 7: If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
2nd Covenant – Christian a priest
1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

53. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Faulty
Hebrews 8: 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, …..
2nd Covenant – Perfect law
James 1:25 But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

54. Comparison of the Two Covenants
1st Covenant – Blotted out
Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
2nd Covenant – Remains
2 Corinthians 3:11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.

55. New Covenant is Better
Key word in Hebrews
BETTER

56. New Covenant is Better
Hebrews 1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews 6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Hebrews 7:7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

57. New Covenant is Better
Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Hebrews 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Hebrews 8:6 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.

58. New Covenant is Better
Hebrews 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

59. New Covenant is Better
Hebrews 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
Hebrews 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.

60. New Covenant is Better
Hebrews 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
Hebrews 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.

61. Some artists view of the Tabernacle and it’s furniture
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62. Tabernacle

63. Tabernacle

64. Tabernacle

65. Tabernacle

66. Alter of Sacrifice

67. Tabernacle

68. The Laver

69. Tabernacle

70. Shewbread

71. Tabernacle

72. Candlesticks

73. Tabernacle

74. Alter of Burnt Incense

75. Tabernacle

76. Holy and Most Holy with Veil

77. Tabernacle

78. Ark of the Covenant

79. Are you a part of the TRUE Tabernacle not pitched by man?
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