Overview
Jesus, the High Priest in the Heavenly Sanctuary (Verses 1-5):
Hebrews 8 starts by emphasizing the key point: Jesus is our High Priest who sits at God's right hand in the true, heavenly sanctuary. He serves in a Tabernacle that is not made by human hands, contrasting it with the earthly one, which is a mere shadow of the real thing.
The Superiority of the New Covenant (Verses 6-13):
The chapter moves on to highlight the New Covenant, describing it as superior to the Old Covenant. Jesus is the mediator of this better covenant, which is established on better promises. The Old Covenant is declared obsolete, making way for the new, which will be written on hearts and minds.
Hebrews 8 pulls us into the heavenly realms where Jesus serves as our High Priest in the true Tabernacle. It underscores the limitations of the Old Covenant while introducing the New Covenant as its superior successor. This New Covenant isn't about external regulations but internal transformation, promising a deeper, more intimate relationship with God.
Hebrews 8 starts by emphasizing the key point: Jesus is our High Priest who sits at God's right hand in the true, heavenly sanctuary. He serves in a Tabernacle that is not made by human hands, contrasting it with the earthly one, which is a mere shadow of the real thing.
The Superiority of the New Covenant (Verses 6-13):
The chapter moves on to highlight the New Covenant, describing it as superior to the Old Covenant. Jesus is the mediator of this better covenant, which is established on better promises. The Old Covenant is declared obsolete, making way for the new, which will be written on hearts and minds.
Hebrews 8 pulls us into the heavenly realms where Jesus serves as our High Priest in the true Tabernacle. It underscores the limitations of the Old Covenant while introducing the New Covenant as its superior successor. This New Covenant isn't about external regulations but internal transformation, promising a deeper, more intimate relationship with God.
Hebrews 8
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;
2 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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
End of Hebrews 8
1 Year Plan: Oct 25 - Jer 39, Jer 40, Jer 41, Heb 8 [next day]
2 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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
End of Hebrews 8
1 Year Plan: Oct 25 - Jer 39, Jer 40, Jer 41, Heb 8 [next day]
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