Hebrews 8:1-7 – I love how this is beginning to open up a whole parallel, spiritual reality. Jesus doesn’t fit in the earthly temple and temple system. They are simply a copy of the heavenly ones, where he serves. He is “a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man.” It’s an amazing thought, and I’m sure was more so for his Jewish audience who was immersed in the temple system, surrounded by it from birth, taught it and understood it as the long standing means for God to relate to man. Now to know that it’s time has gone and Jesus is seated in the heavenly temple had to blow my mind.
\nI once read (somewhere, I which I could remember where) that Jesus’ sitting down at the right hand of the throne (Hebrews 8:1) was a powerful symbol in itself. The earthly priests, when on duty, never sat down as a testament that there work of atonement was complete. When Jesus sat down, he was saying it is done. There will be no more sacrifices, the work is complete.
\nHebrews 8:8-13 – When he quotes this passage from Jeremiah, I wonder what it meant to the Jews. Had they heard it for years and never expected it to be fulfilled in their lives? Had they a vision of what it would mean for God to fulfill this passage? How did that fit with what they heard in this letter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"