Worship Under the Old Agreement
1The first agreement
2This place was inside a tent. The first area in the tent was called the Holy Place. In the Holy Place were the lamp and the table with the special bread offered to God.
3Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place.
4In the Most Holy Place was a golden altar
5Above the box were the Cherub angels
6Everything in the tent was made ready in the way I have explained. Then the priests went into the first room every day to do their worship.
7But only the high priest
8The Holy Spirit
9This is an example for us today. This shows that the gifts and sacrifices
10Those gifts and sacrifices were only about food and drink and special washings. Those things were only rules about the body—{not about things inside people’s hearts}. God gave those rules {for his people to follow} until the time of God’s new way.
Worship Under the New Agreement
11But Christ has already come to be the high priest.
12Christ entered the Most Holy Place
13The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a cow were sprinkled on those people who were no longer pure {enough to enter that place of worship}. That blood and those ashes made those people pure again— but only their bodies.
14So surely the blood of Christ can do much, much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit
15So Christ brings a new agreement
16When a man dies, he leaves a will
17A will means nothing while the man who wrote it is still living. The will can be used only after the man dies.
18It is the same with the first agreement {between God and his people}. There had to be blood (death) before the agreement could be made good.
19First, Moses
20Then Moses said, “This is the blood that makes the agreement good—the agreement that God commanded you to follow.”
21In the same way, Moses sprinkled the blood on the Holy Tent.
22The law says that almost everything must be made clean by blood. And sins cannot be forgiven without blood (death).
Christ’s Sacrifice Takes Away Sins
23These things are copies of the real things that are in heaven. These copies had to be made clean by animal sacrifices.
24Christ went into the Most Holy Place.
25The high priest
26If Christ had offered himself many times, then he would have needed to suffer many times since the time the world was made. But Christ came {and offered himself} only once. And that once is enough for all time. Christ came at a time when the world is nearing an end. Christ came to take away all sin by offering himself as a sacrifice.
27Every person must die once. After a person dies, he is judged.
28So Christ was offered as a sacrifice one time to take away the sins of many people. And Christ will come a second time, but not for people’s sin. Christ will come the second time to bring salvation to those people who are waiting for him.
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