32 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
32 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 8
|
||
1 Here is the main point: We have a High Priest who sat down in the place of honor beside the throne of the majestic God in heaven.
|
||
2 There he ministers in the heavenly Tabernacle, the true place of worship that was built by the Lord and not by human hands.
|
||
3 And since every high priest is required to offer gifts and sacrifices, our High Priest must make an offering, too.
|
||
4 If he were here on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there already are priests who offer the gifts required by the law.
|
||
5 They serve in a system of worship that is only a copy, a shadow of the real one in heaven. For when Moses was getting ready to build the Tabernacle, God gave him this warning: “Be sure that you make everything according to the pattern I have shown you here on the mountain.”
|
||
6 But now Jesus, our High Priest, has been given a ministry that is far superior to the old priesthood, for he is the one who mediates for us a far better covenant with God, based on better promises.
|
||
7 If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second covenant to replace it.
|
||
8 But when God found fault with the people, he said:
|
||
“The day is coming, says the Lord,
|
||
when I will make a new covenant
|
||
with the people of Israel and Judah.
|
||
9 This covenant will not be like the one
|
||
I made with their ancestors
|
||
when I took them by the hand
|
||
and led them out of the land of Egypt.
|
||
They did not remain faithful to my covenant,
|
||
so I turned my back on them, says the Lord.
|
||
10 But this is the new covenant I will make
|
||
with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord:
|
||
I will put my laws in their minds,
|
||
and I will write them on their hearts.
|
||
I will be their God,
|
||
and they will be my people.
|
||
11 And they will not need to teach their neighbors,
|
||
nor will they need to teach their relatives,
|
||
saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’
|
||
For everyone, from the least to the greatest,
|
||
will know me already.
|
||
12 And I will forgive their wickedness,
|
||
and I will never again remember their sins.”
|
||
13 When God speaks of a “new” covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear. |