Hebrews 9:10

The Earthly Ministry Of The Old Covenant

⁹ And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God, ¹⁰ since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order. ¹¹ But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary,

Appointed Time

Better Covenant

In Me

Of the Flesh

Christ

Colossians 2:16

So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths.

Hebrews 7:16

for he is appointed not for possessing any legal physical qualifications, but by virtue of a life that cannot end.

Mark 7:4

and they will not eat anything from the market without first purifying it by sprinkling it, and they have a number of other observances which have come down to them, in the way of washing cups, pitchers, and basins.

Acts 10:13-15

And a voice came to him, "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it!"

Galatians 4:3-4

So when we were minors, we were slaves to material ways of looking at things,

Galatians 4:9

but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

Ephesians 1:10

and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ??11 the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,

Ephesians 2:15

and through his human nature put an end to the feud between us, and abolished the Law with its rules and regulations, in order to make peace and create out of the two parties one new man by uniting them with himself,

Colossians 2:20-22

If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like

Hebrews 2:5

For it was not for angels that he destined the control of that world to be, that we are speaking of.

Hebrews 6:2

with the teaching of baptism and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and final judgment.

Hebrews 6:5

and felt the goodness of the word of God and the strong influences of the coming age,

Hebrews 9:1

Even the first agreement provided regulations for worship, and a sanctuary that was fully equipped.

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water.

Hebrews 13:9

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.