Hebrews 9:23

Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.

Hebrews 8:5

These serve as a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tabernacle. For God said, Be careful that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.

Hebrews 9:24

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.

Luke 24:26

Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into His glory?”

Luke 24:46

He also said to them, “This is what is written: The Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead the third day,

John 14:3

If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.

Colossians 2:17

These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is the Messiah.

Hebrews 9:9-12

This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 10:1

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

Hebrews 10:4

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Hebrews 10:10-17

By this will of God, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.

1 Peter 1:19-21

but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song:

You are worthy to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
because You were slaughtered,
and You redeemed people
for God by Your blood
from every tribe and language
and people and nation.

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Summary

Hebrews 9:23

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

The patterns

The heavenly

General references

Luke 24:26

Bible References

The patterns

This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience.

These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is the Messiah.

The heavenly

But the Messiah has appeared, high priest of the good things that have come. In the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands (that is, not of this creation),

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into His glory?”

If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.

but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.

General references

Aaron’s sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar.

Then he will go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on the horns on all sides of the altar.

The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson yarn, and throw them onto the fire where the cow is burning.

The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into His glory?”