This hope is like an anchor for our souls. It reaches up secure and strong into the sanctuary behind the heavenly curtain,

to officiate as priest in the sanctuary and in that true tent of worship which not man but the Lord himself set up.

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

For a tent was erected, with the lamp and the table and the presentation bread in the outer part, which was called the sanctuary.

And beyond the second curtain, in the part called the inner sanctuary,

In all this the holy Spirit was seeking to show that there was no free access to the sanctuary while the outer tent was still standing.

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,

For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands and only copied after the true one that Christ entered, but he went into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf in the very presence of God.

Nor does he go in to offer himself over and over again, like the high priest who enters the sanctuary year after year, taking with him blood that is not his own,

Since then, brothers, we have free access to the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

For the bodies of the animals whose blood is taken into the sanctuary by the high priest are burned outside the camp.