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Book: Hebrews 9:1-28

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A Priesthood of Believers

How the tabernacle’s design informs believers about their present priesthood
For all of the anxiety that the Israelites—people and priests alike—must have felt in those moments before the high priest entered the holy place on that day, there was most certainly also a kind of relief to everyone after he reappeared from the tabernacle. After all, it was not by his mere entrance into the second tabernacle that the priest obtained peace, but by the high priest’s reappearance from there.
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A Better Kind of Priest

How the tabernacle's design confirms Christ's superior priesthood
In other words, for all the real anxiety that would have attended the high priest’s entrance into the far end of the tabernacle, it actually predicted a situation in which there would be no anxiety, but joy and glory in the service of God. That was the situation for which man had been first created; but after the Fall, that reality would only be accomplished by the Lord’s death, burial, and resurrection. One important point of the Day of Atonement was to proclaim how that joy and glory would be reclaimed by a death.
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