Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Hebrews 9:1-12
by: Jerry Johnson.
Christ established a New Covenant that offers the people of God a new priesthood, new sanctuary, and new sacrifice. He is the new high priest, not after the order of Levi but of Melchizedek. His sanctuary is not earthly, built by the hands of man, but heavenly, filled with the eternal presence of God. The sacrifice that he offered is a once-for-all in the form of his own precious blood. Therefore the symbolic acts of the Old Covenant have been rendered obsolete (8:13)-although they are good for teaching the significance of the price Christ paid for our redemption.