Today’s passage: Hebrews 8:1-7
Helpful thoughts:
- In keeping with the theme of the letter, the writer moves on to explain the superiority of the New Covenant.
- The “true tent” in verse 2 refers to God’s presence in Heaven. The earthly tabernacle served as a picture (“A copy and a shadow of the heavenly things”).
- The Old Covenant law was not wrong, but it did not bring the people to complete sanctification. The people failed to keep it.
- More on the fault of the Old and the superiority of the New will be explained in the next passage.
Questions to consider:
- In what way does today’s passage bring us back to the main message of the whole book of Hebrews? What is this book about? What were the first century Jews needing to understand in order to move forward and persevere in faith?
- Why couldn’t Jesus have been a priest while on earth during His earthly ministry (Verse 4)? To which tribe did He belong?
- Why didn’t Jesus just become a priest and really try hard to get people to keep the Old Covenant instead of ushering in the New Covenant?