hebrews 9 commentary

in Hebrews 9:28 , "shall be seen" by all, and especially believers. . A few believers, under the Divine teaching, saw something of the way of access to God, of communion with him, and of admission into heaven through the promised Redeemer, but the Israelites in general looked no further than the outward forms. [This is Week 4 of a 5-week preaching series on Hebrews.] Chapter 9 The apostle, having declared the Old-Testament dispensation antiquated and vanishing away, proceeds to let the Hebrews see the correspondence there was between the Old Testament and the New; and that whatever was excellent in the Old was typical and representative of the New, which therefore must as far excel the Old as the substance does the shadow. Christ has sealed the testament with His blood, of which the Lord's Supper is the sacramental sign. But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. "If there had been greater efficacy in the repetition of the oblation, Christ necessarily would not have been so long promised, but would have been sent immediately after the foundation of the world to suffer, and offer Himself at successive periods" [GROTIUS]. The purification removes this element of disorder and changes God's wrath against man in heaven (designed to be the place of God's revealing His grace to men and angels) into a smile of reconciliation. In other passages, Paul clearly set himself on an equal level with the apostles and other eyewitnesses of Jesus (1 Corinthians 9:1 and 1 Corinthians 15:3-11). However, the content of the book, including the frequent references to the Hebrew Scriptures, makes it clear … gifts--unbloody oblations. God designed the earthly tabernacle as a picture of Christ (9:1-5). 9 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and m an earthly place of holiness. g. God also bearing witness: God does confirm His word with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Nothing could be clean to a sinner, not even his religious duties; except as his guilt was done away by the death of a sacrifice, of value sufficient for that end, and unless he continually depended upon it. And as interpreted by the gospel, these things are a glorious representation of the wisdom of God, and confirm faith in Him who was prefigured by them. put away--abolish; doing away sin's power as well by delivering men from its guilt and penalty, so that it should be powerless to condemn men, as also from its yoke, so that they shall at last sin no more. He is the representative man; and there is a strict correspondence between the history of man and that of the Son of man. Hebrews 9:13-28 . Our High Priest entered into heaven once for all, and has obtained eternal redemption. . unto salvation--to bring in completed salvation; redeeming then the body which is as yet subject to the bondage of corruption. as pertaining to the conscience--"in respect to the (moral-religious) consciousness." JOSEPHUS calls the outer, divided into two parts, "a secular and common place," answering to "the earth and sea"; and the inner holiest place, the third part, appropriated to God and not accessible to men. until the time of reformation--Greek, "the season of rectification," when the reality should supersede the type ( Hebrews 8:8-12 ). Compare Exodus 24:3 , "Moses told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice," &c. the blood of calves--Greek, "the calves," namely, those sacrificed by the "young men" whom he sent to do so ( Exodus 24:5 ). No longer in the alien "form of a servant," but in His own proper glory. Jesus, our chief priest. It was Christ's offering himself without any sinful stain in his nature or life. For His blood, offered by Himself, purifies not only outwardly, as the Levitical sacrifices on the day of atonement, but inwardly unto the service of the living God ( Hebrews 9:13 Hebrews 9:14 ). THOLUCK thinks the twelve loaves of the showbread represent the twelve tribes of the nation, presented as a community before God consecrated to Him (just as in the Lord's Supper believers, the spiritual Israel, all partaking of the one bread, and becoming one bread and one body, present themselves before the Lord as consecrated to Him, 1 Corinthians 10:16 1 Corinthians 10:17 ); the oil and light, the pure knowledge of the Lord, in which the covenant people are to shine (the seven (lights), implying perfection); the ark of the covenant, the symbol of God's kingdom in the old covenant, and representing God dwelling among His own; the ten commandments in the ark, the law as the basis of union between God and man; the mercy seat covering the law and sprinkled with the blood of atonement for the collective sin of the people, God's mercy [in Christ] stronger than the law; the cherubim, the personified [redeemed] creation, looking down on the mercy seat, where God's mercy, and God's law, are set forth as the basis of creation. The ashes were laid by for constant use; so the continually cleansing effects of Christ's blood, once for all shed. Article Images Copyright © 2021 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Moreover, the expression "once" for all here, and in Hebrews 9:28 , and Hebrews 10:10 Hebrews 10:12 , proves the falsity of her view that there is a continually repeated offering of Christ in the Eucharist or mass. John MacArthur (The MacArthur New Testament Commentary, Hebrews [Moody Press], p. 221) points out that the Bible only devotes two chapters to the story of creation, but it gives about 50 chapters to the tabernacle. (23-28). without spot--The animal victims had to be without outward blemish; Christ on the cross was a victim inwardly and essentially stainless ( 1 Peter 1:19 ). As in Hebrews 9:24 , Paul said, it was not into the typical, but the true sanctuary, that Christ is entered; so now he says, that His sacrifice needs not, as the Levitical sacrifices did, to be repeated. 20. The first is that the entire sacrificial system, the Aaronic priesthood, and the Tabernacle system of worship were only copies of a spiritual reality. Others, also, explaining the Greek as "covenant," consider that the death of the sacrificial victim represented in all covenants the death of both parties as unalterably bound to the covenant. Compare Exodus 24:8 (covenant), which Christ quotes, though it is probable He included in a sense "testament" also under the Greek word diathece (comprehending both meanings, "covenant" and "testament"), as this designation strictly and properly applies to the new dispensation, and is rightly applicable to the old also, not in itself, but when viewed as typifying the new, which is properly a testament. So in the redemption-covenant, the death of Jesus symbolized the death of God (?) Man's works before justification, however lifelike they look, are dead, and cannot therefore be accepted before the living God. . . Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary on Hebrews 10:1: Compare ch. The First Covenant had Ordinances of Divine Service, which means that it was of God, although meant to be temporary only. The change is here made to accord with Christ's inauguration of the new testament, or covenant, as recorded in Luke 22:20 , "This cup (is) the new Testament in My blood, which is shed for you": the only Gospel in which the "is" has to be supplied. See ALFORD'S excellent Note. The name here given, ‘the people of God,’ is … Hebrews 9:2-3 “For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were … As she was slain without the camp, so Christ (compare Hebrews 13:11 , Numbers 19:3 Numbers 19:4 ). Though one's ignorance may mitigate one's punishment ( Luke 12:48 ), it does not wholly exempt from punishment. according to the law--strictly adhering to every direction of "the law of commandments contained in ordinances" ( Ephesians 2:15 ). All Rights Reserved. . Hebrews: New Testament Commentary Series, by Ray C. Stedman. Not bearing the sin of many on Him as at His first coming (even then there was no sin in Him). [This is Week 4 of a 5-week preaching series on Hebrews.] 1. Through seeing HIM only can we see the Father. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. (9) Furthermore we have had fathers. good things to come--Greek, "the good things to come," Hebrews 10:1 ; "better promises," ( Hebrews 8:6 ; the "eternal inheritance," Hebrews 9:15 , 1 Peter 1:4 ; the "things hoped for," Hebrews 11:1 ). remission--of sins: a favorite expression of Luke, Paul's companion. 9:8,25; 13:11) and uses it for the inner or second part of the sacred tent called the Holy of Holies (cf. sprinkled . 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