Jesus, and all that He did, was not a symbol or a shadow, but the real thing. Sometimes people talk about Jesus' death, and other aspects of His life, as being symbolic. They even talk about the resurrection as not being real, but being metaphorical. All this is nonsense. Jesus death and resurrection were completely real, and achieved concrete things.
See also that the "good things are now already here". We can start to live in the new life, in eternal life, now. It will not be fully consummated until He returns, but it starts now. The Levitical priests entered a man made tabernacle, Jesus entered heaven itself. They entered by the blood of sheep and goats, Jesus entered by His own blood.
The blood of animals did make the priests outwardly clean, it did enable them to enter the man made sanctuary. The blood of Jesus makes us inwardly clean, and allows us to approach the living God.
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