9:11
“The good things that are now already here”. There is more to come, but there are significant “good things” that are already here, and it is Christ who has given them to us, and it is His priesthood that enables us to have them. There can be times when we are tempted to look for something else, or to ponder if we need something else. The Hebrews were wondering if they still needed parts of the Jewish religion. The Galatians were wondering if they needed to be circumcised. In such times we should consider what we already have, and why we have it. And the reason we have it is purely because of Christ.
And what did Christ do to enable us to receive these benefits? He went through the perfect tabernacle. That is not part of this creation. There is a fundamental dividing line between godly and earthly thinking. Earthly thinking, which is what Judaism was doing, looked at a man-made tabernacle. Godly thinking looks at the tabernacle that exists in heaven. We see the same thing with the differing worldviews of theism and materialism. The material worldview looks at things from a purely earthly perspective and so is badly mistaken.
9:12
The Levitical priests entered the earthly sanctuary by means of the blood of goats and calves. Jesus enter the Most Holy Place, the real tabernacle, the true presence of God, by His own blood, offered once and for all. He did not need to offer blood for His own sins, for He had none. It was offered for us, and so has redeemed us. We have eternal redemption.
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