9:23
The writer continues to contrast the old with the new, and along the same lines. The Law had all sorts of items and they all needed to be purified with sacrifices. These things were just copies or shadows of the real thing. So the heavenly things, which are so much better than the copies, need better sacrifices to purify them.
9:24
The tabernacle, and later the temples, were all made by human hands. How could they possibly be God’s true dwelling place. Indeed, Solomon recognised as much when he dedicated the temple (2 Chron 6:18). Christ did not enter a mere copy He entered heaven itself, and He appears in the very presence of God. See what the writer is doing. He is paralleling the Law. What the Law contained was good, but it was only a copy, it pointed forwards to what the real thing would be like.
9:25,26
Priests had to repeatedly offer sacrifices, none of the Levitical sacrifices truly purified a man. But Jesus needed to offer Himself only once. He was the perfect, once for all sacrifice. Jesus just suffered once upon the cross, and then it was finished, completed. He dealt with sin once and for all.
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