# Hebrews 09 📖: The Blood of the New Covenant [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Hebrews Overview]] | [[Hebrews 08]] | [[Hebrews 10]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### The Arrangement and Ritual of the Earthly Sanctuary **Principle**: Explaining God's Earthly Throne room to explain what Jesus did. [[#Verse 01.]] Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.  [[#Verse 02.]] For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the Holy Place.  [[#Verse 03.]] And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.  [[#Verse 04.]] It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.  [[#Verse 05.]] And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.  [[#Verse 06.]] So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.  [[#Verse 07.]] But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance. [[#Verse 08.]] The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the Holy Place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.  [[#Verse 09.]] This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.  [[#Verse 10.]] They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came. ### Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary **Principle**: Jesus fulfills the Law [[#Verse 11.]] But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,  [[#Verse 12.]] and he entered once for all into the Most Holy Place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.  [[#Verse 13.]] For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,  [[#Verse 14.]] how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God. [[#Verse 15.]] And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.  [[#Verse 16.]] For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.  [[#Verse 17.]] For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.  [[#Verse 18.]] So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.  [[#Verse 19.]] For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,  [[#Verse 20.]] and said, “**_This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep_**.” [[Exodus 24]] [[#Verse 21.]] And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.  [[#Verse 22.]] Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.  [[#Verse 23.]] So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.  [[#Verse 24.]] For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands—the representation of the true sanctuary—but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.  [[#Verse 25.]] And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,  [[#Verse 26.]] for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.  [[#Verse 27.]] And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,  [[#Verse 28.]] so also, after Christ was offered once to _bear_ _the sins of many_, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Hebrews 9:2-5 describes the tabernacle's lampstand, table, bread of the presence, and the ark of the covenant. 2. The ark held a golden jar of manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant (9:4). 3. "Mercy seat" (9:5) translates *hilasterion*, the place of atonement on the ark. 4. The high priest entered the Most Holy Place only once a year, on the Day of Atonement (9:7; Leviticus 16). 5. "The ashes of a young cow" (9:13) refers to the cleansing ritual in Numbers 19. 6. Hebrews 9:16-17 plays on the double meaning of *diatheke*: a covenant and a will that takes effect at death. 7. Moses sprinkled blood to confirm the covenant at Sinai (9:19-20; Exodus 24:8). 8. "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" (9:22) reflects Leviticus 17:11. 9. The phrase "once for all" is a key theme in Hebrews (7:27; 9:12; 10:10). 10. The ark of the covenant disappeared after the Babylonians destroyed the temple in 586 BC, and the Most Holy Place of the second temple stood empty. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the high priest who entered the holy place once for all by His own blood, securing eternal redemption (9:12). We were redeemed by His precious blood (1 Peter 1:18-19), and He will appear a second time to bring salvation. ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. The layout of the tabernacle limited access to God (9:6-8). What does that show about God's holiness? 2. Christ's blood purifies our consciences from dead works (9:14). What does it look like to live with a cleansed conscience? 3. People die once and then face judgment, but Christ will appear a second time (9:27-28). How does that hope shape the way you live? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verses 11-12: Christ entered once for all into the holy place by His own blood and secured eternal redemption. - 📖 verse 14: The blood of Christ purifies our consciences from dead works to worship the living God. - 📖 verse 22: Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. - 📖 verses 27-28: People die once and then face judgment, but Christ will appear a second time to bring salvation. ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [[Leviticus 16#Verse 15.|Leviticus 16:15-16]] - The Day of Atonement. - 🔗 [[Exodus 24#Verse 08.|Exodus 24:8]] - The blood of the covenant. - 🔗 [[Leviticus 17#Verse 11.|Leviticus 17:11]] - The life is in the blood. - 🔗 [[Numbers 19#Verse 09.|Numbers 19:9]] - The ashes of the red heifer. - 🔗 [[1 Peter 01#Verse 18.|1 Peter 1:18-19]] - Redeemed by the precious blood of Christ. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Hebrews 09 - SOAP|No One Gets Out of This Alive]] ## 📂 Internal Notes