BLESSINGS IN CHRIST'S NEW COVENANT LIVING

MY Dear Precious Child, Paul very adequately described the layout of the earthly Jewish tabernacle and sanctuary as a way to explain and identify My heaven and its magnificent glory as being the place for total salvation. He described the old covenant as having regulations for worship as an earthly sanctuary. He identified the outer construction of the tabernacle, or church, as an outer part of a building in which were the lamp stand, the table and the showbread and it was called the holy place. He described behind the second veil in the tabernacle as the holy of holies in which there were the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant entirely covered with gold. In the ark were the golden jar containing the manna, the rod of Aaron which had blossomed and the tablets of the covenant. Above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of forgiveness of sins. In his letter he could not fully describe each thing in detail but they were the instruments of worship. In performing their services, the priests used to go into the outer tabernacle constantly but only the high priest could go into the holy of holies once a year with the blood that he offered for himself and for the people. The Holy Spirit had showed by the arrangement that while the tabernacle was still standing, the way into the sanctuary had not yet been revealed. The arrangement also signified that while the first tabernacle was still standing that the way into the sanctuary would not yet be revealed until Christ Jesus came to earth and died for sins. It was indicative of the present time in which gifts and sacrifices could never make perfect the conscience of the worshipers, but they could only cleanse in matters of food and drink and other ritual washings which were regulations on the flesh that were imposed until the time of My new covenant which became a completely new order for the people and the earth. (Hebrews 9:1-10) Paul wrote that when Christ came as high priest of good things to come, He entered once and for all into the heavenly sanctuary, passing through the more perfect tabernacle which was not made by human hands, not belonging to the world. He entered, not with the blood of goats and calves, but instead with His own blood so as to achieve eternal redemption for the world. If the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of heifer's ashes had sanctified the people who are defiled so that their flesh is cleansed, how much more does the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself up unblemished to Me, having cleansed your own conscience from dead works in order to worship Me, the Living God. That is why Christ is the mediator of a new covenant since His death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions committed under the old covenant so that those people who are called by Me may receive My promised eternal inheritance. Where there is a will and a testament, there must first be the death of a person and the will and testament only becomes legal when the death is confirmed. It has no legal grounds while the person is still alive. Therefore, not even the blood of the first testament was inaugurated without blood being shed. (Hebrews 9:11-22) When Moses read all of the commandments of the law to the people, he sprinkled the book with the blood of goats and calves mixed with water, hyssop and crimson wool saying. "This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined upon you." He also sprinkled the tabernacle and all of the vessels of worship with blood, cleansing them. According to the Jewish religious law almost everything is purified by blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Under the old covenant, it was necessary that the copies of the actual heavenly sanctuary and tabernacle be purified in that way, but the new covenant heavenly realities themselves call for better sacrifices than the blood of goats and calves. (Hebrews 9:23-24) Christ Jesus did not enter into a sanctuary in the earth which was made with human hands, which were a mere replica of the true one. Instead, He entered into heaven itself so that He might appear before Me on behalf of all people. He didn't have to offer himself year after year like the high priests entered with blood that was not their own. If it had been so, He would have had to suffer death over and over again since the creation of the world. But, Paul wrote, that Christ was offered as a sacrifice once and for all to take away the sins of the world and He will appear again not to take away sins, but instead to bring complete salvation to the people who eagerly wait for him at the death of their bodies. (Hebrews 9:25-28) Christ Jesus made it possible for My children who are born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit to enter also into the holy of holies and approach Me at My throne on high as My children who have been made holy and cleansed by My Holy Spirit living inside of them. My new covenant that brought My kingdom of God into the lives of people on earth was a magnificent plan that has worked and continues to work completely, allowing people to approach Me without guilt or fear but instead with confidence as My child. Your Father of the Son Who Died For the Sins of the World.