The Earthly Sanctuary and Its Limitations

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Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

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For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

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After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

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having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

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and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

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Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

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but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

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The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;

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which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;

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being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

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