The Superior Sanctuary
The Superior Heavenly Sanctuary
Hebrews 9:11-28: 11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,
by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not
of this building; 12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for
us. 13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling
the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14How much more shall the
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to
God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15And for
this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which
are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16For where a
testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17For a
testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while
the testator liveth. 18Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without
blood. 19For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according
to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool,
and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20Saying, This is the
blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 21Moreover he
sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding
of blood is no remission. 23It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things
in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ is not entered into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of God for us: 25Nor yet that he should offer himself
often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of
others; 26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world:
but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself. 27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this
the judgment: 28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto
them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.