(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV]) Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I
command you.
(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV]) Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
All of the studies, book or topical, found here, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history, archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, lexicons, concordances or commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, but they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief. We do not need them. That Word of God written and preserved for us in our own language is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and the New Testament for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc. There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:
(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!
HEBREWS CHAPTER 9: TWO DIFFERENT SACRIFICES, TWO DIFFERENT RESULTS
DID YOU KNOW?
Philistine
Definition: lowbrow, cultural ignoramus, barbarian, savage, yahook bourgeois, conformist, conventionalist He's too much of a philistine to patronize the arts.
(Hebrews 9:1 [AKJV/PCE])
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Ministry to God, temporal ministry of atonement for sinful man, done by carnal, mortal, fleshy men
It is called "the first covenant", implying a second, not just "the only covenant"
The sanctuary was a pattern of things in heaven, but it was on earth, made from things of the earth and now gone, rotten in the ground
(Hebrews 9:2 [AKJV/PCE])
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
All of the priesthood, not just the high priest, had access to this
This tabernacle was to be made so that it could be disassembled, taken down, moved, reassembled in a new place, repeatedly
It was subject to anything this world can subject it to-breakage, mishandling, rain, heat, accidental burning, flooding, mildew, etc.
the one in heaven is under no such sin, ever, and is forever
(Hebrews 9:3-4 [AKJV/PCE])
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
The ark of the covenant was also known as the Ark of God or the Ark of the Testimony
Gold, perfection, costly, the rod that budded, a miracle, the tables of the commandments, the perfect law of God to man
Add to that the blood of animals and one gets atonement, for a time
(Hebrews 9:5 [AKJV/PCE])
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
The blood of animals sacrificed was sprinkled on that mercy seat, the altar, the ground around it, on the Bible, the people, etc.
It was put on Aaron and his offspring's right thumb and right ear, their garments
We use thumbs to do work, ears to hear, eyes to see-no blood in their eyes
We can be sure that Jesus had blood get into His eyes on that Cross, unable to wipe it away
We can be sure He will have blood and fire in His eyes when He returns to judge this wicked earth
MOSES, AARON, THE SPRINKLING OF BLOOD, THE OLD COVENANT
(Exodus 24:6-8 [AKJV/PCE])
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood (of oxen) he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
(Exodus 29:15-16 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
(Leviticus 16:11-18 [AKJV/PCE])
And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
¶ Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.
(Hebrews 9:6 [AKJV/PCE])
Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
Not the high priests, but the anointed and appointed priests under him
This was twice daily, not once a year
(Numbers 28:3-8 [AKJV/PCE])
And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering. The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil. It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD. And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering. And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
(Hebrews 9:7 [AKJV/PCE])
But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
For Himself, as opposed to Jesus the Messiah, "but not for Himself"
Those errors of the people were constant, as they are for us
Ours are removed, hidden in Christ the perfect, one-time (1 Peter 3:18) sacrifice, paid for, forever
So we basically have two choices, PURIFYING BLOOD (LAMB oF GOD) or PUTREFYING BLOOD (animals), because any blood from this world, sprinkled or otherwise left to its own in this air will turn and rot
(Daniel 9:26 [AKJV/PCE])
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
(Hebrews 9:8 [AKJV/PCE])
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
The Old Testament was not the only testament
The Old Covenant was not to be the only covenant
"The Holiest of All" here is certainly heaven, plus perhaps the Holy of Holies in Israel
Even WITH the tabernacle up, standing, being used, it was not the way to heaven, but a shadow, a finger, a road sign pointing the way to Jesus Christ, in this case He has already come by this writing
(Hebrews 9:9-10 [AKJV/PCE])
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and His death on the Cross is in no way the same, no way should be confused, with trying to keep the Old Testament Law or counting on one's heritage as God's Chosen to get one into Heaven
They are in no way the same, not comparable, only contrastable, polar opposites
It says right here that that did not make them perfect, did not break the bonds and chains of sin, just atoned for-for a time, not forever
They were temporarily declared forgiven of their past sins since they last did the serve, but nothing future; it was always to be repeated and never got them to heaven, just in God's favor
The difference is that Christ is at he perfect sacrifice, once for all, never to be repeated, by grace, Jew or Gentile, Blood spilled on our behalf, to purchase us to the Father, ransom the captives, creation a new congregation in the wilderness, neither Jew nor Gentile-THE CHURCH, His Body
It is similar to disciplining a child that is not yours, but in your house, under your care. They will be forgiven-until they act up again. In order to be yours, it has to be an orphan you adopt
(Hebrews 9:11-12 [AKJV/PCE])
But 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; Neither 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.
The blood of the created creation, versus The Blood of the Creator Himself
The Blood of the LORD Jesus Christ, the eternal, Holy Lamb of God is not the same as the blood of earthly animals, raised by man
Temporal forgiveness versus forever forgiveness
Some sins forgiven, for that year, versus all sins, past, present, future, all forgiven
A priest from the tribe of Levi who will one day die as a man, because he is a sinner, versus a High Priest from the tribe of Judah, who will die for others, as sinless, be raised from the dead, is still a High Priest, forever, for us
(Hebrews 9:13 [AKJV/PCE])
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
That old testament sacrifice did indeed sanctify and purify the flesh-FOR A TIME
None of that system given by God to Israel was for salvation, but for maintaining fellowship, showing the world Israel was different as a nation from them
As spotless as that lamb or goat, that heifer or bull would have been, it eventually would have died of natural causes
(Hebrews 9:14 [AKJV/PCE])
How 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?
How much longer is a lifetime versus an eternity?
How much more is all of them past, present, future, versus just a few sins of that year, for anyone?
(Hebrews 9:15-17 [AKJV/PCE])
And 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. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
When there is a testator, a will drawn, upon death, the estate, the inheritance goes to heirs
This was then and still today in law
Perfect and Holy mediator, perfect and holy covenant, perfect and holy last will and testament, perfect and holy death, burial, resurrection of the testator, perfect inheritance
Inheritances are not earned, worked for simply passed down to heirs, like our salvation
JESUS CHRIST OUR MEDIATOR
MEDIA'TOR, n. One that interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them.
By way of eminence, Christ is the mediator, the divine intercessor through whom sinners may be reconciled to an offended God. Tim.2.
Christ is a mediator by nature, as partaking of both natures divine and human; and mediator by office, as transacting matters between God and man.
(Galatians 3:19 [AKJV/PCE])
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
(Galatians 3:20 [AKJV/PCE])
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
(1 Timothy 2:5 [AKJV/PCE])
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
(Hebrews 8:6 [AKJV/PCE])
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
(Hebrews 9:15 [AKJV/PCE])
And 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.
(Hebrews 12:24 [AKJV/PCE])
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
(Hebrews 9:18 [AKJV/PCE])
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
Blood was they key, life being in that blood, for both testaments, old and new
The Blood of Christ is the saving of our souls, not just His death, for He could have died by a disease, bloodless, but God showed us from the Fall to then that it was with a blood sacrifice that we are atoned for, not just the death
But we and all of our sins are paid for in Christ's Blood, not the blood of animals
We and all of our sins are paid for in Christ's Blood, not just the fact that He died
According to the Blood deniers, Jesus could have been strangled (no blood), punched in the head until He died, maybe once or twice (no Blood), died by a plague, a disease, today cancer, heart failure, stroke, diabetes, all without blood
Jesus Christ did not just die! He died on that Cross, pierced hands and feet, shedding His Blood for us, bleeding out all of the way until dead, but only for us, and not for Himself
From the beginning, after the fall, the blood of an animal, prophesied to be One Day the Blood of the Lamb of God (slain since the foundation of the world) of a man, God in the Flesh
(Genesis 3:15 [AKJV/PCE])
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
(Genesis 3:21 [AKJV/PCE])
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
(Psalms 22:16 [AKJV/PCE])
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
(Acts 15:20 [AKJV/PCE])
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
(Acts 15:29 [AKJV/PCE])
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
(Hebrews 9:19-20 [AKJV/PCE])
For 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, Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
The blood and water signified the blood and water that came out of the LORD Jesus Christ our Saviour's pierced side after he was crucified, by the Roman soldier, for justification and sanctification, and also perhaps represented the only two sacraments of the New Testament, baptism and the Lord's supper, with scarlet wool, signifying the righteousness of Christ with which we are clothed by faith wehn we receive Christ as LORD and Saviour
Sprinkling the book first is the covenant between God and man, given by God to man, written down for him by God, and man was to agree to it
Moses read the law to them, aloud, before, and they said AMEN!
The blood he sprinkled was of sacrifices of animals which would have died naturally or been slaughtered and eaten, and this hyssop, for cleansing, scarlet wool was dyed scarlet
This was a representation, not the actual Messianic full atonement, as this was repeated by priests and the High priest
It was repeated because it had to be, because no one was declared righteous forever before a Holy God by this method; it merely was there to let them know they had to be
Purifying, cleansing, something we do when we bathe, and it does nothing for our spirit, to change our soul towards God in Heaven forever, as we will have to bathe again the next day or so, and again, and again
(John 19:34 [AKJV/PCE])
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
(1 John 5:6 [AKJV/PCE])
This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
(Hebrews 9:22 [AKJV/PCE])
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
The BLOOD is everything to the atonement for them and for us
The "almost all things" is because their sins were not completely removed from them, but were forgiven, as they sacrificed, then sinned, then sacrificed, then sinned, over and over
The "almost all things" is because no unconfessed sins are removed from them, nor forgiven, as they must be confessed, acknowledged
The "almost all things" is because no one's sins are completely removed from them, nor forgiven, automatically, as they must believe on the LORD Jesus Christ and not rely on their own works, their own "goodness" which does not exist anyways, as there is none good
That took the perfect sacrifice of the Lamb of God, the sinless sacrifice of God Himself a lamb
On top of all of that, the shedding of blood of the Lamb of God the LORD Jesus Christ alone is the one necessary ingredient without which none of it can happen, as nothing else, no one else, no works, no sacrifices, can bring us to God
REMIS'SION, n. [L. remissio, from remitto, to send back.]
Abatement; relaxation; moderation; as the remission of extreme rigor.
Abatement; diminution of intensity; as the remission of the sun's heat; the remission of cold; the remission of close study or of labor.
Release; discharge or relinquishment of a claim or right; as the remission of a tax or duty.
In medicine, abatement; a temporary subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as distinguished from intermission, in which the disease leaves the patient entirely for
a time.
Forgiveness; pardon; that is, the giving up of the punishment due to a crime; as the remission of sins. Mat 26. Heb 9.
The act of sending back. [Not in use.]
(Genesis 22:8 [AKJV/PCE])
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
(Psalms 103:12 [AKJV/PCE])
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
(Hebrews 9:23 [AKJV/PCE])
It 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.
It must never be forgotten that this Old Testament sacrificial system was a pattern only, pointing forward to their Messiah
Everything involved was a representation of something real, something (someone, the Lamb of God) coming from, to and for Israel first, then the Greek
We are those heavenly things now, purified by the Blood of Christ, the best sacrifice, the only sacrifice we need that saves, forgives, sanctifies, blesses, purges, atones, cleanses and washes us, brings us to the Father, brings us to heaven, forever
(Hebrews 9:24 [AKJV/PCE])
For 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:
Jesus was not sacrificed ceremoniously on the altar in the temple in Israel, but on a Roman cross, reserved for criminals, an insult, buried in a borrowed tomb
Jews did not sacrifice Jews or Gentiles and sprinkle their blood on the altar, around it, etc.
This was a unique sacrifice for our sins and our sin nature, followed by a Resurrection and return to Heaven, to the Father, to sprinkle His own Blood on the mercy seat in heaven, not returning to the temple in Jerusalem to sprinkle His Blood there
(Hebrews 9:25-26 [AKJV/PCE])
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For 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.
This is simply everything the author has been saying, no often, but once for all
This is the better, ultimate, only, last sacrifice of the Lamb of God slain since the foundation of the world for all-Israel, Gentiles, all of mankind
You could not do an animal sacrifice in the temple, on the altar, in the Old Testament tabernacle, in front or behind the veil, that paid for it all, one time and that was it
There was no such thing, as it had to be repeated periodically
(Hebrews 9:27 [AKJV/PCE])
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
This includes any priests in the Temple in Jerusalem then, synagogues now, pastors, shepherds, etc.
The death rate is one per person; no one gets out alive
(Hebrews 9:28 [AKJV/PCE])
So 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.
Whether at the Rapture or the Second Coming, Jesus Christ will appear again both times, without sin, to and for our salvation
He will also save Israel from her enemies at the Second Coming, to enter the Millennial Kingdom
(Zechariah 12:10 [AKJV/PCE])
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
(John 19:37 [AKJV/PCE])
And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
(Ezekiel 39:29 [AKJV/PCE])
Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
(Romans 11:26 [AKJV/PCE])
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
(Isaiah 27:9 [AKJV/PCE])
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
(Isaiah 59:20 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
CONCLUSIONS IN CHAPTER 9:
There was a place behind a first veil for priests of the Old Testament, the Old Covenant
There was a place behind a second veil for the High Priest once a year
The High Priest and priests brought sacrifices for themselves, not just others, as they were sinners
The way through the first and second veil was foretold, but not yet, until Jesus Christ came
The sacrifices of the animals and their blood was to hide sin, atone, temporarily, not forever, and saved no one bcause it was imperfect, sacrificed by imperfect people
This is why it was done yearly, every year, many times, hundreds, thousands of times
That first covenant was imperfect to temporarily atone and had to be repeated; the second perfect to save, once for all, once forever
Jesus Christ was sacrificed once for all (1 Peter 3:18), and that is sufficient
We have to come to God through Him by faith as the veil and not through a woven, sewn, scarlet veil made by mankind (works)
The purpose of all of this was clear and simple: to point the way to Christ, not to save
This was the nation of Israel looking forward; us looking at the Cross of over 2,000 years ago
