Hebrews 9.1

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

(KJV) Then verily the first [covenant] had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

(NKJV) Then indeed, even the first [covenant] had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary.

(NET) Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

When in the previous verse Hebrews said that the first cutting is nearly ready to be considered to have served its purpose, it became fitting that having said this a summary should be given of the ways in which it in fact served a purpose, and continues to, though the time is drawing near when that purpose will  have been entirely served. 

As will be seen in verse 2:

To begin with, there was a temple service that was truly a service to God. And the menorah that was a part of that service, for example, served a great purpose.

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Hebrews 9.2

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

The introduction to the Sanctuary and all within it comes through the first cutting of the covenant.    It would not be possible for us to receive any. Knowledge of the eternal Sanctuary at all if we did not have this introduction.

Hebrews 9.3

And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 

We are now prepared to learn about the work of the inner sanctuary in heaven because we have learned the language in which the Word teaches this, which is the Model given to Moshe and Israel on earth.

Hebrews 9.4

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 tables of the covenant are first and eternally in the heavenly sanctuary as well as the true ark containing them. The manna that fell upon the earth came from that heavenly ark of the one eternal covenant, as did the power that gave life to Aaron’s rod. That power is the eternal cutting of the covenant, the commandment given to Mashiach to lay down his life for Jerusalem and to take it up again. 

Hebrews 9.5

And over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. 

Living cherubim created for the ministry of mercy are above the ark of the covenant in heaven. That Hebrews says it cannot speak of the representation of these on the earth right now in a particular way means that this book represents lesson one concerning these ministry of these living cherubim framing the mercy seat in heaven. Lesson two will be taught by by Yehoshua HaMoshiah in the sanctuary in the New Jerusalem when she has descended to the earth. The mercy seat is the Throne of Grace and the very life of the sanctuary of the covenant of justice and eternal justification.

Hebrews 9.6

Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. 

The contrast of the annual service in the Holiday Of Holies is not about the shadow bot the light. It is not here given to teach us about the nature of the earthly service or to point to it as falling short.  It is a contrast given here to provide a vantage point through which our learning about the once for all service of Mashiach as High Priest will be a sanctified learning. For if we do not learn of his heavenly service in the language of the earthly service in the Mishkan and Temple, then if we think to learn about his heavenly service our learning will arise from our own reasoning and imagination and not from the instruction of God. For God has given only one instruction for learning about his priestly service and it is that which he gave in his Torah to Moshe and to Israel.   

Hebrews 9.7

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.

This statement is made essentially only to say that blood atonement is corporate in nature. There is atonement for the individual only if there is atonement for the corporate body. The individual may be moved to seek forgiveness and atonement on account of their conscience and sense of personal responsibility, but the cannot stand before God on the basis a private personal self definition. They can only stand before God on the basis of God’s definition of them. And God’s definition of them nullifies their definition of themselves. God has defined every person born into the world as a part of Adam, and every Jew born into the world as a part of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Therefore blood atonement must be made for the corporate body or there can be no atonement for the individual person. This is the lesson that the High Priest first made atonement for themselves as a representative corporate head and for the people as a whole. It was then through faith in The atonement for them as one that they received atonement as many.

Hebrews 9.8

The Holy Spirit in this way signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 

 On the level of corporate conscience All Israel knows this.

The Holy Spirit in this way signifying... to those involved...that they were involved in forming the perfectly worded question, so that when the question was perfectly worded the true answer could then become revealed, as it would be apparent to those who had sought for it as one corporate body all their lives according to the instruction of God.

Hebrews 9.9

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 as an earthly sanctuary was meant to be a figure/shadow/exact reflection in form and service of the heavenly, in the way that a perfectly worded question is an exact reflection of the answer. Just so, when the question is coming close to being perfectly worded it is right then that it is unsatisfied with itself, for it is only the question and it demands an answer! This is the children of Israel and their corporate service through their Kohen Gadol. How can the perfectly worded question of atonement make the conscience perfect?

The Mishkan and its service was given to the children of Israel to inform them that God had forgiven them for the sin of the golden calf. What is this form of the assurance of forgiveness? It is the form that says I forgive you. You can now approach me in a manner that can lead to full reconciliation between us.

Hebrews 9.10

Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 

One Human Body

Which operated only through the koshering by the Word Of God of foods and drinks, with proper washings and ordinances concerning bodily functions, which were mandated from heaven in accordance with the claim laid upon the one body of Adam by the Creator of Adam for redemption out of the sin and death of Adam, to perfect that claim in every aspect of human nature in its world, until the time came for the redemption of that claim.

Hebrews 9.11

But Moshiah 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; 

The Mishkan of Re-creation

The good things to come is the heavenly sanctuary when it is fully the dwelling place of the Holy Creator in the heart of Jerusalem come down to earth from Above. This is the place which Moshiah is preparing by means of being the firstborn and life of Abraham raised from the dead and so the firstborn soul of God, the one who is in his own person the redemption of God’s claim upon the one body of Adam.

Hebrews 9.12

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. 

entered not to obtain, but having obtained...,for Jerusalem

Verb - Second Aorist Middle Participle - Nominative Singular Masculine > “having obtained” is the correct translation.

This is not like the case of the priestly service of the promise, when the priest would enter seeking forgiveness as a promise of full reconciliation to come.  This was the beginning of the full reconciliation for the corporate body. Therefore it was  not sought by entering the sanctuary but was brought into the sanctuary in order to be extended into every part of the body.` 

Hebrews 9.13

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh: 

Sanctifies = testifies by the word of God

The priestly service performed according to the Word Of God accomplished the sanctification and cleansing consistent with the promise with the very certainty and faithfulness of the Word Of God itself. Since this was so, how much more will the fulfillment of the promise manifest the glorious grace of the Word Of God in those in whom it is made manifest!

Hebrews 9.14 

How much more shall the blood of Moshiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 

Your conscience = plural....

dead works ---> works that are unable to bring about the resurrection of the dead =

All Israel shall be regenerated

Hope in accordance with a promise ignites first in the isolated individual where the isolation is causing the greatest darkness of existential loneliness. So far as there is communal righteousness the promise spreads the flame of hope. But the conscience in the individual cannot be purified entirely without the conscience of the whole corporate body as one being purified. Therefore the corporate atonement must be made in one sanctified body in Moshiah in order for the conscience of one and all to be entirely purified forever.

Hebrews 9.15

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. 

According to his sacrifice the body is dead.... To God, with the death of Moshiah the whole world is dead.

He turned their failure into a holy death, and a new cutting of the covenant.

New Testament should be new cutting of the covenant. First testament is first cutting of the covenant, which was cut using the death of animals to represent and symbolize the one promised to come.    See notes on verse 16.

Hebrews 9.16

For where a testament is there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 

Hebrews here speaks as knowing that is commonly understood in, if not the Jewish community at large in that day, then at least in the Jewish community of those hearing or reading these words, that two special conditions were involved in the cutting of the covenant with the fathers and with Israel as the nation brought up out of Egypt. 1.) It was not a covenant cut to seal an agreement between two equal partners, but was a covenant of promise cut by the will and decree of one party to the covenant to the other party to the covenant. 2.) That the one decreeing this covenant of promise be cut was making representation for the one whom he was promising would fulfill the covenant being cut.

In this form of a decreed covenant of promise the one decreeing that the covenant be cut is a testator. He testifying by his covenant to the certainty of the fulfillment of his promise. By his decree he is the one cutting the covenant with and for the sake of the other. This form of testimony made through the cutting of a covenant need only be accepted and its promises received. Only if it is no longer accepted and its promises rejected by a refusal to be any longer party to the cutting of the covenant can the covenant be broken by the party with whom it was cut.

Hebrews 9.17

For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all the while the testator liveth. 

This clearly applies to a last will and testament. Hebrews is stating that this was the nature of the first cutting of the covenant to be fulfilled in the death of Mashiach.  And it was fulfilled in a manner that cut the covenant anew. We will see what the conditions of the new cutting were.

Hebrews 9.18

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. 

The first cutting of the covenant was a cutting with blood because it was the substance of the testimony that the claim of God upon Adam in His love for His Son that the Son would justify life through giving himself for Israel in acknowledging the necessity of the corporate sentence of death for Adam.

Hebrews 9.19

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 hysop,  and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

He stood as the First Torah Witness...with Elijah to return as the Second Torah witness, (see later notes)

Hebrews 9.20

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you." 

The covenant, cut through the mediation of Moses, was a last Will and testament of God,to be fulfilled by one who testified on behalf of God. When Moshiah did this the will in the form of the new cutting of the covenant was made anew with Israel through his mediation instead of that of Moses. 

The blood of Moshiah becomes a last will and testament when he is made the heir of Abraham who is made the heir of Adam and in this capacity satisfies the Justice of God in acceptance and honouring the sentencing of Adam as corporate death, which the first aspect of the calling of Abraham. This is why Israel is married to Mashiach by the Torah unto death, as referred to in Romans 7. For this testament was a covenant of redemption for Abraham.

Hebrews 9.21

Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 

The vessel of the earthly Mishkan itself being the vessel of the testimony of promise in the witness of Moshe to the death of Moshiah.

Hebrews 9.22

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 

For without The shedding of blood is no remission of sin either on the word of the covenant of promise or on the word of the covenant of the fulfillment of the promise.

Hebrews 9.23

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. 

Why is Hebrews setting to rest concerns about the need for a continued Levitical service? There is a concern about the continued unbelief and unrepentance in Israel toward Moshiah. The objective, however, is simply illuminate the mind concerning the present work of preparation of the Place that Moshiah is doing. Illuminating this will also answer any concern about the testimony of the priesthood of the promise. 

Hebrews 9.24

For Moshiah 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: 

This is where the Shechinah and the Father are one. Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.

Hebrews 9.25

Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 

Just as his presence on the cross was prayer for Jerusalem. So his presence in heaven is God’s constant answer to that prayer. 

Hebrews 9.26

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. 

Then must he have suffered over and over. It is not to show such a thing that there is a You Kippur yearly. The remembrance is yearly so long as the resurrection is not yet come for all Israel. But the atonement is one.

Hebrews 9.27

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 

Appointed unto Adam once to die. Appointed unto all people everywhere and in all times to die in Adam and accordingly come to judgment... so...There is necessarily one in whom we can come into the justification of life.

Hebrews 9.28

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. 

So Moshiah was once offered...

Romans 5

While there may those who do not know how to look for him, there are those who do know how to hear Romans 5 and Hebrews.