Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hello everyone. We are here

for another episode of a year in the Bible. I am Beth and I'm here with Alexa. Hi friends. We are going to be talking

about the annotation day on Hebrews 9 24 through 26. So let me go ahead and read that for us.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands, only a model of the true one, but into heaven

itself so that he might now appear in the presence of God

for us. He did not do this to offer himself many times as the high priest enters the sanctuary

yearly with the blood of another. Otherwise, he would have had to suffer many times since the foundation

of the world. But now he has appeared one time at the end of the ages for the removal of sin by the

sacrifice of himself. So, Beth, can you tell us about how you annotated this passage? I love

this passage. I love the connections here with the Old Testament Atonement Ritual, which is actually

one of the prompts for this annotation in the study. So it asks us to notice the ways

this compares or contrast the sacrifices of the Old Testament with Jesus' sacrifice. So here are

the things that I noticed. First, I noticed that Jesus enters the heavenly sanctuary rather than

the one on earth that was built by humans, which would be the one that we read about

in Leviticus and the one we read about in Exodus. Elsewhere in Hebrews, that earthly tabernacle is

actually referred to as a shadow of the heavenly throne room, which means that whenever the people,

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