December 13th, the final reality is here.

Now the point in what we are saying is this,

we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven,

a minister in the holy places in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man.

They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things.

For when Moses was about to erect the tent,

he was instructed by God saying,

see that you make everything according to the pattern that will show you on the mountain.

Hebrews 8, 1 and 2 and 5.

We've seen it before, but there's more.

Christmas is the replacement of shadows with the real thing.

Hebrews 8, 1 and 2 and 5 is a kind of summary statement.

The point is that the one priest who goes between us and God

and makes us right with God and prays for us to God

is not an ordinary, weak, sinful, dying priest as in the Old Testament days.

He is the son of God, strong, sinless with an indestructible life.

Not only that, he is not ministering in an earthly tabernacle with all its limitations of place

and size while getting worn out and being moth eaten and being soaked and burned and torn and stolen.

No, Hebrews 8, 2 says that Christ is ministering for us in a true tent that the Lord set up,

not man. This is not the shadow, it's the real thing in heaven.

This is the reality that cast a shadow on Mount Sinai for Moses to copy.

According to Hebrews 8, 1, another great thing about the reality which is greater than the shadow

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