December 13. 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 was shown you on the mountain.

Hebrews 8, 1, 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, 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

praise 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 too 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,

is that our high priest is seated at the right hand of the majesty in heaven.

No Old Testament priest could ever say that.

Jesus deals directly with God the Father.

He has a place of honor beside God.

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