The chief point (or, "the main point," as it says in my New King James in the first verse of this chapter) is that Christ, our High Priest, is shown functioning in the office of High Priest from heaven. You will notice that contrast is being produced in this chapter through the illustrations that are given. And what he is showing is that something that has come into our lives is better—it is superior—to anything that has preceded it. The covenant is superior. The priesthood is superior. The High Priest is imminently, endlessly, infinitely superior to anything that has ever existed on earth. The best that had existed in that category, up until that time, had been the priesthood—or the high priesthood—of the religion that God gave to Moses.
The word "true" is not wrong. However, in modern English, we would say that now we are dealing with the real thing. There are, in biblical usage, two worlds. There is the real world—i.e., spiritual, eternal. There is that world that is going to last forever and has been forever. And then there is the temporal world—the corporate world, the world of which we now are a part. That world, though it may appear real to our eyes, is something that is passing. It is not something that is to last.
So our spiritual High Priest, operating out of spiritual headquarters—He is the Administer of the sanctuary of the real (spiritual, eternal) tabernacle. We, then, have made a spiritual covenant with God.
Now we have something that is even better than the pattern that God gave to Moses on Mt. Sinai. We have the reality! I want to draw your attention to verse 2.
The word "true" is not wrong. However, in modern English, we would say that now we are dealing with the real thing. There are, in biblical usage, two worlds. There is the real world—i.e., spiritual, eternal. There is that world that is going to last forever and has been forever. And then there is the temporal world—the corporate world, the world of which we now are a part. That world, though it may appear real to our eyes, is something that is passing. It is not something that is to last.
So our spiritual High Priest, operating out of spiritual headquarters—He is the Administer of the sanctuary of the real (spiritual, eternal) tabernacle. We, then, have made a spiritual covenant with God.
