Hebrews Week 2

This was another great class. Understanding the great parable of the tabernacle and Hebrews

This Hebrews class will be a two-part class. Each class will focus on the Tabernacle and its meaning in Christ and the textual study of the Hebrews text. This week it was the Mercy Seat.

Lev 16:14 And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
Lev 16:15 "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.
Lev 16:16 Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.

Compare with:
Heb 9:5 Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
Heb 9:6 These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties,
Heb 9:7 but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.

Now look at Romans 3:25:

Rom 3:25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
(Rom 3:25 [NIV])
God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—

Notice in Romans 3:25 the word translated "propitiation" or "sacrifice of atonement" ? Well, its the Greek word MERCY SEAT !! Its the same word used in Hebrews 9:5

Accident???? I don't think so.

Our text study began in Hebrews 1.

The thrust of the text is this.....That Jesus is one with God the Father in Essence and Nature.
Heb 1:3 He is the radiance of the glory (essence) of God and the exact imprint of his nature,

As far as angels are concerned He is superior in Position and Relationship. He sits at the Fathers Right hand and He is called Son !! To none of the angels is this stated. Heb 1:5-14

He is infinitely greater than angels therefore rejecting Him has infinitely greater consequences as we will see next week.