Read Hebrews 7 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
Heb 7:1-28 Chiastic Structure (and Expanded Chiasm pdf):
With Yeshua as our High Priest, we have a better hope, and are living in a better covenant. It is not that the “old” covenant has passed away–Paul taught us that a covenant enacted later cannot nullify a covenant which was ratified earlier (Gal 3:17). But that covenant, by providing Natural Pictures of tabernacle, sacrifices, congregation, and priesthood, prophetically foreshadowed the better covenant. In our better covenant, instead of the blood of bulls and goats needing to be offered daily to atone for sins, the blood of Messiah Yeshua was offered once for all to atone for sins (Heb 7:27). In our better covenant, instead of the Law of God being written without us on tablets of stone, that same Law is now written within us by the power of the Holy Spirit, on the tablets of our hearts (Heb 7:27). Obedience to the Law does not solve man’s fundamental problem of the sin nature, but the new birth in Messiah Yeshua does solve it, thus the better covenant and the better hope.
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