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Heb 8:1-13 Chiastic Structure:
The chiastic structure highlights the Contrast between the earthly tabernacle and the heavenly; and the first covenant under Moses, and the second under Messiah Yeshua. The contrast reveals that the earthly tabernacle is a Natural Picture of the heavenly; and the first covenant is a Prophetic Type for the second.
What is better about the better covenant? In the first covenant, the Law of God was written on the tablets of stone without the man. He saw the Law, but the admonition to obey it did not change his sin nature which he inherited from Adam. In the second covenant, the Law of God is written within the man, in his mind and in his heart, so that now it is his new nature to obey it from the heart.
It is not that the Law has been discarded. Yeshua said that not one jot or tittle would pass from the Law until it was all fulfilled (Mat 5:18). But the place where the Law has been written has changed.
If there are questions, this is a good resource:
Hebrews 8, On the covenants – Christine Miller
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