"THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS"
Chapter Eight
Having demonstrated Jesus' superiority to prophets, angels, Moses, and
Levi, the author summarizes: we have a High Priest at God's right hand
who is Minister and Mediator of a better covenant established on better
promises (1-6). Our attention is then directed toward that New
Covenant which has replaced the Old Covenant (7-13).
POINTS TO PONDER
- The main point of all that has been said: "We have such a High
Priest..."
- The two covenants (the first and old, replaced by the second and
new)
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- What are the main points of this chapter?
- The new ministry of Christ He 8:1-6
- The new covenant of Christ He 8:7-13
- Where is our High Priest? In what does He minister? (1-2)
- Seated at the right hand of God; the sanctuary and true tabernacle
build by God
- If Jesus were on earth, what could He not be? (4)
- What served as a copy and shadow of the true tabernacle? (5)
- The earthly tabernacle Moses was instructed to build
- In what way has Jesus obtained a more excellent ministry? (6)
- He is the Mediator of a better covenant, established on better
promises
- Why was it necessary to replace the first covenant with the second?
(7-8)
- The first was not faultless; there was fault with those under the
first
- Which covenant was the first, old covenant? (9)
- That made with Israel when God led them out of Egypt (i.e., Mosaic
Covenant)
- List characteristics of God's new covenant foretold by Jeremiah.
(10-12)
- God's laws will be in their minds and written on their hearts
- He will be their God, and they shall be His people
- None shall teach his neighbor to know the Lord, for all will know
Him
- He will be merciful, and remember their sins no more
- With the new covenant, what happened to the old covenant? (13)
- It had been made obsolete, old, and ready to vanish away