The Epistle To The Hebrews - Executable Outlines

Mark A. Copeland
B. THE HOLIEST OF ALL... (3-5)
1. This was the part of the tabernacle behind the veil, also called “The Most Holy” - Exo 26:
31-33
2. This innermost room of the tabernacle, the holiest place in the worship of Israel, had...
a. The golden altar of incense (golden censor, KJV)
1) The golden altar of incense was actually in the Holy Place, just on the other side of
the veil separating the two rooms - Exo 30:1-10
a) On this altar sweet spices were continually burned with fire taken from the
brazen altar (which was outside the tabernacle)
b) The morning and evening services were begun by the high priest offering incense
on this altar
c) Once a year, the High Priest would take a censer of burning coals from this altar
along with incense into The Most Holy Place - Lev 16:12
2) It is appropriate to say The Most Holy Place “had” the golden altar...
a) For the smoke of the daily incense would permeate through the veil, and as such
be “a perpetual incense before the LORD” - Exo 30:8
b) The annual ceremony on the Day of Atonement connected in a tangible way the
altar of incense with The Most Holy Place - Lev 16:12
b. The ark of the covenant
1) A chest made of acacia wood, about four feet long by two and half feet high and
wide - Exo 25:10-16
2) Covered with gold, it was the most sacred thing in the tabernacle
3) In it contained...
a) The golden pot that had the manna - Exo 16:32-34
b) Aaron’s rod that budded - Num 17:1-11
c) The tablets of the covenant - Deu 10:1-5
4) Covering the ark was the mercy seat - Exo 25:17-22
a) This lid, covered with gold, was topped with two cherubim (with wings
stretched upward, and their faces “toward each other and toward the mercy
seat.”)
b) The Lord was said to appear in a cloud above the mercy seat - Lev 16:2;
Num 7:89; 2 Kin 19:5
[As stated by the author himself, “of these things we cannot now speak in detail”. But a little more is
now said regarding the ritual of the earthly sanctuary...]
II. THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY: ITS RITUAL (6-7)
A. THE RITUAL OF THE HOLY PLACE... (6)
1. Every morning and evening, the priests would go into The Holy Place “performing the
services”...
a. They would trim the lamps on the lamp stand - Exo 27:20-21
b. They would offer incense on the altar of incense - Exo 30:7-8
2. On the Sabbath, the priests would replace the show bread - Lev 25:4-9
-- But none went into The Most Holy Place during these daily services
B. THE RITUAL OF THE MOST HOLY PLACE... (7)
1. Once a year, only the high priest entered The Most Holy Place - Lev 16:2
a. On the Day of Atonement
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