(Through the Bible) Hebrews 9-10 — Chuck Smith

The New Covenant Written on the Heart

Hebrews chapter 9, in the 8th chapter of the book of Hebrews, he makes mention of the prophecy in Jeremiah where God said that in those days He was going to make a new covenant with the people, not like the old which was written on the tables of stone, but he was going to write his law on the fleshly tablets of their hearts.

Now in the declaration that God is going to make this new covenant, it means that the first covenant then would be set aside in order that he might establish the new covenant. And when Jesus took the emblems of Passover, he said, this cup is a new covenant in my blood which is shed for the remission of sins.

So the old covenant had the remission of sins through the offering of the sacrifices by the priest and on the day of atonement by the high priest. But God has established a new covenant now, not written on the tables of stone, but God writes his law right on the fleshly tablets of our hearts.

So the first covenant has been set aside that God might inaugurate this new covenant through Jesus Christ. So going on still in chapter nine, carrying over the thought of chapter eight, he is still talking about this new covenant relationship that we have with God and contrasting it with that first covenant that was under the law.

Remember the covenant under the law, God said, and if they will do them, they shall live by them. The first covenant of the law was, if you will obey me in all of these statutes, then I will be your God.

And the first covenant was established upon man's obedience and man's faithfulness. The new covenant, it is established upon God's faithfulness, the work that God has wrought for us through Jesus Christ.

The old covenant failed not because it was not good, not because it did not declare the truth, but it failed because man was weak and did not live by it. The new covenant is established forever because it is the covenant that is predicated upon God's faithfulness and surely God is faithful.

The Tabernacle and Its Holy Places

So then verily, verse one, the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary. So in that first covenant God established with Moses, he was to build the tabernacle and they were to have sacrifices offered within the tabernacle and there was to be the worship of God there within the tabernacle by the priest.

For there was a tabernacle made, the first wherein was the candlestick and the table and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary or often called the holy place in the Old Testament. So first of all in this tabernacle, this tent that was made, it was 45 feet long and 15 feet wide, 15 feet tall, sort of a box-shaped tent, not a pitch tent like we usually think of, but more box-shaped, 15 feet at the corners tall and 45 feet long, 30 feet wide.

Now it was the inner part of the tent was divided into two sections. As you first entered into the tent from the veil that faced towards the east, the first thing that you would come upon in this room, it was 30 feet long and 15 feet wide.

Over on your right hand side would be a table, the table of showbread. On the table were 12 loaves of bread, one loaf representing each of the tribes of Israel. Before you and in front of the veil that went into the next room in the tent, there was the altar of incense where the priest would come and offer the incense which was representative of the prayers of the people, he would offer them unto God.

On the left hand side as you came in the veil of the first tent or the first room within the tent, there was this lampstand with seven branches out of it and it was lit. There were little cups of oil and they would put the wicks in the oil and it was the light in this portion of the tent.

Now these things are all representative of things that are in heaven. So in the menorah or the lampstand with seven cups coming out of the one branch, you have the symbol of the sevenfold or complete working of the Holy Spirit.

You have of course the altar of incense. So he talks here that in the first part of it, the candlestick, the table with the showbread which is called the sanctuary or the holy place. Now after you then went into the second veil, it was called the holy of holies or translated here, the holiest of all.

It had a golden censer and the Ark of the Covenant that was overlaid round about with gold wherein was the golden pot that had manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the covenant. This Ark of the Covenant surely would be an interesting artifact to find.

I don't know if I want to touch it if I found it but within it they preserved a jar of the manna that God fed their fathers with in the wilderness. They preserved also Aaron's rod that budded whereby God affirmed Aaron's family to be the high priestly family, the Aaronic order established.

And then also, and this is what I would absolutely love to see, the two tables of stone upon which God put the Ten Commandments. Oh, wouldn't that be an exciting thing to behold. And so this was in the Ark of the Covenant and it was the basis of the covenant of God with the nation.

Their obedience to the law and to the priesthood service under Aaron the high priest. Over this were the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat. Now again, these are all a model of what the throne of God in heaven is like surrounded by the cherubim.

And he said we cannot speak at this particular time about these things. Now when these things were thus ordained, the priest went always into the first tabernacle accomplishing the service of God. So daily the priest would go into this first part of the tent.

Once a week they would change the loaves of bread on the table of showbread. Daily they would change and fill the oil in the cups and trim the wicks and so forth because God wanted that this light should burn before him continually.

And then they would come and offer the prayers of the people. These little golden bowls that they would have incense in and when they had lit the fire and all for the sacrifices outside, they would take live coals or burning coals out of the fire, put them in these little bowls of incense and then they would go in and these little bowls were on chains and they would go in and they would swing this incense before the altar there and it was the symbol of the prayers of the people ascending before God.

And this they did daily. There were a certain number of sacrifices and types of sacrifices that had to be offered every day. And then of course during the day, the hundreds of people that would come with their various types of sacrifices to offer unto God.

And so the priest was kept busy all day long in these offerings unto the Lord as well as the regular times of prayer when he would go before the Lord. And all you remember in the Gospel of Luke, it tells how that the father of John the Baptist, Zacharias, was a priest after the course of Abia and it was his duty at this particular time to offer the prayers and the incense before the altar of the Lord.

And they would usually serve, the priest would serve one month out of the year. They had a good thing going. So then the rest of the year they would go back to their homes and be with their families and all.

While Zacharias was offering the incense before the altar of the Lord, Gabriel appeared unto him and informed him that his wife Elizabeth in her old age was to bear a son. He was to be the forerunner of the Messiah.

So you can read a little bit about the service of God there within this holy place which was outside of the Holy of Holies. But into the second, that is the holiest of all or the Holy of Holies, went the high priest alone once every year and not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people.

The Day of Atonement and the Blood of Sacrifice

Now the Holy of Holies, where man met God, was off limits to everyone except the high priest. He went in there only one day a year, the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, which happened to be yesterday. However, with no tabernacle or no temple, they have changed Yom Kippur from the Day of Atonement to the Day of Reflection.

But the high priest would go in only this one day and he would go in twice in the one day. He would first of all have to bathe and then he would offer an ox for his own sins as a sacrifice for his sins.

And he would go into the Holy of Holies with the blood of the ox that he had sacrificed for his own sins. And he was to sprinkle then the blood on the mercy seat in a special order. Seven times in front of the mercy seat and put it on the corner and all.

And there was this, there was a regular routine. The 16th chapter of Leviticus tells about the Day of Atonement and the things that the high priest had to do on that day. Having offered then the blood of the ox for his own sins, he would go back outside, bathe, change his clothes, and then they would take two goats and they would cast lots on the two goats.

And the one upon which the lot fell was to be slain and offered before God for the sins of the nation. The other goat was to be led by one of the priests out into the wilderness area and turn loose. So they would confess the sins of the nation on these two goats.

The one would then be slain and the high priest for the second time would go into the Holy of Holies. And he would offer then for the sins of the nation on this one day, the first goat that upon which the lot had fallen.

The other goat being led into the wilderness, having the sins confessed upon it, led into the wilderness, turned loose to run free, to get lost really. And the idea is the sacrifice for sins, the putting away of sins by the sacrifice, but then actually the separation from our sins, the goat being turned loose and disappearing in the wilderness.

How God has put away our sins and they're not to be remembered again. And so the two goats, the one being slain, the other being turned loose into the wilderness. Now into the second, the Holy of Holies went the high priest alone once every year and not without blood, which he offered first for himself and then the second time for the sins of the people.

The Holy Spirit was thus signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first tabernacle was still standing. As long as the tabernacle was there and standing, the approach to God directly by man was impossible.

And this bore witness to the fact that man just could not come directly to God. There was this heavy veil that separated man from God. Now it is significant that when Jesus was crucified, we read that this veil in the temple was torn from the top to the bottom.

God ripped the thing. Had man ripped it, it would have been from the bottom to the top. But God ripped the veil at the death of Jesus Christ, signifying that the way into the presence of God is now available for all man.

You and I can come now into the presence of God through Jesus Christ, this glorious sacrifice for our sins, and we can enter ourselves right into the very presence of God through his work on our behalf.

And so as long as the first tabernacle stood, the Holy Spirit was signifying that the way into the holiest, into the very presence of God, was not yet manifested or open to man, which was a figure, that is the tabernacle, for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience, which stood only in meats and drinks and in diverse washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of the change, the reformation that is that was wrought by Jesus Christ.

But Christ, being come and high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

So the contrast is the high priest had to go in every year to offer first the offerings for his own sin and then to offer for the sins of the people. And every year he had to do this. But Jesus once went into not the tabernacle made with hands, but entered into heaven itself, of which the earthly tabernacle was just the model.

He entered into heaven itself and not with the blood of goats or of calves, but with his own blood he entered into that presence of God, having obtained eternal redemption for us. And so with his own blood he was then both the sacrifice and the sacrificer.

He was both the offering and the one who offered. Now, you would bring your offering to the priest, he would offer it for you. Jesus became both the offering itself and the one who offered the offering unto God in entering into the presence of God with his own blood and thus redeemed man.

For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean would sanctify it to the purifying of the flesh, how much more so the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Now, as he points out the weakness of the sacrifices made by the priest is that they could not really give us a clear conscience. They were a reminder of our sins and the fact that they had to do it every year made us constantly conscious of our guilt.

But Jesus Christ has now purified our consciences in that he is once and for all entered in to make an atonement for us and our with his blood and thus having offered himself without spot. Now, when they brought a lamb to God, God wouldn't accept the castoffs.

You know, here's an old cow that's about ready to die. Well, you know, let's see if we can get some good out of it. Let's give it to God, you know. It's tragic really that so many times man wants to give the castoffs to God.

I can't use it anymore and might as well give it to God, you know. No good around here. I read of a farmer one time who came in to breakfast and announced to his wife that their cow had had twin calves.

And he said, I'm so excited about it. I'm going to give one to the Lord and keep one for myself. And she said, oh, I think that's a great idea. And so as the calves are growing up, he kept announcing when they were old enough to sell, one of them belonged to God and one belonged to him.

She said, well, which one's the Lord's? He said, it doesn't make any difference. You know, one's the Lord's, one's mine. So he would never put the finger on one of them being the Lord's or one of his.

They're just both, you know, both the same. But one morning he came in, he said, terrible thing happened. He said, God's calf died. God wouldn't accept the castoffs. He said, when you offer a lamb, it has to be without spot.

Now a spot was an inherent defect in a lamb. It also had to be without blemish. Blemish was an acquired defect. A lamb born with spots, that was a genetic thing. A lamb with blemishes, that was as the result of an encounter with a wolf or, you know, falling down a cliff or some getting caught and blemished.

So the lamb that was offered had to be both without the inherent defects and without acquired defects, without spot and blemish. Peter said, for we are redeemed, not with corruptible things, such as silver and gold, from our empty manner of life, but with the precious blood of Jesus Christ, who was a lamb without spot and without blemish.

It can really only be said of Jesus that he was without spot. He was born without the sinful nature. He had no inherent sin in him. It is an interesting thing that they have discovered that the gene factors that make up a blood in the child come basically from the father.

Therefore, the gene factors creating the blood in Jesus Christ coming from the father came directly from God and was not spotted by the inherent defectiveness in man. Jesus not only was born pure, he remained pure.

He was without blemish. And so he only could qualify as a sacrificial lamb. You see, you could never qualify as a sacrificial lamb before God. We were born with spots. But even if we weren't, we've acquired blemishes and thus we would not be fit to be a sacrifice for sin.

But Jesus, without spot or blemish, offered himself to God that he might cleanse your conscience from the dead works that you might serve the living God. Now there are people who are still trying to please God with their works.

They're still seeking to offer God the works of their hands. And unfortunately, that is exactly what the Jews are doing today. Yesterday, the Day of Atonement, there were no sacrifices for sins. There were no offerings.

There were no lambs that were slain. There were no goats or bulls. But what they did was sit in their home and reflect upon their lives and upon all of their good works. And they reflected also on their evil connivings.

But as they reflected, they prayed that God would accept their good works and overlook their evil. And as long as their good works could overbalance their evil, they felt comfortable. Of course, all of them, or not all of them, many of them were racing around this past week trying to do a lot of good works so that it would be a comfortable day for them yesterday.

Jesus Christ has purged us from these dead works that we might serve the living God. And for this cause, He is the mediator of the New Covenant. Now the high priest was the one who was the mediator in the Old Covenant, but Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

So Christ has become the mediator. This cup is the New Covenant in my blood shed for the remission of sins, the New Testament. That by His death, He has made the redemption for our transgressions that were committed under the First Covenant, under the law.

That we who have been called then might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Now back in verse 12, we had eternal redemption and now the eternal inheritance for those that are eternally redeemed.

How glorious it is, this eternal inheritance. Peter said, thank be unto God who has caused us to be born again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. To an inheritance that is incorruptible, undefiled, and fades not away that's reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith.

So this eternal inheritance that is ours in Christ. Paul the Apostle prayed for the Ephesians. They might know what is the hope of their calling. If you only knew the glories that God has in store for you in His eternal kingdom as you are the heirs of this eternal inheritance.

The Covenant Made Effective by Christ’s Death

Now where a testament is, or where there is a will, there must of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead. Otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

So a person who makes out a will, the will does not come into force until they die. They've made out their last will and testament. This is what I want done with my things after I'm gone. But that will does not come into effect.

It does not have any force until after the person who has made it is dead. Then it comes into force. So Jesus established the covenant, but by his death the covenant came into force. So that we are now in that glorious covenant.

Christ having died, the covenant now comes in force and is a, it is something that we now benefit from because of the death of Christ. Now neither the first covenant was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and he sprinkled both the book and all the people saying, this is the blood of the testament which God has enjoined unto you.

Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all of the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the law purged or cleansed with blood. And without the shedding of blood is no remission.

What an important declaration. When Moses established the whole thing, he killed the blood and he killed the goats. He mixed it with water, the blood and he sprinkled the people and he sprinkled the book and he sprinkled the whole place as if to set it apart.

And this is God's testament and it's now enforced and enforced by the blood that has been shed. A blood covenant. And it was through the blood that everything was cleansed. The Bible speaks about the blood of Jesus Christ cleansing us from all sins.

So these things, the testament then being enforced, the shedding of the blood, it now comes in force. He said, for without the shedding of blood there is no remission. That is no remission of sins. That is where I have great difficulty with the very devout Jews of the present day.

I have no doubt or question of their sincerity. I believe that they do love God and I believe that they're very sincere in their worship of God. However, I cannot agree that by their works they can atone for their sins.

That is totally against the scripture. So as I view it, they have one great problem and that's the great problem that plagues all men. The problem of sin. What do I do about my guilt? If there is no temple, if there are no sacrifices, if there is no shedding of blood, then how are their sins remitted or how can they be remitted if without the shedding of blood there is no remission?

So that to me is the great problem that every Jew would have to face because they are not keeping God's first covenant that he established with them. Of course they reject the second covenant but they're not keeping the first and thus having set aside the law of God, they teach the traditions of men for doctrine just as they were doing in Jesus day.

He said and you teach for doctrine the traditions of men and the traditions of man is that your good works should atone for your evil. Just be better than you are evil, gooder than you are bad and you'll be alright.

But that's not what the scripture says. God established the ways by which their sins could be covered and it was through the offerings. I think it's extremely significant that there have been no offerings for almost 2 ,000 years since shortly after the death of Christ they ceased and have not begun again.

They will apparently begin again in that seven year period after the church has been taken out and God begins to work again with Israel, it would appear that their offerings and sacrifices will begin again.

For the Antichrist is going to come in the middle of that seven year period and cause the daily oblations and sacrifices to cease. So they will establish a place of worship and they will institute sacrifices again during that final seven year cycle that God has yet to accomplish on the nation of Israel.

But right now they do not have a basis scripturally for the putting away their sins. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these. But the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

In other words, this pattern down here, this model, it was important that it be cleansed in this manner, purified. But the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than that of calves or goats or lambs.

For Christ did not enter into the holy places that were made with hands. He didn't enter into the temple into the Holy of Holies there. For these are only figures or models of the true. But he entered into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us, our great high priest.

There in the presence of God representing us. Nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high priest entered into the holy place every year with the blood of others. For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world.

But now once in the end of the world has the appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgment. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

And so Jesus came and he offered himself as a sacrifice. And then he entered into heaven itself that he might appear before God for us. His sacrifice was complete. That's why it only needed to happen once.

Once and for all. And so it's been appointed unto man once to die, after that the judgment. So Christ once offered to bear our sins. For the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very substance of the things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers therein too perfect.

Christ as the Substance of the Old Testament Shadows

Now notice the law was only a shadow of the good things to come. The value of the studying of Leviticus and the studying of the law to the Christians is that it foreshadows the work of Jesus Christ. The offering of Jesus Christ and the high priestly nature of Jesus Christ.

The shadow. It's not the substance. Paul tells us this in Colossians chapter 2, where Christ through his death blotted out the handwriting and the ordinances that were against us, nailing them to his cross, triumphing over them in it.

Therefore don't let any man judge you in respect of meats or drinks or new moon or holy days or Sabbath days. For these were all a shadow of things to come, but the substance is Christ. So Christ standing here in this point in history, his shadow was cast over the past history.

The shadow of Christ is there in the law and in the sacrifices and all. And you can see that they foreshadowed him, but they were the only the shadow. Jesus is the substance that cast the shadow. And so there's real substance in Jesus.

These things were only foreshadowing his coming. Once he came, there were no longer necessary, no longer necessary to have the shadows where we now have the substance in Jesus. For if they could have been perfect sacrifices that have put away the sins, then would they not have ceased to be offered?

In other words, they would have done it once in Moses day and that had been it. They wouldn't have to offer animals every day. They wouldn't have to offer animals once a year in the Holy of Holies. It would have been sufficient had they been able to perfect man.

For them, wouldn't they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. Now this is under the old covenant. Had it been effective, once being cleansed, they should have no more conscience of sins, showing that it did not bring that to them under the old covenant.

However, the glorious thing is that in this new covenant through Jesus Christ, once being purged, we really should not have any more consciousness of sins. There is this purging. It's complete. The cleansing in the blood of Jesus Christ is complete.

And the blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, cleanses in the Greek, its present perfect tense, is continually cleansing us from all sins. What a glorious thing. That continual cleansing by Jesus Christ. But in those sacrifices, there was a reminder again, made for sins every year.

Every year when the priest would go in, you'd be reminded again of your guilt and of your sin. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. It's impossible that they could actually take away your sins.

They made what they call the kofar for sins in the Hebrew. Kofar, which is translated atonement. It's probably a bad translation. It should be translated covered. It made a covering for their sins. But it did not put their sins away, only covered their sins.

Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. Now, this is a quotation from Psalm 46. However, the latter part of the quotation, a body thou hast prepared me, is not as your King James reads.

But this was translated from the Septuagint Virgin. The Septuagint Version. Got it. Wasn't trying to talk about Mary, the Septuagint. The Septuagint Version of the Scriptures was a Hebrew to Greek translation of the Old Testament that was made by 70 scholars 200 years before the birth of Christ.

After the Babylonian captivity, the Hebrew language was almost dead. It was only known by the scholars and by the biblical scholars. They were the only ones that use the Hebrew language. The Jews themselves usually spoke the Koine or they spoke Greek.

But Hebrew was only for biblical scholars. They felt that the people should have the Bible in a language they could understand. And so they translated the Old Testament Scriptures into Greek. It's called the Septuagint.

So whenever you read of the Septuagint Version, that's what it is. A translation of by 70 scholars of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek 200 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. This quotation, as do others in the New Testament, comes from the Septuagint Version.

And interestingly enough, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, or you don't care for, but you have prepared a body for me. That is Jesus when he came into the world. God prepared a body for him in order that in this body he might become the sacrifice, the perfect, complete sacrifice for man.

In burnt offerings, the Lord said in Psalms, and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will, O God. So this is declared of Jesus Christ.

He declared, I have come in the volume of the book it is written of me. The Old Testament is all about Jesus Christ. He's all the way through, interwoven in all of the types, in all of the shadows, in all of the books.

It is one continuous story in the preparing of the hearts of man for the coming of the Messiah. Prophecies, hopes, all prefigured there in the Old Testament. Now he speaks here of the burnt offerings and sacrifices for sins.

The Old Testament Offerings and Fellowship with God

There were five offerings that were made in the Old Testament. They were necessary to bring man into fellowship with God. It is the purpose of God that man should fellowship with Him. God's purpose is that man should know Him, that he should fellowship with Him, and that he might cooperate with God in the accomplishing of God's purposes here on the earth.

Now sin creates a breach between man and God. Sin separates man from God. Sinful man cannot be one with a holy God. Paul writing to the Corinthians, who lived in that city that was so debauched that the word Corinthian became a synonym for a totally debauched person.

Every night a thousand priestesses would come down into the city of Corinth from the Acropolis above Corinth, the temple there of Narcissus, not Narcissus, Aphrodite. And these priestesses in the temple of Aphrodite were prostitutes.

And a thousand of them, a thousand streetwalkers in this city every night. And so Paul warned the Corinthian believers concerning having relations with a harlot. And he said, don't you realize that if you have relationship with a harlot, you become one with her?

And if you are one with Christ, then you are making Christ a partaker and bringing Him as one with the harlot. And he said, you can't do that. What fellowship? Hath light with darkness, Christ with Belial and all.

And he was warning against these things. You see, you are to be one with God. And if you then go out and sin, you are making God a partner in your sin. Can't be. You can't. Sinful man cannot have fellowship with the holy God.

So before fellowship can be experienced, sin has to be put away. So in the first covenant, there were two of the offerings that dealt with sin. The first was the sin offering, which is sins general. The second was the trespass offering, where I had deliberately trespassed against the law of God.

That took a different type of a sacrifice. But they had to be taken care of before I could have fellowship with God. But once I had made the sin and the trespass offerings, then I could bring the burnt offering.

So, you know, it's the burnt offering here and then the sin offerings. The burnt offerings were offerings of consecration where I would consecrate my life to God. This was the burnt offering, and it was symbolic of just consecrating my life to God.

Then there was the meal offering, which was the consecration of my service to God as I brought the grain that I had cultivated and grown and they baked it into a little cake and or bread and they offered it unto God.

And then finally, I could offer the peace offering, which was communion. I can now be made one with God. My sins have been put away. My trespass has been put away. I've consecrated my life and my service to God.

And now I come into oneness with God and I offer the peace offering and I sit down and eat with God the peace offering. I give him his portion to eat the best part of it, being a gracious host and I then partake of the rest and we eat together.

And as we are both nourished by the same lamb, then I become a part of God and God becomes a part of me. And I have this fellowship. So God was tired. He would not accept any more. These sacrifices, sacrifice, offering burnt offerings, the offering for sin, thou wouldest not.

Neither did you have pleasure there in those things which were offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first that he might establish the second. So the first covenant that God established with man is over.