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was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, "See that you make all things
according to the pattern shown you on the mountain." But now He has
obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also
Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better
promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no
place would have been sought for a second... In that He says, "A
new covenant," He has made the first obsolete.
Let us not look back to that work which has been. Rather, let us look to that
which now is. Christ is the High Priest of a new priestly order. Perfection was not to
be found in the Levitical Priesthood (for under it the people received the Law, and the
Law made nothing perfect). Christ has come to make men perfect.
Hebrews 12:22-24
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God..., to the
spirits of just men made perfect, to Yahshua the Mediator of the new
covenant...