Tag Archives: His Earthy Sanctuary

NIV Hebrews 9: 1 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary…23 It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence.

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Truth: God is Sovereign and human’s are willful.  I don’t know where I found this quotation but it’s inserted itself into my thinking about Hebrews 9.  “Circumstances are where God begins.”  Those three sentences led me back to the very beginning.  I’m going to assume the fall of Adam and Eve was not a surprise to God.  Right from the beginning He desired to be present in their lives.  I think it’s possible those first two people were created to be God’s dwelling place but instead temptation and circumstances resulted in the first broken relationships.  Those circumstances were where God set into motion the plan He’d always had to save His relationship with the people he loved. Jesus was NOT plan B.  

Right from the beginning God desired to be present with us because of love.  Right from the beginning when our circumstances might have denied that truth, God began to work within us.  The same lives that could be broken by temptation and circumstance could now become His earthly sanctuary and a dwelling place for His own Spirit through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. “For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence.”