The Sabbath-School Worker

LESSON XX

FEBRUARY 15, 1890. Hebrews 9:8-14

1. What did the first covenant have connected with it? SSW 24.2

2. Who performed the service in the worldly sanctuary? SSW 24.3

3. How often was service performed in each apartment? Hebrews 9:6, 7. SSW 24.4

4. What was signified by this? Verse 8. SSW 24.5

5. What was that sanctuary? Verse 9, first part. SSW 25.1

6. How much was accomplished by the service?—Ib. SSW 25.2

7. Who is our real high priest? SSW 25.3

8. Where does he minister? Hebrews 8:1, 2; 9:11. SSW 25.4

9. Is it necessary that he offer something? Hebrews 8:3. SSW 25.5

10. What does he offer? Hebrews 9:12. SSW 25.6

11. What does his blood do for us? Verses 13, 14. SSW 25.7

12. With what are we redeemed? 1 Peter 1:18, 19. SSW 25.8

13. What is the blood of Christ called? Hebrews 13:20. SSW 25.9

14. Did Christ minister as a priest while he was on earth? Hebrews 8:4; 9:8. SSW 25.10

15. When did the first sanctuary cease to stand as a sanctuary? Matthew 23:38; 27:50, 51. SSW 25.11

16. What secured the pardon of transgressions that were committed under the first covenant? Hebrews 9:14, 15. SSW 25.12

17. Since Christ did not begin his priestly work of offering his own blood until after the crucifixion and ascension, how could this be? Galatians 3:17; Hebrews 6:13-18. SSW 25.13

NOTE

The ordinances of divine service that were connected with the first covenant had no efficacy whatever. They could not make the comer thereunto perfect as pertaining to the conscience. All transgressions committed under that covenant that were pardoned, were pardoned by virtue of the second covenant, of which Christ is Mediator. Yet although Christ’s blood was not shed until hundreds of years after the first covenant was made, sins were forgiven whenever they were confessed. That covenant, as we have seen, was for the purpose of directing the minds of the people to the Abrahamic covenant, which God confirmed in Christ. Galatians 3:17. This confirmation was by an oath, in addition to the promise. These “two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie,” made the sacrifice of Christ as efficacious in the days of Abraham and Moses as it is now. This is made still more evident by the statement that these two things given to Abraham are the things which give us strong consolation. SSW 25.14