Les Feldick Bible Study

What is the greater and more perfect tabernacle that Christ entered?

The greater and more perfect tabernacle is the one in heaven, not made with hands and not of this creation. It is the heavenly tabernacle after which Moses’ earthly tabernacle was patterned. Christ entered it once by His own blood, not by the blood of goats and calves.

Les teaches that the earthly tabernacle Moses was instructed to build in Exodus was patterned after the one in heaven. The greater and more perfect tabernacle, therefore, is the heavenly original, not made with hands and not of this creation. Christ, as High Priest of good things to come, entered that heavenly holy place once by His own blood, not with the blood of goats and calves.

Hebrews 9:11

But Christ being come an 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;

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What does 'a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands' in Hebrews 9:11 refer to?

In Hebrews 9:11 the 'greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands' is not part of this building or this creation; it is the tabernacle in heaven.