What was the earthly tabernacle patterned after?
Indeed, the earthly tabernacle Moses built was patterned after something in heaven—a more perfect heavenly tabernacle. That heavenly reality served as the pattern for the earthly structure, as Hebrews contrasts the good copy with the far better heavenly original.
Les explains that the earthly tabernacle was beautiful and functional—it could be taken down and set up quickly and did everything Israel needed. But it was patterned after something in heaven, a more perfect heavenly tabernacle. That heavenly reality was the pattern for what Moses built in the wilderness. The book of Hebrews keeps comparing the good earthly tabernacle with the far better heavenly one. Likewise, the blood of bulls and calves covered Israel's sins but was nothing compared to the blood of Christ.
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;