The Living Tabernacle

Hebrews 8:1-2, 9:1-10

A crowning point on the things being spoken: such a one as this have we as high-priest, who hath sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, Of the Holy place, a public minister, and of the Real Tent, which the Lord pitched and not man....

Even the first, indeed, therefore, used to have righteous appointments of divine service, even the holy ritual well arranged. For a tent was prepared, the first, in which were both the lampstand and the table and the setting forth of the loaves, the which is called the Holy place; But after the second veil, a tent, that which is called Most Holy: Having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant covered around on every side with gold in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and the rod of Aaron that sprouted, and the tables of the covenant; But, over-above it, Cherubim of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: concerning which things it is not now needful to be speaking particularly. 

Now, these things having been thus prepared, into the first tent, indeed, continually do the priests enter, the divine services completing; But into the second, once for all in the year, only the high-priest, not without blood, which he offered for himself and the ignorances of the people: The Holy Spirit making this evident that not yet hath been manifested the way through the Holy place, so long as the first tent hath a standing. The which is a similitude for the present season, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot, as to the conscience, perfect him that rendereth the divine service: Only as to eatings, and drinkings, and diversified immersions, righteous-appointments of the flesh, which, until a season of rectifying, are in force.