Heb 8.1-13 tells us about Yeshua’s ministry as high priest, and how he mediates a better covenant because he is in the Olam Haba.
v 1…Now the main thing (the sum) of what has been said (about Yeshua’s superiority as high priest in the Olam Haba), we have then a high priest who has taken his seat at the right hand (of power) of the throne of the majesty (Yehovah-Psa 110.1) in the heavens,
v 2…a minister in the sanctuary (mikdash) and in the true tabernacle (Mishkan-Exo 25.8-9; the tavnit or pattern/blueprint for the earthly mikdash and mishkan), which the Lord pitched (prepared as an appropriate home) not man.
v 3…For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts (a “terumah” or contributions) and sacrifices (“korbanot” meaning to draw near); hence it is necessary that this one (high priest) also have something to offer (which was his body and blood, as explained in Heb 9.11-14, 25-26).
v 4…Now if he were on earth (in the Olam Ha Zeh), he would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the law (Torah-notice this is in the present tense; the Temple still stood when this was written);
v 5…who serve a copy (the tavnit or blueprint was in heaven) and shadow (a parallelism) of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he was about to erect the Mishkan; for “see”, he says, “that you make all things according to the pattern (tavnit/blueprint) which was shown you on the mountain (Exo 25.8-9).”
v 6…But now (because he is in the Olam Haba) he has obtained a more excellent ministry by as much as he is also a mediator of a better covenant (this means the new or “renewed” covenant is associated with the Olam Haba, the renewed covenant in its fullness and perfection, as we see in Jer 31.31-34; we can only experience this covenant in part because we are still in the Olam Ha Zeh, with fullness coming in the Olam Haba).
v 7…For if the first (the Olam Ha Zeh) had been faultless (this is not talking about the Torah because it was perfect-Psa 19.7-10; Jam 1.25, and had no faults) there would have been no occasion sought for a second (the Olam Haba in God’s plan was perfect-1 Cor 13.9-13).
v 8…For finding fault with them (the people of Israel in the Olam Ha Zeh) he says, “Behold (take note), days are coming (this phrase refers to the transition from the Olam Ha Zeh to the Olam Haba at the end of the 7000 year plan of God), says the Lord, when I will effect a new (renewed) covenant with the house of Israel (not the “church”) and the house of Judah (If Israel has been replaced by the so-called “church” then there is no new covenant because it was made with Israel and Judah alone);
v 9…not like the covenant which I made with their fathers (at Sinai; the renewed covenant fulfills the promise that God made to the fathers in the Olam Haba concerning Messiah being a blessing to the nations, with the Torah being written on the heart, desires, intentions; a born again person will have a desire to keep the Torah; the Ruach Ha Kodesh being poured out like in Acts 2.39, etc) on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant (like they said they would in Exo 24.3), and I did not care for them (despised) says the Lord (Yehovah).
v 10…For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel. After those days (of the Olam Ha Zeh-this refers to the transition from the Olam Ha Zeh to the Olam Haba at the end of the 7000 year plan of God), says the Lord, I will put my laws (Torah is not the problem) into their minds (desires, intentions) and I will write them on their hearts (a parallelism-still meaning desires and intentions), and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
v 11…And they shall not teach every one their fellow-citizen, and every one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord (in a redemptive way)’ for they all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them,
v 12…for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more (v 8-12 quotes Jer 31.31-34).”
v 13…When he said new (the Olam Haba) he has made the first (Olam Ha Zeh) old. And the thing having been made old and aged is near to disappearing (in other words, the Olam Ha Zeh is becoming old and obsolete as it transitions into the Olam Haba at the end of the 7000 year plan of God-1 Cor 2.6; it is vanishing away, as in 1 Pet 1.4; see 2 Pet 3.10-13 notes; and 1 Cor 7.31, as we move toward the Olam Haba, when the Torah will be written on our desires and intentions and thoughts, in the fullness of the Olam Haba, called the “perfect” in 1 Cor 13.9-12).
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