The significance of this new priesthood and law
1 Now here is the point of what’s being said: The kind of High Priest we have is the One seated to the right of the Throne of Majesty in the heavens, 2 who officiates in the holy place of the true Tent of Meeting pitched not by humans but by the Master. 3 Every priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, so this One must also bring an offering. 4 Ironically, on earth he wouldn’t even be a priest at all, since there are already priests offering gifts according to the law. 5 But the divine service they offer is only a shadow and pattern of the heavenly ones. For that same reason Moses was instructed about how to complete the Tent of Meeting; “See to it that you make everything according to the model you were shown in the mountain.” 6 Yet now this One has come to a superior divine service, by virtue of the fact that he is the mediator of a superior covenant, one based upon superior promises. 7 For if that first one had been blameless, there would have been no need to look for a second. 8 He lays blame by saying this:
“Look! The days are coming,” says the Master, “when I will confirm a new covenant with the houses of Israel and Judah, 9 not like the old one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. They broke their old covenant with me and I neglected them. 10 But here is the new covenant I will make with the house of Israel in those last days,” says the Master. “I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they will be my people. 11 Then they will no longer teach each other to know the Master, because everyone will know me, from the smallest to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be appeased to their unrighteousnesss and forget their sins.”
13 So he is saying that the old one is fading away, old and weak and almost gone.