This is a symbol which points to the present time. It means that the offerings and animal sacrifices presented to God cannot make the worshiper's heart perfect,

Those things, which are copies of the heavenly originals, had to be purified in that way. But the heavenly things themselves require much better sacrifices.

For Christ did not go into a Holy Place made by human hands, which was a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself, where he now appears on our behalf in the presence of God.

The Jewish Law is not a full and faithful model of the real things; it is only a faint outline of the good things to come. The same sacrifices are offered forever, year after year. How can the Law, then, by means of these sacrifices make perfect the people who come to God?

All such things are only a shadow of things in the future; the reality is Christ.

Take care to make them according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

Set up the Tent according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

Make the altar out of boards and leave it hollow, according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

From top to bottom the lampstand was made of hammered gold, according to the pattern that the LORD had shown Moses.

He also gave him the plans for all he had in mind for the courtyards and the rooms around them, and for the storerooms for the Temple equipment and the gifts dedicated to the LORD.

King David said, "All this is contained in the plan written according to the instructions which the LORD himself gave me to carry out."

"Our ancestors had the Tent of God's presence with them in the desert. It had been made as God had told Moses to make it, according to the pattern that Moses had been shown.