Today: [Hebrews 9:] The True Tabernacle in Heaven: In chapter 9 the writer of Hebrews insists that Moses tabernacle was only a replica of a true tabernacle and altar located in the heavens. The writer depicts Jesus during His passion and death taking His own blood to that altar and in so doing making open to you, and I entrance into the presence of God not by our own merits but on the basis of His sacrifice of Himself on our behalf.