Heb 9:8 | TNotes | STEP | 9:8 was not freely open: Free entrance into the presence of God was not available to all of the people under the old covenant system. • The outer room of the Tabernacle , which served as a sacred barrier keeping the people from the presence of God in the Most Holy Place , was symbolic of the whole system. Under that system, people were kept out of God’s presence rather than led into it.

‏ Hebrews 9:8

9:8 ^a was not freely open: Free entrance into the presence of God was not available to all of the people under the old covenant system.

• The outer room of the Tabernacle, which served as a sacred barrier keeping the people from the presence of God in the Most Holy Place, was symbolic of the whole system. Under that system, people were kept out of God’s presence rather than led into it.