For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age,

but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.

By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those who will inherit salvation?

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.