Broken Copies

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer. For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Hebrews 8:3-10

The things on earth are copies of the things in heaven. 

Since the things on earth have been corrupted by sin, they need the actual heavenly priest to purify them. The earthy, Aaronic, priests are a copy of the heavenly, Melchizedek, priesthood. Broken copies cannot fix broken copies; only the unbroken original can fix the broken copies.

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually. Hebrews 7:1-3

The earthly nation of Israel, the earthly tabernacle, and the earthly priesthood are broken earthly copies of the heavenly hosts, the heavenly throne room as the dwelling place of God, and the conglomerate continual praise brought to God by His people.

Your dust is connected to dust, your spirit is connected to spirit. 

Don't let the dusty parts of life run your life; rather, let your spiritual life run your physical dust. Physical dust cannot become spiritual, neither can the spirit become physical. The spirit takes off the mortal physical dust and puts on the immortal physical life. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 15:50), because a broken copy cannot stand in the presence of the original. Spirit does not inherit flesh, it puts off the mortal and puts on the immortal. Because the life we have is a broken copy of the life we are supposed to have, we have to turn to the Original Life to restore our broken copy.