Hebrews 9:10
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
The meats and drinks and divers washings and other outward, carnal regulations belonged to the earthly sanctuary and were imposed only until the time of reformation as temporary ordinances. They were husks, shadows, figures and types appointed for a time to point to Christ as the substance and true offering. The whole Jewish economy that included them was instituted and established by Christ Himself.
The blood of beasts shed under that system could not satisfy God's demands in atoning for transgression of His perfect law, because the life of a beast is of less value than the life of the offending sinner and so could not be a ransom for sin. It was acceptable with God only as a figure representing the perfect Offering which it prefigured. Type met antitype and the ceremonial system reached its appointed end when Christ became the true sacrifice, so that in His death the types found perfect fulfillment, passed away, and lost their force.
The earthly sanctuary was a type, and Christ has entered the true, heavenly sanctuary by His own blood, obtaining eternal redemption, where He now ministers as High Priest and intercedes for those who come to God through Him. The sanctuary service was an earthly pattern of heavenly things in which the most holy place was opened on the Day of Atonement, and Christ's ministry in heaven reaches its closing work when He enters the heavenly most holy place. These temporary sanctuary regulations do not annul the divine law, which remains sacred, unchanging, and eternally established.
The ancient ceremonies illustrated the need for carefulness and cleansing from impurity, but they did not cleanse the heart. Jewish teachers multiplied these ordinances by their own inventions and perverted them until they made ceremonial religion their only worship and treated the ceremonies as the substance of religion, perverting truth and purity. By so doing they blinded their minds so they could not discern Christ, discarding the truth, life and heart of their own service, and crucifying the Originator to whom all their ordinances pointed. The ceremonies do not apply to God's people after Christ died, and to repeat them now as religious requirements replaces inward cleansing and heart-and-life religion with outward performance.