Christ] had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins … he … made perfect forever those who are being made holy. (vv. 1–4, 11–12, 14, emphasis added) Hebrews interprets the Tabernacle to foreshadow Jesus’ atonement. © 2011 by Zondervan. All rights reserved. The author of Hebrews declared the priesthood and animal sacrifices that were centered in the temple in Jerusalem to be obsolete now that Jesus had died on the cross. Had Hebrews been written after AD 70, it would seem odd that the author