We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Some Jews taught that it was spiritually beneficial to eat meat that had been sacrificed on the altar. But Christians have a different altar, not where the bodies of animals are offered, but where the body of Christ was sacrificed for us. To eat from Christ’s altar is to feed, by faith, on Christ Himself (John 6:53-56). Again, the superiority of the New Covenant, over the Old, is underlined. The Jewish priests were pursuing the ‘shadow’, but by God’s grace and mercy we have the Substance. How much better it is to have a personal relationship with Jesus than to be permitted to eat a particular piece of meat!

‘God has established the new covenant, and no promises remain for those who refuse its blessings.’ Tom Wright: ‘Hebrews for Everyone’, p.175.