Written in Blood

Hebrews 9:16-28

This is a longer section where the author talks about the necessity of death to bring a will or covenant into effect. He points to the old covenant which was only put into effect by the blood of animals. Moses sprinkled the scroll, the people, the tabernacle and everything in it. The author concludes that without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness.
If the copies of the heavenly things were cleansed through animal sacrifice, then a greater and better sacrifice is necessary for the heavenly things to be consecrated. Jesus' sacrifice is superior to the sacrifices offered under the Mosaic covenant because Jesus sacrifice consecrates the real tabernacle in heaven, not just its earthly copies and because Jesus sacrifice stands for all time, unlike the constant animal sacrifices necessary under the Mosaic covenant.
The author's is using a very hebraic logical argument which, in overly simplistic terms, sort of looks like a wheel: the main point is the hub and the arguments which prove the main point are the spokes. Rather than following one spoke all the way to argue for the main point, the hebraic logical argument moves around the wheel from spoke to spoke gradually making its way to the center. If we were to re-write Hebrews to fit a western (or greek) logical argument, we would state our main idea (the supremacy of Christ and then we would take all the sections about Christ's priesthood being superior to the Aaronic priesthood and put them all in the same spot and then take all the arguments about Christ's sacrifice being greater than the sacrifices of the tabernacle and put them all in the same spot, and then all the arguments about the heavenly tabernacle where Christ serves as being superior to the earthly tabernacle where the priests serve and put them all at the same spot, etc.
Because of the hebraic construct of this book, we find elements of all those arguments in this section. In our minds it seems repetitive, which it is but each time the author revisits or incorporates one of the spokes, it is explored more fully with the goal of moving the reader ever inward towards the conclusion that Christ is superior to anything in the old system and covenant.