Scripture presents the temple in heaven as a real, structured place where God’s presence is manifest, where Christ ministers, and where divine authority proceeds. It is the heavenly original of which the earthly tabernacle and temple were copies. The writer of Hebrews states that the earthly sanctuary was “a copy and shadow of the heavenly things” (Heb. 8:5), and that Christ “entered…into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us” (Heb. 9:24). This establishes that there is an actual heavenly sanctuary, and that Jesus Christ presently ministers there as our High Priest (Heb. 4:14–16).