At first God created a covenant with Israel that provided access to Him through a proxy, the priest. He gave Moses the plans for a tabernacle that would resemble the tabernacle of Heaven, and He instructed the priests in the manner through which they could commune with God in the tabernacle. It was good, but it was incomplete. It was a copy and the people did not have direct access to God.
With God's new covenant, He declares that things will be different. He is not external to the people ("I took them by the hand") anymore. He is now internal ("…write them [his laws] on their hearts"). And there is no longer a need for an intermediary human priest to enter the tabernacle because "they will all know me…[and] I will forgive their wickedness." That's the better promise of the new covenant: we have direct access to God through Christ and our hearts have become the tabernacle on earth so that each man can know God intimately and personally.
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