The Holy Ghost This Signifying

These verses are tough.  Hebrews seems to know a change between a first tabernacle, in which multiple priests entered the temple, and a second, in which only the high priest did.  Might this change represent the fault in the "first covenant" he alludes to?

Verse 8 is translated strangely.  "The way into the holiest of all" should be read "the road of the holy ones [saints, angels]."

Of Which We Cannot Now Speak

Hebrews describes the furniture of the Debir and the Hekal, and then balks at saying more.  It's not clear whether it's specifically about the Cherubim that he won't add detail, or about all the furniture -- the pronouns could mean other.  In either case, it's a curious thing to write.  What more would he have said, particularly?

Wherein Was the Golden Pot

Hebrews knows that the manna was kept inside the ark (there are rabbinical sources that agree).  It also says (in the KJV) that the "shewbread" was in the second room, the Hekal, which seems to imply that the two kinds of bread were different... or else there is a contradiction.

In fact the apparent contradiction may only exist in the English translation.  The Greek of verse 2 doesn't say "the shewbread," but has he prothesis ton arton, which means "the putting forward of the loaves."  Hebrews 9:2, in other words, knows the Hekal as the room where the bread was put out (to be eaten?), but 9:4 may tell us that the same bread was kept with the throne.

Ordinances of Divine Service

"[A]nd a worldly sanctuary" is a terrible translation.  The last words of the verse in Greek are to te hagion kosmikon, which is better read as "and a sacred cosmic thing" or maybe "and its sanctuary [was] cosmic."  The translation "worldly" makes it sound like Hebrews disparages the first temple, but the opposite is true -- Hebrews knows that the temple is the same thing as all of creation, the kosmos.

I Unfold Unto You a Mystery

I read this with the kids this week.  Alma's doctrine of revelation clearly comes from or informs the Worship of the Shalems.  He's unfolding a "mystery," he twice describes resurrection in the language of dressing, and he identifies it as something that doesn't happen until Christ comes.  This corresponds to the action in the Hekal, when the Lord-Melchizedek descends (Christ arrives) and dresses the initiates.

If that First Covenant Had Been Faultless

Hebrews is very clear.  The problem with the "first covenant" is not that it was incomplete, but that it wasn't kept.  The new covenant is the same as the original covenant, and Hebrews quotes Jeremiah about them both: the law will be written inside them, and they will all know the Lord.

A More Excellent Ministry

Christ's "ministry" is a leitourgia, a "ritual" or "ordinance."  The "promises" upon which it is established are epangelias, things born by angels.