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Have you ever been to a wax museum? Most of these attractions have wax statues of celebrities, and they are admittedly quite lifelike. Visitors can pose for pictures with the fake figures and make it seem as if they met someone famous. So you can go to a wax museum and take a picture with a wax Jack Sparrow (or pick your favorite celebrity). But if given the choice between the wax version or meeting Johnny Depp in his famous Pirates of the Caribbean costume, which would you choose? We would probably all agree that the real deal beats the fake figure every time. In the absence of Johnny Depp, the statue is cool; but if Depp is in the room, I’d rather pose for a picture with the human. An artist’s rendering is great, but it is unnecessary when the person is there in the flesh. The author of Hebrews spoke about an artist rendering. In 8:5 he said, “They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things.” The word copy has been translated elsewhere as artist rendering. What is he t