Introductory Remarks

2^nd century author?, Priscilla?

A near quote by Clement of Rome, c.96CE

The literary present tense: 10:6 And these having been prepared like this, the priests always are going into the first part of the Tent, accomplishing the services. 7 But into the second part the high priest goes alone once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for sins of ignorance of the people,

=Probably before 70CE

In 2^nd Cent, became part of the corpus Paulinum, occupying second place after Romans, but in other manuscripts, other places

Its teaching about priesthood of Messiah

1 At many times and in many ways in the past Elohim having spoken to the fathers by the prophets,

Prophets = Avraham, Melki-Tzedek, etc

2 in these last days has spoken to us by the Son, whom He has appointed heir of all, through whom also He made the ages,

Ber 13:15; 22:17,18

Parable of the Wicked Tenants, Mat 21:34

Gal 3:16 Now the promises were spoken to Avraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say, "and to the descendants," referring to many, but "and to your descendant," referring to one, who is Messiah.

3 who being the brightness of the esteem (doxa) and the exact representation of His substance, and sustaining all by the word of His power,

15 He is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn over all creation,

19 For Elohim was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son

Yahuchanon 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim. 2 The Word was with Elohim in the beginning.

3 having made a cleansing of our sins through Himself, sat down at the right hand of the Greatness on high,

Colossians 1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his stake

A Shavuot Psalm

4 having become so much better than the messengers, as He has inherited a more excellent Name than them.

Because he fulfills the promise made to Avraham of a seed, who would inherit the world

5 For to which of the messengers did He ever say, "You are My Son, today I have brought You forth"? And again, "I shall be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son"?

Tehillah 2:7 (read all of Ps 2)

6 And when He again brings the first born into the world, He says, "Let all the messengers of Elohim do reverence to Him."

Hebrew Devarim 32:43 Cry out, nations, with his people, for he will avenge his servants' blood; he will take vengeance against his enemies, and make atonement for his land and people.

LXX and Dead Sea Scrolls: 43 Cry out, nations, with his people, and let all the angels worship him; he will take vengeance against his enemies, and make atonement for his land and people.

7 And of the messengers indeed He says, "... who is making His messengers spirits and His servants a flame of fire."

Tehillah 104:1 Praise Yahuwah, my soul! Yahuwah my Elohim, you are magnificent. You are robed in splendor and majesty.

2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

3 and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.

4 He makes the winds his messengers, and the flaming fire his attendant.

8 But to the Son He says, "Your throne, Elohim, is forever and ever, a sceptre of straightness is the sceptre of Your reign.

9 "You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Because of this, Elohim, Your Elohim, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions."

10 And, "You, Master, did found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

11 "They shall perish, but You remain. And they shall all grow old like a garment,

Quoting Tehillah 102:25-27

13 And to which of the messengers did He ever say, "Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet"?

Tehillah 110:1

Messiah = Anointed One, both as King and High Priest and Inheritor

14 Are they not all serving spirits sent out to attend those who are about to inherit deliverance?

The angels, as documented in Tehillah 104:4, are merely servants. Servants of Yahuwah, sent specifically to minister (help) those who are inheriting the deliverance Yah brings to his faithful ones

Phillipians 2: 5 You should have the same attitude toward one another that Messiah Yahusha had,

6 who though he existed in the form of Elohim did not regard equality with Elohim as something to be grasped (held onto),

7 but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.

8 He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death--even death on a stake!

9 As a result Elohim exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

10 so that at the name of Yahusha every knee will bow--in heaven and on earth and under the earth-11 and every tongue confess that Yahusha Messiah is Yahuwah to the splendor of Elohim the Father.

1 Because of this, it is necessary all the more to pay more attention to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

Devarim 4:1-9

8 And what other great nation has rules and right-rulings as pure as this whole instruction that I am about to share with you today?

9 Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead make them known to your children and grandchildren.

Can we miss it? Can we actually drift away from our relationship with our Creator?

Devarim 4 warns us not to forget (drift away from) the Words

2 For if the word spoken through messengers proved to be firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a right reward,

3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a deliverance,

Transgression - doing what is forbidden

Disobedience - not doing what is commanded

If transgression of Torah brings negative consequences, how much more disregarding the revelation of the Son

3b which first began to be spoken by the Master, and was confirmed to us by those that heard,

4 Elohim also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Set-apart Spirit, distributed according to His own desire?

By the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses, a thing is established

Signs of healings, and at Shavuot

Devarim 32:8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up mankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the sons of Yisrael.

This verse in the LXX (number of the angels of Elohim) is the basis for the Rabbinical believe that angels administer the present world

6 But somewhere one has witnessed, saying, "What is man that You remember him, or the son of man that You look after him?

7 "You have made him a little lower than the messengers. You have crowned him with esteem and respect, and set him over the works of Your hands.

8 "You have put all in subjection under his feet." For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left none that is not subjected to him.

Shaul in Ivrim, when quoting Tanak does not name the writer. He only vaguely alludes to the penman.

The Scriptures are seen, to him, to be a product of the Ruach HaKodesh.

Remember: 2 Peter 1:20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation.

2 Tim 3:16 All Scripture is Elohim-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness

5 You decreased him from Elohim, You crowned him with esteem and splendor;

Elsewhere, benay Elohim = angels

Bereshith 1:27 Elohim created mankind in his own image, in the image of Elohim he created them, male and female he created them.

28 Elohim blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."

8b But now we do not yet see all subjected to him.

9 But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the messengers, Yahusha, because of the suffering of death crowned with esteem and respect, that by the favour of Elohim He should taste death for everyone.

Romans 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility--not willingly but because of Elohim who subjected it--in hope

21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of Elohim's children.

22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

Tehillah 8:5 You decreased him from Elohim, You crowned him with esteem and splendor;

6 who though he existed in the form of Elohim did not regard equality with Elohim as something to be grasped,

7 but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.

8 He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death--even death on a stake!

9 As a result Elohim exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

10 For it was fitting for Him, because of whom all are and through whom all are, in bringing many sons to esteem, to make the Princely Leader of their deliverance perfect through sufferings.

Messiah had to experience our pain before he could properly deliver us from it.

Thus, he was made perfect=complete

He is the only one, who dying, could have victory over death - resurrection

11 For both He who sets apart and those who are being set apart are all of One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

12 saying, "I shall announce Your Name to My brothers, in the midst of the congregation I shall sing praise to You."

13 And again, "I shall put My trust in Him." And again, "See, I and the children whom Elohim gave Me."

Tehillah 22:22 a messianic psalm (24 not hiding his face)

14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself similarly shared in the same, so that by means of His death He might destroy him having the power of death, that is, the devil,

15 and deliver those who throughout life were held in slavery by fear of death.

Death and judgment is feared (Ivrim 9:27)

16 For, doubtless, He does not take hold of messengers, but He does take hold of the seed of Avraham.

He did not come to redeem angels, but man

Why not angels?

18 For in what He had suffered, Himself being tried, He is able to help those who are tried.

The one who experiences is able to understand, sympathize and empathize with others experiencing the problems.

1 Therefore, set-apart brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, closely consider the Emissary and High Priest of our confession, Messiah Yahusha,

2 who was trustworthy to Him who appointed Him, as also Mosheh in all His house.

3 For this One has been deemed worthy of more esteem than Mosheh, as much as He who built the house enjoys more respect than the house.

4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all is Elohim.

5 And Mosheh indeed was trustworthy in all His house as a servant, for a witness of what would be spoken later,

6 but Messiah as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the boldness and the boasting of the expectation firm to the end.

7 Therefore, as the Set-apart Spirit says, "Today, if you hear His voice,

8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

9 where your fathers tried Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

10 "Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’

11 "As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they shall enter into My rest ...’ "

12 Look out, brothers, lest there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in falling away from the living Elohim,

13 but encourage one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened by the deceivableness of sin.

14 For we have become partakers of Messiah if we hold fast the beginning of our trust firm to the end,

15 while it is said, "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Mitsrayim, led by Mosheh?

17 And with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, but to those who did not obey?

19 So we see that they were unable to enter in because of unbelief.

3:1 Therefore, set-apart brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, closely consider the Emissary and High Priest of our confession, Messiah Yahusha,

Luke 12:24,27; Acts 11:6; James 1:23,24

2. an assent, admission, concession, "by my admission"

3. an agreement made, compact, esp. in war, terms of surrender

2 Co. 9:13; 1 Tim. 6:12, 13; Heb. 3:1; 4:14; 10:23

3 For this One has been deemed worthy of more esteem than Mosheh, as much as He who built the house enjoys more respect than the house.

4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all is Elohim.

Yahusha’ created all (built all) and is the Son – the recipient of the Inheritance – and He is Elohim!

5 And Mosheh indeed was trustworthy in all His house as a servant, for a witness of what would be spoken later,

The Torah Moshe delivered pictured what was to be fulfilled by Messiah the Seed

The two centerpieces of worship were the House and the Time

The House pictured Elohim dwelling with men based upon the work of the priests – the shedding of blood

The moedim depict the timing and substance of those events which were to come about

6 but Messiah as a Son over His own house, whose house we are

We are his House – the recipients of the Inheritance

Mattityahu 16:18 "I tell you that you are Peter, and upon this Rock (his Confession that Yahusha’ is Messiah), I will raise up my congregation"

6 but Messiah as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the boldness and the boasting of the expectation.

7 Therefore, as the Set-apart Spirit says, "Today, if you hear His voice

Shaul in Ivrim, when quoting Tanak does not name the writer. He only vaguely alludes to the penman.

The Scriptures are seen, to him, to be a product of the Ruach HaKodesh.

Sha’ul quotes Tehillah 95:7-11

7 Today, if only you would obey him!

8 "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

10 For forty years I loathed that generation, and I said, 'These people go astray in the heart; they have not known my paths.'

11 So I made a vow in my anger, 'They will never enter into my resting place."

Today = anytime you hear his Word

W[m'(v.ti AlïqoB.-~ai(

From shema – hear, listen, pay attention to, obey

Shemot 23: 20 I am going to send an angel before you, to protect you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

21 Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.

22 But if you diligently obey him, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.

Shemot 17:1-7

Meribah – strife, contention, quarrel

Massa – despair, test, trial, proving

They rebelled 10 times!

Bemidbar 20:1-24

11 So I made a vow in my anger, 'They will never enter into my resting place."

Bemidbar 14:22 For all the people have seen my splendor and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me, 23 they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

"My Rest" - Ps. 95:11; 132:14; Yeshayahu 66:1

Gen. 49:15; Num. 10:33; Deut. 12:9; Jdg. 20:43; Ruth 1:9; 2 Sam. 14:17; 1 Ki. 8:56; 1 Chr. 22:9; 28:2; Ps. 23:2; 95:11; 132:8, 14; Isa. 11:10; 28:12; 32:18; 66:1; Jer. 45:3; 51:59; Mic. 2:10; Zech. 9:1

Usually a reference to the inheritance of Promised Land

12 Look out, brothers, lest there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in falling away from the living Elohim,

13 but encourage one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened by the deceivableness of sin.

The wicked heart is a wandering heart (Ps 95:10)

Daily = "when you sit at home and when you walk along the way, when you lie down and when you rise up…"

14 For we have become partakers of Messiah if we hold fast the beginning of our trust firm to the end,

"hold fast" (katecho again)

The beginning of our trust = the commands of Scripture which pointed us to Messiah

They are to be held firm (just as Torah was described as "Firm")

Who provoked him?

With whom was he angry?

To whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest?

Unbelief = disobedience

"Unbelief" is a deliberate, intentional refusal to obey the instructions of Yahuwah

8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

9 where your fathers tried Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

7 Today, if only you would obey him!

8 "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

10 For forty years I loathed that generation, and I said, 'These people go astray in the heart; they have not known my paths.'

Bemidbar 14:22 For all the people have seen my splendor and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me, 23 If they should see the land (uses the same Hebrew construction as above) that I swore to their fathers, and all who have despised me will not see it. (see also v30)

We find many occurrences of °im in oath contexts in which, in reality, a larger context is assumed. In the larger, assumed context is an oath, only rarely stated in full (2Kings 9:26; cc Job 1:11).

Sometimes the oath involves a negative as in 2Sam 19:14. David is here promising to make Amasa his new commander in place of Yoab. He calls on Yahuwah to judge him severely (the judgment is never spelled out, perhaps because it is so awful as to be unspeakable) if Amasa is not to be David's commander.

Other examples of the full oath are found in 1Kings 20:10 (used by Ben-Hadad), 2Kings 6:31 (also Ben-Hadad). This suggests that the oath was in broader use than Israel alone, among the Semites at any rate.

Acts 7:49 (quoting Yeshayahu 66:1); Ivrim 3:11, 18; 4:1, 3, 5, 10, 11

The Greek was translated literally and not idiomatically!

Some of the suggested answers:

Entering into Bliss at Death

Heaven as the Reward

The Promised Land

Life in Messiah (the Christian life)

Sabbath-keeping

Something else?

His dwelling place: 1 Chr. 22:9; Yesh 11:10; 66:1: Teh 132:8,14;

The Promised Land: Dev 12:9; 1 Ki. 8:56;

Security: Yesh 28:12; Mic. 2:10; Ruth 1:9; 2 Sam. 14:17; Ps. 23:2; Yesh 32:18

A resting place: Ber 49:15; Bem 10:33; 1 Chron 28:2;

1 Therefore, let us fear, lest, by leaving behind a promise of entering into His rest, one among you seems to have come up short.

2 For indeed the proclamation was brought to us as well as to them, but the message of the report did not profit them, not having been put together with belief in those who heard it.

3 For we who have believed enter into that rest, just as He has said, "As I swore in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest..." And yet His works took place with the laying down of the cosmos.

4 For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this way: "And Elohim rested on the seventh day from all His works,"

5 and in this again, "If they shall enter into My rest..."

6 Since then it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly received the proclamation did not enter in because of disobedience,

7 Again, He appointed a certain day, "Today," saying through Dawid so much later, as it has been said, "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts."

8 For if Yahusha had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after those things.

9 So there remains a Sabbath-keeping for the people of Elohim.

10 For the one who has entered into His rest has himself also rested from his works, as Elohim rested from His own.

11 Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

12 For alive is the Word of Elohim, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through even to the dividing of being and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all are naked and exposed before the eyes of Him with whom is our account.

1 Therefore, let us fear, lest, by leaving behind a promise of entering into His rest, one among you seems to have come up short.

Fearing Yahuwah: Dev 5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and keep all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

2 For indeed the proclamation was brought to us as well as to them, but the message of the report did not profit them, not having been put together with belief in those who heard it.

Unbelief=Disobedience

Faith=Obedience

3 For we who have believed enter into that rest, just as He has said, "As I swore in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest..." And yet His works took place with the laying down of the cosmos.

4 For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this way: "And Elohim rested on the seventh day from all His works,"

5 and in this again, "If they shall enter into My rest..."

Those who believe (obey) enter the rest

How is the Oath relevant to those who believe?

6 Since then it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly received the proclamation did not enter in because of disobedience,

7 Again, He appointed a certain day, "Today," saying through David so much later, as it has been said, "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts."

8 For if Yahusha had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after those things.

Since then it remains = The promise to bring Avraham and his seed into the Land has not yet been fulfilled

9 So there remains a Sabbath-keeping for the people of Elohim.

10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as Elohim rested from His own.

11 Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

sabbatismo,j

1. a keeping sabbath.

2. the blessed rest from toils and troubles looked for in the age to come

(Give me a break!)

Sabbath-keeping rest

We are not to follow their example of disobedience in the desert

12 For alive is the Word of Elohim, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through even to the dividing of being and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all are naked and exposed before the eyes of Him with whom is our account.

Yeshayahu 55:11

Acts 7:38

1 Peter 1:23

Tehillah 149:5 Let the righteous rejoice because of their vindication! Let them shout for joy upon their beds! 6 May they praise Elohim while they hold a two-edged sword in their hand, 7 in order to take revenge on the nations, and punish foreigners.

14 Therefore, since we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Yahusha the Son of Elohim, let us hold fast our Agreement.

15 For we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was tried in all respects as we are, apart from sin.

16 Therefore, let us come boldly to the seat of favor, in order to receive compassion, and find favor for timely help.

5:1 For every priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in matters relating to Elohim, to offer both gifts and offerings for sins,

2 being able to have sympathy for those not knowing and being led astray, since he himself is also surrounded by weakness.

4 And no one obtains this esteem for himself, but he who is called by Elohim, even as Aharon also was.

5 So also the Messiah did not extol Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him, "You are My Son, today I have brought You forth."

6 As He also says in another place, "You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitsedeq,

7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His reverent fear,

8 though being a Son, He learned obedience by what He suffered.

9 And having been made complete, He became for all those who obey Him the Source of everlasting deliverance,

10 when He was designated by Elohim a High Priest "according to the order of Malkitsedeq,"

14 Therefore, since we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Yahusha the Son of Elohim, let us hold fast our Agreement.

Ivrim 7:26; 8:1; 9:11,12;

15 For we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was tried in all respects as we are, apart from sin.

1 John 2:15-17 Mattityahu 4:1-11

16 Therefore, let us come boldly to the seat of favor, in order to receive compassion, and find favor for timely help.

When the sin problem was satisfied, the favor of Yah was upon his people

5:1 For every priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in matters relating to Elohim, to offer both gifts and offerings for sins,

2 being able to have sympathy for those not knowing and being led astray, since he himself is also surrounded by weakness.

4 And no one obtains this esteem for himself, but he who is called by Elohim, even as Aharon also was.

The Cohel Gadol must:

Be appointed by Elohim

Be able to sympathize with the people

Tribe of Levi selected to be priests

Moshe: Bem 12:3 a very humble man

5 So also the Messiah did not extol Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him, "You are My Son, today I have brought You forth."

6 As He also says in another place, "You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitsedeq,

Quoting Tehillah 2:7 (incarnation); 110:4 (exaltation)

7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His reverent fear, 8 though being a Son, He learned obedience by what He suffered.

Teh 22:1,2, 24 he cried and was heard

Twice fulfilled:

9 And having been made complete, He became for all those who obey Him the Source of everlasting deliverance,

10 when He was designated by Elohim a High Priest "according to the order of Malkitsedeq,"

Yeshayahu 45:17

Verse 9 - for all those who obey Him

11 Concerning Him, the message for us is extensive and hard to explain, since you have become lazy in your hearing.

12 For although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of the authority of the Oracles of Elohim. And you have become such as need milk and not solid food.

13 For everyone partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

14 But solid food is for the perfect whose senses have been trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

1 Therefore, leaving the message of the rulership of the Messiah, let us be carried along to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of belief toward Elohim,

2 of the teaching of immersions, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of everlasting judgment.

3 And this we shall do, if Elohim indeed permits.

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Set-apart Spirit,

5 and have tasted the good Word of Elohim and the powers of the age to come,

7 For ground that is drinking the rain often falling on it, and is bearing plants fit for those by whom it is tilled, receives blessing from Elohim,

8 but if it brings forth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near to being cursed, and ends up by being burned.

9 But we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, of matters which are better and possess deliverance, although we speak in this way.

10 For Elohim is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His Name, in that you have attended to the set-apart ones, and still attend.

11 And we desire that each one of you show the same eagerness, to the entire confirmation of expectation until the end,

12 in order that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through belief and patience inherit the promises.

11 Concerning Him, the message for us is extensive and hard to explain, since you have become lazy in your hearing.

1. to explain in words, expound: (Sophocles, Euripides), Xenophon, Plato, others.

2. to interpret, i. e. to translate what has been spoken or written in a foreign tongue into the vernacular

What prevents us from digging in deeper into the Word?

12 For although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of the authority of the Oracles of Elohim. And you have become such as need milk and not solid food.

Lack of learning and doing results in stunted growth

13 For everyone partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

Only babies drink milk

14 But solid food is for the perfect whose senses have been trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

Discerning between good and evil

Ivrim 4:12; Yeshayahu 44:18

1 Therefore, leaving the message of the rulership of the Messiah, let us be carried along to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of belief toward Elohim,

2 of the teaching of immersions, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of everlasting judgment.

3 And this we shall do, if Elohim indeed permits.

of repentance from dead works,

and of belief toward Elohim,

of the teaching of immersions,

and of laying on of hands,

and of resurrection of the dead,

and of everlasting judgment.

Where are all these principles found?

These are the Foundational principles

These are at the core of covenantal relationship with Yahuwah

Dead works are those acts which lead to death (this is NOT a reference to the works of Torah) cf 9:14; Rom 6:21; Gal 5:19-21

Yochanan taught repentance: Matt 3:2

A brand new New Testament thing?

Torah teaches this (why would this surprise us?)

Bemidbar 19 the water of cleansing was required for those who had been contaminated for re-entry (or entry) into the community

Yehezqel 36:25

Laying on of hands = Commissioning into office: Bem 27:18, 23; Dev 34:9; on sacrifices: Vayiqra 1:4; 3:2; 4:4; 8:14; 16:21

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Set-apart Spirit,

5 and have tasted the good Word of Elohim and the powers of the age to come,

Enlightenened, tasted, partakers: calls to mind (again) our forefathers in the wilderness who saw the power of Elohim and tasted of the blessing of his presence and provision

7 For ground that is drinking the rain often falling on it, and is bearing plants fit for those by whom it is tilled, receives blessing from Elohim,

8 but if it brings forth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near to being cursed, and ends up by being burned.

9 But we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, of matters which are better and possess deliverance, although we speak in this way.

Elohim is not mocked, You reap what you sow! Galatians 6:7-9

10 For Elohim is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His Name, in that you have attended to the set-apart ones, and still attend.

11 And we desire that each one of you show the same eagerness, to the entire confirmation of expectation until the end,

12 in order that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through belief and patience inherit the promises.

Dump on this question: Will sluggards fall short of salvation?

What does it mean to be an imitator?

1 Co. 4:16; 11:1; Eph. 5:1; Phil. 3:17; 1 Thess. 1:6; 2:14; 1 John 2:6

13 For when Elohim made promise to Avraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

14 saying, "I will surely bless you, and I will surely increase you."

15 And so, after being patient, he obtained the promise.

16 For men do indeed swear by the one greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.

17 In this way Elohim, resolving to show even more clearly to the heirs of promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, confirmed it by an oath,

18 so that by two unchangeable matters in which it is impossible for Elohim to lie, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the expectation set before us,

19 which we have as an anchor of the life, both safe and firm, and entering into the inside of the curtain,

20 where Yahusha has entered as a forerunner for us, having become High Priest for ever according to the order of Malkitsedeq.

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2. to give orders, command, to order an army to be furnished

4. to promise, to make offers

5. to profess, make profession of

6. to demand, require

13 For when Elohim made promise to Avraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

14 saying, "I will surely bless you, and I will surely increase you."

Bereshith 22:15-18 (the oath)

A Blessing for all peoples on earth

A seed, descendants, a nation of people

Acts 3:26 Elohim raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities."

Romans 4:6 So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom Elohim credits righteousness apart from works:

7 "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

9 Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say, "faith was credited to Avraham as righteousness."

Singular throughout Bereshith in the Promise passages

Galatians 3:16 Now the promises were spoken to Avraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say, "and to the descendants," referring to many, but "and to your descendant," referring to one, who is Messiah.

Romans 4:13 For the promise to Avraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

16 For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants--not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Avraham, who is the father of us all

6 It is not as though the word of Elohim had failed. For not all those who are descended from Yisrael are truly Yisrael,

7 nor are all the children Avraham's true descendants; rather "through Yitzchak will your descendants be counted."

8 This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of Elohim; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

Galatians 3:29 And if you belong to Messiah, then you are Avraham's descendants, heirs according to the promise.

Mattityahu 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

5 "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth (land).

Kingdom of heaven = land

According to Galatians 3:29, those who belong to Messiah (place their faith in Him) are heirs (inheritors of this land) according to the promise made to Avraham

17 In this way Elohim, resolving to show even more clearly to the heirs of promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, confirmed it by an oath,

18 so that by two unchangeable matters in which it is impossible for Elohim to lie, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the expectation set before us,

19 which we have as an anchor of the life, both safe and firm

The Promises made to Avraham are our expectation

This expectation (inheritance of land) is our anchor of the soul (because He swore it on oath!)

The oath made to Avraham gives us strong encouragement

18 so that by two unchangeable matters in which it is impossible for Elohim to lie, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the expectation set before us,

Yah cannot lie

Yah cannot break an oath

This oath gives us strong encouragement! Why, if our inheritance is different than Avrahams (i.e. heaven)?

11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh--who are called "uncircumcision" by the so-called "circumcision" that is performed on the body by human hands--

12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Yisrael and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without Elohim in the world.

19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of Elohim's household,

20 because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Messiah Yahusha himself as the cornerstone.

5 Now this secret (mystery) was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his set-apart apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

6 namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Messiah Yahusha.

(The Torah provides that Gentiles who place their faith in Yahuwah are to be regarded as full-fledged citizens and rules and privileges are fully given to them)

Acts 7:5; Rom. 4:20,21; Tit. 1:2; Heb. 6:13; 10:23; 11:11; 12:26; Jas. 1:12; 2:5; 1 Jn. 2:25

Acts 7:17; 26:6; Rom. 9:8f; 15:8; 2 Co. 7:1; Eph. 1:13; 2:12; 3:6; Heb. 4:1; 6:12, 15, 17; 7:6; 11:9, 13, 17; 2 Pet. 3:9

Inheritance - Matt. 21:38; Mk. 12:7; Lk. 12:13; 20:14; Acts 7:5; 13:19; 20:32; Gal. 3:18; 4:30; Eph. 1:14, 18; 5:5; Col. 1:12; 3:24; Heb. 9:15; 11:8; 1 Pet. 1:4

Inherit - Matt. 5:5; 19:29; 25:34; Mk. 10:17; Lk. 10:25; 18:18; Rom. 4:13; 1 Co. 6:9f; 15:50; Gal. 5:21; Heb. 1:14; 6:12; 12:17; 1 Pet. 3:9; Rev. 21:7

Ivrim 6:15 And so, after being patient, he obtained the promise.

Ivrim 11:13 In belief all these died, not having received the promises, but seeing them from a distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were aliens and strangers on the earth.

14 For those who speak this way make it clear that they seek a fatherland.

15 And yet, if they had indeed kept remembering that place from which they had come out, they would have had the chance to return.

16 But now they long for a better place, that is, a heavenly. Therefore Elohim is not ashamed to be called their Elohim, for He has prepared a city for them.

Ans: the oath Yah made sealed it as though Avram already had obtained it!

1 For this Malkitsedeq, king of Shalem, priest of El Elyon, who met Avraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

2 to whom also Avraham gave a tenth part of all, his name being translated, indeed, first, 'king of righteousness,' and then also king of Shalem, that is, 'king of peace,'

3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of Elohim, remains a priest for all time.

4 Now see how great this one was, to whom even the ancestor Avraham gave a tenth of the plunder.

5 And truly, those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a command to receive tithes from the people according to the Torah, that is, from their brothers, though they have come from the loins of Avraham,

6 however, the one whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Avraham, and blessed the one who held the promises.

7 And it is beyond all dispute that the lesser is blessed by the better.

8 And here it is men who die that receive tithes, but there it is someone of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

9 And one might say that through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, gave tithes,

10 for he was still in the loins of his father when Malkitsedeq met him.

12 For when the priesthood changes, of necessity there also is a change of instruction.

13 For He of whom this is said belongs to another tribe, from which no one had attended at the altar.

14 For it is self-evident that our Master arose from Yehudah, a tribe about which Mosheh never spoke of concerning priesthood,

15 and it is abundantly clear, if another priest arises in the likeness of Malkitsedeq,

16 who has become, not according to the instruction of a command regarding the flesh, but according to the power of an endless life,

17 for He does witness, "You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitsedeq."

18 For there must be a setting aside of the former command because of its powerlessness and futility,

19 for the Instruction perfected nothing, and the bringing in of a better expectation, through which we draw near to Elohim.

20 And it was not without an oath!

21 For they indeed became priests without an oath, but He became Priest with an oath by Him who said to Him, "Yahuwah has sworn and shall not renege, 'You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitsedeq.' "

22 By as much as this, Yahusha has become a guarantor of a better covenant.

23 And indeed, those that became priests were many, because they were prevented by death from continuing,

24 but He, because He remains forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

25 Therefore He is also able to help completely those who draw near to Elohim through Him, ever living to make intercession for them.

27 who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up slaughter offerings day by day, first for His own sins and then for those of the people, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

28 For the Torah appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Torah, appoints the Son forever perfected

1 For this Malkitsedeq, king of Shalem, priest of El Elyon, who met Avraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of Elohim, remains a priest for all time.

Occurs only 3 times: Bereshith 14:18,20 and Tehillah 110:4

* Some Christians believe he is a pre-incarnate incarnation of Messiah

Problem: none really, just our curiosity will not be satisfied

3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of Elohim, remains a priest for all time.

4 Now see how great this one was, to whom even the ancestor Avraham gave a tenth of the plunder.

5 And truly, those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a command to receive tithes from the people according to the Torah, that is, from their brothers, though they have come from the loins of Avraham,

6 however, the one whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Avraham, and blessed the one who held the promises.

Bemidbar 18:20 Yahuwah spoke to Aharon, "You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion among them--I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Yisrael. 21 See, I have given the Levi all the tithes in Yisrael for an inheritance, for their service which they perform--the service of the tent of meeting.

7 And it is beyond all dispute that the lesser is blessed by the better.

8 And here it is men who die that receive tithes, but there it is someone of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

9 And one might say that through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, gave tithes,

10 for he was still in the loins of his father when Malkitsedeq met him.

The greater blesses the lesser

Malkitsedek blesses Avraham

Levi gave tithes to Malkitsedek (while still in Avraham)

Thus, Malkitsedek is also greater than Levi

It stands to reason that his priesthood is greater than that of Levi

12 For when the priesthood changes, of necessity there also is a change of instruction.

13 For He of whom this is said belongs to another tribe, from which no one had attended at the altar.

14 For it is self-evident that our Master arose from Yehudah, a tribe about which Mosheh never spoke of concerning priesthood,

15 and it is abundantly clear, if another priest arises in the likeness of Malkitsedeq,

16 who has become, not according to the instruction of a command regarding the flesh, but according to the power of an endless life,

17 for He does witness, "You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitsedeq."

Yehudah was not allowed to partake in the service in the sanctuary

The command regarding the flesh was the command which appointed only Levi to serve in the tent

The testimony of Yahuwah about his Son Messiah is in Tehillah 110

18 For there must be a setting aside of the former command because of its powerlessness and futility,

19 for the instruction perfected nothing, and the bringing in of a better expectation, through which we draw near to Elohim.

20 And it was not without an oath!.

21 For they indeed became priests without an oath, but He became Priest with an oath by Him who said to Him, "Yahuwah has sworn and shall not renege, 'You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitsedeq.' "

22 By as much as this Yahusha has become a guarantor of a better covenant.

23 And indeed, those that became priests were many, because they were prevented by death from continuing,

24 but He, because He remains forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

25 Therefore He is also able to help completely those who draw near to Elohim through Him, ever living to make intercession for them.

Because the Cohen Gadol of the Renewed Covenant does not die. He continues to live forever as our Mediator.

27 who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up slaughter offerings day by day, first for His own sins and then for those of the people, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

28 For the Torah appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Torah, appoints the Son forever perfected

principal officer or chief ruler, priest

Remember the qualifications of the cohen gadol in 5:1-4? A selected representative before Yah

1 Now the summary of what we are saying is: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Greatness in the heavens,

2 and who serves in the set-apart place and of the true Tent, which Yahuwah set up, and not man.

3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and slaughters. So it was also necessary for this One to have something to offer.

4 For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the Torah,

5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly, as Mosheh was warned when he was about to make the Tent. For He said, "See that you make all according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."

6 But now He has obtained a more excellent service, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better Agreement, which was constituted on better promises.

7 For if that first Agreement had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

8 For finding fault with them, He says, "See, the days are coming," says Yahuwah, "when I will establish with the house of Yisra'el and with the house of Yehudah a renewed Agreement,

9 not like the Agreement that I made with their fathers in the day of my seizing them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim, because they did not remain in My Agreement, and I disregarded them," says Yahuwah.

10 "Because this is the Agreement that I shall make with the house of Yisra'el after those days, says Yahuwah, giving My Instructions in their mind, and I shall write them on their hearts, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.

11 "And they shall by no means teach each one his neighbor, and each one his brother, saying, 'Know Yahuwah,' because they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

12 "Because I shall forgive their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall no longer remember."

13 By saying, 'renewed,' He has made the first obsolete. Now what is obsolete and growing old is near disappearing.

1 Now the summary of what we are saying is:

That which is in the beginning is chief, head or principal thing, main point

Cf. Messiah as our head

We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Greatness in the heavens,

2 and who serves in the set-apart place and of the true Tent, which Yahuwah set up, and not man.

Cf. 11:7; 12:25; Mt 2:12,22; Lk 2:26; Acts 10:22; Rom 7:3; 11:4

Shemot 25:9 According to all that I am showing you--the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings--you must make it exactly so. (also 40; 26:30; 27:8)

3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and slaughters. So it was also necessary for this One to have something to offer.

4 For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the Torah,

What does he have to offer? Answer to come in 9:4

6 But now He has obtained a more excellent service, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better Agreement, which was constituted on better promises.

7 For if that first Agreement had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

8 For finding fault with them, He says, "See, the days are coming," says Yahuwah, "when I will establish with the house of Yisra'el and with the house of Yehudah a renewed Agreement,

9 not like the Agreement that I made with their fathers in the day of my seizing them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim, because they did not remain in My Agreement, and I disregarded them," says Yahuwah.

Remaining in the Agreement means obeying the Commands, Yochanan 15:1-14

9 because they did not remain in My Agreement, and I disregarded them," says Yahuwah. (this is also the Septuagint reading)

Yirmyahu 31:32 For they violated that agreement, even though I was a husband to them," says Yahuwah.

Did the rabbis miscopy this word?

The Former Agreement was weak

Why did Yah bother with the Former?

The people needed a present solution

It was a picture of the perfect solution.

10 "Because this is the Agreement that I shall make with the house of Yisra'el after those days, says Yahuwah, giving My Instructions in their mind, and I shall write them on their hearts, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.

11 "And they shall by no means teach each one his neighbor, and each one his brother, saying, 'Know Yahuwah,' because they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

12 "Because I shall forgive their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall no longer remember."

13 By saying, 'renewed,' He has made the first obsolete. Now what is obsolete and growing old is near disappearing.

In what sense is the Agreement (covenant) new?

A whole different agreement?

The same agreement re-offered?

An agreement based upon different criteria?

Was the Torah to be on the heart of the agreeing party under the Former agreement? Yes!

Dev 11:26,27; 26:16; 30:6-14

Then, what is the difference between the Former agreement and the renewed agreement as far as the Torah is concerned?

(Nothing)

The Difference is in the effectiveness of the blood sacrifice!

Yes.

Is there still a need for Levi priests?

1 Now the first Agreement indeed had requirements of service and the physical set-apart place.

2 For a Tent was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, and the table, and the showbread, which is called the Set apart Place.

3 And after the second veil, the part of the Tent which is called Most Set-apart,

4 to which belonged the golden censer, and the ark of the Agreement overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that held the manna, and the rod of Aharon that budded, and the tablets of the covenant,

that which has been deemed right so as to have the force of law; what has been established and ordained by law, an ordinance

2. a righteous act or deed:

Lampstand - Shemot 25:31ff; 37:17ff - made of gold, 3 branches springing from either side of main stem, 7 flower-shaped lamp holders

These were in the set-apart place

Shaul uses this phrase to distinguish it from the veil which is at the entrance of the tent

Exod. 26:31; 35:12; 39:34; 40:21; Lev. 4:6; Num. 4:5

The ark of the Testimony containing the two tablets of the testimony

Also contained the pot of manna and the rod of Aharon

Was the Alter of Incense and in the Qodesh or in the Qodesh HaQodashim?

6 And these having been prepared like this, the priests always went into the first part of the Tent, accomplishing the services.

7 But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for sins of ignorance of the people,

8 the Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most Set-apart Place was not yet made manifest while the first Tent has a standing,

9 which was a parable for the present time in which both gifts and slaughters are offered which are unable to perfect the one serving, as to his conscience,

10 only as to foods and drinks, and different washings, and fleshly regulations imposed until a time of setting matters straight.

Vayiqra 4:2 "Tell the sons of Yisrael, 'When a person sins by straying from any of Yahuwah's commandments which must not be violated, and violates any one of them--

Vay 5:17; 4:13, 22, 27; 5:1, 14; 6:1 etc.

Animal sacrifices cannot perfect the conscience of the worshipper

11 But Messiah, having become a High Priest of the coming good matters, through the greater and more perfect Tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

12 entered into the Most Set-apart Place once for all, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood, having obtained everlasting redemption.

13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sets apart for the cleansing of the flesh,

14 how much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the everlasting Spirit offered Himself unblemished to Elohim, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim?

Because his death fulfills the requirement of a human death for sin

15 And because of this He is the Mediator of a renewed covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance.

16 For where a covenant is, it is necessary for the death of the covenanted one to be established.

17 For a covenant over those dead is firm, since it is never valid while the covenanted one is living.

18 Therefore not even the first covenant was instituted without blood.

19 For when, according to Torah, every command had been spoken by Mosheh to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which Elohim commanded you."

21 And in the same way he sprinkled with blood both the Tent and all the vessels of the service.

22 And, according to the Torah, almost all is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

In human terms, an inheritance is legally passed on to the heir (sons) when the father dies.

Shemot 24:8 - So Moshe took the blood and splashed it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that Yahuwah has made with you in accordance with all these words."

23 It was necessary, then, that the copies of the heavenly ones should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones them selves with better slaughter offerings than these.

25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters into the Set-apart Place year by year with blood not his own.

26 For if so, He would have had to suffer often, since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the offering of Himself.

27 And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment,

28 so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those waiting for Him, unto deliverance.

Death and later, judgment

1 For the instruction, having a shadow of the good matters to come, and not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter offerings which they offer continually year by year.

2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? Because those who served, once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

3 But in those offerings is a reminder of sins year by year.

What law was a shadow?

Vayiqra 6:2, 7, 18; 7:1, 7, 11, 37; 11:46; 12:7; 13:59; 14:2, 32, 54, 57; 15:32; 26:46; Bemidbar 5:29f; 6:13, 21; 15:16, 29; 19:2, 14; 31:21

Each of the types of offerings had its particular rules (torah)

3 But in those offerings is a reminder of sins year by year.

4 For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Moral defilement cannot be removed by material means

The death of the animal is a substitute, but does not cleanse (free) the conscience of sinful habits

Massoretic Hebrew text reads:

6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears you have opened: burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

7 Then said I, Look, I come: in the scroll of the book it is written of me,

8 I delight to do your will, O my Elohim: yes, your law (Heb. Torah) is within my heart.

8 I delight to do your will, O my Elohim: yes, your law (Heb. Torah) is within my heart.

The will of Elohim is to obey Torah

Yirmyahu 31:33 "This is the Agreement I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares Yahuwah. "I will put my Torah in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their Elohim, and they will be my people.

10 By that desire we have been set apart through the offering of the body of Yahusha Messiah once for all.

Does this indicate that the system of offerings is done away with, or that the Levi priesthood is done away with?

The desire of Messiah does a work in us of setting us apart!

Once for all = not repeatable, one cannot sacrifice him over again (see vs 26)

11 And indeed every priest stands day by day doing service, and repeatedly offering the same slaughter offerings which are never able to take away sins.

12 But He, having offered one slaughter offering for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of Elohim,

13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies are made a footstool for His feet.

14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being set apart.

The work of the Levi priests was never done. They had to continually (day by day) offer the same sacrifices

The seated cohen gadol indicates an acceptance of his sacrifice as full payment.

A psalm of David. An oracle of Yahuwah to my Master: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"

2 Yahuwah extends your dominion from Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies!

3 Your people are a freewill offering in the day of your strength, in your set-apart splendor at the breaking of dawn. Yours is the dew of your youth.

4 Yahuwah makes this promise on oath and will not revoke it: "You are an eternal priest after the pattern of Melchizedek."

5 The Master at your right hand strikes down kings in the day he unleashes his anger.

6 He judges nations, he amasses corpses, he shatters the head of the earth, greatly.

7 From the rushing water along the road he drinks; then he raises his head.

15 And the Set-apart Spirit also witnesses to us, for after having said before,

16 "This is the covenant that I shall make with them after those days, says Yahuwah, giving My Instructions into their hearts, and in their minds I shall write them,"

17 and, "Their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall remember no more."

18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer a slaughter offering for sin.

The renewed Agreement stipulates that Elohim will no longer remember our sins and lawlessnesses

This is why there is no longer a need for a sacrifice. (Messiah cannot be sacrificed again, anyway) His death was ONCE.

19 So, brothers, having boldness into the entryway of the Most Set-apart Place by the blood of Yahusha,

20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us, through the curtain, that is, His flesh,

21 and having a High Priest over the House of Elohim,

22 let us draw near with a true heart in completeness of belief, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.

23 Let us hold fast the Agreement of our expectation without wavering, for trustworthy is He who promised.

24 And let us consider one another for stimulation unto love and good works,

25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging, and so much more as you see the Day coming near.

Consider one another (consider the lilies of the field, consider Yahusha Ivrim 3:1)

26 For if we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a slaughter offering for sins,

27 but some fearsome anticipation of judgment, and a fierce fire which is about to consume the opponents.

28 Anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion on the witness of two or three witnesses.

29 How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the Agreement by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favor?

30 For we know Him who has said, "Vengeance is Mine, I shall repay, says Yahuwah." And again, "Yahuwah shall judge His people."

31 It is fearsome to fall into the hands of the living Elohim.

2:1-3 3:8 3:12 4:1 4:11 6:4-6 10:26

21 Yahuwah will single him out for judgment from all the tribes of Yisrael according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the instruction.

From beginning to end, the Scriptures nowhere teach any such false, nefarious doctrine such as is a part of many Christian theologies.

With agreement to His covenant, Yah always expects a faith response of obedience to all his applicable commandments.

32 But remember the former days, when, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings.

33 On the one hand you were exposed to reproaches and pressures, and on the other hand you became sharers with those who were so treated,

34 for you sympathized with me in my chains, and you accepted with joy the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have a better and a lasting possession for yourselves in the heavens.

35 Do not, then, lose your boldness, which has great reward.

36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the desire of Elohim, you receive the promise:

38 "But the righteous shall live by belief, but if anyone draws back, my being has no pleasure in him."

39 But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of belief to the preservation of life.

12:1 says: We too, then, having so great a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us

That which we cannot prove, but we put our confidence in it in spite of its lack of physical demonstration

In Habakkuk 2:4, faithfulness is from the Hebrew:

Tehillah 119:86 All your commands are reliable (emunah).

90 You demonstrate your faithfulness (emunah) to all generations. You established the earth and it stood firm.

138 The rules you impose are just, and absolutely reliable (emunah).

The basic root idea is firmness or certainty. In the Qal it expresses the basic concept of support and is used in the sense of the strong arms of the parent supporting the helpless infant.

In the Hiphil (causative), it basically means "to cause to be certain, sure" or "to be certain about," "to be assured." In this sense the word in the Hiphil conjugation is the biblical word for "to believe" and shows that biblical faith is an assurance, a certainty, in contrast with modern concepts of faith as something possible, hopefully true, but not certain.

And faith is the substance of what is expected, the proof of what is not seen.

(What about belief in false teaching?)

The elders are the fathers, prophets and those that have come before us

This does not refer to angels or believers watching from heaven. It has to do with the testimony our fathers laid down before us.

By faith we perceive that the worlds were completed by the spoken word of Elohim so that what is seen came about from what is not visible

4 By belief, Hevel offered to Elohim a greater slaughter offering than Qayin, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, Elohim witnessing of his gifts. And through it, having died, he still speaks.

5 By belief, Hanok was translated so as not to see death, "and was not found because Elohim had translated him." For before his translation he obtained witness, that he pleased Elohim.

6 But without belief it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to Elohim has to believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him.

7 By belief, Noah, having been warned of what was yet unseen, having feared, prepared an ark to save his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to belief.

Noach obeyed in spite of intense ridicule from his peers

8 By belief, Avraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he was about to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

9 By belief, he sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitshaq and Ya'aqov, the heirs with him of the same promise,

10 for he was looking for the city having foundations, whose builder and maker is Elohim.

11 By belief also, Sarah herself was enabled to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the normal age, because she deemed Him trustworthy who had promised.

12 And so from one, and him as good as dead, were born as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the sand which is by the seashore.

His faith was demonstrated by going out from his homeland and his fathers to the place Yah promised

13 In belief all these died, not having received the promises, but seeing them from a distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were aliens and strangers in the land.

14 For those who speak this way make it clear that they seek a fatherland.

15 And yet, if they had indeed kept remembering that place from which they had come out, they would have had the chance to return.

16 But now they long for a better place, that is, a heavenly. Therefore Elohim is not ashamed to be called their Elohim, for He has prepared a city for them.

Those people of Faith went to the land of promise as strangers and aliens because they knew (in faith) that it would someday be theirs!

17 By belief, Avraham, when he was tried, offered up Yitshaq, and he who had received the promises offered up his only brought-forth son,

18 of whom it was said, "In Yitshaq your seed shall be called,"

19 reckoning that Elohim was able to raise, even from the dead, from which he received him back, as a type.

20 By belief, Yitshaq blessed Ya'aqov and Esau concerning that which was to come.

21 By belief, Ya'aqov, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Yoseph, and did reverence on the top of his staff.

22 By belief, Yoseph, when he was dying, made mention of the outgoing of the children of Yisra'el, and gave orders concerning his bones.

Avraham was willing to (meaning-he did it) sacrifice his only son at the command of Yah

Avraham believed in the resurrection

Yitschak, near death, blesses sons (B27)

Yoseph, near death, talks about returning his bones to the fatherland

23 By belief, Mosheh, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a proper child, and were not afraid of the sovereign's command.

24 By belief, Mosheh, having become great, refused to be called the son of the daughter of Pharaoh,

25 choosing rather to be afflicted with the people of Elohim than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

26 deeming the reproach of Messiah greater riches than the treasures in Mitsrayim, for he was looking to the reward.

27 By belief, he left Mitsrayim, not fearing the wrath of the sovereign, for he was steadfast, as seeing Him who is invisible.

28 By belief, he performed the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the first-born should touch them.

Moshe refused the benefits of Egyptian royalty, preferring the inheritance of his forefathers, instead

29 By belief, they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, and when the Mitsrayim tried it, they were drowned.

30 By belief, the walls of Yeriho fell, having been surrounded for seven days.

31 By belief, Rahav the whore did not perish with those who did not believe, having received the spies with peace.

Even Rahav acted in faith. How? (I thought she broke the commandment when she lied about the spies)

32 And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to relate of Gid'on and Baraq and Shimshon and Yiphtah, also of Dawid and Shemu'el and the prophets,

33 who through belief, overcame reigns, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight.

35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. And others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain a better resurrection.

36 And others had trial of mockings and floggings and more, of chains and imprisonment.

37 They were stoned, they were tried, they were sawn in two, they were slain with the sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in need, afflicted, mistreated,

39 And having obtained witness through the belief, all these did not receive the promise,

40 Elohim having provided what is better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.