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Letter to the Hebrews |
10 Bleeding LIFE into Chapter Ten Let's review the Last 2 Sentences in Hebrews Chapter 9 and continue our revelation in Chapter 10: Heb 9:27 It is appointed unto men once to die [for sin causes death in all], but after this the judgment. 9:28 So Christ was once G0530 offered to bear the sins of many: For the Christ of The Lord Yahweh God bore the sin and death of sinful mankind once, and to die no more for the sin of mankind, And unto them that look for Him [Yeshua] shall He appear the second time without sin, unto Salvation. (Hebrews 9 verse 27 thru 28.) But who will believe our report. (See Isaiah 53.) The Sinless Yeshua Messiah paid the full price for all of Mankind's sin, for in the Lord Yahweh God's New Covenant of LIFE it is Eternally established IN Yeshua's LIFE Blood. The innocent Jesus Christ became mankind's sin and death for He paid the full price for Mankind's rebellious sin that kills all of humanity. So then, Christ died once for the sin of Man and that of Adam's kind, but mankind, in their sin, must approopriate Christ's LIFE through Faith IN the Power of His Sacrificial Blood. Yahweh God was pleased with the Perfection of Christ's sinless Offering of His LIFE for the sin of Man/Adam kind and then Yahweh God raised the Man Christ Jesus from the dead of sin. All of mankind are guilty of sin, and have died or will die because sin has killed them in sin's infectious violence. Even though mankind is guilty of sin's malevolence, nevertheless those who are faithful in their believing IN Jesus Christ, then Yahweh's God has extended His Merciful Covenant to those of Faith, for they are judged by Almighty God to have died IN the crucifixion death of Christ Jesus. They are dead because of their sin, but the good news is that because they believed in Christ, they are dead in the Body of Christ Jesus Who died for sin. Then when the sinless Messiah was bodily raised to LIFE, then the souls of the believer IN Christ, according to the PROMISE, would also be raised IN His Resurrection LIFE. Now the believer IN the Body of Christ is to live in expectancy of Yahweh's Promise of LIFE. The Promise will be fulfilled at the time when Jesus shall appear the second time without sin, and His Salvation Power will be within Him. Without Yahweh God's Gift of Salvation IN Yeshua haMashiach, our own Judgment has no efficacious prescription for our own death. 10:1 For the Law [in the Torah with it's animal sacrifices] having a shadow of good things to come, but not the exact image [of God's slain Lamb the Messiah], can never with those animal sacrifices, which they offered year after year, make the comers [those that would approach Yahweh God] complete. (Hebrews 10 verse 1.) The writer to the Hebrews, speaks of the animal sacrifices as being a shadow of the TRUTH of Yahweh God's New Covenant Word that He Promised to give for the sin and death of all of mankind. This is a Love so Great that it is beyond our human comprehension: For the Almighty Yahweh God so loved the world that He gave as a sacrifice, His only begotten Son, so that whosoever believes IN His Lamb, [slain before the foundation of the world] should not perish but would have everlasting LIFE. For Yahweh God did not send His only begotten Son into the world to condemn the world, but through the Sacrifice of His Lamb, the world [of peoples] might be saved. For clarity, we amplify this scripture for the WORD, the Perfect Lamb of Yahweh God was ostensibly slain in eternity before the foundation of the world. (See 1st Peter 2 verse 19 thru 20, and 1st Corinthians 2 verse 6 thru 11.) For when He had come into the world Yahweh God's Lamb said: Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings for sin Thou would not accept, neither had pleasure therein. Then said He: Lo I come to do Thy Will O God. He takes away the first [covenant in the blood of animals], that He may establish the second [Covenant IN His Own LIFE Giving Blood of a Perfect sinless [genetic] Man]. (See Hebrews 10 verse 4 thru 10 in conjunction with Psalm 40 verse 6 thru 10.) The WORD of Yahweh God, being the Messiah, the Christ of Yahweh God, fulfills the heart of Yahweh God: For He [Jesus/Yeshua the Salvation of Yahweh God] takes away the first [covenant in the blood of animals] so that He may establish the second, [The final Covenant in Christ's LIFE giving Blood]. (See Jeremiah 31 verse 31 thru 33.)
On the Feast of Unleavened Bread and while the Messiah's disciples were eating of the flesh of the lamb of the original 1st covenant, Jesus took the unleavened bread, and gave thanks to His Father Yahweh God, then broke the Bread and gave to His disciples and Said: Take and eat: This is My Body given for you. And He took the wine, and giving Thanks again to His Father (Yahweh) God, and Said to His disciple: Drink all of you, for this is My Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for the many for the remission of sin. Now we would understand that the first covenant in the blood of sacrificial animals was finalized or closed at the Lord Yeshua's Paschal Table when His disciples were eating the meat of the slain paschal lamb. Now the Final New Covenant of Yahweh God is IN the Blood of Jesus Christ for the WORD of GOD established the Covenant with the Third Cup of Blessing. Jesus/Yeshua, The WORD of Yahweh God, as the Son of Man/Adam, would inaugurate at His Father Yahweh God's Table of Grace, Yahweh's New Covenant. Yahweh's New Covenant is IN Messiah Yahshua's LIFE giving Blood that was poured out of His Body upon the earth for the sin of Man/Adam. For those that believe in Yahweh God's Salvation Mercy IN Christ Jesus, then Yahweh's Everlasting Covenant is IN the LIFE giving Blood of the Messiah, and remains effectual for all time, for the LIFE of CHRIST is Eternally IN His Father. The Lord Yahweh God is Faithful to forgive and will bring about the cleansing of the flesh of the repentant humble believer through Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of cleansing Grace that is IN the LIFE giving Blood of the Man Yeshua haMashiach. Yeshua/Jesus is Yahweh God's Passover, meaning Yahweh God's Sacrificial Lamb; For Yahweh God's Passover Lamb was declared to be slain before the foundation of the world. Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things ---- But with the Precious Blood of Christ, as a Lamb without blemish and without spot: Who was Truly foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. (See 1st Peter 1 verse 18 thru 22.) From Yahweh God's Eternal Perspective from Eternity, His Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world: For the LIFE of God's Perfect Lamb was a prerequisite for the sin of Adam, and was finalized in complete accord with His Father Yahweh God's justice. This was fully accomplished in the crucifixion death of Jesus/Yeshua; And just before His death, Jesus the sinless Salvation of Yahweh God uttered the fateful Words: It is finished [being the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world]. Then, with the incomparable Faith of Jesus Christ IN His Father, 3 days later the Messiah was resurrected IN to the LIFE of His Eternal Father, Yahweh God. Now then, if the Christ of Yahweh God had not been put to death and risen from the dead in accordance to the Perfect TRUTH of His Holy Father Yahweh God, then Yahweh God's Word is voided, and all of mankind are dead because they were slain by their own willful sins. But what a conundrum: If the Word of Yahweh God is voided, then in the void of nothingness, nothing would exist of the universe, and we, of a nothing universe, would not have existed to commit sin and to have died. Yet here we are, the yet dead in sin discussing the Evidence that surpasses all of our understanding of what we can actually see! The explanations of dead men walking is certainly void of the understanding of the Infinite Yahweh God Who is Spirit and TRUTH and not subject to the nothingness of dead substance. In Yahweh God's wondrous creation of time and space, it is also an unknowable wonder why the Lord Yahweh God Almighty created Man-kind that He knew would sin, and yet Yahweh God set His Heart upon sinning Man-kind to save him from eternal death. We weren't there to observe the beginning wonders of Elohim's creation, nor later in His creation of time when essentially Yahweh God's Lamb was slain even before God's creation of the world. Our rational explanations of our existence is lost in the bedlam of sin and death without recourse: But by that which is seen of the universe, and also the unseen substance of faith in the Grace of God, we can believe that the TRUTH of the WORD of GOD never fails His Command to perform what He has ordained before Infinity's creation of the world. Now lets observe the WORD of the Messiah for He has acknowledged and confirmed the Covenant Words of His Father in the Psalms: Sacrifice and offering Thou would not; but a Body hast Thou prepared for Me: Whole-burnt-offering and sacrifice [of animals] for sin Thou didst not require. Then I said, Behold, I come: In the volume of the book it is written concerning Me: I desire to do Thy Will, O God. (See Psalm 40 verse 6 thru 8. and used in Hebrews 10 verse 5 thru 7.) Yeshua/Jesus says: A Body hast Thou prepared for Me. The Eternal Yahweh God in His realm of Eternity is not bound up in His Creation of time. If this TRUTH comes to the forefront of our thoughts, then let me ask the astute reader an important question that is answered from the beginnings: When was the Body of Christ first prepared to be an offering? The Revealed Evidence would confirm True Logic that would say, that the Body of Christ, as the WORD of GOD was that of the Lamb of God, and the Body of the Lamb of God would have been of the genetic perfection of the first Man even before the creation of the world. Even as the Eternal all-knowing Yahweh God is Perfect in all things, therefore the Body of His Lamb and WORD would be Perfect in the genetics of the first Man/Adam. The Body of the Man Christ Jesus was perfectly ordained as a perfect Son of Adam, even before the foundation of the world and before the first Adam was created. It is an impossibility, for the Holy Eternal all knowing Yahweh Creator of time, to prepare the genetic Body of His Lamb and Messiah to be anything less than that of the future first Adam. Before the first Adam was created, the Perfect Lamb of God was ordained to bear the sins of Man even before Adam brought sin and death to all of mankind. The Holy Wisdom of the Creator leaves us pondering His Perfection, and the Perfcetion IN His Salvation/Yeshua haMashiach. It would appear from Scripture that Yeshua haMashiach came in the fullness of His Prepared Body of Sacrifice, and that the LIFE IN Christ's Body was IN His Holy Blood that was shed from His pierced Body, and flowed to the earth as Promised LIFE for mankind. The Life of the flesh is in the Blood. (Leviticus 17 verse 11.) In the afore mentioned Scripture we can spiritually witness the Lamb of Yahweh God Say again: Sacrifice and offerings and burnt offerings for sin thou did not desire, neither had pleasure therein; by which were offered through the Torah. Then said He [Messiah]: Lo I come to do Thy Will O God. By obediently doing His Father Yahweh God's Will: Yeshua haMashiach takes away the first Covenant [in the shed blood of animals that He may establish the second Covenant IN His shed LIFE Blood]. For by the Father's Will, we are G2070 sanctified [set apart] through the Sacrificial Offering of the Body of Jesus Christ, once for all. G2078 eschatos {es'-khat-os} (for all of mankind). (Hebrews 10 verse 9 thru 10.) For clarification, the words in parentheses (for all of mankind) are not found in the Greek text of this transliterated English script, for we have inserted the words (for all of mankind) to clarify what we believe the scriptures ssay to all of lost mankind. Yahweh God IN Christ Jesus has provided the WAY for any and all persons to enter into God's Salvation. The word once, G2078 eschatos {es'-khat-os} as you can see, has 2 interpreted points in Strong's Concordance that are both referencing the finality of created time.
Hebrews 10:10 in Greek: ἐν ᾧ θελήματι ἡγιασμένοι ἐσμὲν διὰ τῆς προσφορᾶς τοῦ σώματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐφάπαξ G2078! ἐφάπαξ (once) eschatos is the last Greek word of the transliterated Scripture, although there is no reference thought to the added (for all) by 15th century scribes, but today's theologist are pleased to include their inturpretation in their theology, but misunderstand the context (for all). The TRUTH of the WORD of GOD is that Yeshua haMashiach the LAMB of GOD is being declared to have died for the sins of all of mankind, for they are the corupted prodigy of the lustful first Adam. These theologians in their misconstructed theology can be falsely interpreted to mean that all persons who have spoken their one incantation are eternally saved. Their heresy is compounded in that they dismiss the Communion Blood of Jesus Christ that He inaugurated some 18 hours before His death for mankind's sin. The Word of our God shall stand forever; let alone be dismissed after 18 hours. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many: And unto them that look for Him [Yeshua] shall He appear the second time without sin, unto Salvation. (Hebrews 9 verse 28.) This Greek word once G0530 in this case is an English interpretation of the Greek Word `hapax {hap'-ax} with various meaning like once, one time, - the secondary position of (once for all) - that more correctly references (one time). Now lets continue to augment the logic of the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews to its one ending conclusion: 11 For every priest stands daily ministering and offering many times the same [animal] sacrifices, which can never obliterate the sins of Mankind; 12 But this Man [Christ Jesus] after He had offered His One (sinless) Sacrifice (once) and forever for (the) sins (of all peoples), He sat down on the Right Hand of His Father God; 13 from hence forth waiting until His enemies be made His footstool. For by One Offering He [Yeshua] has completed for ever them that are sanctified [set apart from their sin]. Christ Jesus, as the Son of Adam, was conceived in the flesh of man by the Spirit of His Father, and as Man presented His selfless Chagigah Offering of Himself to His Father Yahweh God Almighty, to pay for the sin of Adam. Yeshua/Jesus IN His Perfection as the Son of Adam and as Man, He would atone for the sin of Adam, and make for the WAY of Peace brtween sinful Mankind and Yahweh God Almighty. As the Perfect genetic but sinless Son of Adam/Man, then Yeshua haMashiach alone could make atonement for mankind's sins of death. Messiah's sinless Offering of Himself to Yahweh God, as Man, the Son of Adam, totally satisfied Holy, Holy, Holy, Yahweh God's Holy Justice against the insurrection of Adam and all of mankind. The first Adam of the earth, with His rebellion against His Maker, brought Sin and Death to all of his prodigy of mankind: But the Last Adam is a LIFE giving Spirit, and with His One Sacrifice, He provides His resurrected LIFE to all that would come to believe IN the Man Christ Jesus. (See Hebrews 9 verse 23 thru 28.) Because of the first Adam's fallen nature, all of mankind are genetically conceived to be sinners and all will die because of the corruption of sin. However, if you receive Yahweh God's Gift of Faith IN Christ, and you believe the TRUTH of the LAMB then you are set apart IN the Body of Christ Jesus. You are to know that in His death you also died with Him in His Body. The Spirit of Yahweh God expands the Gospel for our greater comprehention of the Good News; for because of Yeshua's sinless perfection, sin and death could not hold Jesus the Messiah in death's judgment of the grave, and the Holy Person within His Body of flesh was Resurrected in the Power of His Father's LIFE, The Good News is that those that are IN the Body of Christ Jesus, will also be Resurrected into Messiah's sinless LIFE giving Power. Sin cannot be imputed to those who have died IN the Body of Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach, for when the sinless obedient Jesus Christ was raised to LIFE, He brought Yahweh God's Promise of LIFE to those who are IN the sinless Body of Christ Jesus. If we born again of the Spirit of God, then our body of fleshly sin ceased to exist in the death of Christ, therefore in the resurrected Body of the Living Christ we have a new sinless body. Where there is no sin there is no guilt unto death. Because of the sinless Resurrected Body of Jesus Christ, Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God of the Living, is patiently waiting for all of the sinning dead of existing mankind to repent of their rebellion. With their hearing of Yahweh God's New Covenant Mercy IN the Holy LIFE giving Blood of Christ Jesus, then it is expected that sinners would fully turn toward the Only God of the Living, and receive IN the TRUTH, His Mercy and Grace for the remission of our current sins. (See Luke 24 verse 45 thru 48.) Therefore being justified by the Faith [IN Christ], we have Peace with (Yahweh) God through [G1223 denoting the channel of an act: Holy Communion] our Lord Jesus Christ: By Whom also we have access by Faith into this Grace [of Yahweh God's Spirit] wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the Glory of God. And not only this, but we also glory in tribulations: Knowing that tribulation works [produces] patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope makes not ashamed, because the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by God's Holy Spirit Who is given unto us. (Romans 5 verse 1 thru 5.) *If Paul is the Author of the Letter to the Hebrews then being a Jew, He is writing, as a devout disciple of Jesus Christ, to the Jews. The following writings in Romans 8 verse 9 thru 13 will nullify the gross misconceptions in Hebrews 10 verse 10 that tends to negate Yahweh God's New Covenant in the LIFE giving Blood of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. 9 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. Comparison of Communion in Romans 8 verse 9 thru 13 with Hebrews 10 verse 10 thru 17 10 By the which [Whose] Will we are sanctified [Set apart] through [Yahweh God's] Offering of the [Living] Body of Jesus Christ once for all [peoples]. Jesus Christ is the Last Adam Who, in His sinlessness Persona, died for the sin of Adam, and as Man, He died for all of Adam's prodigy of mankind, With His Chagigah offering, Christ Jesus has died for all people, and all people have been set apart to potentially receive the LIFE giving Sustance of the Body and LIFE Giving Blood of Yeshua haMashiach 11 But every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices [of animals], which can never take away sins: 14 For by one offering He (Christ) has perfected for ever (those who have called upon Christ and are) sanctified. (or ratified as True to those things or people consecrated to Yahweh God) (Hebrews 10 verse 11 thru 14.) Consider with profound understanding that in Hebrews 10 verse 14, the part of the verse saying; He has perfected, is referencing Christ's finished work in Yahweh God's New Covenant IN Christ's Blood. 16 This is the Covenant that I will make with them: After those days Says the Lord [Yahweh God], I will put MY Laws into their heart and in their minds will I write them. Yahweh God's New Covenant was originally addressed to re-enlighten the Jews and that Yahweh God was faithful to His WORD, for He would cause His WORD of Salvation to accomplish His Holy Purpose. The Jews who would believe in Yahweh God's faithful WORD of Salvation would be set apart [sanctified] from their former or past sins by their word of faith in the Christ of Yahweh God. And so it is with all faithful believers in His New Covenant in the LIFE Blood of Yeshua haMashiach. (See Romans 3 verse 25 thru 26,) Sanctification, the setting apart, of the Jew from sin would have first begun with Yahweh God's 10 Commandment warings against sin, through His Holy Spirit Of TRUTH. If He is heeded then there could be a beginning confession to the Christ of God by the sinner with their acknowledgement of Yahweh God's New Covenant IN the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ. Now True to His WORD, if Yahweh God the Almighty takes home the new believer in those first moments without their occasion to willfully commit sin, then it is well and good for the new believer. It is Yahweh God's prerogative for the number of the days of man and mankind's purpose in God, for they are only known by the Eternal Yahweh God in His creation of time. With their believing faith, the Jewish soul was sanctified [set apart from their past sin] by the Eternal Yahweh God, and His Promise of Eternal LIFE would be carried forth in their daily lives as obedient believers in the Promise of Yeshua haMashiach. (Disciples See Luke 9 verse 23 thru 26.) The crux of the last statement was previously qualified in Yahweh God's Word in Hebrews 5 verses 8 thru 10. Though He [Christ] was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered: And being made Perfect, He became the Author of Eternal Salvation unto all them that 'obey Him': Called of God a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. Indeed, God's Only Begotten Son, Jesus/Yeshua, was conceived in the Body of human flesh, but He was perfected in that which He naturally suffered and learned as a Man innocnet of all corrupting sin. However, whether Jew or gentile, we are all sinners, who are destined to die because of sin's absolute corruption, but if we are believer's IN the Body of Christ Jesus then our obedience to the TRUTH of the WORD of GOD IN Christ Jesus shows that we are Sanctified, that is 'set apart' from the call of sin, by the things we have patiently suffered in our fleshly body of death. If you endure chastening then God deals with you as sons of God, for what son is he, whom the Father does not chasten? (See Hebrews 12 verse 5 thru 7.) O wretched man that i am: Who shall save me from this body of death? Peter also writing to the Jew concurs with the writer of Hebrews: "Forasmuch as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, then arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: For he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin: (1st Peter 4 verse 1.) The believer has entered into Yahweh God's New Covenant of Peace IN Christ Jesus, through his own free will, and has rendered himself to be in Covenant and subject to the Very Good Will of Yahweh God Who abides IN Christ Jesus. --- Then said Jesus [Yeshua] to those Jews which believed on Him. If you continue IN My WORD, then you are My disciples indeed. You shall know the TRUTH and the TRUTH shall set you free. (John 8 verse 31 thru 32.) I AM the TRUTH! I AM not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. All of mankind are naturally born sinners, and these self righteous sinners don't believe in the TRUTH, for only Jesus/Yahshua alone can save them from their eternal death. Jesus is the avsolute TRUTH of His Father Yahweh God, for He is the WORD of Yahweh God by *Whom all things of the universe consist. The Lord our Righteousness, confirms Yahweh God's New Covenant to His disciples of TRUTH, saying: This is My Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for many for the remission of sin. For Yahweh God's Plan of redemption for sinful mankind was conceived before Yahweh God's creation of time, even before the foundation of the world. God's Eternal Sacrifice for sin was established in His WORD of TRUTH that never fails: For victory over the sin and death of mankind is accomplished once and for all time in the crucified Body of the Man Jesus Christ. For in that Christ died, He died unto sin once, but in that He lives, He lives unto Yahweh God. Likewise reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive unto Yahweh God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore understand: Let not sin continue to rule your mortal body, that in your lust you should obey its selfish desires. (See Romans 6 verse 10 thru 11.) The desires of sin is your death! The sinless Hebrew Messiah, Yeshua haMashiach, arose from the dead of mankind's sin, to die no more, to the Glory of His Holy Father Yahweh God. However, because of mankind's self righteousness that is innate to our earthly idolatrous body of sin and death, the fullness of Yahweh God's established New Covenant is in the cleansing LIFE giving Blood of His Son Yeshua haMashiach, that is given IN Communion, but in gross error is dismissed by evanglicals as of no consequence. Really! Therefore, says Paul; whosoever shall Eat of the Bread and Drink of the Cup of the Lord unworthily [in unbelief] shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. Unbelief, in the TRUTH of the WORD of GOD, whether it is of the Jew or Gentile, is stifling to the soul of the man that is naturally subject to the wisdom of man's own conceits! (See 1st Corinthians 11 verse 23 thru 26.) The Almighty Yahweh God has credited the 'set apart' believer with the Salvation that is IN Christ Jesus Alone. But to receive the credit for the sinning believers, there needs to be a true application to the credit account that is IN the New Covenant Blood of Christ Jesus, the Lord our Righteousness. The Holy Savior, Who bore our sins says to the forgetful sinning believer: "Do this in Remembrance of Me: For as often as you eat this Bread, and drink from this Cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes." Believing Faith, in the Living WORD of Yahweh God, will cleanses the sinner's conscience of their confessed idolatrous transgressions of death, and enables them to live IN the Body of Christ with the Remembrance of the TRUTH of His dying for their confessed sins of their flesh. Yahweh God will never accuse the believer of these confessed sins that are remitted by the cleansing LIFE Giving Blood of Yashua/Jesus (See Hebrews 9 verse 13 thru 14,) My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint, when you are rebuked of Him. For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives. If you endure chastening, Yahweh God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the Father chastens not? For if you are without chastisement, whereof all [that are His] are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? (Hebrews 12 verse 5 thru 9.) Hebrews Menumailto:excellent.valley@verizon.netRobert Glenn Pratten |