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Hebrews:
1. Introduction:
Seen in the Light of the TRUTH.
 

2. Therefore, brothers and sisters.  Consider our High Priest
3. We are laborers together IN God.

4. You ought to be Teachers
 

5. Song of Moses

 

6.Trying to circumvent Jewish Apostasy
7.Counter Balance: Seen in the Chagigah Peace Offering of Yeshua/Jesus, the Son of God.
 
8. The Original Covenant in the Blood of Sacrificial Animals. Then understanding Grace for Grace.

9. Melchizedek

 
10.Bleeding LIFE into Chapter Ten: The New Blood Covenant in the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus, the Lamb of God.   11.For it is the blood that makes an atonement for sin. The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood, 12.Therefore Remember this  Therefore: I AM the WAY the TRUTH and LIFE of Men
13.O Wretched man that I am, Who will save from this body of death 14. For if we sin willfully:
Understanding  that this fearful Word concerns animal sacrifices.

15. Grace comes from Holy God's Spirit of Grace for He is God's Comforter.
16.I AM the Resurrection and the LIFE

Hebrews: Seen in the Light of the TRUTH.

Portions of the Ecclesia, called the church, not knowing of the early Jewish culture and the languages of the day, have developed gross misconceptions concerning the intent of the letter called 'Hebrews'.  The letter was written to the Jewish converts who obviously lived in the time of Christ Jesus.  The Epistle to the Hebrews was not designed by the writer, probably Paul, to be parsed over, and erroneously deemed to be God's doctrine speaking to the gentile church/ecclesia.  The main purpose of the letter to the Hebrews was to address some of the misunderstandings of the Jewish converts that had come to believe in Messiah Yeshua/Jesus the Christ.  The letter was written directly to the new Jewish believers, too clarify the fullness of God's New Covenant in the Sacrificial Life giving Blood of Jesus Christ that brings Yahweh's Great Salvation Gift. 

Unfortunately, much of the leadership of the protestant churches, have unwittingly established their own stumbling blocks that are continually perpetuated by puppet pastors in their circuitous circles of learning.  Also the various catholic churches have developed their own corrupt teachings that imprisons their people to the vanity of the institution.  We will see in the heresies that some of the teachers on God's Holy Matter have given license to sin, and have dismissed God's New Covenant of Sanctifying Grace through Yahweh's Holy Spirit of Grace.  Within our Thanksgiving Communion with the Almighty God, We  are to know that God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH and Grace provides the Body and Life giving Blood of the Almighty's Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ.  However, presently the TRUTH IN Holy Communion for repentant believers, is erroneously seen by the evangelical as a superfluous doctrine by superstitious men.  The ignorant teachings of finite man have supplanted the fullness of the Infinite Holy God's New Covenant Doctrine that He eternally established in the Life Giving Sacrificial Blood of Jesus Christ, Yeshua haMashiach.

To the Jewish converts, the author begins to expound upon the Supreme Greatness of the Messiah of Yahweh God.

In the past, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways:  But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, Whom He appointed Heir of all things, and through Whom also He made the universe. The Son is the Radiance of God’s Glory and the exact Representation of His Being, sustaining all things by His Powerful Word.  After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the Right Hand of the Majesty in Heaven. (Hebrews 1 verse 1 thru 3.  NIV)  Heaven in this case is probably timeless Eternity.

Behold the days come says the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of Egypt. (See all of Jeremiah 31 verse 31 thru 35.)  Now, when God's appointed time had come, then on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Nissan the 15th, the Lord Yeshua/Jesus Christ, the Promised One, instituted the New Covenant IN His Body and Blood that was received by the 11 of  His chosen disciples.  This was God's everlasting Covenant that was to be received by repentant sinners for the remission of their sins.  This new Covenant was not only for the present day disciples, but for all that would come to believe IN Yahweh's WORD of Salvation Yeshua haMashiach.  This took place on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Lord Yeshua/Jesus Blessed the Unleavened Bread, and Said: Take and eat, for this is My Body, and of the wine Jesus/Yeshua Said: Drink all of you. This is My Blood of the New Covenant, shed for many for the remission of sin

Now consider closely that which is seldom addressed by the clergy that Christ Jesus was the "Lamb of God, crucified before the foundation of the world". (1st Peter 1 verse 18 thru 21, John 17 verse 24.) The finality of Yahweh's Promised Lamb Crucified to death before the foundation of the world, was concluded the flow of time, when the Lamb of God declared with His last breath, "It is finished".  The Lamb of God had totally fulfilled the Promise of His Holy Father God, and died a wretched death on the cross for the sins of the world.  With Yeshua's Resurrection IN the LIFE of His Father, the new Covenant had been affirmed: For After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the Right Hand of the Majesty IN heaven.  The TRUTH for why God's Son came to earth IN the Flesh of Man/Adam, was confirmed in Christ Messiah's crucifixion death, and with His resurrection into the LIFE of His Father, God's New Covenant was eternally established IN the LIFE Blood of God's unblemished Lamb.  Nevertheless, Sin does not cease in the human flesh, not even in the saved Christian, for sin will persistently occur in the flesh of all of mankind, and all sin must be humbly released into the crucified Hands of our High Priest, the Man Christ Jesus.

For unto which of the angels said God at any time: Thou art My Son this day have I begotten Thee.  Kiss the Son, unless He becomes angry, and you perish from The WAY, when His wrath be kindled but a little.  Blessed are they that put their trust IN HIM.
(See Psalm 2 verse 7, 12  in concert with  Hebrews 1 verse 5.)

And to His Son, the Almighty God declares of Christ:

Thy Throne, O God, is for ever and ever: A Scepter of Righteousness is the Scepter of Thy Kingdom.  Thou has loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, Thy God, has anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.
(Compare Hebrews 1 verse 8 thru 12, and Psalm 45 verse 6 thru 7, and Psalm 102 verse 24 thru 28, and Psalm 110 verse 1.)

For we see Jesus/Yeshua, [The Son of Adam] Who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the Grace of God should taste death for every man. (See Hebrews 2 verse 9 thru 10,16 thru 17.)

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Therefore, brothers and sisters,

who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus/Yeshua, Whom we acknowledge as our Apostle and High Priest. For He [Yeshua] was faithful to the Almighty God Who appointed Him [IN His House Temple] even as Moses was faithful in all his house. ( See Hebrews 3 verse 1 thru 4.)

Just a point of information: In the KJV there are 15 THEREFORES' and 12 WHEREFORES' in the Hebrew writings. Therefore, perhaps the reasons for the therefores' and wherefores' are  there in the first place, is to reveal the passages that need to be closely examined to understand the TRUTH.

In the book of Hebrews, we see that God has issued His heavenly calling of Salvation to the author's brothers and sisters of Jewish blood who have first answered Holy God's Spirit of Grace. God Offering of His free Gift of Life in Christ Jesus inspires faith IN the Messiah, and He  will provide the WAY for the Promise of God's Holy Spirit of Life that is  to be given to those with believing obedience. For Moses, faithful to his house, gave testimony to Israel of those things which the Promised One would speak afterwards. 

I will raise  them up a Prophet from among their brothers, like unto thee [Moses], and I will put My Words IN His Mouth, and He shall Speak unto them all that I Shall Command Him. And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hear MY Words which He shall speak IN MY NAME, I Will require it of him. (Deuteronomy 18 verse 18.)

And so the warning continues today: For Christ, as a Son over His Own House [Temple], Whose Temple we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope until the end.

Therefore, in abiding with the Word of God IN Christ Jesus, we are Promised an Entrance into the Almighty's Rest thorough our obedient faith in the Word of God. (See John 14 verse 18 thru 24.) He that does not love Me does not keep My Word: And the Word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's Who sent Me.  Today if you hear His Voice, do not harden your heart as in the day of provocation. The fuller Witness to this Word is given in King David's warnings in Psalm 95 seen in verse 8 thru 11. So then, through the writers of scripture, we will witness that not all who are called, will be obedient to God's calling that Promises to give rest to the soul of man.

The Infinite God dwelling in Eternity, created the fabric of time, and from the beginning to the end of time, the Almighty foreknew those who, upon hearing His calling Word, would obey His Word that promised rest.  Being able to observe and handle the fabric of time, those whom the Eternal foreknew, He predestined to be conformed into the glorious image of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach. (See Romans 8 verse 28 thru 30.) In David's Psalm 95, the Spirit of God calls out to the people: Today, if you will hear His Voice: Then harden not your hearts, as in the provocation in the wilderness, when your fathers tempted Me and provoked Me: So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My Rest. The provocation, in the wilderness, took place at what would be called Massah Mirabah.

At that time, the congregation of Israel had journeyed to Rephidim and found no water to drink. Wherefore the people argued with Moses and said: Give us water that we may drink.  Moses said unto them: Why argue with me? Why do you provoke the Lord? (See Exodus 17 verse 3). Hear the Word of the Lord in David's 95th Psalm: Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said: It is a people that do err in their heart, and have not known My WAYS: Unto them I swore in My Wrath that they should not enter into My Rest. (Psalm 95 verse 11.) Those that did not enter into God's Rest, were those who at their beginning journey with Moses, continued in sin's death and unbelief, and whose carcasses would fall and rot in the desert.  And so the author of Hebrews writes: Let us fear [Yahweh God] less a promise being left off for us of entering into His Rest, and any of you come up short of the Promise. (See Hebrews 3 verse 15 thru 19, chapter 4 verse 1.)

With David speaking of "Today, if you will hear His Voice"; we are to know that today could be any one of the seven days of the week, and while that day is yet called today and not a tomorrow that may not come, then do not close your ears to the Infinite Lord's beckoning call to freedom from sin within His Love that fosters our obedient faith.  While it is yet today, then choose today if you will serve the Lord, for today is the beginning day to live for the Lord! (See Joshua 24 verse 14 thru 15.)  Take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you of an evil heart of unbelief, causing you to depart from the Living God.  But exhort one another daily, while it is called today; lest any of you be hardened thorough the deceitfulness of sin. (Hebrews 3 verse 12 thru 13.)

Although the previous passages were written to the Jew first, the Truth of the Word in Hebrews 3 verse 12 thru 13, also remains true for the gentile believer, for Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty does not change in His Holiness. The unchecked and wanton sins within the unbelieving flesh of man, can remove any one of us from the Promise of GOD Almighty.  Although the writer writes in Romans 8 verse 37 thru 39 that there are no entities that can remove us from the Love of God IN Christ Jesus, note that there is no mention of the will of man, coming up short in a return to his own unbelief.  God Almighty is eternally faithful IN His Love for the members that live IN the Body of His Beloved Son, Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach, but He will not override the will of any person that remains entrenched in their sins of carnal unbelief. The reader needs to review Romans 11 verses 16 thru 22 and reconsider the state of their faith IN the Covenant Word of Holy Lord God Almighty. Remember, for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee.  Therefore, behold the goodness and severity of God: On them which fell severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness: Otherwise thou also shall be cut off.  Why would one abandon the calling of the Creator of all goodness, and return to their folly by succumbing to the deceit of sin that is outside of the Love of Holy God that abides IN His Son, Jesus Christ?

Today's day of unrest is just like any day of unrest within David's time; It is a people that do err in their heart, and have not known My Ways: (Psalm 95:10.) Where do we begin to find understanding in the WAY of God?  For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits Eternity, whose Name [Yahweh] is Holy; I dwell in the High and Holy Place: Also with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit; to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. (See Isaiah 57 verse 15 thru 18.) The Almighty God gives rest to the humble contrite souls who seek to follow God with all their being: But Holy God Almighty will strike down to the dust of the earth the earthly person who remains in their wickedness. Hear the Lord God's admonition to Israel, even as if it were addressed to the present day church. 

Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord.  Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.  Though they be like crimson, they shall be as wool.  'If' you are willing and obedient, 'then' you will eat the good of the land: But 'if' you refuse and rebel, 'then' you shall be devoured with the Sword: For the Mouth of the Lord has spoken it. (Isaiah 1 verse 18 thru 20.) Perchance if the Word of the Almighty God brings conviction to a person, then is today the day when the WAY of Christ's humility may be found in the soul of God's earthly creation?

Again we are able to perceive God's WAY in His Eternal Word of LIFE, for, Thus says the Lord: The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool: What then is the house that you have built for Me, and where is the place of My rest: But to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembles at My Word (See Isaiah 66 verse 1 thru 5.)  From the beginning of time, the heavens declare the Glory of the Creator of the universe.  The Almighty designer, created all things seen and unseen; and any thing that earthly man would create, then finite man should know that its substance first came from the Almighty's creation of the earth. 

Solomon would build an earthly temple in Jerusalem, and then with a long prayer Solomon dedicated the Temple to be for the Glory of God.  God , speaking to Solomon, said would He would hallow the temple, according specifically to Israel's compliance to Solomon's prayer, But even Solomon's finished earthly temple became defiled by His chosen people's earthly ways.  And so, true to God's Word, the first Temple was totally destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE.  Watch Therefore: For what I say to one, I say to all!

A Side Note:  The Prophet Jeremiah, through God's Spirit, knew before hand of the coming Babylonian siege on Jerusalem. Jeremiah prudently removed the Arc of the Covenant, along with the tabernacle contents, and then had the holy things hidden in a sealed cavern beneath Mount Mariah. They were originally discovered by Ron Wyatt.

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We are laborers together IN God --- You are God's Garden: You are God's building.
 
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1st Corinthians 3 verse 9 .)

 God gives the increase

--- You are God's garden

God knows those who belong to Him, and is Faithful to those that truly believe IN Christ Jesus. As many as receive Him, to them He gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name [of Yeshua - Salvation]. They that believe IN the Lord Jesus Christ, even in His Name, have been given the power through the precious Love of God to build upon their faith by actively participating in God's fruitful Garden: For the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, against such as these there is no condemnation [that would bring destruction]. In God's Garden, the Fruit of God's Spirit is as gold, silver, and precious stones that are not consumed by the Fire of God Almighty.  But some will sit back on their traditional lees [backsides] by compromising the old with the new, and come up short of lasting rewards:  For in life's testing, their justifying works of sacrifice will be completely consumed in the Holy Fire of the Lord God Almighty.  Nevertheless, even that person of repenting faith IN Yeshua shall be saved IN the Promise of God, even through the Fire of Holy God.   (See 1st Corinthians 3 verse 9 thru 15.)

--- You are God's building, [His Temple]

However in the very next linking statement, Paul warns those whom he had just addressed in his letter. Know you not that you are the temple of God [God's Building], and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? Many of the called to be IN Christ Jesus, will become fools within the smug vanity within their own minds, and will become entangled in their own dark perception of truth.  Let no man deceive himself.  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is Holy, which temple you are.  If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise. (See 1st Corinthians 3 verse 16 thru 23.) Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived. (See 2nd Timothy 3 verse 1 thru 13.) Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough. Therefore purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump of dough, for Christ our Passover is Sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the Feast with the Unleavened Bread of TRUTH with sincerity. (See 1st Corinthians 5 verse 5 thru 8.) Whether Jew of Gentile, the TRUTH of the Holy WORD of God remains constant, so that those who are perishing in the day, might come to know the infallible TRUTH of the Almighty's WORD before the end of the day.
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You ought to be Teachers

In this letter to the Jews, the writer admonishes the new Jewish believers for their failure to use their Jewish knowledge rightly: This is the time that you ought to be teachers, but you have need that one teach you again the first principles of the Oracles of God.  (See Hebrews 5 verse 9 thru 14.) In these verses the writer reprimands the Jews, as if they were suckling babies in dire need of the pabulum of the Word of God, rather than being skilled individuals who should know the Scriptures and God's WAY of Righteousness established IN His Love.  Apparently, the writer to the Hebrews, believing that they would already know the bare fundamentals of the Torah, will temporarily remove them from their little knowledge of Christ and rehearse with them the purpose of the Torah: Therefore leaving the principles of the Doctrine of Christ/Messiah, let us go on unto maturity; not laying again the foundation [first principle] of repentance [change of mind\from dead [without life] works [of the priesthood] and faith toward God. The dead works would speak of the animal sacrifices of the priesthood or the inability for Jew's to do any good deeds to remove sins condemnation of death.

In abandoning the shackles of sin, we, both Jew and Gentile, are to have faith in Holy Yahweh God and that His Promises in Messiah Yeshua/Jesus will not fail, for He is the embodiment of the TRUTH.  Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of Promise the immutability of His Council, confirmed it by an Oath: (See Hebrews 6 verse 17 thru 20.)

However, the writer of Hebrews gives a severe warning in his letter: For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the Heavenly Gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and tasted the good Word of God and the Power of the world to come, if they should fall away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put Him to an open shame. The same warning to the Hebrews  was written in chapter 10 verse 28 thru 30. (Paul also warns of the falling away in 2nd Thessalonians 2 verse 3.) Obedience, brings blessings from the Almighty God: But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned. But beloved, we are persuaded better things of [for] you and things that accompany Salvation, though we thus speak.  (Read full context Hebrews 6 verse 4 thru 9.)

From the beginning, it was imperative that the Lord Jesus/Yeshua would totally fulfill the righteous Word of God in the Torah. (See Genesis 3 verse 15.) Yeshua/Jesus, the Word of God, was conceived in the original genetic flesh derived from the first Adam through his wife Ishshah, in English called Woman, and the WORD of God, became the last Hebrew Man/Adam, the Christ/Messiah and the Holy One of God with us.  The Man, Jesus/Yeshua, kept the whole heart of the Torah, and then was crucified to death for man-kind's nature of sin.  Jesus Christ, upon rising from the dead, by the Power of the Eternal Holy God, then the Son of Man/Adam, Yeshua haMashiach, became the Lord our Righteousness.  Jesus Christ, our Righteousness and our Peace with God, with the giving of His LIFE Blood, brought an end to the animal sacrifices and all of the former works ascribed within the Torah. 

The Torah is seen to have been structurally segregated into ---

  1. Moral,    

  2. Civil, dietary, and circumcision of the males of Judaism. 

  3. Ceremonial instructions. pertaining to the sacrifice of specified animals, and

Those animal sacrifices expressed within the Law [Torah] could never bring God's justifying peace to the conscience of sinful man kind.  No, because they are animals and the life blood in the animals can not takeaway sin in mankind, for sin came by Man and guilty Man is accountable for his sin.  God, before the foundation of the world had already prepared for the sacrifice of a specific Man to pay for the sin of Man.  The Almighty had His own Lamb that He would give as  His own peace offering in the Love of His Only Begotten Son, Yeshua haMashiach.   The debt of death for the sin of Man kind, was paid by the innocent Man Jesus Christ.  But sin and death could not hold the innocent Jesus Christ in the grave, and God's Lamb rose from the dead.  Now whosoever believes in the Risen Messiah should not perish in the clutches of sin and death, but find Eternal Life IN Christ Jesus.  IN Christ Jesus, alone, does an obedient believer have rest from the weariness of the sin in this world.  For the Lord Jesus said: These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: But be of good cheer: I have overcome the world. (John 16 verse 33.) Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me; for I AM meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest unto your souls. My yoke is easy and My burden is Light. (Matthew 11 verse 28 thru 30.)

Those animal blood sacrifices, expressed within the Law [Torah], were temporary sin atonements in the life of the animal and needed to be performed daily from year to year. However, from before the foundation of the world, Elohim had settled in His creation of time, His One Secure Sacrifice of His Lamb,  a Man of absolute genetic and spiritual purity, Whose crucifixion death at the hands of man, would pay for the sins of believing humanity, and thereby eternally satisfy Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty. There are no more physical sacrifices for sin in God's New Blood Covenant.  Once and for all time, the Only Holy Lord Almighty God gave His own peace offering in the Love of His Only Begotten Son, the Man Yeshua, so that whosoever believes in the Messiah should not perish in the clutches of sin and death, but find Eternal Life IN the Living Body of Jesus the Messiah.  In Christ Jesus, alone, does an obedient believer have rest from the weariness of the sin in this world.  For the Lord Jesus said: These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: But be of good cheer: I have overcome the world. (John 16 verse 33.) Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden [in sin], and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me; for I AM meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest unto your souls. My yoke is easy and My burden is Light. (Matthew 11 verse 28 thru 30.)

Yes, it is sin that is the burden that we haul around within our lives, and we have the propensity to add sin to habitual sin.  Oh wretched man that I am, who shall save me from this body of death.  Only the sinless Messiah Yeshua, the Christ of God can relieve us of sin's crushing load. For the I AM that I AM is of a contrite Spirit and He is the only Peace that can deliver a soul into His rest. The Lord's burden is easy, for in TRUTH His Burden is that of Light. While the word 'light' in the Greek has a meaning of the absence of weight, however we might remember that the Lord is the Light of the World.  Therefore we might learn to live IN the Light of God and then we will find IN Him, rest for our souls.
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Song of Moses

Let us look into Deuteronomy 28 the Song of Moses, where we witness Holy God's separating judgment against the people that He had delivered from Egypt.  And among these nations thou shall find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: But the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind. (Deuteronomy 28 verse 65.) Consider again the text: Neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest.  There is no rest for the wicked: For the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. (See Isaiah 57 verse 19 thru 21.)

But the Lord of Salvation calls out to these who are seeking rest from their burden of sin: Come unto Me all you that are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I AM meek and lowly of heart, then you shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. (Matthew 11 verse 28 thru 30.) The Lord of Salvation has already carried the burden of sin, for all sinners, and is only waiting for their admission of guilt to relieve them of their burden.  We have been made blind to God's rest, for it begins at His Table of Grace that we call the Last Supper.  If we come and are abiding IN Christ Jesus, then all believers can find rest IN their Lord within the humility of our faith where we can see and find in Faith, His Sacrificial Provisions of His Body and Blood that He deemed as LIFE and is provided by His Spirit of Grace.

The 10 northern tribes of Israel, with their rebellious ways, had mingled their bloodlines with other peoples and were already dispersed among the heathen nations that they had become.  Shortly there after, God called Isaiah to prophecy of the vision he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.  Similar to the seditious 10 northern tribes of Israel, Judah and Jerusalem also continued in their own un-repentant vanity within their self centered minds.  The Prophet Isaiah calls the people to hear the Word of the Lord: To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? Says the Lord, I AM full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. (See Isaiah 1 verse 10 thru 16.) God's true expectation was to be seen in His Mercy, for He was looking for true godly repentance from the people, and not what became the vain oblations of the children of Judah and Jerusalem. (See Isaiah 18 thru 20.)

With the coming advent of the Promised Messiah, then at the last of his writings, the prophet Isaiah had forewarned Judah and Jerusalem, of God's rebuke to what they had become in their vanity: For their oblations were nothing but a token offering of the animal's blood to satisfy the God they did not know: "He that kills an ox, is as if he slew a man. He that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck. He that offers an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood. He that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their ways, and their souls delight in their abominations. (Isaiah 66 verse 3.) God's WAY was and is to give rest to His people of faith and relieve them of their sins, but they chose their own way of unbelief and delighted to continue in their own wickedness.  For the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.  There is no peace, for the wicked, says my God.

We have witnessed, in the prophetic writings of Isaiah, that the animal sacrifices were berated by God for their ineffectiveness to deal with the licentiousness of the people; and more importantly, His Messiah Yeshua/Jesus was to come in the flesh of the first Adam/Man, and bring in His Father's New Covenant in His Own Life giving Blood.  Now as far as the Almighty God of the heart was and is concerned, the animal sacrifices became a ritual of none affect upon the people of Israel.  Humility was virtually missing within His chosen people, and so it is the heart of the many that are called today. 
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Trying to Circumvent Jewish Apostasy

As the writer of Hebrews expands his thoughts, he is speaking to the Jews that were vacillating in their understanding of God's New Covenant in the Blood of Christ Jesus verses the old Mosaic Covenant in the blood sacrifice's of animals.  At issue was the beginnings of a Jewish apostasy concerning Christ.  In their confusion, they were contemplating a return to the Jewish traditions that they may have practiced, and seek for God's mercy for their sins under the Mosaic law.  The new Jewish converts, having come to a new faith in the Christ of God, were being warned not to return to the sanctuary, made by human hands.  They must not fall back on the old covenant with the Jewish animal sacrifices that the Levitical priesthood performed in their daily work [See service Hebrew H5656] for the sins of the people of Israel. The the tribe of Levites were specifically assigned by Yahweh The Lord to do all of the work required in the service of the Tabernacle.

Numbers 3 verse 5 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:

6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.

7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.

8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

9 And thou shall give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.

10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait [take care of] their priest office [of sacrifice].

In this 3rd chapter of Numbers we note that the first born of Israel were not assigned to the service of the Tabernacle. The Lord Yeshua/Jesus, was the first born from the womb of Mary from the tribe of Jacob, and He was YAHWEH'S only begotten Son of the flesh of Man, and our High Priest after the endless order of Melchizedek.

There are several possibilities we should consider, concerning those that were doing the service work in the temple. Perhaps, the persecution of the new Messianic converts, by the high priest and Sadducees, had left some of the converts pondering in their minds whether the trial of their faith was worthwhile. If they returned to the temple practices, then perhaps the persecution of their then former peers would cease. Also some of the Jewish converts would have been among the priest that had come to faith in God's Promised Messiah. (See Acts 6 verse 7.) But could it be that those priest fearing a form of financial loss of their positional service work in the synagogues, might have thought to return to their former work of animal sacrifice.

Therefore, the writer sought to bring to the Jewish convert a greater clarification to the superiority of God's New Covenant in the Life giving Blood of the Righteous Man Yeshua haMashiach, [Jesus, the Messiah of God,[  We would understand that TRUTH is Eternally set in the WORD of God and was conceived in the genetic flesh of Adam.  Because of His Love for the lost of mankind,  the Merciful Yahweh Lord God Almighty, sent His Word to the earth to be incarnately conceived in the ovum of the Hebrew woman Mary, being made from the beginning of conception of the genetic flesh of the first Man/Adam.  Then the Salvation Word of God, would be born as the innocent Man, Jesus Christ, would totally fulfill with His Life the Righteousness within the Torah of God.  In the beginnings of God's calling to faith in God, the new Jewish converts had a beginning understanding that Christ Jesus was crucified to death, and Yahweh God raised Jesus/Yeshua from the dead, but did not understand His atonement for man's sins of death.  The first Man rebelled against the God of the Living, and death was conceived in the whole of his being.  The last Man was obedient to His Father God even unto death, and in His righteousness was raised to the LIFE OF HIS FATHER, Yahweh Lord God Almighty.

Christ's atonement for sin was not only for the Jew, but as some Jews would discover, also for the gentiles of the world. (see Acts 10 verse 44 thru 48.) The Risen Lord Yeshua/Jesus became our Righteousness IN Him, and brought an end to the endless animal sacrificial works of the Law, performed by sinful man.

God's Highest standards for holiness has never changed.  In the old Covenant with His people Israel, the Almighty Holy God desired the willing heart of His people to begin to approach Him in the Holy Place with a spirit of humility, and then in the Almighty's Mercy their sin was temporarily covered over through the substitutionary blood offerings of God's own animal creations. (See Leviticus 17 verse 11 thru 12.) The God of the living, provided all of the necessary provisions to sustain the life of His people.  The people of Israel could eat of the flesh of the animal, but were forbidden to eat of the life blood of the animal sacrifice. But when the TRUTH of the WORD of God had come in time, then God's Final Provision for the Life of the believing of mankind, is within the LIFE giving Blood of the Man Christ Jesus our Living Mediator.  God's Covenant for the life of man kind, was eternally established before the foundation of the world, when God's Passover Lamb of Messiah Yeshua/Jesus was already crucified in God's creation of time.  With the treason of the first Man/Adam, God gave His Word in the Garden of Eden, and established the eternal fact that the genetic seed of His creation of Adam would be perpetuated through Adam's wife, Ishshah.  Within the fabric of time, a last Hebrew virgin woman, would give birth to the Word of God made of the flesh of Adam/Man.   Though He was the only begotten Son of God, Yet He learned obedience by the things that He suffered: And being made perfect, He became the Author of Eternal Salvation unto all that obey Him. (See Hebrews 5 verse 8 thru 10.) Thus, the Man Yeshua haMashiach with His Crucifixion death by the hands of man and His resurrection from the dead by the Power of Yahweh God, would break the power of sin and death to all of mankind who would come and remain IN Him. The life of the flesh of man kind, is in the Life giving Blood of the TRUTH of the WORD of God, Jesus Christ, made of the genetic flesh of Adam.

The duties of the Levitical priesthood along with their daily animal sacrifices, was a 'work of sacrifice' within the Law of Moses. The animal sacrifices were a token work of the priesthood, made for Israel's sins, and in their Covenant with God, the sacrifices were a substitutionary atonement for the soul's of the sinful people of Israel. For it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul. (Leviticus 17 verse 11.) Also note, that the Law of God, within the Ten Commandments, is spiritual, and the Law in Commandments works its spiritual condemnation in the mind of man, bringing an awareness of sin's offences within man's consciousness. (See Romans 7 verse 14.) There are no justifying physical works whatsoever that are possible to satisfy Holy God's Ten spiritual Commandments that condemns the spiritual law of sin and death in the flesh of mankind.  We can witness with Paul's lamenting discovery that when sin was manifested in the redeemed Paul, the Decalogue of God came alive and revealed that he was dead because of his sin that dwells in his flesh. Paul discovers through the good, holy and just 10 spiritual Commandments of God, that the rebellious, spiritual Law of Sin and Death is innately chained within his earthly body of sinful flesh.   "O wretched man that I am, Who will deliver me from this body of death."  For the wages of sin is death, and I am carnal, and sold under sin.   So it is within the corrupted flesh of all of humanity, and yes the redeemed of God.  But the redeemed Paul speaks of his Thanksgiving unto God through Christ Jesus His Lord; for he also remembers and thus reveals in his teachings: That the Gift of God is Eternal Life through [the Life giving Blood of] Jesus Christ, our Lord.  (See Romans 6 verse 23 and chapter7 verse 14.) But Who will believe the Report?

If the Spiritual Commandments of God works to reveal and condemn unseen sin that innately exists in the flesh of all of man kind, then there are no human efficacious works within the Spiritual Law of God's 10 Commandments that could justify any human. To help and avoid confusion in God's 10  Commandment Law's verses the separating Law of Sin and Death, then please see "The Law, a Quagmire of Confusion".)
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Counter Balance

Paul, after he addresses the gentile believers as wild olive branches, and as having been grafted into the Holy LIFE of Christ, implores them:  Therefore brethren, I beseech you by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (See Romans 12 verse 1 thru 2.) 

Yeshua, Jesus the the Man,  presented Himself as a Love Offering to His Father Yahweh God, and Christ's Peace Offering went far beyond the requirements written in the Torah.  Adam, the created first Man and 'son' of God, in his rebellion against his Maker Elohim, unwittingly chose sin and death: But the only Begotten 'Son' of God, offered His sinless Body as a Wave Offering of Peace rather than a random blessing from Yahweh. In the Hebrew Language, the Presentation Wave Offering is a Peace Offering to Yahweh God that is called Chagigah.

The believer in Yeshua/Jesus Christ needs to understand the Wave Offering in Leviticus 8, for it is the Word of God and Presents the Lord Yeshua's future free will offering of Peace to Yahweh God Almighty, to offset the rebellious sin of Adam.

Leviticus 8 verse 22 thru 36

22 And he [Moses] brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

23 And he [Moses] slew it [the ram]; and Moses took of the blood of it [ram], and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.

24 And [then[ he [Moses] brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood [of the ram] upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

All the marking of the ram's blood were positioned on Aaron the High Priest and also the Levitical priesthood, and would indicate the marks of the crucified Lamb of Yahweh God, Who would have died for the sins of the world. The blood of the male lamb was sprinkled upon the altar and all around the altar.

25 And he [Moses] took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:

26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the Lord, he [Moses] took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:

27 And he [Moses] put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the Lord.

28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burned them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet savour: It is an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Indeed the Lamb was dead.  Now the Wave Offering, inclusive with the unleavened bread, is indicative of the Presentation Offering of the Lamb of God slain for the sin of Man even before the foundation of the world.

29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses' part, as the Lord commanded Moses.

30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified [set apart ] Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil [bake] the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

32 And that which remains of the flesh and of the bread shall you burn with fire.

33 And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall He consecrate you.

34 As He has done this day, so the Lord has commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.

35 Therefore shall you abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, that you die not: for so I am commanded.

36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.

Leviticus 27

8 But if he [in his presentation offering] be poorer than your estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him according to his ability that [he] vowed shall the priest value him.

The Governor Pilot to whom Messiah was delivered, found no fault in the Man Yeshua haMashiach, and wanted to release Him without price. Christ was brought before the people where the chief priest and the elders persuaded the people to destroy Jesus. And so we see that the price of Jesus the Christ of God was deemed to be that of death: For the warrant for His Word that He was the Son of God, demanded the payment of Death for blasphemy.

All that the Lord Jesus Christ IS, is IN His Presentation Offering as a Son of God and His sinless offering of Himself to His Father Yahweh God, is displayed IN Messiah's sinless Crucified Body.  Christ's Perfection was received as the Perfect TRUTH Of His Father Yahweh God, and Jesus was seen by Holy Yahweh as absolutely worthy in His perfection to bare the sin of the world that was attributed to the first Man/Adam. For Christ also suffered once for the sin's of the world: The Just for the unjust so that He might bring us to Holy God, having been put to death, but made alive by the Spirit of God. For by the Spirit of LIFE, He also went and preached to the spirits in prison. (See 1st Peter 3 verse 15 thru 19.)  And we that are IN Christ Jesus the Man, are to be like Him as sons, having risen from the death of sin by Faith IN Him, we also preach the Living Christ Jesus.  If we are IN Christ Jesus the Man, then we are to present our bodies of flesh as a Living Sacrifice that is pleasing to Father God Almighty.  For even as Christ is alive forever more, and the we that are IN Him are also alive IN Him, then we as sons in our bodies of flesh,  are to bring Glory to the Almighty God of the Living. Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect Will of God. (Romans 12 verse 2.)

But, in this day of confusion, is it possible that the scriptural words of Paul, presents a form of  legalism?  Are the people legally condemned, if they do not follow all of Paul's instructions that lead to holiness before Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty?  Abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good. Alas! The wise of the world have declared evil good, and that which is good they have declared to be evil, and the church people of flesh and blood are ensnared in the world's confusion.  All who are called IN the Holy Name of the Lord God Almighty, must flee from all appearances of evil and present themselves as holy and acceptable to Holy Lord God Almighty.

So then, how do you renew your mind if Paul's instructions to goodness is seen as a legalistic command?  The Word of God is given for instructions that brings sinful mankind to faith in the righteousness of the Man Jesus Christ.  (Consider goodness Romans 12 verse 9 thru 21.) Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Law [Decalogue]. (Romans 12 verse 31.) If we are IN Christ Jesus by Living Faith, then the Law in Commandments, is designed to bring the conviction of sin to all that are in this common body of death.  Again, to make the point, we hear Paul cry out; "Who shall save me from this body of death?  I Thank Yahweh God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.  So then Paul says that with the mind [centered IN Christ] he is a servant to the 10 Commandments of God, but nevertheless, this body of sin makes its own demands that he serves another Law, the unrighteous Law of Sin and Death.  (See Romans 7 verse 21 thru 25, and 8 verse 1 thru 7.)  The God given Faith that lives IN Paul gives the Only Answer: For Jesus Christ the Lord of TRUTH has provided, the only WAY of escape from sin's death in this body of flesh.   Our Covenant agreement with Yahweh God is through Communion IN the Body and cleansing Blood of our Savior, Yeshua. (See 1st Corinthians 10 verse 12 thru 17.) When reading the English versions of the Bible, the words "legal or legalism" are not found in the Scriptures, but are erroneously conceived in thought, through the intellectual contrivances of souls that are right in their own eyes of idolatrous flesh.

Leonard Ravenhill, a noted evangelist, stated: "When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it legalism." 

The Hebrew letter of exhortation to the Jews was written by a redeemed Jewish author, who knew of the workings of the Mosaic Law, that was established with its priesthood and the settings of the earthly Tabernacle made by the hands of earthly man.  The redeemed author was warning the new Jewish converts to not waver in their new found faith in the WORD of God, because of the absolute sufficiency of God's New and Eternal Covenant Sacrifice in the Life Blood of the Almighty's only Begotten Son Yeshua/Jesus.  All things of the Gospel pertain to the Eternal's Unfailing Word of Promise that Elohim gave in the Garden of Eden: For in God's ordained time, His First Born Son in the flesh of man, was incarnately conceived by Yahweh God's Spirit in the ovum of the Hebrew Woman named Mary. (See Pentecost.)

For Yahweh God to be Holy True, then Holy God's Holy Word of Promise must be born of the true genetic flesh of the first Adam/Man.  Satan, the destroyer of faith in the Word of God, could not even accuse Jesus Christ, the Righteous Word of God of  being less than the pure genetics from the first Man Adam that His Holy Father preserved within the course of time. (See Seduction of Man.) Now with a Son's Perfect Love and obedience to His Father God, Jesus the Man would defeat the entity of sin and death with His sinless death for sinful man, through His resurrection into the Life of His Holy Father. (See Creation of Man.)

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The Original Covenant in the Blood of Sacrificial Animals

The Almighty God, in His mercy, would institute the original Covenant in the shed life blood of certain domesticated animals that were deemed appropriate for sacrifice, and to reveal the inestimable value of Life itself. God's original Covenant with Israel required that all of the male children of Israel would be circumcised in their flesh as a sign to establish that they were blood members of God's Covenant. The ordered covenant required many blood sacrifices that were to be maintained by the Levitical priesthood from the son's of Aaron.  This was Holy God's original blood Covenant rite that He established for His forgiveness of the acknowledged sins of the repentant children of Israel.  But Israel would fail to keep God's Covenant with Him, and the Lord God of Covenant said in reproof to disobedient Israel. And it shall come to pass when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curses, which I have set before you, then you shall call them to remembrance among all the nations where the Lord thy God has driven you.  If --- then the Lord thy God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of thy seed, to Love the Lord thy God with all your heart and with all your soul so that you may Live. (See the whole Deuteronomy 30 verse 1 thru 6.)

The Covenant people of Israel were not to be ignorant of sin, for God's Decalogue of Commandments was proclaimed by God at the foot of Mount Sinai and then upon the Mountain top the 10 Commandments were written in stone by the finger of God.  The 2 tablets of stone, containing the 10 Commandments of God, were give to Moses on Mount Sinai, and were warning signs that would reveal the corrosive nature of sin within the minds of the children of Israel.  The Wisdom of God established His Council for man's conduct within Deuteronomy book of the Pentateuch that the Almighty gave to Moses.  All of the instructions in righteousness were designed in the Pentateuch by God to protect the True genetic lineage of the first Adam/Man, for Adam's genetics through Woman was to be in the Lineage of God's Word of TRUTH.

We have missed the Eternal connection with God's TRUTH when the Scripture  is misconstrued in the King James' English standard for the Bible.  As a beginning example, the Concordance for the KJV translates the Hebrew words that are in the Pentateuch or Deuteronomy, only as the nondescript word 'law'. But as you can see in the link, the word 'law' that is prevalent in the English old and new testaments is actually the more precise Torah, for God's Instructions for LIFE are prescribed in the Torah.  In the English Gospels the same word law is transliterated from the Greek word 'nomos' which is found numerous times in the new testament without any other defining interpretation regarding the Torah. As a matter of fact, in the whole of the King James Bible, Torah is not mentioned once, but only the word 'law' is inscribed in the English Scriptures over 460 times. 

Now let's see what we can glean from the following links within the following scripture that is referenced so often.  The reader would be wise to click on the links to gain understanding in the Word of God.

All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is profitable] for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (2nd Timothy 3 verse 16.)

First of all, there are several words that are not to be found in the Greek text. The words in brackets [is] and [is profitable], are of such words that are lacking in the original text, and need not be added to the English text, for they add nothing of true substance.  The first [is] with the [is profitable] is redundant in thought and diminishes that which is directly definitive of the Inspired Word of God. If that which is written is Inspired by God then the Inspired Word of God is to be adhered to because the Spirit of Yahweh God is TRUTH. and the Infinite Word is far beyond man's subjective transliterated opinion.

According to the Greek words seen in the green links, then in my estimation, the following would be better doctrine as in teaching or instruction. "Collectively, the writing Inspired by Yahweh God are also for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; so that the man of God would be thoroughly equipped to perform all good works. (2nd Timothy 3 verse 16.)

Now, to clarify our ongoing thoughts for all of the wise to evaluate, let us review the beginnings of the Gospel of 1st John and make a comparison between the New International Version of the Bible and that of the following King James Version in lieu of the Greek transliterated Scripture.

14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, [and we beheld His Glory, the Glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of Grace and Truth.] 15John [the Baptist] testified concerning Him.  He cried out, saying, “This is the One I spoke about when I said, "He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me."  16Out of His fullness we have all received Grace in place of the Grace already given. 17For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18No one has ever seen God, but the One and only Son, Who is Himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made Him known. (John 1 verse 14 thru 18.) NIV

14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, [and we beheld His Glory, the Glory as of the Only begotten of the Father,] full of Grace and Truth.  15John bare witness of Him, and cried, saying, "This was He of Whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for He was before me." 16And of His fullness have all we received, and Grace for Grace.  17For the Law [in Torah] was given by Moses, 'but' Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.  18No man has seen God at any time, the Only Begotten Son, which is in the Bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. (John 1 verse 14 thru 18.) KJV

First, let us consider the KJV Scripture of John 1:16 with the Word's logic in association with John 1:17: verse 16And of His fullness have 'all we' received, and 'Grace for Grace'. verse 17For the Law was given by Moses, 'but' Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.

The KJV's English the word "but", followed by Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ, is not to be found in the Greek Scripture of this verse.  John 1 verse 17 seen in the Greek language is:  ὅτι  ὁ  νόμος  διὰ  Μωϋσέως  ἐδόθη  ἡ -?-  [χάρις] --- καὶ    ἀλήθεια  διὰ  Ἰησοῦ  Χριστοῦ  ἐγένετο.  In the Greek language, please observe that the erroneous KJV word 'but' is a designate ? mark representing the nonexistence of any word, such is the case with this nonexistent 'but'.  The insertion of the erroneous KJV  'but' brings confusion to the preceding Scripture concerning the Torah of God and His Grace' [χάρις charis] that is in the fullness of the Torah, even the warnings of the Ten Commandments. 

Most theologians and their followers do not recognize the Grace of God in the Ten Commandments, and only see them as a sludge hammer that only kills. That is a lie, and does not hold the TRUTH!  The TRUTH is that Yahweh God is the God of the Living and that He always desired Mankind to Live and avoid the unseen sin that kills, which can only be revealed by the Ten Commandments known as the Law.  Rebellious man remains ignorant, and blames the Law for all of his trouble, when in fact the good, holy and just law of God reveals the sin that is the cause of all mankind's trouble.  Is it not time to understand God's Grace in the warning signs that are in the Ten Commandments.  From the beginning the Commandments were always warning signs of what not to do, for in breaking the Commandments humanity would be subject to all of the calamities that would ensue death. The apostle Paul would discover that the purpose of the Law was to reveal the hidden sin in his flesh and showed death working in him, and thus in all of humanity. The Law of God would remain our teacher until the One Man Jesus Christ would come and destroy mankind's unseen sin in His Sacrificial Body of flesh, and thereby bring Peace between Holy God and mankind.    

Therefore: Of His fullness have we all received, Grace [the warning in the Ten Commandments] for Grace.  God gave the Word of His Grace in Commandments through Moses to quarantine the Jews from Satan's rebellious "Law of Sin and Death".  From the beginning, God's Spirit of His Grace would work throughout Elohim's creation of time until the fullness of His Grace would come to pass and be seen IN His Only Begotten Son the Man Jesus Christ.  Now God's Eternal Grace would overflow with His mercy IN Messiah Yeshua unto helpless sinners. 

It should be definitely understood that Elohim established His Grace and TRUTH IN His Lamb even before the foundation of the world. The perfection of the One Man Jesus, Yeshua haMashiach, must be absolute, even down to His Genetics.  No form of error what so ever, can be found IN God's Perfect Lamb slain before the world was even created.  The unknown TRUTH and Grace of Almighty God existed before He created time. but would be manifested in time with the crucifixion death of His Lamb for the sin of the world and in His satisfaction for the sinless offering, Yahweh raised sinless His Lamb from the dead.

We will continue our pertinent observation of the gospel of John first chapter verse 17.  For the law [Torah, meaning God's Instructions] was given by Moses, 'but' Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.  As seen in the green link, the misinterpreted word 'by' should be interpreted only as Dia - G1223 meaning 'through' Moses, for indeed Holy God gave His Commandments [Instructions for man]  'through' Moses.  Moses did not create the Instructions that make up the first 5 books of the Torah, for Holy God's Grace was IN His Communications to Moses. (See Leviticus 26 verse 46. and 27 verse 34.) 

Again, we note that conjunction 'but' in the KJV is also a false insertion for it misconstrues the true meaning given for the Greek word  ὅτι  Strongs G3754, having several meanings such as [a that, b because, c since]. The Word of God is not to be compromised through the vanity of sinful man, for mankind's vanity equates with their politics evolving from the one tree root of both the good and evil of their ways. Anti-Semitism continues in its ways.  In mankind's wisdom they seek to do away with God's Instructions and thereby dismiss the whole purpose of the Good, Holy and Just Decalogue Law that Paul says we establish for it's purpose of revealing sin. (See Romans 3 verse 29 thru 31.) There are many who will not hear the whole TRUTH of GOD, for they love their sins more that they love their Creator God.

The fullness of Jesus Christ came through God's Grace1 in the Torah, so that the fullness of God's Grace2 and TRUTH would come through His Promised Messiah. through the pure genetic seed of Adam's Wife, who was first named Ishshah, meaning Woman.  (See Genesis 3 verse 15.) The Grace of God protected the Seed of Ishshah/Woman, until the fullness of God's Grace would give birth to His Only Begotten Son Christ Jesus and the Lord would reveal Yahweh's TRUTH to the unbelieving of mankind.

Jesus/Yeshua with His Words declared the TRUTH to the Pharisees:  Verily, Verily I Say to you: Before Abraham existed I AM.  Note that the I AM is Eternal.  Consider the certainty of the I AM of this Word: If Christ, The WORD of GOD, existed before Abraham, then the timeless I AM existed before Moses and certainly before John the Apostle.  On this point, then the 1stGrace of the Law [IN the Torah] given to Moses by the Law Giver Christ/Messiah, would already be working in the I AM's creation of time.  God's Grace, in this Scripture, would be first manifesting itself in the Law [within the Torah]. The Grace of God would protect the Seed Adam's Wife, who was first named Ishshah, meaning Woman. (See Genesis 3 verse 15.)  God's Supreme Grace would continue in the course of time until the fullness of God's Grace would be found in the Hebrew virgin Mary and she would give birth to Yahweh's Only Begotten Son Christ Jesus.  Then God's Grace would  also appear in the fullness of Jesus Christ the Man,  and the Lord's Christ would reveal Yahweh's TRUTH to the unbelieving of mankind.

In this case, the NIV with its complete absence of any erroneous word before 'Grace and Truth', is far more correct than the KJV.  If not for I AM's Gracious Law [Torah] attributed to Moses, then the fullness of Grace and TRUTH IN the Son of Man/Adam, Jesus Christ could not come in the fullness of the Grace and Truth of His Holy Father Yahweh God.  In the following Scripture, the "all we" that is seen in the English account of John's Gospel, speaks of the believing Jews who know of the Grace of the Law Giver  the I AM.  And of His fullness have 'all we' received  Grace for Grace, even as the apostle John declared. For the I AM's Law, with His Grace, was given by Moses so that the fullness of God's Grace would now be seen as the TRUTH  IN the Person of Jesus the Christ of God. Because of God's Grace in the Quarantining Law of Instructions, then the Fullness of Grace and TRUTH came TO BE seen on earth as God's Man of Salvation Grace.

The Son of God, is the only begotten Son of the Great I AM that I AM, and for Jesus Christ to be the TRUTH of Yahweh God, then He must be born of the pure genetic lineage from Elohim's creation of the first Man/Adam.  Adam was a created son of God, but he died in his rebellious disobedience to the TRUTH, and brought his sin and death to all of mankind.  Yeshua/Jesus was the Last Adam/Man, and even before the foundation of the world, He was to be perfect in the genetics that God created in the first Adam.  In Hebrew, the  Last Man's True Name of Yeshua means Yahweh Saves,  The TRUTH of God would be manifested perfectly in Man's Body of Flesh that God had previously prepared in time for His Lamb, Yeshua/Jesus.  Then the Incarnate Yeshua, being born in the genetic flesh of the first Man/Adam, as the Son of Man/Adam, would with His Perfect Love and Obedience to His Holy Father Yahweh God Almighty, overcome the sin and death of the first rebellious Man through His own innocent sacrificial death for mankind's sins.  With His Righteous Resurrection into LIFE, the Lamb of Yahweh God would bring LIFE to all that would fully believe IN Father God's Salvation Gift of His Only Begotten Son.

  1. Wherefore then serves the Law? It was added because of the transgressions [of Israel], till the Seed should come to whom [Abraham] the Promise was made; and it [the Law Decalogue] was ordained by angels [a messenger] in the hand of a mediator [Moses]. (Galatians 3 verse 19.)

  2. Wherefore, the [Grace from the] Law (Decalogue within the Torah of God) was our schoolmaster [revealing sin and death] to bring us unto Christ so that we might be justified by faith, [IN Jesus Christ.] (Galatians 3 verse 24.)

  3. Behold the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world.

For God would bring forth in time, His Lamb as His Pure WORD, born the Son of Man, the last Adam, for He was incarnately conceived in the ovum of the virgin Mary by Father God's Spirit of Holiness. (Understanding John 1 verse 11 thru 18.) The WORD of GOD is Eternal, but was set in time, before the formation of the earth, and through the Grace of Almighty God, Yeshua/Jesus, the Christ of God, declares in fullness: I AM the WAY and the TRUTH, from the beginning [aleph] to the end [tav]!

From Akin's writings: "Paul's argument remains firm: Torah only gives knowledge of sin, not escape from it, and so performing works of Torah will not lead to justification. By works of Torah or self effort for justification before YHVH, will  no man will be justified."

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Melchizedek

Hebrews 7 with ending verse 28: For the Torah makes men High Priest, which all have infirmities in their bodies, but the Word of the Oath of Yahweh God, which came after the Torah, made His Son His High Priest for ever. 8:1 Now this is the sum of the things we have spoken: We now have a High Priest, Who is set on the Right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty of Eternity.

The children of the nation of Israel, in their flesh of sin, would fail many times to keep the Heart of God's Divine Purpose to bring forth Yahweh's Salvation to the world.  When Israel would repent of their waywardness, then God would repent of the evil He would have allowed to come against Israel.  Israel's unfaithfulness would eventually break the heart of their Covenant with the Word of God, and no amount of animal sacrifices or other works of righteousness could ever suffice for sin's power in the flesh, then and now.  God, in His Eternal Understanding, would allow sin's own judgments to come upon the children of Israel, in the hope that sin's curse would bring them to repentance. 

Adonai, faithful to His Word, would oversee time's circumstances, and in His foreknowledge of His creation of time, He would be faithful to bring forth His Word of Salvation to be conceived in the ovum of Mary, for she was a true generational daughter of Adam. The Hebrew virgin Mary would give birth to Father God's Incarnate First Born Son, conceived in the genetics from the first Adam.  For I will put enmity between you [Satan] and Woman [Ishshah], and between thy seed and her Seed. He shall crush your head, and you shall bruise His heel.  The Holy One of God's Salvation, is the Man Jesus Christ, for with His crucifixion death, and His Bodily Resurrection into the LIFE of His Father Yahweh God, He finished with perfection all that Yahweh God had sent Him to accomplish.  Now that Christ lives forever, He makes intercession forever for the ever believing of man kind.

For the Lord swore, and will not repent: Thou art a High Priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek. (Psalm 110 verse 4.)

The Lord's Oath concerning Melchizedek was first revealed in the Psalms, and clarifies what took place in God's covenanting with His Word witnessed by Abram. The Lord God swore upon Himself and will not repent of His oath. At this point the writer declares to the notable Jews: For the priesthood being changed, then there is the necessity to change the Law [in Torah]. Christ, Who could never die again, was made a priest after the order of Melchizedek because Melchizedek possessed a LIFE that could never be destroyed.  The change in the Law was not an obliteration of the Torah, but the change was for the complete obliteration of animal sacrifices. If the first Covenant had been without fault then there would have been no need for a change to a second Covenant.

For the [animal sacrifices in the] Law [in Torah] made nothing perfect; but the [the Offering of Christ] brought in a better hope, by which we are able to draw nigh to [Yahweh] God. (See Hebrews 7 verse 11 thru 20.)

The daily offerings of the sacrificial animal for sin, only precipitated the eventual death of the performing Levitical priest, who each were caught up in their own sin that would bring forth their own physical death.  Of course. the sacrifice of the animal, also precipitated the death of the people who were of the priest's like corrupted nature. (See Hebrews 10 verse 11 thru 12.) The sacrificial offering of the life blood of an animal of its kind, could never give life to the souls of man-kind that are of its own distinct kind of the Man Adam which began in the image of God.  The better hope of the risen Christ of God, eliminated the sacrifice of the animals for sin and death, and thus the need for the finite priest that offered the daily sacrifices.

In that He [the Almighty] God has spoke of a New Covenant, He has made the first covenant old.  Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away. ( Hebrews 8 verse 13.) Indeed the first covenant grew old and in 70 AD, it completely vanished away in accordance with the Word of Yahweh God.  The first covenant was based on the Levitical Priesthood and their daily works of animal sacrifices that were performed on earth.  Because of God's Oath and His Total Satisfaction with Christ's Offering of Himself, then there was a change in the Levitical Priesthood to that of the forever Priesthood of Jewish Jesus Christ, ordained of God, after the Eternal Order of Melchizedek.  With the change from an earthly ministry of the finite priest, into the Eternal Heavenly ministry of Jesus Christ, then the earthly animal sacrifices with the Levitical priesthood would have passed away.  Both the animal sacrifices and the Levitical priesthood were finally sanctioned, when Rome destroyed the Jerusalem Temple on the 9th of Av [Tisha b'Av] in the year of 70 AD.

For this High Priest [Sworn of God to be of the everlasting order of Melchizedek] is absolutely necessary for us, Who is Holy, harmless, undefiled being separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice for his own sins, and then for the people's: For this He [Jesus Messiah] did once, when He offered up Himself.  (See Hebrews 7 verse 21, verse 26 thru 28.)

Just as it is written that man is appointed to die once, and then after death comes the judgment; (Hebrews 9 verse 27 referencing Genesis 3 verse 19.) so it is with Christ.  He indeed died once to take away the sins of the many, and after His death He was judged by God as to the merits of His death.  Jesus, came before the Almighty God as a Presentation Offering that in Hebrew is called Chagagah, and the sinless Offering of Himself as a Perfect sinless Man for sinning mankind, was an exceptionally pleasing Offering to His Holy Father Yahweh God Almighty. 

Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the summation: We have just such a High Priest [IN Jesus/Yeshua Messiah] Who is set on the Right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty in heaven.  A Minister of the Sanctuary, and of the True Tabernacle, which the Lord Established and not man. For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices; wherefore it is of necessity that This Man also have somewhat to offer.

The first Adam was unloving in his treasonous disobedience to His Maker, but the Last Adam, being appointed in time to be the very last genetic Son of Man/Adam, presented Himself, as a Chagigah Offering, to Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty, with a Son's Perfect Love and Obedience.  Now Holy Yahweh was Eternally Pleased with Christ's Perfect Presentation Offering of a loving Son.  Indeed Yahweh God's Holy Word did not return to Him void, but finished the Work that Yahweh God Almighty had ordained of His Lamb Who was slain even from before the foundation of the world. (See all of Isaiah 55 verse 3 thru 11.) The first Adam/Man brought death to all of mankind, in that all of mankind sin, but God's just Word, conceived in the original generational flesh of the first Adam, returned to the Almighty God with absolute victory over man's sin and death. 

For by one Man's [Adam] disobedience, many were made sinners, so then by the obedience of the one Man [Yeshua/Jesus]  shall many be made Righteous. (Romans 5 verse 19.)

Christ's victory over sin and death, eternally established God's New Covenant Word of Life to be with the person's of mankind, who follows after the Eternal Grace of the Lord.  Therefore, Yahweh God Almighty swore an Oath to His Holy One: Thou art My Son: (Psalm 2 verse 7.) Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. (Psalm 110 verse 4.) (See text from Hebrews 5 verse 5 thru 10.)

At the Will of His Holy Father, the Word of God, came down from heaven as the True Bread of Heaven and the Bread of LIFE was born of the genetic flesh of the first Adam/Man; So then it is this Man [Christ Jesus] after He had offered His one sacrifice for sin forever, [that He Yeshua] sat down on the Right Hand of His Holy Father. The Jew was to understand that there are no more continuing sacrifices of animals to set aside the sin of dying mankind.  For while the first covenant stood only in dead works offered in meats, and drinks, and various washings, and in carnal ordinances imposed on them [Jews] until the time of reformation. Some believe that the time of reformation is a return to God's first order of His creation of Man/Adam. For God's Gift of Faith to us, is to be fully Living IN the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE that is in the Man Christ Jesus and Him Alone.  Christ Jesus/Yeshua, having died once for sin, and raised by the Spirit of God from the dead, reveals God's Eternal Satisfaction with the Son of Man Jesus Christ and His perfect Presentation Offering of Himself

Christ's offering of Himself, has ended all animal sacrifices forever, as well as the carnal sacrifices of all of sinful mankind. Now with the remission [meaning obliteration] of these is [meaning animal sacrifices], there is no more [animal or carnal] sacrifices for sin. (Hebrews 10 verse 18.)  The sin of the first Adam brought death to all of mankind, but the Sacrificial Death of the Last Adam,  Jesus/Yeshua, with His Offering of a sinless Life as Man, has conquered death for all time.  For in that He died, He died unto sin once, however, in that He Lives, He Lives unto Holy Yahweh God, His Eternal Father. (Romans 6 verse 10.)

The prophet Daniel prophetically wrote of the vision that he had witnessed with the Angel Gabriel: Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and the holy city. But after 62 weeks shall Messiah be cut off [killed], but not for Himself.  

The Righteous LIFE of God is revealed in Yahweh's TRUTH, for Jesus/Yeshua, the WORD of God was resurrected to the LIFE of His Father, because Yahweh accepted the Man, Jesus Christ, and His sinless offering for all of mankind's death because of sin.  The Man, Yeshua/ Jesus and His sinless offering, would reveal LIFE's conquest over sin and its condemnation of death, through His Resurrection into the LIFE of His Father.  Now through the LIFE giving Spirit of His Father, Jesus the Messiah would be empowered to bring Life to the souls of all of sinful man kind that would obediently follow God's Saving Gift of LIFE in Yeshua haMashiach [Jesus the Christ of God].
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So Christ [Messiah] once was offered to bear the sins of many. And to those that look for Him, He shall appear the second time without sin, bringing Salvation to those who are dead in Him. (Hebrews 9 verse 27.)

Bleeding LIFE into Chapter Ten

Beginning in the Last 2 Sentences in Hebrews Chapter 9 and continuing in Chapter 10:

Heb 9:27 It is appointed unto men once to die [for sin causes death]  but after this the judgment.

9:28 So Christ was once G0530 offered to bear the sins of many: [Christ bore the death of sinful mankind once] 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 Mankind's sin for He had become their sin and mankind's sin killed Him. So then, Christ died once for the sin's of mankind, but in the perfection of His Offering Yahweh raised the Man Christ Jesus from the dead of sin. All of mankind have died because sin has killed them, but those believing in Jesus Christ having already died in Him because of sin, nevertheless live in expectancy of Yahweh's Promise of LIFE when Jesus shall appear the second time bringing His Salvation Power with Him.  Without the Salvation of Yeshua haMashiach, the Judgment is death.

10:1 For the Law [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 God] complete. (Hebrews 10 verse 1.)

The writer, Paul, speaks of the animal sacrifices as being a shadow of the True Covenant of Yahweh God that He shall give for the sin and death of mankind. A Love so Great is beyond our comprehension, for the Almighty God so loved the world that He gave as a sacrifice, His only begotten Son, so that whosoever believes IN His Lamb, should not perish but would have everlasting LIFE.  For Yahweh God did not send His only begotten Son into the world to condemn the word, but through the Sacrifice of His Lamb, the world might be saved.

For the Word, the Perfect Lamb of God was slain before the foundation of the world, and when He had come into the world the Lamb said: Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings for sin Thou would not accept, neither had pleasure thereinThen said He: Lo I come to do Thy Will O God.  He takes away the first [covenant], that He may establish the second [Covenant]. (See Hebrews 10 verse 4 thru 10 in conjunction with Psalm 40 verse 6 thru 10.) The Word of God, being the Christ of God, fulfills the heart of the Scriptures; for He ([Jesus] takes away the first [covenant in the blood of animals] that He may establish the second  [The final Covenant in Christ's LIFE giving Blood](See Jeremiah 31 verse 31 thru 33.) For while they were eating of the flesh of the old covenant, Jesus took the unleavened bread, gave thanks to His Father God, broke the Bread and gave to his disciples and Said: Take and eat: This is My Body. And He took the wine, giving Thanks again to His Father 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 will understand that the first covenant is finalized at the Lord's table with His disciple eating the meat of the slain lamb, and now the Final second Covenant is established with the Third Cup of Blessing, of which Jesus/Yeshua, the Man, first inaugurated at His Father God's Table of Grace.  The New Covenant is IN Messiah's LIFE giving Blood was poured out upon the ground beneath the cross. For those that believe, Yahweh's Everlasting Covenant IN the LIFE giving Blood of the Messiah, remains effectual for the remission of present idolatrous sins that are obliterated in the repentant humble believer by God's Holy Spirit of cleansing Grace IN Yeshua haMashiach. 

Yeshua/Jesus is God's Passover,  meaning God's Sacrificial Lamb; For God's Passover Lamb was 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.) If the [satanic] princes of this world had known, then they would never have crucified the Lord of Glory. (See 1st Corinthians 2 verse 6 thru 9.) The Lamb off God was slain before the foundation of the world, but Christ's Death was finalized at the cross with the crucifixion death of Jesus/Yeshua when He uttered the Words: It is finished.  Then IN the incomparable Faith of Jesus Christ, 3 days later Jesus the Messiah was resurrected IN to the LIFE of His Eternal Father.  Now then, if the Christ of God had not been crucified to death and risen from the dead in accordance to the Perfect TRUTH of His Holy Father Yahweh God, then God's Word is voided, and all of mankind are dead because they were slain by their sins: Therefore, in the void of nothing, nothing would exist of the universe. Yet here we are discussing the Evidence that surpasses all understanding!  We weren't there to observe the very beginnings of Elohim's creation, nor later in time when God's Lamb was slain even before God's creation of the world. But by the substance of faith we believe that the TRUTH of the Word of God never fails His command.  Now the Lord Messiah speaks these Covenant Words in the Psalms:

Sacrifice and offering Thou would not; but a Body hast Thou prepared Me: Whole-burnt-offering and sacrifice 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 Me.  Yahweh God is from Eternity and is not bound up in His Creation of time.  If this TRUTH comes to the forefront of thought, then let me ask the astute reader an important question that is answered from the beginnings: When was the Body of Christ first prepared?  True Logic would say, that the Body of Christ was that of the Lamb of God, and the Body of the Lamb of God would have been of genetic perfection even before the creation of the world.  The Eternal all-knowing God is Perfect in all things, and the Body of His Lamb would be Perfect in the genetics of the first Man/Adam, therefore the Body of the Man Christ Jesus was perfectly ordered as a Son of Adam, even from before the foundation of the world. It is impossible for the Eternal all knowing Creator of time, to prepare the Body of Christ to be anything less than that of the future first Adam.  Before 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 IN His Salvation/Yeshua.  It would appear from Scripture that Yeshua is the fullness of His Prepared Body of Sacrifice, and yet the LIFE of Christ's Body was IN His Blood that was shed from His pierced Body, that flowed to the earth as LIFE for mankind. 

Above when He Said: 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 GodBy His Father'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 Offering of the Body of Jesus Christ, once,G2078 for all. (Hebrews 10 verse 9 thru 10.)

Now follow the logic of the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews to its one ending conclusion:

For every priest stands daily ministering and offering many times the same [animal] sacrifices, which can never obliterate the sins of Man;

But this Man [Christ Jesus] after He had offered One Sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the Right Hand of His Father God, waiting until His enemies be made   His footstool. For by one Offering He [Yeshua] has completed for ever them that are sanctified [set apart](Hebrews 10 verse 11 thru 13.)

So Christ was once G0530 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.)

Christ Jesus, as the genetic Son of Adam, presented His selfless Chagigah Offering of Himself to His Father God Almighty, and Yeshua/Jesus IN His perfection as Man, He would make Peace with God and as Man He would atone for mankind's sins of death.  Messiah's sinless Offering of Himself to Yahweh God, as Man, totally satisfied Yahweh's Holiness.   The first Adam of the earth, with His rebellion, brought Sin and Death to all of mankind, but the Last Adam is a LIFE giving Spirit, and with His One Sacrifice, He gives LIFE to all that believe IN Him. (See Hebrews 9 verse 23 thru 28.)  All of mankind are conceived to be sinners IN the first Adam's fallen nature: But, if you are IN Christ Jesus, IN Whom there is no sin, then sin cannot be imputed to those who have died in the sinless Jesus/Yeshua haMachiach   Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of the Living, patiently waits for all of the sinning dead of existing mankind to repent of their rebellion, and with their hearing of His New Covenant Mercy IN the LIFE giving Blood of Christ Jesus, they would fully turn toward the Only God of the Living, and receive the remission of sin.  (See Luke 24 verse 45 thru 48.)

Therefore being justified by the Faith [IN Christ], we have Peace with God through 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 the Holy Ghost Who is given unto us. (Romans 5 verse 1 thru 5.)

Hebrews 10 verse 14 continues to speak to the Jewish converts: For by one offering He has perfected [completed] for ever them that are sanctified [set apart].  Previously it was written in Hebrew chapter 5 verse 8-9: Though He were a Son, yet He learned obedience through the things He suffered [naturally]. And being made perfect, He became the author of Eternal Salvation unto all them that obey Him.

When the Gentile believers interject themselves into this scripture then there is definitely some confusion in this verse and others in the Letter to the Hebrews.  Together, we will investigate the churches' other misperceptions.

Consider with profound understanding that those that would be perfected, is referencing those enlightened Jews that were originally set apart [sanctified] from their former or past sins(See Romans 3 verse 25 thru 26,) Sanctification of the believing Jew would have first occurred with a beginning Salvation Confession of a sinner with the true acknowledgement of God's New Covenant IN the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ.  Now, if God takes home the new believer in those first moments without sin, then it is well and good for the believe.  It is God's prerogative. for the number of the days of man and his purpose in God, are only known by the Eternal God in His creation of time.  With their confession of faith, the Jewish soul was sanctified [set apart from sin] by  the Eternal God, and their Promise of Eternal Life would be carried forth in their daily lives as obedient believers IN Yeshua haMashiach. (Disciples See Luke 9 verse 23 thru 26.)

The crux of the last statement was previously qualified in God's Word in Hebrews 5 verses 8 thru 10. Though He [Christ] was a Son, yet learned He 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 in the Body of  human flesh and He was perfected in that which He naturally suffered and learned as an innocent man. So then likewise, whether Jew or gentile, it is to be with the believer's that are IN Christ Jesus that your obedience shows that you are Sanctified, that is 'set apart' from the call of sin, by the things you have patiently suffered in the flesh.  If you endure chastening then God deals with you as sons of God, for what son is he, whom the Father does not chaste? (See Hebrews 12 verse 5 thru 7.) Peter also writing to the Jew concurs with the writer of Hebrews: "Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, 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 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 God 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 are sinners, but the self righteous don't believe the TRUTH.  Jesus is the TRUTH of His Father God, for He is the WORD of God by *Whom all things of the universe consist.  The Lord our Righteousness,  confirms 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 God's Plan of redemption of sinful mankind was conceived in 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 God.  (See Romans 6 verse 10 thru 11.) 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 in the cleansing LIFE giving Blood of His Son Yeshua haMashiach, given IN Communion, is dismissed as of no consequence.  Really! Therefore, says Paul; whosoever shall Eat of the Bread and Drink of  the Cup of the Lord unworthily 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 man that is naturally subject to the wisdom of man's own conceits!  (See 1st Corinthians 11 verse 23 thru 26.) The Almighty God has credited the 'set apart' believer with the Salvation that is IN Christ Jesus, but to receive the credit for the sinning believers, there needs to be  a true application to the credit account that is IN 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 God, cleanses the sinner's conscience of their confessed idolatrous transgressions, and enables them to live IN the Body of Christ with the Remembrance of the TRUTH of their Savior Yeshua/Jesus the Christ of God. (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, 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 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.)

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For it is the blood that makes an atonement for sin. (Leviticus 17 verse 11.)
Almost all things are by the Law [Torah] purged with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
(Hebrews 9 verse 22.)

The TRUTH of the Eternal Word of God is without flaw, but the interpretation of man can be riddled with its dying flesh.  See how the these two Scriptures that are written for the floundering Jew, would dove tail together IN the TRUTH of God.

Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered; And being made perfect [through His obedience in spite of His suffering], He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him. Called of God a High Priest after the order of Melchisedec. ( Hebrews 5 verse 8 thru 10.)  

In that Jesus/Yeshua established the second Covenant: For by God's Will, we are set apart through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ Once for all.  For by one offering He [Yeshua/Jesus] has completed for ever those that are sanctified [set apart through  their obedience to Yeshua/Jesus]. (See Hebrews 10 verse 9 thru 14.)

Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.  For in that Christ died, He died unto sin once: but in that He lives, He lives unto God. (See Romans 6 verse 6 thru 12.)

The Innocent Holy Lord Jesus Christ fully paid for the price of all the sins of mankind, and with Father God there are no other sacrifices [animal] for the sin of mankind.  With the one Selfless Offering of God's Holy Lamb, Jesus Christ, then the covenant animal sacrifices for sin, along with the Levitical priesthood, had been remitted by Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God the Almighty. (See Hebrew 10 verse 18.) Even as the Lord declared: Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings for sin Thou would not accept, neither had pleasure therein.

Now with the remission [meaning obliteration] of these [animal sacrifices], there is no more [animal] sacrifices for sin. (Hebrews 10 verse 18.) 

Now the Man Christ Jesus, with His Perfect Sacrifice of Love that is revealed in His absolute obedience to His Father Yahweh God, has made an entrance, for the faithfully saved of believing man kind, to come into the Presence of His Holy Father.  A place is set at the Lord's Table of Grace for that redeemed person, where the Lord's Holy Provisions of LIFE provide for an entrance into the Holiest Place of His Holy Father Yahweh God.

The Heavenly Entrance into the Holiest Place, not made with human hands, is gained only through the Veil that is the Flesh of our High Priest, the Faithful Man Jesus/Yeshuah the Messiah. (See Hebrews 10 verse 20.)  We are made free of sin, for He has cleansed us with the sprinkling of His Sanctifying LIFE giving Blood.  It was Christ's LIFE within His Blood alone that makes an atonement for the soul of the believer: I AM the WAY, I AM the TRUTH, I AM the LIFE of man. No one comes to the Father except by Me. The sin that innately remains in the self centered nature of our human idolatrous flesh, does not ever come into the Presence of Holy Yahweh God Almighty.  That Entrance into the Holy of Holies, where Christ's Father God reigns, is only though Faith in the undefiled Body of the Man Christ Jesus through His LIFE giving Blood.  The disciples of the WAY and the TRUTH and the LIFE are to remember the fullness of God's New Covenant of Love that is forever established in the Holy Blood Sacrifice of Yahweh's only Begotten Son Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah. For it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.  Christ's Provisions for the abundance of LIFE are established in the Eternal Word of His Father; for His Body and Blood are ministered in and through God's Spirit of Grace that cannot be separated from the LIFE giving Water and Blood of Christ Jesus, for they are One. (See 1st Corinthians 10 verse15 thru 17.)

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Remembering the Therefore
(In Hebrews 10 verse 19.)

Now with the remission  [meaning obliteration] of these [animal sacrifices], there is no more [animal] sacrifices for sin. (Hebrews 10 verse 18.) 

Therefore, remember the "Therefore" that is established in the following scriptural passages: For this therefore encapsulates the purpose of all of the previous arguments from the last of the many therefores in Hebrews, and unifies Holy God's Covenant as One Spirit IN the Body and Blood of God's Perfect Offering of His only Begotten Son.  

Having "therefore" brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest place by the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua, by a New and Living WAY, which He has consecrated for us, through the Veil, that is to say His Flesh [The Bread of Life]; and having a High Priest over the House of God, let us draw near with a 'true heart', in full assurance of faith [in God's Word of Mercy], having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience [by His Blood] and our bodies [of sin] washed with pure Water  [by God's Spirit of Holiness]. (See Hebrews 10 verse 19 thru 23.)

We all, Jew and Gentile alike, can find God's corrective relief from our omissions or commissions of the sin's of our unredeemed flesh.  The Lord Jesus Christ inaugurated the refreshment for our souls with His Spirit of LIFE during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This is My Blood of the New Covenant shed for many for the remission of sin. The I AM the WAY the TRUTH and LIFE of mankind, no one comes to Father [Yahweh] except by ME. For the Lord had Stated definitively: Truly Truly I Say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, you have no LIFE in you.  Why? Because you have become dead in your sins and trespasses.  If you say you have no sin then you are deceived and you make God a liar and the TRUTH of God is not in you.  Communion is not a sacrifice, but Communion is the Spirit of LIFE IN Christ Jesus revealing LIFE'S abundance IN His Father Yahweh God, the I AM that I AM.

It is expedient that I [Yeshua] go away --- For when I go away I will send the Comforter to you.  And when He is come He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness and judgment.  For when He, the Spirit of TRUTH is come, He will guide you INTO all TRUTH, He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear that shall He Speak.  (See John 16 verse 7 thru 15.)

These things I [Jesus] have Spoken unto you that IN Me you might have Peace.  In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world [of sin and death,] (John 16 verse 33.)

God's Sprit of TRUTH convicts a person of their sin that is committed by one's dead flesh.  Now with our needful humble confession to our High Priest Mediator, the flesh is set for pruning with God's two edged Sword of of His Spirit. For when looking to our Redeemer. we through God's Spirit of Grace and Comfort, have Communion IN the LIFE of Christ Jesus.  In our God given Faith, the confessed sins of our vulnerable flesh are set at naught by the Perfect Love of our High Priest, the Man Christ Jesus, and will be cleansed within the conscience of the believers,  Now, because of our unadulterated faith in our fellowship with our High Priest, and having eaten of His One Body of Living Bread and cleansed in His LIFE giving Blood through His Spirit of Holiness, we are given the Grace of God's Spirit of LIFE to enter through our High Priest Yeshua/Jesus, the mediating DOOR of Salvation and into the Presence of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God of the Living.  No one comes to the Father except by our our High Priest, for through the Messiah of God we are able to draw near to Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty. (See again Hebrews 7 verse 11 thru 20.)

Through Holy God's Spirit of Grace and Comfort, the faithful believers have entered into Yahweh's Presence to present our supplications before the Throne of His Grace. (See Hebrews 10 verse 19 thru 25.) The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing: For in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving [Eucharistia-Communion] let your requests be made known unto God.   And the Peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (See Philippians 4 verse 5 thru 7.)

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty maintains through His Spirit of Grace, His cleansing Grace in the LIFE giving Blood of His Son, Yeshua haMashiach.  The LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ is given by God's Spirit of Grace in exchange for the sins of our body of flesh that are acknowledged by His believing servants.  Indeed, Salvation and Justification is by faith in the death, burial and Resurrection into LIFE of the Man Christ Jesus, the Lord our Righteousness.  Nevertheless, the nature of idolatrous sin remains in the corrupting idolatrous flesh of our fallen humanity. But the Grace of God is amplified within the believing soul through Father God's Gift of His Holy Spirit of TRUTH in Christ Jesus.  Sanctification of the flesh is by God's Spirit of Grace within God's New Covenant established in the Life giving Blood of the TRUTH of Jesus Christ, that sets our consciences free from the condemnation of sin. (See Revelation 21 verse 5 thru 7.) The believer can not serve God in the strength of his flesh, but we are to serve God by His Spirit of Grace.  For Holy God's Spirit enables the believer to forgo sin and become ambassadors of God through our embracing the fullness of the Grace of God's Holy Spirit of LIFE IN Christ Jesus. 

The absolute perfection of Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty, requires absolute perfection for anyone to come within His Holy Sanctuary that is made without the hands of man and into Yahweh's Holy Presence.  This required perfection could never be achieved by sinful mankind, and certainly not by the blood sacrifices of the life of animals  make for a holy entrance into the tabernacle made by the hand of man. Only once a year, on the Day of Atonement [Rosh Hashanah] that occurs on the 1st of Tishrei, the 7th month of the Jewish Calendar, was the high priest of Israel allowed to enter with fear and trepidation into the Holy of Holies to present the sprinkling of the blood of animals upon the mercy seat of the Tabernacle.

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O Wretched man that I am, Who shall save me from this body of death?
(Please revisit Sin's Vapor Trail.)

For He [Jesus] was wounded for our transgression, He was bruised for our iniquities: The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. 

With our unabated faith in the suffering and death of our Savior Yeshua for our sin, then this, our body of death is set free from our sin's condemnation of death. (See Isaiah 53 verse 4 thru 6.)

Note: There is no other way to Life but through Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah!  We should understand that the holiness of Almighty God has not changed, and the sinful flesh of man cannot exist in Yahweh's Presence.  Jesus/Yeshua is The Only WAY to His Holy Father Yahweh God, for Christ Jesus has established with the Word of His Father that the Sacrifice of His Holy LIFE giving Blood is also present in the Communion Blood that we bless, and is Holy Yahweh God's New 'Living WAY' into His Throne Room of Grace. (See 1st Corinthians 10 verse 15 thru 17.)   Our High Priest, the Man Christ Jesus, intercedes for our fleshly bodies of sin through God's New Living Way IN Christ Jesus, whereby the fleshly body of the believer is washed in the Fountain of Water within the shed Blood of Christ Jesus that is One with God's Spirit of Grace. The Life Giving Blood of Christ Jesus is given to His believing disciples through God Almighty's Spirit of Grace for the remission of the flesh's sins of vanity that are renounced by all humble baptized believers. 

Also, please take notice of the linked scriptures in the Books of Matthew and Mark, for there you will see that while the disciples were yet eating of the flesh of the old covenant Passover [meaning sacrificial lamb] it was at the same time that Jesus/Yeshua brought to a close the old Covenant in the sacrifice of animals.  God's original Covenant was completely changed as promised, for while they were eating of the old covenant passover flesh, the Son of Man Jesus Christ inaugurated God's Everlasting Covenant in the unseen fullness of His Living Body and His Life giving Blood. Jesus/Yeshua/Salvation was the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the World. (1st Peter 1 verse 18 thru 21, Revelation 13 verse 8.) The TRUTH of the Word of God could not allow for His disciples to sin and break God's original Covenant with their Creator, but Jesus with His Word of TRUTH would bring His disciples together in One Spirit, IN God's New Covenant IN the Life giving Blood IN His Living Word of Salvation.

Let us now  fully consider Paul's lament: I was alive once, without the law's [condemnation of death,] but when the Commandment came. sin was shown to be alive and I died,  [active sin slayed Paul and wounded his conscience].   The wretched rebellion of sin and death remains innately alive in the flesh of our humanity. The striving of sin in the flesh, would have all the saved of sensitive mankind, just like Paul crying for relief: O wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death. The baby Jew, in Christ, like all men conceived IN Salvation, will continue to struggle with the desires of their flesh that they presently live in, and now as a result of their failures, their very flesh will condemn them.  The carnality of Paul is found out by God's Holy and Just Commandments, and PAUL declares: I find then in the law [Decalogue], that when I would do good, evil is present  with me.  For I delight in the Law of God [in the Torah] within the inner man: But I see another law in my members [inward parts], warring against the Law of my mind [that I delight in], and brings me into into captivity to the Law of Sin and death that resides in my members [inward parts].  O wretched man that I am!  Who will deliver me from this body of death. I thank Yahweh God through Jesus Christ our Savior. So then, the goodness of God's Laws [Decalogue) is to reveal the renegade Law of Sin and Death that resides in the flesh of even the saved of mankind.  For there is no other WAY of Sanctification except through Holy Yahweh's New Covenant IN the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ.  When we can begin to see the crown of thorns skewered upon His Head, then we can begin to understand that; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. If our Covenant with the Eternal God is Faith IN the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ that absolves our condemnation from sin, then why would we look to find another way to justify our wrong doings in our self idolatry.
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For if we sin willfully?

Can we find an end to the confusion over the following Hebrew Scripture's that gives a severe warning to the Jews?

For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the TRUTH then there remains no more sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. --- It is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God. (See in full Hebrews 10 verse 26 thru 31.)

The fearful woe is addressed to the once enlightened Jews, who in deference to the TRUTH of the New Covenant, were thinking about returning to the animal sacrifices to atone for sin.  But, God's TRUTH is the Person Christ Jesus, Who was crucified to a cross and died once for sin, and in His resurrection to the LIFE of His Holy Father, He shall never die again.

The Absolute TRUTH of Christ Jesus was established by all of the author's prior arguments to the Jews leading up to the therefore in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 19.  Previously, the writer had amplified the eternal fact that the LIFE of Jesus Christ is God's finale Sacrifice for the sin of all of mankind. This is Eternally correct.

For all have sinned and have come short of the Glory of God. But being justified by the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, Whom [Yahweh] God set forth [before the foundation of the world (See 1st Peter 1 verse 18 thru 20.) ] to be a propitiation through Faith in His [Life giving] Blood, that declares His Righteousness for the remission of sins that are [committed in the] past, through the forbearance of [Yahweh] God.  

Unfortunately, the not so astute theological scholars of today, not understanding the fullness of God's Covenant Grace IN Communion, stopped short of the TRUTH, and didn't follow through to a right conclusion concerning the writer's previous warning to the new Jewish converts. We can be sure of this one thing, it is a futile endeavor to go back to the old covenant animal sacrifices, for the Promised New Covenant has come into affect and the old is past.  The heresy has been compounded today by various scholars who have deliberately substituted the pulpit preacher for the Word of the Eternal God that Speaks of Faith in God's Covenant Communion IN the Body and Life giving Blood of Yeshua/Jesus Christ. 

Now, in context with what was previously written by the author, we think is Paul, then Paul, as a Jew, is warning the Jew: If we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the TRUTH then there is no more sacrifice for sin.  In saying there is no more sacrifice for sin, Paul is referring to animal sacrifices that would not in any way please Holy God Almighty.  God's new Covenant is in the Life giving Blood of the sinless Man Christ Jesus, and the LIFE of Jesus Christ is the final sacrifice for sin. Any return to the old covenant animal sacrifices is treachery with the Creator, and is treading upon Yahweh's Holy Spirit of Grace, that is One with the Blood of the Son of God.  For Yahweh God gave the LIFE of His only Begotten Son to establish His New Covenant of LIFE, in the LIFE Giving Blood of Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah. And so it is written in Hebrews 10 verse 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith he was sanctified [set apart], an unholy thing and insulted God's Spirit of Grace.

Within the new birth of the soul, there is a new beginning of life through the Baptismal Serum Water from the Life Blood of the Man Jesus Christ.  That Baptismal Water from Christ's Blood completely obliterated God's Judgment of the past sins of the believer. The past sins were completely washed away in the serum Water of the Blood of Jesus Christ. God is just, and He justifies the soul of the new believer IN the faith of Christ Jesus, even as the soul of the original Adam was just, before he and his wife Ishshah rebelled against God.  Adam, in his rebellion against his Creator ate of the Tree of Knowledge and died within the day of the Lord God.  More over, Adam failed in that he did not humbly seek God's Mercy and Grace, by admitting his fault, but justified himself for his insurrection against His Maker.  God is holy beyond our understanding, and when Adam sinned, God's Holy Spirit of Life left Adam/Man and Woman/Ishshah to their own selves and to make their own way in the earth.  Elohim had previously warned the pair to not participate in the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, and now in their willful disobedience they will see the consequences.   In the sweat of your face, you will eat bread, until you return to the ground. For out of the ground you were taken: For dust you are and to dust you will return.

In the beginning verses within 2nd Peter 1 thru 8, Peter speaks about the virtues that the believer in Christ is to promote within his soul.  Then Peter also confirms the past tense in the writings of the author of Hebrews with his own admonishment:  But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he 'was ήταν' purged from his old sins. (2nd Peter 1 verse 9.) See that you refuse not Him that speaks.  For if they did not escape because they would not hear Him that spoke on earth, [at Mount Sinai] much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from Him that speaks from heaven. (See Hebrews 12 verse 18 thru 26.)

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The Substance of Faith

When looking through the eyes of Faith, we can begin to see how fortunate we sinners are, for the Eternally Holy Lord God Almighty so Loved the world that He gave the LIFE of His Only Begotten Son to save lost mankind from eternal death. 

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.For by Faith the men of old were approved of God.  By Faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was seen no more, because God had translated him: For before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 For without Faith it is impossible to please Almighty God: For he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. (Hebrews 11 verse 1-2 and verse 5-6.)

The author will mention many more people that are in what we call the Hall of Faith.  All of these people would die in their faith, although they as yet had not received the promise of their faith.  Nevertheless they saw the promises at a distance, believing in time they would receive them. The unseen substance of this Faith enables one to see the color of that Love and how far the Light of its substance flows in timeless time.  The substance of this Love, had a beginning mark that was set in time, and the mark would grow in the unseen Power of the planted Seed of this Love.  Through out time, the Wisdom of the Eternal God would make His Own Way  for this Love to flower into its brilliance.  Then came the time of the end, for the color of this flowered Love was poured out upon the ground, and its staining color indelibly marked a new beginning of LIFE IN the Risen Christ of Yahweh God.  The LIFE of Father Yahweh God is IN Christ Jesus, and for man to experience the LIFE, he must live IN Christ Jesus.

Animals did not bring sin's death into the world that warranted death, but it was the first one we call Man or Adam that brought sin and death into the genetics of mankind; and the Holy Justice of God demands the death of the perpetrator.  The Creator God knew in His creation of time that Man/Adam would rebel against His Maker and that God's Spirit of LIFE could not abide in the presence of death.  Therefore, even before the Almighty created the world, He set in time the innocent Person of a slain Lamb to take away the sin of the world.  The Holy Presence of God demanded the necessity for Holy Justice for the death of sinning Man, and so Yahweh's Justice was fulfilled in the crucifixion death of the Innocent Man Christ Jesus for the first Man's rebellion in sin.  Although the Man Jesus Christ was made to be the sin of mankind and suffered a hideous death on the cross, nevertheless, Yahweh's Lamb, the Man Yeshua haMashiach, remains innocent of the charges of sin,   Death came to this innocent Man, but death could not hold the innocent, for God's Spirit of LIFE sprang to LIFE IN the undefiled Body of the Messiah. The New WAY of LIFE for man kind came through the color of this Man's shed Blood. The old way in animal sacrifices for sin had passed in time, and a new WAY came to LIFE IN Christ Jesus, and eternally marks the New Path of TRUTH that eternally flows IN the WAY of LIFE.

Now all these elders having obtained a good report through Faith, they did not receive the Promise. God had made a better plan that included us [Jews], for without us they should not be made perfect.

Wherefore seeing we are surrounded about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight of sin that enslaves us, and let us run the race to LIFE that is set before us with patience.  Looking to Jesus/Yeshua, the Author and Finisher of our Faith, Who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross not heeding the shame, and is now set down at the Right Hand of the Throne of His Father Yahweh God.

The following writings in chapter 12 of Hebrews reminds the Jewish reader of what Christ/Messiah suffered before He went to the cross, that in the end was for their sake. But who has believed our report? His visage was so marred, more that the sons of men. For He [Jesus Christ] was wounded for our transgression, He was bruised for our iniquity: The chastisement of our peace was upon Him for with His stripes we are healed [made whole]. (See the parsing of Isaiah 53 and 52.)

The Jews, having been called of God to be His children, they also will suffer chastening, and are not to faint with the application of God's rod of correction.  The application of this rod anointing is also applied to the Gentile.  For all that are called to be children of God, will be chastened, and if you endure the chastisement, then God deals with you as His sons.  However, if you lack chastening then scripture says you are bastards and not His sons.

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Grace comes from God's Spirit of Grace 

God's New Covenant Remedy for the sin of mankind, was established by Yahweh God even before the foundation of the world.   The Wisdom of Yahweh God Almighty is from Eternity, even so, His unseen Wisdom was hidden IN the Grace of His Spirit of TRUTH; for Yahweh's Pascal Lamb was slain even before the foundation of the world.  In the flow of God's creation of time, the finality for Yahweh's Pascal Lamb would indeed come to a climax.  In the High Holy Day of the evening Feast of Unleavened Bread, Jesus ends the animal sacrifices for sin, and institutes His Father's Word of TRUTH:

For while they were eating of the flesh of the passover lamb. Jesus/Yeshua took the unleavened Bread, He then gave Thanks to His Father God for the Bread, He then broke the Unleavened Bead, and gave to His disciples saying: Take and eat, for this is My Body given for you.  Then He took the wine and again gave thanks to His Father God, and gave it to His disciples saying: All of you drink of it; for this IS My Blood of the New Covenant, shed for many for the remission of sin. 

Listen clearly to the WORD of God Almighty, for He Speaks of His Powerful convicting WORD that He will bring to pass. Witness the Word twice spoken by Moses:  The Lord thy God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me.  Him you shall harken.  Then the Lord Yahweh confirms the WORD unto Moses: I will raise them up a Prophet from their brethren like unto you, and I will put My WORDS IN His Mouth, and He shall Speak unto them all that I Shall Command Him. It shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto MY WORDS which He shall Speak IN MY NAME, I Will require it of him that will not hear. (See Deuteronomy 18 verse 15 thru 19.) Now consider with Whom we are dealing with: For the Eternal Father God was IN Christ Jesus reconciling the world unto Himself.  Selah!  (See 2 Corinthians 5 verse 18 thru 20.)

Paul, in his writings in 1st Corinthians 11 verse 24, amplifies God's Word of TRUTH IN His Son: This do in remembrance of Me. Whereby, in Communion Fellowship with His believers, God's Spirit of Grace, being One with the Word of God that is IN and OF Christ Jesus, covers over the acknowledged sins committed in the perishing flesh of a humble believer.  Sin's condemnation is cleansed IN the Sanctifying Blood of Christ Jesus, wherein the unseen Word of God's TRUTH is manifested IN the ears that will hear, so as to bring them to Thanksgiving in the remembrance of why Christ died for us sinners.  Holy God's Word is faithful to cleanse and renew the mind of the faithful believer through God's New Covenant of Grace that is eternally established in the unseen Life giving Blood of Jesus the Christ of God.  However note the warning in the following Scripture.

He that is not with Me is against Me: and he that gathers not with Me scatters.   When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, I will return unto my house from where I came out.   And when he comes to his house, he finds it swept [clean] and garnished. Then goes he, and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in [the house], and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. (Luke 11 verse 23 thru 26.)

So the Spirit of God is addressing the conscience of all of the Jews and gentile believers that came to a beginning faith IN Jesus Christ, and were baptized into the Messiah becoming new born babes IN the Messiah.  These new believer were originally set apart, that is they were absolved from the consequences of all past sins, and were given a new beginning that would aspire to true LIFE IN Christ Jesus. (See Romans 3 verse 23 thru 26.) But even so, sin's very nature in the flesh, will find us out and will leave us floundering around in the new forming dust cloud of wickedness.  The flesh is not redeemed and will perish, so then what we do now to relieve our flesh of its confusion in sin that is of the nature of witchcraft?

Rebellion against God is as witchcraft, for its stubbornness begets more sin that fosters rejection from the Eternal God of all Holiness. (1st Samuel 15 verse 23 thru 24.)  The nature of the man of flesh is mired in self idolatry that elevates it self before others and even commends ourselves above the all-knowing Holy God of the universe.  Within the idolatry of man there are many of those that are wise in their own separatist dogmas, and have declared themselves to have a superior understanding of Scripture, and now declare that they are no longer accountable to sin.  However, witness for yourselves that Creator God's Holy Spirit is the Fountain of Life that flows freely in His select vessels: For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the Fountain of Living Waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2 verse 13.) Repent and repair the breech of idolatry that you may be Holy separate to Holy Yahweh God the Almighty.

I AM the WAY, I AM the TRUTH, I AM the LIFE of mankind: No one come to the Father but by Me.

I have even heard from the pulpit preachers whose twisted pride says: "With salvation it is impossible for us to sin". There is no Godly Wisdom in this wanton statement that was erroneously extracted from selected Scriptures from the first Epistle of John, and other Scriptures.  But contrary wise, the Word of Holy God, in John's Epistle, begins by saying: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the TRUTH is not in us.  If we say that we have no sin, we make God a liar, and His WORD is not in us. (See 1st John 1 verse 8 thru 10.) Those who are being saved by God's mercy, will humbly call for God to continue His repair of the breech of our souls, and will not allow themselves to be in the deception of idolatrous sin.  Humility is in the faith of God, and that humility reveals to the believer that in the idolatry of their flesh, they are broken cisterns that cannot hold the TRUTH of GOD'S WORD. If one commandment is breeched then all are broken for they all come back to the first and greatest of Commandments that reveals idolatry: I AM the Lord thy God, thou shall not have any other god before ME,

The enemy of our souls is well pleased, when we give license to our corrupted flesh to follow our own self centered will.  In Satan's deception, we allow divisive sin to continually annul Christ's imperative call for genuine repentance from sin followed with God's faithful remission of acknowledged sin.  The Flow of the Water of the Holy Spirit of God and His Christ, allows for God's cleansing sanctification within Christ's Communion Life Blood, given by the Almighty's Spirit of Grace.  Faith in the Life giving Blood of Christ alone, allows for His sanctified believers that abide within His Holy Body, to enter into the Presence of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh, the Lord God Almighty.

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I AM the Resurrection and the LIFE:

He that believes IN Me, even though he were dead, yet shall he live [IN ME].

Without humility there is no repentance, without repentance there is no remission of sin, without the remission of sin there is the absence of the cleansing Grace of Holy God's Spirit that gives LIFE to the dead, who believed IN Christ Jesus.  Therefore, there is no condemnation of sin within the conscience of the redeemed of men.  In our obedience to the Will of God IN Christ Jesus, then sin will not have dominion over us, for in our true repentance from the power of sin, God's Holy Spirit of Grace leads us IN the WAY, and the TRUTH and the LIFE of His Holy Son, the Lord our Righteousness. (See Romans 6 verse 10 thru 18.)

Do you think  that the Scripture says in vain: The spirit [our spirit] with in us lusts to envy, But He gives more Grace: Wherefore [therefore] He says: God resists the proud, but gives more grace unto the humble. Therefore submit your selves to God, then resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, then God will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts you double minded. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord. Be afflicted, and mourn and weep.  Let your laughter turn to mourning and your joy to heaviness; then He shall lift you up. (See James 4 verse 5 thru 10.)

In the above passage, James has given an admonishment to the hearer of the Word of God, for all of the elect of God are to submit themselves to  the TRUTH of the Word of God.  In our idolatrous pride, whether Jew or Gentile believer, we don't see ourselves as double minded self righteous fools, but that is exactly what we are in our flesh.  In the second chapter of his letter, James has already addressed those who say they have faith, but have nothing of substance IN Christ that reveals the TRUTH of their supposition.  But do you not know O man of vanity that faith without words is dead? We may see our selves as being born again of Christ's Spirit, but are we following the Mind of God's Holy Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus?  What is this conundrum within the schizophrenic mind that boasts of its faith and sits back on its rump?  Don't forget, we still have our own mind of flesh that is inclined to follow its own way that justifies its own thoughts. We are told that we have the Mind of Christ, but know that this Mind is that of God's Holy Spirit IN Christ Jesus, and is confronting the spirit of our own mind that lust in its envy of the things of the world.  O wretched man that I am; Who will save me from this body of death.  If you are with understanding then choose today whom you will serve.

See that you do not refuse Him that Speaks.  For if they did not escape when they refused Him that spoke on the earth, then much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from Him that speaks from heaven. For our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12 verse 24 thru 25, and verse 29.)

After His resurrection, Jesus said unto His Disciple: Thus it is written, and so it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:  And repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
(See Luke 24 verse 45 thru 48.)

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat who serve the [earthly] Tabernacle. (Hebrews 13 verse 10.)

Jesus Christ is the Word of His Father God, and Jesus Christ is the Same TRUTH yesterday, today and forever, for His Holy Father God the Almighty is timeless.

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