op: "Christians" not under the New Covenant
But, HEBREW "christians" ARE under the New Covenant? Confusion, imho.
Of course, that's the Implication Of the scholar who posted Many Scriptures
From "HEBREWS" {hmm, for the "Jews"?}
And, then tries to add them TO/Mix them Up With Scriptures From
"ROMANS" {hmmm ..... For The Body Of CHRIST?}, In order to
make us believe that WE, Today, Under GRACE, are under the NC.
The book of Hebrews is a General Epistle (Apostolic Letter) that was written in approximately 67 A.D. It was written mainly to the Hebrew believers. The author is anonymous, although either Paul or Barnabas was traditionally accepted as the author. Its purpose was to present the Lord Jesus Christ as perfect and superior in comparison to anything Judaism and the old covenant had to offer them. If the writer had intended to write to Jewish unbelievers he never would have written the first 2 verses that makes it clear that it was written to Jewish believers instead of non-believers.
1:1) In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; (meaning their Jewish ancestors)
1:2) but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. (i.e. "he has spoken to us Jewish Christian by God's Son; Jesus)
The author was writing to a group of newer Christians that seems to have been second generation believers who had received the gospel from those who had actually heard the Lord Jesus (2:3-4, 9)
2:3) "...how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? [the gospel] was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him,(that salvation was only for those who believe in Christ as their Savior)
2:4) "...while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his own will." (the gift of the Holy Spirit would never have been bestowed upon Jewish non-believers!)
2:9) "But we [Jewish Christians]see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels,..."
They seem to have been Jewish Christians who were in danger of abandoning their faith and lapsing back into Judaism due to intense persecution; so the writer exhorts them to hold fast to their confession in Christ Jesus as Savior and Lord (3:1)
3:1) "Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession." (holy brethren could only be Jewish believers who share in a heavenly call..)
In Hebrews 3:6 he refers to the
"house over which Christ now presides over and in which he officiates," is the Christian Church; which as Paul says in his Epistle to the Ephesians (2:20-22), is a holy temple, fitly framed together, and designed as a habitation or dwelling - place of God through the Spirit....
Heb 3:6...
"but Christ was faithful over God's house [church] as a son. And we are his house [church] if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope."
He admonished them not to turn away from their only hope of salvation.
10:23) "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;"
The writer assures the Jewish Christians that the New Covenant is better than the Old Covenants:
12:24 "...and to Jesus, the mediator of a New Covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel."
The book of Hebrews is an amazing book that serves Christians of all times as it is the bedrock truth of the all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ who is the same "yesterday, today and forever."