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. 422) Heb 4:14-16 . .Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every...

. Yom Kippur The Great Day Of Atonement-- a.k.a. Yom Kippur --is huge in the Levitical sacrificial system because when the ritual is conducted properly by the appropriate holy men, it addresses an entire year of the nation of Israel's sins. However, there has been neither a Temple nor a a...

. Melchizedek Prior to the institution of the Israelite priesthood tribe of Levi, there was a Gentile man named Melchizedek in Abraham's day who served God as the supreme being's high priest. Quite a bit is written about him in the new testament's letter to Hebrews. The thing is: the covenant...

. 421) Heb 4:11 . . Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall through following the same example of disbelief. The "fall" in that instance refers to the failure of Moses' people to enter the promised land when they were given the opportunity; which consisted of a...

. 420) Heb 4:1-2 . .Therefore, let us fear lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. For indeed we have had the gospel preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith...

. Moses' Law Moses' Law-- a.k.a. the Ten Commandments --is a covenant entered into by Yahweh and the people of Israel located in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Now as a matter of personal opinion, I really think the Israelites really should've read the fine print...

. Covenant Webster's defines a covenant as 1) a usually formal, solemn, and/or binding agreement, viz: a compact, and 2) a written agreement or promise usually under seal between two or more parties especially for the performance of some action. Bible covenants may include obligations and/or...

. 419) Heb 3:12-13 . . Take heed, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But implore one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. That's a call to theocratic unity; Jewish...

. 418) Heb 3:7-11 . . So, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried Me and for forty years saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that...

. Cubit ● Gen 6:15b . . the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. There was a cubit among the Babylonians, and one in Egypt too. But there seems to have existed double standards in both countries. Because of that, there exists...

. ● Rom 8:26 . . The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. Intercession in that case can be thought of as assistance with an area of expertise in which mortal men are amateurs...

. Communion ● Matt 26:26-28 . . And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said: Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new...

. 417) Heb 3:1 . .Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and High Priest whom we acknowledge: Christ Jesus The "holy brethren" are Moses' people as per Deut 14:2 and Ps 135:4; and the "heavenly calling" very likely refers to the nation that God...

. 416) Heb 2:1-4 . .We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation...

. Repentance Repentance has a variety of meanings in the old testament. In some places it expresses regret and/or remorse, in other it means to reconsider, in others to change one's mind, and in others to stop moving in the current direction and switch to an alternative route. Repentance...

. The Image & Likeness Of God To my knowledge, mankind is the cosmos' only form of life created in the image and likeness of God. So then, mankind is nature's supreme being, so to speak. ● Gen 1:26 . . Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over...

. 415) Titus 3:13-14 . . Do everything you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos with their trip. See that they are given everything they need. For our people should not have unproductive lives. They must learn to do good by helping others who have urgent needs. Lawyers in the new testament...

. 414) Titus 3:10-11 . . A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. There is a significant difference between an apostate and an heretic. Basically: an apostate is a defector whereas...

. Mediator ● 1Tim 2:5 . . For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus The Bible defines a mediator as a go-between, viz: an intercessor The ideal mediator isn't swayed by prejudice or bias, and can clearly understand the concerns of both sides of the table...

. 413) Titus 3:9 . . Shun foolish controversies, and genealogies, and strife, and disputes about the Law; for they are unprofitable and worthless. The "law" in question is the covenant that Moses' people agreed upon with God in the Old Testament. Disputes generally revolve around its...