Jesus
Christ
The
High Priest
The
King Of Kings
And
The
Lord Of Lords
The
Gospel Of
Truth And Salvation
To The
Hebrew And
Humanity
Wrongly Called The
Book Of Hebrew
By
St
Paul De Evangelist
Hebrews 1
Jesus
Christ Is God Almighty
God's Supreme Revelation
God, who at
various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the
prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His FirstSon, whom He has
appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being
the brightness of His glory and the
express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His
power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of
the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by
inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
The FirstSon Exalted Above Angels
For to which of the angels did He ever say:
"You are My Son,
Today I have begotten you"?
And again:
"I
will be to Him a Father,
And He shall
be to Me a Son"?
But when He again brings the firstborn into
the world, He says:
"Let
all the angels of God worship Him."
And of the
angels He says:
"Who
makes His angels spirits
And His
ministers a flame of fire."
But to the
FirstSon He says:
"Your
throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter
of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
You have loved righteousness and hated
lawlessness;
Therefore
God, Your God, has anointed You
With the
oil of gladness more than Your companions."
And:
"You,
Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the
heavens are the work of Your hands.
They will perish, but You
remain;
And they
will all grow old like a garment;
Like a cloak You will
fold them up,
And they
will be changed.
But You are the same,
And Your years will not fail."
But to which of the angels has He ever said:
"Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your
enemies Your footstool"?
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth
to minister for those who will inherit salvation?
Necessary Explanations
The express image of
His person
Jesus
Christ is the manifest God, called the FirstSon because He is the complete and
original God, the same as God Almighty.
For to which of the
angels did He ever say:
"You are My Son,
Today I have begotten
you"?
All the
angels and saints are children of God, and therefore, are the sons of the
living God. The fact that God said this to Jesus Christ does not mean He has to
say the same thing to all the angels or saints, before we know that they are
also sons of God.
And again:
"I will be to Him
a Father,
And He shall be to Me
a Son"?
God is the
Father of all. That is why the Hosts of Angels and Saints of Heaven usually
call Him God the Father in heaven.
"Sit at My right
hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool"?
To sit at
the right hand of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is always sitting at the
right hand of God. In fact, when the Holy Trinity sits in throne, Jesus Christ
sits at the left hand of God Almighty, while the Holy Spirit sits at the left
hand of Jesus Christ. The expression, right hand, simply means favourite position, as a friend and supporter, as valuable
person, a very important personality.
Are they not all
ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit
salvation?
The Hosts
of Angels and Saints of Heaven are ministering spirits, who minister to God
Almighty, by rendering various services and doing many works for the wellbeing
of humanity. That does not mean that the humanity can enslave, command or
belittle the Hosts of Angels and Saints of Heaven. Just as the citizens of
every country do not enslave, command or belittle the army, police, security
and officers of the governments and leaderships, who are ministering in various
ways and capacities.
Hebrews 2
Jesus
Christ
Is
The
Lord And Saviour
Do Not Neglect Salvation
Therefore,
we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift
away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression
and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so
great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was
confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with
signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit,
according to His own will?
The Son Made Lower Than Angels
For He has
not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. But one
testified in a certain place, saying:
"What
is man that You are mindful of him,
Or the son
of man that You take care of him?
You
have made him a little lower than the angels;
You have
crowned him with glory and honor,
And set him
over the works of Your hands.
You have put all things in subjection under
his feet."
For in that
He put all in subjection under Him, He left nothing that is not put under him.
But now we do not yet see all things put under Him. But we see Jesus, 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, might taste death for everyone.
Bringing Many Sons To
Glory
For it was
fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing
many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through
sufferings. For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are
all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:
"I
will declare Your name to My brethren;
In the
midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You."
And again:
"I
will put My trust in Him."
And again:
"Here
am I and the children whom God has given Me."
Inasmuch
then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise
shared in the same, that through death
He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and
release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. For indeed He does not give aid
to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham. Therefore, in all things He had to be made
like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in
things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For
in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are
tempted.
Necessary Explanations
You have made him a
little lower than the angels;
Man is made
lower than the angels, but he has the opportunity to become one of the angels,
archangels or Gods, if he merits it by personal efforts and honest services,
and by steadfastness and trustworthiness in the everlasting paths of
righteousness.
That through death He
might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
When Jesus
Christ visited the Bottomless Pit to deliver the saints held captive by the
kingdom of darkness, He trampled down on death and disabled all its powers. The
devil has no power over death. He does not dictate when a person shall die.
However, many people die in evil ways or in the hands of Satan, simply because
they turn their back on God and disobey His word. The archangel who has power
over death, to bring any person’s life here on earth to an end is Archangel
Cemograph, who triples as Archangel Cemograph, Archangel Sinu and Archangel
Sinsenu.
For indeed He does not
give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.
God gives
aids to all the Hosts of Angels and Saints of Heaven and to all the children of
God, and to all the created things. It is the aids that are called grace, as
explained in The Gospel Of Grace. The gifts of the
powers of the Holy Spirit are God’s aids to all created things, to each
according to his or its needs, destiny and works.
Therefore, in all
things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and
faithful High
Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the
people. For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid
those who are tempted.
Jesus
Christ has lived here on earth in several reincarnations, to determine how best
to help humanity. In each reincarnation, He humbled Himself to live in the
midst of humanity and as one of them, to afford time to learn earthly life, and
to provide the best way to teach and demonstrate heavenly things. And He made
the work perfect by His sacrifice on the cross of the Calvary.
Hebrews 3
Become
As Faithful
As
The FirstSon
The Son Was Faithful
Therefore, holy
brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High
Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed
Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One
has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the
house has more honour than the house. For every house is built by someone, but
He who built all things is God. And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house
as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,
but Christ as a FirstSon over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast
the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
Be Faithful
Therefore,
as the Holy Spirit says:
"Today,
if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
Where your fathers tested Me,
tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said,
'They always go astray in their heart,
And they
have not known My ways.'
So I swore in My
wrath,
'They shall
not enter My rest.'"
Beware,
brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing
from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called
"Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of
sin. For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our
confidence steadfast to the end, while it is said:
"Today,
if you will hear His voice,
Do not
harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
Failure Of The
Wilderness Wanderers
For who,
having heard, rebelled?
Indeed, was
it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?
Now with
whom was He angry forty years?
Was it not with
those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
And to whom
did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
So we see
that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Necessary Explanations
Do not harden your
hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in
the wilderness,
Humanity
refuse to obey the laws of God, who is the Landlord of the earth. They refuse
to keep the Sabbath Day holy, so that they can have long life; gain blessings,
favours, success and prosperity; and perfect themselves and inherit the Kingdom
of Heaven.
For six is
the number of man, but seven is the perfection of man. This means that man must
keep the Sabbath to become as perfect as God Almighty. This is true, because
silence is the abode of God; and quietness, the gateway into His presence.
All those
who disobeyed or opposed God in the wilderness perished. Likewise, humanity
shall perish, if they refuse and fail to follow the way of truth and salvation,
by abiding in the paths of righteousness, through studying and practising this Yahweh's Book Of
Life.
Hebrews 4
Jesus
Christ
Is
The
Word Of Salvation
The Promise Of Rest
Therefore,
since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which
they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard
it. For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:
"So I
swore in My wrath,
'They shall
not enter My rest,'"
although
the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He has spoken in
a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the
seventh day from all His works"; and again in this place: "They shall
not enter My rest."
Since
therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first
preached did not enter because of disobedience, again He designates a certain
day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time, as it has been
said:
"Today,
if you will hear His voice,
Do not
harden your hearts."
For if Joshua had given them rest, then He
would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people
of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works
as God did from His.
The Word Discovers Our Condition
Let us
therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the
same example of disobedience. For the word
of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature
hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to
whom we must give account.
Our Compassionate High Priest
Seeing then
that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the
FirstSon of God, let us hold fast our
confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our
weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne
of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to
help in time of need.
Necessary Explanations
For if Joshua had
given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
Joshua gave
the Israelite rest and enforced it. Even when the Israelites proved very
disobedient and stubborn to abide by the way of truth and salvation, to abide
by the ways of God which are the paths of righteousness, Joshua did the most
noble thing, a very good example to all the other Israelites and humanity, by
choosing God Almighty, saying, “I and my
family shall serve and worship God, Yahweh, the Lord of the Hosts.” It was
not Joshua that made humanity to reject the Sabbath. Instead, it was humanity
that rejected the Sabbath, by their own free will and free choice, even so by
their disobedience and foolishness.
For the word of God is
living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the
division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His
sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must
give account.
Piercing even to the division of soul and
spirit: It is the
same one spirit that divides itself into a soul and spirit, one spirit in two selves.
The soul remains in the body, to keep it alive and warm. The spirit is the one
that goes out, and can travel far and wide. It is what the spirit encounters
and experiences in all the places it visits that people wake up to call dreams.
and of joints and marrow means that the word of is able to
explain all facts and details about God and life; the ability to reach far and
wide places; the ability to clear doubts, confusions, errors, mistakes,
failures and inabilities. The same word is all things and empowers all good
things.
is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, because the word of God is also
Holy Spirit, who is omniscient and omnipresent, who knows all tings.
let us hold fast our confession means that in all situations, means that in all our dwellings and
in all places, the children of God must continue to declare, do and spread the
truth. The truth is the one weapon by which the children of God shall overcome
the kingdom of darkness, forces of darkness and powers of darkness, and thereby
get everlasting freedom from sin, bondage and slavery.
but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give
account, just as
all the things here on earth are naked to the sun and sunlight. The eyes of God
are the like two suns, in the fullness of their
brightness, ranging all over the world and seeing all things in all places,
even so at the same time. It is able to see what is in front and at the back,
on the right and on the left, on high and underneath, top and bottom, and even
at the center that is within, all at the same time.
Let us therefore come
boldly to the throne of grace,
The
children of God must not fear or hesitate to come back to God, despite their
sinfulness, because the heart of God is always yearning for His children, and
He has provided the Blood of Jesus to ensure that none perish, except those who
willingly choose to perish.
That we may obtain
mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Even grace
is not free, because it is a tool, a time and opportunity to do more work
Hebrews 5
Jesus
Christ
Reincarnated
As Melchizedek
Qualifications For
High Priesthood
For every
High Priest taken from among men is appointed for humanity in things pertaining
to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can have
compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also
subject to weakness. Because of this, he is required as for the people, so also
for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins. And
no man takes this honour to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Holy
Aaron was.
A Priest Forever
So also
Jesus Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who
said to Him:
"You
are My Son,
Today I
have begotten You."
As He also says in another place:
"You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek";
who, in the days of His flesh, when He had
offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who
was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His Godly fear, though He was a FirstSon, yet He
learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected,
He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, called by God as
High Priest "according to the order of Melchizedek," of whom we have
much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
Spiritual Immaturity
For though by this time you ought to be
teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the
oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone
who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is
a baby. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who
by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Necessary Explanations
And no man takes this
honour to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Holy Aaron was.
It is the same
Holy Aaron that has reincarnated as the several and subsequent high priests of
Israel. Such is the unchangeability and mystery of
God.
"You are a priest
forever
According to the order
of Melchizedek";
The same
Jesus Christ reincarnated as Melchizedek. That saying, and its song, are
reserved for Jesus Christ alone. It shall not be sung for ministers of God or
their religious leaders.
Need For Spiritual Maturity
For though by this time you ought to be
teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the
oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone
who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is
a baby. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who
by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
The
children of God must grow from being baby Christians, who are spiritually
blind, ignorant and lazy, to become spiritually developed as Gods they are. Man
is a perfect God. They can do this by:
1.
Studying
Spiritual Science.
2.
Studying
Yahweh's Book Of
Life.
3.
By
learning the various paths of righteousness.
4.
And
by abiding in the above three ways.
Hebrews 6
Jesus
Christ Provides
The
Golden Opportunity
The Peril Of Not Progressing
Therefore,
leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Jesus Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying
again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of
the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead,
and of eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits.
For it is
impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly
gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good
word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them
again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the FirstSon of God, and
put Him to an open shame.
For the
earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful
for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears
thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be
burned.
A Better Estimate
But,
beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you. Yes, things that
accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner. For God is not unjust to
forget your work and labour of love which you have shown toward His name, in
that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full
assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate
those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
God's Infallible Purpose In
Jesus Christ
For when
God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He
swore by Himself, saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and
multiplying I will multiply you." And so, after Abraham had patiently
endured, he obtained the promise. For men indeed swear by the greater, and an
oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining
to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His
counsel, confirmed it by an oath,
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we
might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope
set before us.
This hope
we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the
Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus
Christ, having become High Priest forever according to the order of
Melchizedek.
Necessary Explanations
Let us go on to
perfection,
Every children
of God shall attain perfection only by learning many things, numerous things,
even so by compulsory universal knowledge, especially by abiding in the paths
of righteousness.
And we desire that
each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the
end, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and
patience inherit the promises.
Let the
children of God continue to seek for the truth, until they find it. And they
must continue the race of salvation, in the everlasting paths of righteousness,
until they enter the Kingdom of Heaven, because there is no other alternative.
Confirmed it by an oath
…
Hebrews 7
The
King Of Peace
And
The
King Or Righteousness
The King Of
Righteousness
For this
Melchizedek, King of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham
returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him (Abraham), to whom
also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated "King of
righteousness," and then also King of Salem, meaning "King of
peace," without father, without
mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life,
but made like the Son of God, remains a
priest continually.
Now
consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a
tenth of the spoils. And indeed those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive
the priesthood, have a commandment to receive tithes from the people according
to the law, that is, from their brethren, though they have come from the loins
of Abraham; but he whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes
from Abraham and blessed Abraham who had the promises. Now beyond all
contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better. Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it
is witnessed that he lives. Even Levi, who receives tithes, paid tithes
through Abraham, so to speak, for he was still in the loins of his father when
Melchizedek met Abraham.
Need For A New
Priesthood
Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the
law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to
the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?
For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the
law. For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from
which no man has officiated at the altar.
For it is
evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing
concerning priesthood. And it is yet far more evident if, in the
likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest who has come, not
according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an
endless life. For He
testifies:
"You are
a priest forever
According
to the order of Melchizedek."
For on the one hand
there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness, for the law made nothing perfect; on the
other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw
near to God.
Greatness Of The New
Priest
And
inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath – he was made priest with an
oath (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him
who said to Him:
"The
Lord has sworn
And will
not relent,
'You are a
priest forever
According
to the order of Melchizedek'",
by so much more Jesus
has become a surety of a better covenant.
Also there were many priests, because they were
prevented by death from continuing. But He, because He continues forever, has an
unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost
those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession
for them.
For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who
is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than
the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up
sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did
once for all when He offered up Himself. For the law appoints as high priests
men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law,
appoints the FirstSon who has been
perfect forever.
Necessary Explanations
Without father,
without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of
life,
Melchizedek
just appeared here on earth to teach the true knowledge of God and to
demonstrate the powers of the Holy Spirit, just as Jesus Christ did in Israel,
all in the bid to help, teach and save humanity.
But made like the Son
of God, remains a priest continually
Melchizedek
was, is and shall forever remain the son of God, because it was Jesus Christ
that reincarnated as Melchizedek.
Here mortal men
receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he
lives.
Abraham
gave tithes to Melchizedeck, as a confirmatory evidence to humanity, that
Melchizedeck was Jesus Christ in the form of human personality, reincarnated then,
because the tithes belong to God Almighty.
Need For A New
Priesthood
Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the
law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the
order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron? For
the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law.
For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no
man has officiated at the altar.
Jesus
esus Christ was already a High Priest before coming
to the world as the Lord and Saviour. Himself was
Methuselah, who was a priest of God. Himself was also
Melchizedek, the high priest, the King of Righteousness and King of Peace.
Besides,
Jesus Christ was already a High Priest in heaven, before coming to the world in
various reincarnations. That is why He was able to serve as the lamb, the
priest, and the Lord and Saviour, all at the same time.
And it is yet far more
evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest who has
come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the
power of an endless life.
Jesus
Christ was able to come not from tribe of Israel, and still be a high priest,
because He is the everlasting High Priest, even so from everlasting to
everlasting. He never became a priest, because He was, is and shall forever be
the Lord and Saviour.
For on the one hand
there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness, for the law made nothing perfect; on the
other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw
near to God.
The old
covenants were not nullified, made weak and unprofitable by the sins and
disobedience of humanity. Even when humanity did not abide by the covenant
laws, God Almighty was steadfast as a covenant-keeping God. The laws are
perfect.
The purpose
of the law was to keep the children of God in the everlasting paths of
righteousness, and to bring them up to the level, where the Blood of Jesus
shall be used to make them perfect. Everybody must start with the laws of God,
continue with the laws and be made perfect by the Blood of Jesus. Even so is
the law compulsory, in heaven, in the past, at present and in the future,
because God is unchangeable.
Also there were many
priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing.
The same
high priest Levi, has being reincarnating as the several high priests in
Israel.
Hebrews 8
The
Same As
Old And New Covenant
The New Priestly Service
Now this is
the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is
seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a Minister
of the sanctuary and of the true Tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not
built by man.
For every
high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it is
necessary that this One also have something to offer. For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are
priests who offer the gifts according to the law; who serve the copy and
shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was
about to make the Tabernacle. For He said, "See that you make all things
according to the pattern shown you on the mountain." But now He has
obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better
covenant, which was established on better promises.
A New Covenant
For if that
first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a
second. Because finding fault with them, He says: "Behold, the days are
coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah — not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the
land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded
them, says the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house
of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My
laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and
they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighboUr,
and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I
will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless
deeds I will remember no more."
In that
He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what
is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Necessary Explanations
For if He were on
earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts
according to the law;
St Paul De
Evangelist grow from low spiritual level to higher spiritual levels. When he
was still here on earth, he did not know that Jesus Christ was in the past the
high priests, Methuselah and Melchizedek.
The lesson
from this is that, here on earth, we do not know in perfection, but when we get
to heaven, we shall have perfect knowledge of all things as God made them to
be.
The current
time of perfection, is for the children of god to strive learn many necessary
things, grow in spirit by making necessary efforts, so that when they get to
heaven, all things and more learnings shall be very easy for them.
For He said to Him
Jesus
Christ is playing the roles of God and man.
The Same Old Covenant Renewed
In that He says, "A new covenant," He
has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is
ready to vanish away.
Every time
a new covenant was made, it is humanity that sees it as if it were a new
covenant being made. What God does is to renew the same ancient covenant He
made with Adam and Eve.
The old
covenant did not become obsolete, because it is was an everlasting and
trustworthy covenant. Instead, the covenant could not hold because humanity
were often breaking the laws of the covenant. The old and previous covenants
are true, because they were repetitions of one and the same covenant God made
with Adam, because God was steadfast as a covenant-keeping God.
Hebrews 9
The
Earthly And Heavenly
Sanctuary
Are One
The Earthly Sanctuary
Then indeed,
even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and the earthly
sanctuary. For a Tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the
lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the Sanctuary; and
behind the second veil, the part of the Tabernacle which is called the Holiest
of All, the Holy of Holies, which had the golden censer and the ark of the
covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that had
the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; and above
it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the Mercy Seat. Of these things we
cannot now speak in detail.
Limitations Of The
Earthly Service
Now when
these things had been thus prepared, the priests always went into the first
part of the Tabernacle, performing the services. But into the second part, the
high priest went alone, once a year, with blood, which he offered for himself
and for the people's sins committed in ignorance; the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made
manifest, while the first Tabernacle was still standing. It was symbolic for
the present time in which both gifts and
sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect
in regard to the conscience — concerned only with foods and drinks, various
washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
The Heavenly Sanctuary
But Christ
came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more
perfect Tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with
the blood of goats and calves, but with
His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained
eternal redemption. For if the blood of
bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies
for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse
your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this reason He
is the Mediator of the everlasting covenant, by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions under the first (earthly) covenant, that those
who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Necessary Death Of The
Mediator
For where
there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the
testator. For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power
at all while the testator lives. Therefore, not even the first covenant was dedicated
without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people
according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water,
scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the
people, saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded
you." Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the Tabernacle and all
the vessels of the ministry. And according to the law almost all things are
purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
Greatness Of Christ's
Sacrifice
Therefore,
it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be
purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices
than these. For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which
are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence
of God for us; not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest
enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another — He then would
have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at
the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
Himself. And as it is appointed for men
to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to
bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him, He will appear a
second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
Necessary Explanations
Gifts and sacrifices
are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect
Man is not
made perfect by the earthly offerings and sacrifices. Rather, when offerings
and sacrifices are presented before God, first the angels take them to heaven.
Second, the gifts and offerings are transformed into their heavenly
counterparts, loaded with heavenly gifts, foods, drinks and blessings. And
third, returned to the earth for the offering of sacrifices, and for humanity
to eat and to drinks, and to receive blessings, favours, success and
prosperity. By so doing, the cg here on earth and the angels and saints in
heaven are one, and the will of God is done here on earth as it is being done
in heaven.
But with His own blood
He entered the Most Holy Place once for all,
The
officiating ministers shall at midday, 12:00 noon, on the Sabbath day, sanctity
the altar as follows:
1.
Take
a red cup full of water.
2.
Raise it up.
3.
Pray
God to change it into the Blood of Jesus.
4.
Sprinkle
it seven times at the altar, in the following manner:
a.
On
the front left hand side.
b.
On
the front center.
c.
On
the front right hand side.
d.
On
the back left hand side.
e.
On
the back center.
f.
On
the back right hand side.
g.
On
the center of the altar.
5.
Sprinkle
on yourself – on the right shoulder, on the left shoulder and on your chest.
6.
Sprinkle
it round the altar.
7.
Anoint
the four corners of the altar with the Blood of Jesus.
8.
Take
the anointing oil.
9.
Pray
God to change it into the anointing power of the Holy Spirit.
10.
Anoint
the four corners of the altar.
For if the blood of
bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies
for the purifying of the flesh,
The blood
of bulls and goats never did. They were used to get down the heavenly blood of
Jesus Christ, which makes clean, holy and perfect. The congregation shall first
bring the earthly counterpart of what they need, to the presence of God, before
the angels will take the same to heaven, transform it into the heavenly
counterpart and bring it back to the earth, for use by the children of God.
And as it is appointed
for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
Humanity
have being reincarnating here on earth, and many shall continue to reincarnate
in future.
Hebrews 10
Yes!
The
Just Live By Faith
Animal Sacrifices Insufficient
For the
law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things,
can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by
year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to
be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more
consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins
every year. For it is not possible that
the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
Christ's Death Fulfills God's Will
Therefore,
when He came into the world, He said:
"Sacrifice
and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin
You had no
pleasure.
Then I said, 'Behold, I have come —
In the
volume of the book it is written of Me —
To do Your will, O God.'"
Previously
saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which
are offered according to the law), then He said, "Behold, I have come to
do Your will, O God." He takes away
the first that He may establish the second. By that will we have been
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Christ's Death Perfects The
Sanctified
And every
priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one
sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time
waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has
perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
But the
Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
"This is the covenant that I will make
with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My
laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them," then He
adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
Hold Fast Your Confession
Therefore,
brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new
and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His
flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a
true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience and our bodies washed with pure and holy water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for
He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir
up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as
is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you
see the Day approaching.
Yes, The Just Live By
Faith
For if we
sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer
remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment,
and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has
rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three
witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought
worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the
covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of
grace? For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,"
says the Lord. And again, "The Lord will judge His people." It is a
fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
But recall
the former days in which, after you were illuminated (enlightened with true
knowledge), you endured a great struggle with sufferings: partly while you were
made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you
became companions of those who were so treated; for you had compassion on me in
my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you
have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven. Therefore do
not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of
endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the
promise:
"For
yet a little while,
And He who
is coming will come and will not tarry.
Now the just shall live by faith;
But if
anyone draws back,
My soul has
no pleasure in him."
But we are
not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving
of the soul.
Necessary Explanations
For it is not possible
that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
As the use
of the blood of bulls and goats were relevant in the past, even so are their
uses still relevant in the present and modern generation and in the future. It
was not the blood of animals that were doing the works of purifications,
sanctifications, offerings and sacrifices, just as the bread and wine are not
the real body and blood of Jesus Christ.
The blood
of the bulls and goats represented the blood of Jesus Christ, just as the
Passover Lamb represented Jesus Christ; and as the staff and the bronze snake
on it represented the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. What God will give to you
depends on what you come with into His presence. Those who come with
candlelight, get the light of the Holy Spirit. Those who come with fruits, get
the powers of the Holy Spirit. Those who come with palm fronds, get life and
victory. And those who come empty-handed, also go home empty-handed. What a
person comes with into the presence of God is a sign to God and His angels and
saints of what the person wants from God. Therefore, the blood of bulls and
goats means that the children of God want the saving powers of the blood of Jesus
Christ, just as coming with water means that the children of God want the Water
of Life.
He takes away the
first that He may establish the second.
God did not
take away the first covenant, because Jesus Christ did not come to abolish the
laws and the prophets. He came to make them perfect and everlasting.
Let us hold fast the
confession of our hope without wavering,
Continue to
declare, teach and spread the truth, the way of truth and salvation, the Gospel
of Truth and Salvation. By so doing shall the world be corrected and restored
to goodness and normalcy.
Now the just shall
live by faith;
The just
are the righteous ones, the innocent, the law-abiding people of God.
Faith means
the knowledge of the truth and abiding steadfast in the truth, which includes
keeping the laws of God, because Truth is God and His laws are unchangeable.
The just shall live by faith means that the righteous people shall remain
steadfast in the everlasting paths of righteousness.
The above explanations
show that the confusion in the church is being caused by the religious leaders
and ministers of God who take the literal meaning of statements in the holy
book, who take the grammatical meaning only, without understanding the
spiritual meanings. They thought that faith simply means believe, and have by
so doing led many astray. That is why today many are preaching, “Just believe,”
and “By grace only,” to the deceit and detriments of many.
Hebrews 11
The
Great Works
Of
True
Faith
By Faith We Understand
Now
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a
good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word
of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are
visible.
Faith At The Dawn Of
History
By faith
Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he
obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and
through it he being dead still speaks.
By faith
Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found,
because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony,
that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he
who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder
of those who diligently seek Him.
By faith
Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with Godly fear,
prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the
world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
Faithful Abraham
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to
go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out,
not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country,
dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;
for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is
God.
By faith
Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child
when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars
of the sky in multitude — innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.
The Heavenly Hope
These all
died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off
were assured of them, embraced them and confessed
that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such
things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called
to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had
opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly
country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has
prepared a city for them.
The Faith Of The
Patriarchs
By faith
Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises
offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, "In Isaac your seed
shall be called," concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from
the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
By faith
Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
By faith
Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped,
leaning on the top of his staff.
By faith
Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of
Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.
The Faith Of Moses
By faith
Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they
saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's command.
By faith
Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to
enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater
riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
By faith he
forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him
who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood,
lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
By faith
they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians,
attempting to do so, were drowned.
By Faith They Overcame
By faith
the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days. By
faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she
had received the spies with peace.
And what
more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and
Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the
prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained
promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped
the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in
battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Women received their dead raised to life again.
Others were
tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better
resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were
stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were
slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being
destitute, afflicted, tormented — of whom the world was not worthy. They
wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
And all
these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the
promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be
made perfect apart from us.
Necessary Explanations
Definition Of Faith By
Jesus Christ
Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith is
the knowledge of the truth and abiding in the truth, which includes the keeping
of the laws, by which the honest children of God come to Jesus Christ to
receive perfection, in the name of the Father, the FirstSon and the Holy
Spirit. The saints are those who abide in the faith, by remaining in the
everlasting paths of righteousness, by keeping the covenant laws of God,
according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, and by the powers of the Holy
Spirit.
Definition Of Faith By
St Paul De Evangelist
Son of man, faith is
not a substance. Faith is a manifestation. (And a manifestation may be seen, or
not seen, may be noticeable or unnoticeable, and it may be physical or
spiritual.)
Faith is the
manifestation of things hoped for. It is not a substance.
Son of man, faith is a
manifestation of things hoped for. Not those things hoped for. They put that
expression, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,” in order to
confuse many people. So all you have to do is just hope. And that is why the
Christians are busy today only hoping to enter heaven, without keeping the
compulsory covenant laws of God.
Faith is an action,
and not a word. That is why faith is a manifestation and not a substance. What
manifests is a person’s actions, conduct, practice or work.
Faith is when a person behaves in a way that shows that he knows and
has hope, that all that he has seen, as well as the things he has not seen,
shall come to fulfilment and manifestation. What is actually written only
supports this very explanation.
Faith means that a person knows and hopes, that all that he knows and
all that he does not know shall come to fulfilment and manifestation.
Faith is the manifestation of thing known and hope for. Faith is knowledge
and hope that things seen and unseen, will come to pass, come to fulfilments
and manifestations. (From Heavenly Evidences 4)
A Sample Of Wrong Translation
Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrew 11:1
Shocking Revelations And Explanations
Christians know the above quotation very well, and are
always ready and quick to say it, each time you ask them, what is faith?
But this statement was never made by St Paul De Evangelist.
Evidences Beyond All Reasonable Doubts
When St Paul De Evangelist came in the midst of the
DivineBase congregation, during Sabbath prayers and worship, as he usually did,
on the first Sabbath of every month, explanations of this statement was
presented to him, for examination, correction and approval. That was when he
made known many shocking revelations of how the antichrists and beasts used the
bible authors to confuse and deceive humanity.
He delivered the following responses, questions, analysis
and facts:
Investigative
Questions
St Paul: Son of
man, substance of things hoped for.
Son of man, where did the bible authors get the word,
substance, from?
Who added the word, substance, to the scriptures?
Or, did the bible authors not know that every word has
places where it should be used, and also there are places where it should not
be used?
Son of man, where does the word, substance, come in in this
topic on faith?
What do they mean by the word, substance?
They were just using a big vocabulary, which confuses
humanity. That word, substance, has changed the meaning of that statement. Many
shall read the statement, but shall not understand it, because of that one
word, substance.
Son of man, which word supposed to be there, to make the
sentence complete and perfect?
Which word supposed to be there?
A word that is fit and perfect?
True Meaning Of Faith
St Paul: This is
wrong: “Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Son of man, faith is not a substance, because a substance is
something that is seen and touchable.
All right, show me faith, so that I can touch it?
It is not possible.
Son of man, faith is not a substance. Faith is a
manifestation. (And a manifestation may be seen, or not seen, may be noticeable
or unnoticeable, and it may be physical or spiritual.)
Faith is the manifestation of things hoped for. It is not a
substance.
Son of man, faith is a manifestation of things hoped for.
Not those things hoped for. They put that expression, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,” in order to
confuse many people. So all you have to do is just hope. And that is why the
Christians are busy today only hoping to enter heaven, without keeping the
compulsory covenant laws of God.
Faith is an action, and not a word. That is why faith is a
manifestation and not a substance. What manifests is a person’s actions, conduct,
practice or work.
Faith is when a person behaves in
a way that shows that he knows and has hope, that all that he has seen, as well
as the things he has not seen, shall come to fulfilment and manifestation. What
is actually written only supports this very explanation.
Faith means that a person knows
and hopes, that all that he knows and all that he does not know shall come to
fulfilment and manifestation.
Faith is the manifestation of
thing known and hope for. Faith is knowledge and hope that things seen and
unseen, will come to pass, come to fulfilments and manifestations.
Faith Is Different
From Hope
St Paul: It is
only when you know that you can hope. It is only a fool that hopes for
something he does not know about. He hopes for what he is not sure of. That is
why, wherever you go, churches, ministries and fellowships, everybody is
praying, because they are all hoping.
If you use the word hope only, then you are defining belief,
and not faith. Hope comes into faith, when knowledge accompanies it, hope without assurance. Hope is nothing but believe,
expectation of something that may come true, which may also not come true.
Hope simply means that you believe that there is hope -
something shall happen as expected and is possible. Belief and hope are not the
same. Knowing that there is hope is faith. Believing that there is hope is just
belief.
The bible authors removed many words, which explained the
sentence clearly and meaningfully. That is why everybody is now explaining that
one sentence in various ways, each person according to his own understanding.
Disapproval Of The Wrong Word
St Paul: Therefore:
1.
Do not mention the word, substance, again.
2.
Substance is not an action.
3.
Substance is a thing, something seen and
tangible.
But faith is an action. Faith is not a thing, not a substance.
Necessary Inquiry
St Paul: Son of man, that is why it is important that children of God should
start to inquire from God. They should inquire from the Holy Spirit, from the
Hosts of Angels and Saints of Heaven.
Corrective Approach
St Paul: That is
why sometimes, when Hosts of Angels and Saints of Heaven, come in the midst of
the congregation, we correct the word, mend it, in such a way that all the
relevant points shall be made clear, instead of starting afresh to say what had
been said before. The most important thing is to get the main message in a
text, as delivered by God.
We have to include herein the explanations presented to St
Paul De Evangelist, for examination and corrections, which he approved.
Substances Of Things Hoped
The substances of things hoped for are:
1. The
holy book is seen with human eyes, and it is substance showing humanity that
the Kingdom of Heaven is true.
2. The
holy waters, like Consuming Fire, Blood of Jesus and Water of Life, are liquid
substances which we use, and which shows us that the powers of the Holy Spirit,
are true, though we do not see the power of the Holy Spirit with our eyes.
3. And
if the powers of the Holy Spirit are working, it means truly that there is Holy
Spirit, who is God Almighty Himself.
4. We
hope for the Kingdom of Heaven, which we have not seen, but believe that it
exists, because Jesus Christ came from the Kingdom of Heaven and ascended back
to heaven.
5. The
physical world we see proves to us that there is spiritual world, which is far
better than this earthly life.
6. Before
the scientists produced various developments which humanity are today using,
they did not see those developments with their eyes, but they hoped of getting
them, and eventually they succeeded. Such developments included computers,
airplanes, skyscrapers, machines and vehicles.
7. The
great works of the ancient men of God are physical evidences in the world which
prove that they had faith in God. Therefore, the children of God here on earth
have to strive obey the word of God and achieve many things for God. They
should not be hearers only, but become both hearers and doers of the will of
God.
8. The
life, miracles, healings, deliverances and signs and wonders performed by Jesus
Christ are evidences that the salvation Kingdom of Heaven are true. Therefore,
the children of God should strive to remain steadfast in the everlasting paths
of righteousness.
Evidences Of Things Not Seen
The evidences of things not seen:
1.
The manifest physical world is the evidence
of the spiritual world, from which humanity come to live here on earth. If the
spiritual were not in existence, then people shall not be living and
reincarnating here on earth.
2.
When the wind blows we do not see the wind,
but know that wind is blowing, because we feel the breeze rushing over our body
and see the trees swaying in the rhythm of the fast moving air.
3.
Likewise, we do not usually see sounds, but
we understand the voice of many people and what they are saying. Also, we do
not see music, but a melodious music is playing, everybody is happy anointing
doves delight to dance to the music.
4.
When anointing is moving somebody, we see
person in random motion, which an ordinary human being cannot exhibit.
5.
When God came down to speak to the
Israelites, they did not see God, but they know that God came down, because
they saw the evidences of thunder and lightning, repeated sounds of trumpets,
mighty winds and earthquake.
6.
People living here on earth do hear voices
speaking to them. In many cases, they do not see the person speaking but what
the person says is found to be true. For example, when God first spoke to
Samuel, he did not see God but he learnt from High Priest Eli how to answer God
and receive messages from Him.
7.
The word of God in the holy book are
evidences that God truly exists, because from day to day and from year to year,
humanity find the words of God in the holy book coming to fulfilments and
manifestations, in various ways that are clear and convincing.
8.
When Archangel Raphael was leading the
Israelites, they did not clearly see Archangel Raphael, but they actually saw
the pillar of fire leading them in the night, and pillar of cloud leading them
by the day.
9.
Humanity do not see the spiritual aspect of
life with their ordinary eyes. But when they sleep or stay quiet, they
experience dreams, trances, visions and revelations which come to fulfilments
and manifestations.
10.
Generally, the fulfilments and
manifestations are the evidences showing the true prophecy is real.
11.
Most of the teeming world populations of
humanity have not seen Satan, evil spirits and demons. But they see the evils
and abominations caused by these forces of darkness: sickness, accidents,
crimes, madness, dirtiness, etc. this means that these forces of darkness have
kingdoms from where they come to colonize and persecute humanity.
12.
The sky above reminds us of the Kingdom of
Heaven above.
13.
The sun in all its glory, radiance and
brightness show to humanity the excellent qualities of God, which sits on His
throne, as radiant as the sun.
14.
The sunlight which is everywhere present and
seen shows how the Holy Spirit is omnipresent and active.
15.
Jesus Christ is the Lord and Saviour whom
the world has being hoping for, before His birth.
16.
On the Passover night, they Israelites hoped
for deliverance by applying the blood of the Pascal lamb on the lintels of the
doors, and they were saved from the Archangels of death and destruction that
overwhelmed every family in Egypt.
17.
The manifest glorious works, signs and
wonders of God are evident proofs of His existence, just as the entire creation
are the substances proving to the world of humanity that God the creator does
exist.
By faith Abraham
obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an
inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Abraham had
foreknowledge that he would go to live in Canaan. He first travelled to the
Promised Land, to survey and assess it, and came back and prepared, before he
finally left his father’s land to live permanently in Canaan. This departure
was necessary, so that Abraham shall be able to raise a new generation who
shall serve and worship God. The departure helped to prepare the children of
Abraham for Godly worship and to separate them from the idolatry of the native
land of Abraham.
Confessed that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the earth
The world
is God’s own school. You enter it by birth, leave it at death, and come back to
it through reincarnations. Therefore, the world is not a home, not a place for
permanent residence.
Hebrews 12
Exhortations
The Race Of Faith
Therefore
we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay
aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with
endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus Christ, the author
and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of
God.
The Discipline Of God
For
consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you
become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to
bloodshed, striving against sin. And you have forgotten the exhortation which
speaks to you as to sons:
"My
son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,
Nor be
discouraged when you are rebuked by 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 there whom
a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have
become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have
had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much
more readily be in subjection to the Father of Spirits, and live? For they
indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our
profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be
joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the
peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Renew Your Spiritual Vitality
Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down,
and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is
lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one
will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of
God; lest any root of bitterness
springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be
any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his
birthright. For you know that afterward,
when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place
for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
The Glorious Company
For you have not come to the mountain that may
be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and
tempest, and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who
heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. (For they could not endure what
was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches
the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow." And so terrifying was the sight that Moses
said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.")
But you
have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and
church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all,
to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new
covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling
that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Hear The Heavenly Voice
See that
you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him
who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who
speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised,
saying, "Yet once more I shake not
only the earth, but also heaven." Now this, "Yet once more,"
indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that
are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since
we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence
and Godly love. For our God is a consuming fire.
Necessary Explanations
Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down,
and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is
lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down
and the feeble knees,
means to help the weak ones and encourage those who are lukewarm, backsliding
or poor in the knowledge of the truth, and to comfort those who are mourning,
sorrowful and regretful or being overwhelmed.
To make straight paths for your feet, means always teaching the Gospel of
Truth and Salvation, to clear all doubts, contradictions, confusions and
deceptions.
So that what is lame may not be dislocated, but
rather be healed,
means to bring back to salvation all those who may stray away to from the
truth, or have hindrances leading to everlasting destruction in the hell fire.
Pursue peace with all
people,
Always be
peaceful, peace-loving and peace-making in every situation, because peace
ensures the safety of lives and properties. It ensures blessings, favours,
success and prosperity. Even those who quarrel eventually must make peace.
Lest any root of
bitterness springing up cause trouble,
Do not
allow bitterness, grudges or unforgiveness develop
into crisis that disorganize, divide and scatter the church of God.
For you know that
afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he
found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
Even so
with many people who have being called to be ministers of God, but are denying
the call, giving many reasons and excuses, which here on earth appears
sensible, but in spirit and in heaven are irrelevant excuses. Everybody
supposed to place God first in every consideration, but majority are placing
Him last, while many have no consideration for God at all. They easily forget
that it is God that gives them life, protects their children and relations, and
ensures their wellbeing from day to day.
The reasons
why everybody must love God above all his father, mother, brothers, sisters,
relations and loved ones is because God will unfailingly take good care of all
these people, relations or dependents. But many are failing this very little
test of faith and trustworthiness.
For you have not come
to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness
and darkness and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so
that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them
anymore
…
And so terrifying was
the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling."
It was not Holy
Moses that was exceedingly afraid and trembling. It was the people of
Israelites that were terribly afraid and trembling at Mt Sinai, to the extent
that they could withstand the presence of God, the thunderings
and lightnings, or the vibrations and reverberations of the earthquake. That
was why they requested God to speak to Holy Moses, and Holy Moses will in turn
speak to them.
And to the blood of
sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
It was Jesus
Christ that came and lived in this world as Abel. However, the spiritual level
as Jesus Christ was far greater than His spiritual level as Abel and any other
of His reincarnations. In Jesus Christ and as Jesus Christ, He did a work of
perfection, once and for all, even so from everlasting to everlasting.
As Abel,
His blood was used to lay the foundation of the world. And as Jesus Christ, His
blood was used to save, purify and sanctify all that God has created, the
entire universe, including the angels and the heavens, even so from everlasting
to everlasting. That is because God is the God of perfection.
God of
Perfection means that God is as radiant as the sun, even so far more radiant.
That is why He is called the radiance of the sun. And His radiance is able to
radiate to all the ends of the universe and transform all things into the
Godliness and Perfection of Himself, filling and overflowing them all with the
abundance of joyfulness and gladness of heart, purity and love.
"Yet once more I
shake not only the earth, but also heaven."
The
spiritual vibrations of the Holy Spirit and the powers of the Holy Spirit make
the heavens and the earth to shake, to vibrate unto perfection or unto
destruction. That is how many people, both good and bad, do certain things
without knowing why they do so or who is empowering them to do so. And that is
how all things and all happenings are for the good of the children of God.
Let us have grace, by
which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and Godly love.
Even the
gift of grace is not free, because you are expected to serve God and humanity
with the grace, as is already outlined and explained in The Gospel Of
Grace.
Hebrews 13
Closing
Words Of Wisdom
Concluding Moral Directions
Let
brotherly love continue. Do not forget
to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained
angels. Remember the prisoners as if chained with them — those who are
mistreated — since you yourselves are in the body also.
Marriage is
honourable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God
will judge.
Let your
conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For
He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we
may boldly say:
"The
Lord is my helper;
I will not
fear.
What can
man do to me?"
Concluding Religious Directions
Remember
those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith
follow, considering the outcome of their conduct. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do not be
carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with
foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
We have an
altar from which those who serve the Tabernacle have no right to eat. For the
bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the Sanctuary by the high
priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. Therefore Jesus also, that He
might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore, let us go forth to Him, outside
the camp, bearing His reproach. For here we have no continuing city, but we
seek the one to come. Therefore by Him let us continually offer the
sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to
His name. But do not forget to do good and to share,
for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Obey those who rule over you, and be
submissive, for
they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief,
for that would be unprofitable for you.
Prayer Requested
Pray for
us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, in all things desiring
to live honorably. But I especially urge you to do this, that I may be restored
to you the sooner.
Benediction, Final Exhortation, Farewell
Now may the
God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd
of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete
in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His
sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
And I
appeal to you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written
to you in few words. Know that our brother Timothy has been set free, with whom
I shall see you if he comes shortly.
Greet all those who rule over you, and all the
saints. Those from Italy greet you.
Grace be with you all. Amen.
Necessary Explanations
Do not forget to
entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.
The angels
and saints of heaven do visit the children of God or their homes and residences
in the form of human beings. Therefore, be careful to entertain visitors very
well, while at the same time being careful not to let yourself into the hands
of fraudsters, kidnappers and robbers.
Jesus Christ is the
same yesterday, today, and forever.
Jesus
Christ is the same in the ancient past, modern present and heavenly future. He
was Abel, the Passover Lamb, crucified on the Calvary, all as the Lord and
Saviour, from everlasting to everlasting.
For it is good that
the heart be established by grace,
This means
that it is good for a person to be enriched and endowed with various powers of
the Holy Spirit, and opportunities for salvation and everlasting life.
Therefore, let us go
forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. For here we have no
continuing city, but we seek the one to come.
You are here
on earth, to learn how to live in heaven, through series of reincarnation, and
at the end of your training, you shall return to live permanently in heaven.
Obey those who rule
over you, and be submissive,
Obey the
governments and leaderships, the constituted authorities, people in positions
of authorities, as far as they do not go contrary to the laws and will of God,
for you were sent here on earth to learn how to live in heaven. Therefore, do
not let any person hinder, or mislead you to disobey the word of God.
Let them do so with
joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
Do not make
the religious leaders, ministers of God or children of God to grieve, or have
sorrows and regrets. And if they grieve, be among those who comfort, encourage
and support them.
About The Knowledge, Wisdom And
Level Of St Paul
St Paul De
Evangelist was writing according to his spiritual knowledge and level at that
time. Besides, he had to translate what the angels were telling and showing to
him in such a way that humanity on earth can understand.
In some
cases, he wrote from his high spiritual attainment, expressing truth and
realities of life, in such letters, words and statement that have deep
spiritual meanings. That is why some of his words or statements should not be
read and understood by the letters, but by the spiritual meanings in them.