8/12/2023 0 Comments Israelites bible studyIt will be simpler if we enumerate them one by one. Now let us see the steps of the argument. This way of using a word in two or three different ways, of teasing at it until the last drop of meaning was extracted from it, was typical of cultured, academic thought in the days when the writer to the Hebrews wrote his letter. (iii) He is using it of the rest of God after the sixth day of creation, when all God's work was completed. (ii) He is using it, as he used it in Hebrews 3:12, to mean The Promised Land To the children of Israel who had wandered so long in the desert the Promised Land was indeed the rest of God. It is the greatest thing in the world to enter into the peace of God. (i) He is using it as we would use the peace of God. The writer is really using the word rest (katapausis, G2663) in three different senses. In a complicated passage like this it is better to try to grasp the broad lines of the thought before we look at any of the details. He who has entered into this rest has rest from all his works, just as God rested from his works. So a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God. For somewhere in scripture it speaks thus about the seventh day: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his labours." And it says in the same place: "Very certainly they shall not enter into my rest." Since then it remains that some people must enter into it and since those who in former times had the gospel preached to them did not enter because of their lack of trust, he again defines a day, when in David, after so long a lapse of time, he says, "Today," just as he had said before, "Today if you will hear my voice do not harden your hearts." If Joshua had actually brought them into rest, God would not then after that be speaking about another day. It is we who have made the decision of faith who are entering into the rest, for of them God said: "I swore in my anger, 'Very certainly they shall not enter into my rest.'" This he said although his works had been finished after the foundation of the world. But the word which they heard was no good to them, because it did not become woven into the very fibre of their being through faith. It is indeed true that we have had the good news preached to us, just as those of old had. THE REST WE DARE NOT MISS ( Hebrews 4:1-10 )Ĥ:1-10 It is true that the promise which offers entry into the rest of God still remains for us but beware lest any of you be adjudged to have missed it.
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