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Hebrews Chp 3
- Hebrews Chapter 3 - Hebrews 3
Theme
of Hebrews Chapter 3: Take Heed.
The deceitfulness of sin is sourced in the deceitfulness
of law;
So take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil (law) heart.
Wherefore (the reason or purpose) Christ Jesus is the
Apostolic High
Priest.
That generation: they do alway err (law): is the reason they shall not
enter my rest.
There's no rest (peace) in law (worketh wrath) to
be had, so take heed not to go there.
As the first verse tends to set the chapter theme, Hebrews (holy
brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling) are asked
to "consider" (perceive, remark, observe,
understand) Christ Jesus (the
reverse
of Jesus Christ) as an
Apostolic High Priest, the Mosaic house of law,
and what(?) the Holy Ghost
saith about such.
Such profession, of law,
involved hardened hearts by the deceitfulness
of sin (not of God: 2Cor 5:19), temptation (not of God: James
1:13), works (plural: grace
+ law; not of God: Jn 17:4), a generation (40 yrs) of grief (not of God: Mt 23:4), err
(not of God: Mt 5:48), ways (not
of God: Jn 14:6), and wrath (not of God:
Lk 6:36); And to the point of not
enter for all due to some did provoke. In short, what we're considering
is the
provocation, of a law God, unto law worketh wrath (again
not of God: 1Th 5:9).
"Wherefore" x 3: 'oyen' & 'dio' &
'oyen' in the greek, is followed by "take heed". But "give (more
earnest) heed" was exhorted
for "escape" in Heb 2,
escaping the destruction of law worketh wrath in Heb 3, and upon all if
only some did provoke it.
And perhaps such "give" and "take" in Hebrews is as tricky to navigate as
Revelation, both written by Paul
The Apostle: who is notably not only a revelator of "mystery", but
also a "faithful steward of the mysteries of God" in such things are an
allegory.
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Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore,
holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle
and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Wherefore (#1
of
3 wherefores in Hebrews 3)... Wherefore occurs 80 times from Matthew 6
to Hebrews 3. Wherefore
holy brethren ... Paul acknowledges all as
"brethren", even the bewitched churches of Galatia; but now refers to
Hebrews as "holy brethren", perhaps
satirically noting they are law(holy) brethren. Yet what remains to be
seen is such law brethren makes divisional sides, two holies,
plural heavens,
Gods.
Hebrews 3 is about looking at their side, law, considering the
deceitfulness of law, the hardheartedness of law, and the dead end of
sin consciousness via
law: the source of sin and the strength of sin's death sting; And about
realizing wrath is not of God, not the
"living" God, rather of a dead God of
such dead/living
Gods,
false God of false/true
Gods. When considering "Wherefore", we should also look into "Wherefore thou art no more a
servant, but a son": Galatians 4:7.
Partakers of the heavenly
calling ... Both light and
darkness are called, but light is
called day, darkness is called night, and each have a different ruler.
However the heavenly calling (invitation) to embrace salvation of by
grace alone is not both grace + law nor both
come + depart for both right + left as in Matthew 25. The heavenly
calling is y'all come,
come
now let us reason together, come
ye blessed. And such blessed isn't the first of twain blesseds in
Romans 4:7,8
(Ps 32:1,2); but
the better "man"
kind of blessed: no
sin imputed. The heavenly calling is also a calling (invitation) by
the "heavenly"
name: grace:
the "name of" our Father, and
the "name of" our Lord Jesus
Christ, which is also "the name by
which ye are called" to come to repentance (to change, from faith to
faith
and from glory to glory): by His "grace".
Consider the Apostle and High
Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus ...
Christ Jesus, as Apostolic High Priest? It's tricky stuff, for victory
is not through Christ Jesus; But rather "God
hath given us the victory through
Jesus
Christ". Christ
Jesus is mirrorly the reverse of Jesus Christ. Grace and
truth came by "Jesus Christ" (John 1:17). Eternal
salvation is notably through
Jesus --> Christ; Only in Christ thereof. Peace with God
is also through
"Jesus --> Christ". The reverse, Christ Jesus, would be
war with God, a merciless law God. Song: I fought
the law and the law won, should ring a bell. Selah. So we should
all consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession; Consider
what we profess to be ours if our profession is law, which imputes sin
to all by the curse of the law, which
imputes a death sting to all if any go there, to law imputed sin. For
if our profession is law, then what we profess to be ours is sin and
death.
Hebrews 3:2 Who was faithful
to him that appointed him, as also Moses in all his house.
faithful to him that appointed him... In
considering
Christ
Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of the profession of the Hebrews:
law,
it's noted he was faithful to him that appointed him. Looking back at
first mention of Christ Jesus in Acts 19:4, it seems John the Baptist
appointed him (to be believed on). John the Baptist got beheaded for
accusing a king of sin, perhaps allegoric for his accusation-all law
getting abolished.
as
also Moses in all his house...
The house of Moses
is the law.
Hebrews 3:3 For this [man] was
counted worthy of more glory than
Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than
the house.
In such
a hierarchical house as law, there seems to be more glory for some; and
perhaps why the second mention of house in the greek is as a backward
baffling wind. For in the household of true God and Son the same glory,
grace glory,
is unto
all (we all are one). For there is no respect of
persons with God.
Hebrews 3:4 For every house is
builded by some
[man]; but he
that built all things
[is] God.
House building?
Hebrews 3:5 And Moses verily
[was] faithful in all his house, as a
servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
Moses was faithful, but as a
servant. The higher calling
is thou art no more
a servant, but a friend, Son, brother. For servants know not what
their master doeth, and servants differ not from know not children. So
the higher calling is also "be no more children". In other words grow
up, and grow in grace --> mercy --> peace.
Hebrews 3:6 But
Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast
the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Hebrews 3:7 Wherefore
(as the Holy Ghost saith, To day
if ye will hear his voice,
Wherefore
(#2 of 3) ... the two
different "Wherefore"s (oyen and dio in greek) indicating a comparative
allegorical teaching is occuring,
an allegoric comparison is being made, perhaps of two Holies, one a
Holy Ghost,
the
other a "living
God", a Spirit (not a Ghost). Perhaps the comparison is between
dead vs living Gods, Law vs Grace,
and any oxymoronic mixture thereof being a deadly combo: Grace +
Law(added) = Life + Death(added).
Hebrews 3:8 Harden
not your hearts, as in the
provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
as in the provocation... "as in
Adam(them) all die", the
"as in" them,
denoting it's allegoric
in the day of
temptation... God does not tempt anyone nor
can
God be tempted (James)
Hebrews 3:9 When your fathers
tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
your fathers tempted me... Let
us note true God (pure Grace) cannot be tempted (lawed) with evil
(law): James 1:13. Here we have
ample
evidence the Holy Ghost
is not Godly, for God can neither be tempted
nor tempteth anyone; And the living God is merciful, not merciless: all
who despised
Moses' law died "without mercy".
my
works... plural
"works" speak of grace + law. Minsiters thereof are said to be
ministers of Satan, whose end shall be according to their "works": life
+ death = a dead end (2Corinthians 11:15). Such grace + law is also as
blessed
+ cursed = accursed (Galatians 1:9). There is only one work which God
gave to
JC, and he finished
such "work" before the cross (John 17). Such work was bringing forth the truth about the law:
it's a liar, thief, killer which oughta be given no place. Such work
was taking grace + law and making it grace vs law, grace or law,
"either make the tree good or evil", not both good + evil, for both is
an oxymoronic paradox with a bad ending.
Hebrews 3:10 Wherefore I was
grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in
[their] heart; and they have not
known my
ways.
Wherefore... #3 of 3, oyen
again of oyen, dio, oyen in
greek
I
was grieved with, provoked by, that generation... Law doesn't permit
any blasphemy nor ever forgive it either.
They do alway err
(law) in their heart,
and thereby they defile (condemn; law)
themselves with their own mouth.
They
have not known my ways...
God has but one way, which leadeth to life (by go on unto perfection);
And when plural ways
are mentioned,
well, the oxymoronic combo is grace + law which leads to saved +
destroyed after: Jude
5.
Hebrews 3:11 So I sware in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest.)
I sware in my wrath... Law
worketh Wrath:
Romans 4:15. God (Grace) hath not appointed us to wrath (law): 1Th 5:9.
So we're not talking the God of all grace,
since the God of all grace has no wrath (law), nor ever forsakes as Law
does.
They shall not enter into my rest...
looking at, and adding up, the no enter verses throughout the gospels
and
epistles seems to exclude everyone by law, whereas grace includes
everyone for wholeness.
Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren,
lest there be in any of you an evil heart
of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Take heed... occurs 24 times from Matthew 6 to
Hebrews 3. Take heed: Mt 6:1; Take heed: Mt 16:6; Take heed: Mt 18:10;
Take heed: Mt 24:4; Take heed: Mk 4:24; Take heed: Mk 8:15; Take heed:
Mk 13:5; Take heed: Mk 13:9; Take heed: Lk 8:18; Take heed: Lk 11:35;
Take heed: Lk 12:15; Take heed: Lk 17:3; Take heed: Lk 21:8; Take heed:
Lk 21:34; Take heed: Acts 5:35; Take heed: Acts 20:28; Take heed: Acts
22:26; Take heed: Rom 11:21; Take heed: 1Cor 3:10; Take heed: 1Cor 8:9;
Take heed: 1Cor 10:12; Take heed: Gal 5:15; Take heed: Col 4:17; Take
heed: 1Tim 4:16. The main reason to take heed is not to get deceived by
the deceitfulness of law imputed sin. For if ye (do err; do law) bite
and devour one another, then ye are consumed one of another, by such
law vs law is as loser vs loser.
in departing
from the living God ... so the
dead God: law, is compared to the "living God": grace, who is also God
of the living;
the only wise God of foolish/wise Gods, the only true God of
false/true Gods, the God of all grace (no law at all). One departs from
the living God: grace to go to the dead God: law; which is called a
fall in Galatians 5:4, and in Hebrews 10 such a fall is called a
fearful thing, since fear hath torment, and torment is not peaceful
(restful).
Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another
daily, while it is called To day; lest
any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
exhort one another... exhorting
involves summoning
or
coming along side and reasoning what's evident from the evidence (such
as it's evident from the evidence that no man is justified by the law
in the sight of God: Galatians 3). Exhorting (to go up higher) is also
done from above, whereas edifying up to the right side of things on
high is done from below. Charity first edifies up from below, but then
also exhorts from above to go up higher than on high.
while it is called To day... allegorically To light(God
called the light day), To enLIGHTenment, To get it: understanding
deceitfulness of sin...
law being both source (Rom 5:13) and strength of sin (1Cor 15:56),
is about as deceitful as it
gets
Hebrews 3:14 For we are made
partakers of Christ, if we hold the
beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
If Christ is the end of the law
(Romans 10:4), then we are
made partakers of the end of the law (no law = no sin)
Hebrews 3:15 While it is said, To
day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the
provocation.
if ye will hear
his voice ...ye that desire to be
under the law, do you not hear the law? what the law does is curse
every one, condemn every one, minister death to every one. What the
unjust judge (law) does is take vengeance on those who ask to be
avenged. Hardened hearts (plural) tend to be LAW<--Law, which is a
latter state worse, not better.
Hebrews 3:16 For some, when they
had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by
Moses.
only
some provoked in the wilderness, yet all died (Jude 5), making it clear
if any law,
or even give place to the law by trying to reason or argue with it,
then it's all
die, via the curse of the law.
Hebrews
3:17 But with whom was he grieved
forty years? [was it] not
with them
that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
whose carcases fell in the
wilderness...Since blasphemy
the
Ghost is unpardonable (Law is inexcusable), both in this world and the
to come, well, that
alone ought to be good enough reason for all to flush all law. For when
looking at Numbers and at Jude 1:5 we find that all the originals saved
out of Egypt were also
destroyed afterward by such Mosaic grace + law(added) = saved +
destroyed(after) = bad ending.
When looking
at "them" in such verses, it seems
clear it
is not God, not that God; For to wit, "that God" was
in Christ
reconciling the world unto himself, "not
imputing their
trespasses unto
"them" (2Cor 5:19). The real God, the God of all grace, the living God,
does not impute sin. That God is merciful, to all; not vengeful to any.
Hebrews 3:18 And to whom sware he
that they should not enter into his rest,
but to them that believed not?
to whom sware he... such
question is also answered: to
"them",
which is biblically defined in Genesis 5 as first Adam, Mr & Mrs
Adam, "them" of them/us, created of created/made, imperfect of
imperfect/perfect, law of law/grace, child of child/man, foolish of
foolish/wise, etc. Such is allegorically the first part of a two part
shew, "in our image" of (i) in our image / (ii) after our likeness: the
before of such before/after, the not be of not be/be, what not to be of
twain things
such as Law/Grace. Them
(of them/us) believed not grace is sufficient, so they added "law
worketh wrath" to "grace
is sufficient", and such killed them all dead, not to mention "fear
hath torment" and law
produces infirimites.
Hebrews 3:19 So we see that they
could not enter in because of unbelief.
So we see... in
considering the law of such law/grace, we see it's deceitful, sin
conscious, and deadly, to the point of no enter, and for all if any
provoke, and some always do provoke it in ignorance law is the strength
of sin, thereby law uses your
legalism against you, to kill you dead. Seeing is believing, now faith
of then/now faiths, seeing faith of blind/seeing faiths, is about
seeing via the evidence, making it evident that no man is justified by
the law in the sight of God.
Hebrews 4
(verse by verse commentary) continued on next page -->
Hebrews Chapter 3 Footnote:
Exhort
one another while it is called To day. No time
like the present, which is To day, To en-light-en(Gen 1),
To get and give enlightenment, To us-ward,
To you-ward, To get
it: understanding.
Why? lest "any" be hardened through the
DECEITFULNESS of sin, sin imputation, sin consciousness, which comes by
law, the source of sin and the strength of sin's death sting. Adding
any law at all to grace is
sufficient, even one lousy tree law (as in Genesis 2:17), imputes
sin
(Rom 4:15b; 5:13b), and is deceitful,
a lie, a snare; for
it makes all sinners, none righteous, and the penalty for any sin is
death to all via
the curse of the law, which is non existence, dinosaurs. The POINT
being made is if any add law to grace is
sufficient it can bring forth the death of all, for "a little leaven
leaveneth the whole lump", like a little cancer us law can and will
kill the whole body,
including the head of the body, if not all removed in time. Hence it is
allegorically
called the "operation" of God to remove all law in time. And it is
allegorically exhorted to "find grace", in time, to help solve the
mystery of grace + law = life + death. Selah.
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