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“But now YAHUSHA has achieved a BETTER (more excellent) service than what was given to the Priests, the same way that He’s the mediator of a BETTER Blood-Covenant, established on much BETTER promises!” HEB 8:6
THIS NEW BLOOD-COVENANT LETTER CALLED `HEBREWS’ OR `YAHUSHA’S ETERNAL PRIESTHOOD’ (BY OTHERS) WAS WRITTEN BY PAUL (WITH TIMOTHY'S HELP) IN ITALY, AROUND 63-68 AD, JUST PRIOR TO THE JEWISH WAR AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE, UNDER EMPEROR TITUS AND THE ROMAN ARMIES.
THE JUDAISM FOUNDED IN BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY WAS STILL BEING CARRIED ON AND SO WE’LL SEE MANY REFERENCES TO THE TEMPLE SERVICE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE JEWISH BELIEVERS THAT THEY HAD “NO CONTINUING CITY, SO THEY SHOULD SEEK THE ONE THAT’S COMING” (HEB 13).
IT SEEMS THAT THIS SECOND GENERATION OF NEW BRIDAL BELIEVERS (AFTER THE EVENT OF THE ACTS) WERE EXPERIENCING MASSIVE TRIALS, SO PAUL AND TIMOTHY (LIVING IN ITALY AT THE TIME) NO DOUBT SENT THIS LETTER TO THE HEBREW BELIEVERS IN PALESTINE TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO HOLD FAST, IN SPITE OF THE TRIALS AND PERSECUTIONS THEY WERE SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF THEIR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN. HOWEVER YAHUSHA INTENDED THIS LETTER TO GO GLOBAL, AND BE AN ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE BRIDE OF ALL AGES, IN EVERY KINDRED, TONGUE, TRIBE AND NATION.
SO THE TRUE PURPOSE FOR THIS LETTER WAS TO HELP BELIEVERS OVERCOME THE TEMPTATION TO RELAPSE AGAIN BACK INTO THE COMFORT OF JUDAISM WITH ALL OF ITS TRADITION AND CEREMONIES.
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS REVEALS THE TERRIBLE INFLUENCE OF THE JUDAISTIC TEACHERS.
SO THE CHIEF PURPOSE OF THIS LETTER TO THE HEBREWS IS TO SHOW THAT YAHUSHA, THROUGH DIVINE HEART OPERATION AND SET-APART SPIRIT INDWELLING - TRANSCENDS & TRANSFORMS IN ESTEEM AND FAVOUR, IN EVERY WAY THE WHOLE PAST COVENANT OF MOSES` ECONOMY OF LITERAL LAW AND SACRIFICE. THIS OPPOSITION TO YAHUSHA AND HIS CLAIMS OF DIVINITY CAUSED MANY HEBREW BELIEVERS TO BE PERSECUTED AND EXCOMMUNICATED FROM THE SYNAGOGUE UNLESS THEY RECANTED.
BETTER LEVITICUS
IN ORDER TO FULLY APPRECIATE AND UNDERSTAND THE SECRET GEMS WITHIN THIS LETTER WE MUST UNDERSTAND LEVITICUS (AND ALL OF MOSES’ WRITINGS) BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT LEVITICUS MEANT FOR THE PRIESTHOOD OF OLD ... (IE - IT WAS THEIR MARCHING ORDERS AND VERY SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEHAVIOUR, THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM, TABERNACLE-PROTOCOL, EVEN THE DAY OF ATONEMENT) … THE BOOK OF HEBREWS IS FOR US AS YAHUSHA’S NEW COVENANT PRIESTHOOD.
BETTER PRIESTHOOD
THERE IS NO OTHER BOOK THAT REALLY DEALS WITH YAHUSHA’S NEW-COVENANT PRIESTHOOD THE SAME WAY THIS LETTER DOES, PROVIDING SO MUCH FULFILMENT TO MOST OF THE OLD COVENANT WRITINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS … AND WITHOUT HARNESSING AND APPLYING THESE TRUTHS, THE MAJORITY OF BELIEVERS REMAIN IN THE LABORIOUS OLD SHADOW-TEACHINGS, NEVER TRULY APPRECIATING WHAT YAHUSHA ACCOMPLISHED ON THE TORTURE-STAKE WITH HIS DIVINE BLOOD!
BETTER HIGH PRIEST
THIS LETTER OF 'HEBREWS’ IS ALSO THE ONLY PLACE WHERE WE’LL FIND ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS CONCERNING MELCHIZEDEK, THE KING-PRIEST WHO APPEARED TO ABRAHAM. WHO WAS HE? WAS HE A HEBREW OR GENTILE KING, AN ANGELIC BEING, ONE OF THE PATRIARCHS (SHEM?) OR AN ACTUAL APPEARANCE OF YAHUSHA LONG BEFORE HIS OFFICIAL ENTRANCE INTO THIS WORLD FOR OUR DELIVERANCE?
BETTER TEMPLE
THE NEW HEBREW BELIEVERS (IN ACCEPTING YAHUSHA) HAD NO MATERIAL TEMPLE, NO PRIESTHOOD, NO SACRIFICES, NO RITES OR CEREMONIES TO GROUND THEM OR COMFORT THEM. THEY HAD TO LEAVE THE TEMPORAL AND MATERIAL (THE EARTHLY SHADOWS, THE NATURAL, THE FLESHLY, THE CARNAL ... AND TURN TO THAT WHICH WAS ETERNAL, THE SPIRITUAL, SUPERNATURAL, HEAVENLY AND INVISIBLE ...
THE BETTER ORDER
SO HERE IN ‘HEBREWS’ PAUL SEEKS TO WEAN THE BELIEVERS FROM ALL THE EXTERNAL COMFORTS OF THE ORAL LAWS AND BRING THEM TO TRUE BELIEF AND OBEDIENCE IN YAHUSHA AND THE THINGS OF HIS SPIRIT. O’ HOW THE HEART OF MANKIND LEANS ON EXTERNALS, THE VISIBLE AND THE TEMPORAL, THE SHADOW - INSTEAD OF THE FULFILMENT - THAT WHICH IS INVISIBLE AND ETERNAL.
TO BE WEANED AWAY FROM (WHAT HAD BECOME) THE DEAD MOSAIC ORDER, WITH ALL ITS OUTWARD, VISIBLE AND NATURAL FORMS OF WORSHIP, AND TO COME OVER TO THAT WHICH WAS ENTIRELY SUPERNATURAL??? THIS WAS LIFE OR DEATH TO THESE NEW HEBREW BELIEVERS !!
WHEN YAHUAH SPOKE ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION, IN THE PRESENCE OF MOSES (TORAH LAW), AND ELIJAH (THE PROPHETS), HE SAID TO PETER, JAMES AND JOHN (THE FOUNDATION OF HIS NEW BRIDAL-FELLOWSHIP) “THIS IS MY BELOVED SON - HEAR HIM”.
(SHEMA) 'HEAR O' ISRAEL!'
MORE THAN ANY OTHER LETTER, ‘HEBREWS’ IS THE COMPANION OF THE BOOKS OF MOSES (NOT REPLACEMENT) - FOR WITHOUT 'HEBREWS', MUCH OF THE OLD-COVENANT WRITINGS WOULD REMAIN A MYSTERY, AND UNSOLVED. HEBREWS IS INDEED THE LEVITICUS FOR THE NEW BRIDAL FELLOWSHIP, FOR BOTH ARE INCOMPLETE WITHOUT THE OTHER, JUST AS DANIEL IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT REVELATION. PAUL SHINES DIVINE LIGHT ON MOSES AND `FINISHED THE FULFILMENT STORY’, JUST AS JOHN DOES FOR DANIEL!
YES! YAHUSHA’S DEATH AND RESURRECTION IS THE KEY TO PLACING ALL SCRIPTURE THAT CAME BEFORE IN THE RIGHT ORDER AND PERSPECTIVE.
BETTER FEASTS
THE GOSPELS DEAL WITH THE FULFILMENT TO THE FEAST OF PASSOVER (YAHUSHA’S LIFE & DEATH) AND THE ACTS AND DISCIPLE’S WRITINGS DEAL WITH THE FULFILMENT TO THE FEAST OF PENTECOST - BUT WHERE IS THE GREAT DAY OF ATONEMENT AND ITS CEREMONIES EXPLAINED? THE ANSWER IS FOUND IN HEBREWS, COVERING THE SUBJECT OF THE TABERNACLE OF MOSES AND THE ENTRANCE OF AARON THE HIGH PRIEST WITHIN THE VEIL ONCE A YEAR. WHAT DO THESE THINGS MEAN TO YAHUSHA AND HIS BRIDAL FELLOWSHIP TODAY? HEBREWS PROVIDES ANSWERS TO ALL THESE MANY QUESTIONS.
... THEY HAD TO FACE THAT THE TRUE TEMPLE WAS IN YAHUSHA AND HIS BODY & THAT THE TRUE SACRIFICE AND PRIESTHOOD WAS IN THE WAY YAHUSHA’S BODY BEHAVED ON THIS PLANET.
SO THE PURPOSE OF THIS LETTER IS TO CARRY THEM FROM A SHADOW-TEACHING (WEAN THEM FROM MOSES) OVER TO YAHUSHA (WHO MOSES AND THE PROPHETS WERE POINTING EVERYONE TO).
WEANING FROM MILK TO SOLID FOOD DOESN'T MEAN YOU DON'T DRINK LIQUIDS ANYMORE DOES IT (MATURITY)!
THE OLD BLOOD-COVENANT WAS BUT THE SEED, THE ROOT, AND THE FOUNDATION. THE NEW BLOOD-COVENANT IS THE FRUIT, THE TREE, THE STRUCTURE OF YAHUSHA HIMSELF ... AND ALL IS FULFILLED IN HIM! SO THE PURPOSE OF THIS LETTER IS TO EMPHASISE THIS TRUTH.
“SEEING THEN THAT WE HAVE A GREAT HIGH PRIEST, WHO HAS PASSED INTO THE HEAVENS, (YAHUSHA THE SON OF ALAHIM), LET US HOLD FAST TO OUR CONFESSION (OUR BELIEF IN HIM)”.
HEB.4:14
“YAHUSHA TAKES AWAY THE FIRST TO ESTABLISH THE SECOND ...” (THE BETTER!!)
HEB 10:9
AS PAUL STATED IN 1 COR 15 “IT IS FIRST THE NATURAL, THEN AFTERWARDS THE SPIRITUAL” :
* HE TAKES AWAY THE OLD COVENANT TO ESTABLISH THE
NEW COVENANT ... BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE FIRST ADAM TO ESTABLISH THE
LAST ADAM (YAHUSHA) ... BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE FIRST HEAVENS AND EARTH TO
ESTABLISH THE NEW HEAVENS AND EARTH ... BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE NATURAL BIRTH TO ESTABLISH THE
SPIRITUAL (NEW HEART & SPIRIT) BIRTH ... BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE PASSOVER TO ESTABLISH
PENTECOST, THEN TABERNACLES ... BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE TABERNACLE OF MOSES AND
DAVID'S PRAISE TENT, COMBINING THEM TO ESTABLISH
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON ... BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE NATURAL ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH
TO ESTABLISH THE SPIRITUAL ISRAEL OF YAHUSHA ... *
BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE UNBELIEVING GENERATIONS TO
ESTABLISH THE BELIEF-GENERATION TO ENTER
CANAAN LAND OF PEACE AND REST ... BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE AARONIC AND LEVITICAL PRIESTS
TO ESTABLISH THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD ...
BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY ANIMAL SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS
TO ESTABLISH THE ONCE-FOR-ALL SACRIFICE AND
OFFERING OF THE BODY & BLOOD OF YAHUSHA ...
BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE TABLETS OF STONE TO ESTABLISH
THE TABLETS OF OUR HEART FOR HIS COMMANDS.
BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE MATERIAL TEMPLE TO ESTABLISH
HIS SUPERNATURAL TEMPLE, HIS BRIDAL FELLOWSHIP,
AS HIS ETERNAL DWELLING PLACE ... BETTER!
* HE TAKES AWAY THE CORRUPTIBLE, THE TEMPORAL, TO
ESTABLISH FOREVER THAT WHICH IS INCORRUPTIBLE
AND ETERNAL! ... BETTER!
* JOHN MAKES IT CLEAR IN REVELATION THAT YAHUSHA'S BRIDE (THOSE WHO THE DRAGON IS ENRAGED WITH AND HUNTED) ARE THOSE WHO GUARD THE TORAH OF YAHUAH (HIS DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS) AND HOLD TO THE WITNESS OF YAHUSHA MESSIAH (KNOW & FOLLOW HIM) - THE BRIDE CANNOT BE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER!
No longer focussing on His death, daily shedding of blood and the curse of the law ... but LIFE & JOY!
BETTER SACRIFICE
YAHUSHA TRULY IS THE WHOLE SUBSTANCE OF ALL SCRIPTURE, BEING THE LIVING WORD MADE FLESH. HIS BLOOD CHANGES EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE COVENANT AND IT'S BEHAVIOUR! EVERYTHING OF THE OLD ANIMAL BLOOD-COVENANT PASSES THROUGH YAHUSHA’S ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, FOR IF WE DON’T, WE INSULT HIM IN THE GREATEST OF WAYS. ALL OLD SHADOW - TEACHINGS ARE EITHER FULFILLED, ENDED OR TRANSFORMED INTO DAILY SUPERNATURAL REALITIES OF BEHAVIOUR … BECAUSE OF THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF YAHUSHA MESSIAH !
SHALOM - IT IS FINISHED!
B E T T E R I N E V E R Y W A Y
AS WE LOOK AT THE OVERALL THEME OF ‘HEBREWS’ WE ARE GOING TO SEE A FEW `KEY WORDS' BEING USED OVER AND OVER AGAIN, SUCH AS `BETTER’ … `LET US’ … `PERFECT’ … `HEAVENLY’ (IE SUPERNATURAL) … `SO MUCH MORE’ … `CONSIDER’ … ‘BLOOD’ … `PRIEST/PRIESTHOOD’ … ‘PARTAKERS’ … ‘BELIEF’ … ‘ONCE FOR ALL’ … `COVENANT’ … `ETERNAL’ … AND ALL THESE WORDS ALREADY START TO PAINT AN ABSTRACT PICTURE IN OUR MINDS OF WHAT YAHUSHA’S BRIDE IS TO KNOW AND BECOME ON THIS EARTH !!
Hebrew Understanding for "BETTER" :
1709 - a fish (as prolific) or timid in the sense of squirming, i.e. moving by the vibratory action of the tail.
2895 - to be or behave good (or well) in the widest sense: to be or do better, to cheer, to please, do well.
2896 - good (a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things) - well, beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good, graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, like (best), loving, merry, most pleasant, pleasing, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, be well-favoured.
3148 - make redundant (no longer needed or useful).
3190 - to make well (sound, beautiful, happy, successful, right) - be accepted, amend, benefit, be (or make) better.
3504 - preeminence, gain:--better, excellency, profitable.
THESE ARE ALL THE BEHAVIOURS THAT YAHUSHA'S SUPERNATURAL `BETTER' OFFERS US FOR OUR LIVES AND THEY REST UPON US LIKE A CROWN!
A BETTER COVENANT-BEHAVIOUR
TODAY, WE SEE A TREND OF MEN AND WOMEN WALKING OUT ON CHRISTIANITY & JUDAISM AND ARE BEING HERDED INTO A MESSIANIC, NATSARIM, `HEBREWS FOR YAHUSHA', (HEBREW ROOTS MOVEMENT) ... YET MATT 23 EXPLAINS EXACTLY WHAT’S GOING ON IN THESE SCANDALOUS ""RENEWED"" HEBREW SHADOW-TEACHINGS… (SUCH AS THE ‘OLDER BROTHER’ MOVEMENT) !
THIS CONFUSES BELIEVERS TO BE HOODWINKED BACK INTO THE OLD HEBREW SHADOW-TEACHINGS THAT (AS WE'VE SEEN) ALL POINTED TO YAHUSHA ANYWAY ... FULFILLED !! WE DON’T WEAR THE CULTURAL GARB THAT THE HEBREWS WORE, WE DON’T CELEBRATE THE FEASTS AND THE SABBATH THE WAY THE JEWS DO TODAY! ALL THOSE TEACHINGS HAVE BEEN FULFILLED SO WE CELEBRATE BY RESTING, WITH GOOD FOOD, WINE AND LOTS OF LOVING - SINCERITY & TRUTH !!
YAHUSHA BROUGHT US INTO A NEW COVENANT WHERE OUR BODY IS NOW THE TEMPLE!! EVERYTHING THE OLD TEMPLE WAS, POINTED TO YAHUSHA’S NEW BEHAVIOUR OF BLOOD- COVENANT WHERE ALL PRIESTLY FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES ARE MODIFIED INTO OUR BEHAVIOUR, BEARING THE FRUITS NECESSARY FOR OUR CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ON THE DAY OF HIS RETURN !
SO WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND US AND NOT BE CONFUSED - CHECKING ALL MINISTRIES IN THEIR BEHAVIOUR OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SO WE'RE NOT DECEIVED AND LOSE OUR FREEDOM OF RUNNING THE RACE FOR OUR CROWN OF LIFE. DON’T LET ANYONE STEER YOU OFF THIS PATH OF TRUTH!
YAHUSHA NOW MINISTERS IN THE TEMPLE OF HIS BRIDAL PEOPLE !
YAHUSHA IS BETTER
* YAHUSHA IS BETTER THAN THE PROPHETS
- HE IS THE WORD (TORAH) MADE FLESH!
* YAHUSHA IS BETTER THAN THE ANGELS
- HE CREATED THE ANGELS & THEY WORSHIP HIM!
* YAHUSHA IS BETTER THAN THE FIRST ADAM
- HE’S THE LAST ADAM AND RESTORES ALL!
* YAHUSHA IS BETTER THAN HUMAN PRIESTS
- HE IS THE DIVINE-HUMAN PRIEST!
* YAHUSHA IS BETTER THAN MOSES
- HE IS THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT!
* YAHUSHA IS BETTER THAN JOSHUA & THE LAND
- HE IS THE TRUE, SUPERNATURAL AND ETERNAL,
INCORRUPTIBLE REST - THE NEW JERUSALEM!
* YAHUSHSA IS BETTER THAN AARON
- HE IS THE KING-PRIEST LIVING IN THE POWER
OF AN ENDLESS LIFE THROUGH HIS BRIDE!
* YAHUSHA IS BETTER THAN ABRAHAM
- HE IS THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, YET WAS
BEFORE ABRAHAM AS `THE I AM - THE WORD'
MELCHIZEDEK - WHO CAME IN THE FLESH!
* YAHUSHA IS A BETTER TABERNACLE
- HE MINISTERS IN THE TRUE AND HEAVENLY
TABERNACLE - AND NOW WITHIN US TOO!
(HE IS NOT IN EARTHLY SHADOWS ANYMORE).
* YAHUSHA IS THE BETTER COVENANT
- HE VALIDATES THE NEW AND EVERLASTING
BLOOD-COVENANT WITH BETTER PROMISES, FOR
HE IS THE NEW COVENANT PERSONIFIED, AND
ALL COVENANT PROMISES ARE FOUND IN HIM!
* YAHUSHA IS BETTER THAN ANIMAL SACRIFICES,
- HE IS THE DIVINE-HUMAN SACRIFICE
ONCE AND FOREVER.
* YAHUSHA IS BETTER THAN MOSES & THE LAWS
ON MT. SINAI - FOR HE IS THE KING-PRIEST IN MT.
ZION, WRITING HIS LAWS AND DESIRES ONTO
OUR REBORN HEARTS SO WE CAN KNOW
HIM AND PLEASE HIM IN REAL-TIME!
* YAHUSHA IS BETTER THAN THE OLD COVENANT ALTAR SACRIFICES AND SYSTEM - FOR IN HIM AND HIS BODY, THE TRUE SACRIFICING OF SELF, THE OFFERING OF THE BULLS OF OUR LIPS AND THE DAILY BEHAVIOUR OF PICKING UP ONE’S TORTURE STAKE AND FOLLOWING HIM INTO HIS SUFFERINGS AND ESTEEMED JOY … IS SHOWN!
THE WHOLE FOCUS AND TASK OF THE PRIEST WAS TO GAUGE HIS STATUS, STANDING, WHERE-ABOUTS AND ULTIMATE RELATIONSHIP TO THE ARK OF YAHUAH'S BLOOD COVENANT - IT LITERALLY DICTATED HIS LOCATION, BOUNDARIES, BEHAVIOUR AND LIFESTYLE ALL DAY - HE MUST JUDGE!
YAHUSHA IS BETTER
HOW MUCH OF YOUR TIME, ENERGY, MIND, THOUGHT, COMMUNICATION AND YOUR LIFE DURING YOUR DAY DO YOU ALLOW YAHUSHA TO BE DOMINANT, THE RULER, PRE-EMINENT AND JUST PLAIN
BETTER THAN YOU??
DO YOU LET HIM HAVE YOU COMPLETELY?
HE'S HAVING HIS WAY WITH YOU AND THIS EARTH WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT - BUT FLOWING WITH HIM WILL STOP THE INNER TURMOIL AND MISERY !
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