Feb. 6, 2025

Hebrews and 70 AD

Hebrews and 70 AD

We discuss the importance of interpreting the book of Hebrews in light of 70 AD

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We discuss the importance of interpreting the book of Hebrews in light of 70 AD

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, Making Theology Central. All right, get

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a piece of paper, get something to write with. Get

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a piece of paper, get something to write with. Before

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we do the normal introduction, get a piece of paper

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and something to write with. And I just want you

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to write down seventy a D seventy A D seventy eighty.

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I want you to write it as large as you

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can write it seventy eighty. I want you to put

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it on your refrigerator. I want you to put it

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every Just make make a piece of paper like oh,

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basically you're making a little poster. Put them it all

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over your house. Seventy eighty. Put it in your car,

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put it in seventy eight D, seventy eight D. Grab

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a piece of paper, write seventy eighty. Put it in

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the front of your bible. Put it in the middle

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of your bible. Put it at the end of your bible.

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Seventy a D, seventy seventy a D seventy a D.

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I want you to write it down. And you may

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at this point you may like, why why am I

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writing down seventy A D. Because well, I'm gonna we're

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gonna be talking about it for the next hour, but

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I'm gonna start by asking you a question. What is

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the significance of seventy a D on biblical interpretation? What

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is the significance of the date seventy a D on

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biblical interpretation? How often? How frequent when you're reading and

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studying your Bible you're like, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait,

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I better remember seventy a D. How frequently? How often

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do you hear your pastor mention seventy A D when

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you if you were participating in the Sermon's two point

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oh app sermon Challenge of twenty twenty four, how frequently

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with seventy AD mentioned and the sermons you were listening

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to now you I think many Christians have made it ten, fifteen,

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twenty years in their Christian life with barely ever hearing

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anything about seventy a D. And I'm going to make

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a very some may say radical, some may say a

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very extreme statement, but I think there's a lot to

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back this up. I will say seventy a D may

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be one of the most significant and important things to

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know when it comes to Biblical interpretation. The fact that

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so many churches. So many pastors ignore seventy AD. I

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think is one of the leading causes to the Bible

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being handled in an incorrect manner. If pastors and Bible

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teachers and Christians would understand the significance of seventy a D,

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it would transform how they handle scripture. But time and

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time again, seventy a D gets completely ignored, and in

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many cases it leads to a complete mishandling of significant

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parts of the Bible. You cannot forget seventy a D.

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And I'm going to explain to you how seventy a

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D is absolutely significant. Just in the Book of Hebrews.

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That's all we're going to focus on right now, just

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a book of Hebrews. Now. Yesterday we reviewed a sermon

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from a church to twenty eight nineteen church and they

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were in Matthew twenty one. They're going to Matthew twenty four.

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When they get to Matthew twenty four, we will review

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their sermon on Matthew twenty four and we will see

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if they mentioned seventy a D. If they do not,

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then it'll be another example of pastors and churches, no

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matter how popular they may be, mishandling text because they

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will just they just will not understand the significance of

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seventy a D. If you've ever if you've ever been

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a part of a study, I cannot stress and I

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hate to say this. I'm just I'm going to say,

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I don't care who gets offended. If you've ever gone

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to church and your church studied the Book of Hebrews

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and they did not interpret the Book of Hebrews and

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light of seventy a D, they misinterpreted the Book of Hebrews.

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If you're in a church and they're teaching the Book

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of Hebrews and they're not interpreting in a lot of

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seventy AD, you just as well go home and not

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even bother coming back until they're done, because you're being

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given a false interpretation of the Book of Hebrews. It's

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that simple. Without seventy a D. You cannot understand the

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Book of Hebrews correctly. You will make it about us

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and once again miss the entire meaning of the book.

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And I'm going to try to demonstrate that. But before

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we start all of that, and I really want you

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to write seventy eight down anywhere and everywhere you need it.

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You need to have it right there at the front

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of your Bible. You need to have it everywhere, because

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if you don't, it's going to lead to all of

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these problems. But before we get that, I guess I

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will go ahead and say welcome everyone. It is Thursday,

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February sixth, twenty twenty five. It is currently eleven fifteen

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am Central Time, and I am coming to you live

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from the Theology Central Studio located right here in Abilene, Texas.

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I'm gonna call this to seventy a D studio right

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because I cannot stress the importance of it. All right,

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So let's start. If you have a Bible, open it

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up to the Book of Hebrews. That's where we're going

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to be. I wanted to do this. I wanted to

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do this maybe in just like one episode. I think

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this may we may have to turn this into a

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mini series. We may have to turn this into a

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mini series. I know we still need to work on

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AI versus Lordship Salvation. We need to still do some

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work on that. But I think this is important. Here's

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what happened, all right, So I think I will do

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it this way. I have here in front of me.

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You can hear it sort of the Lord Newspaper. This

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is January the third, twenty twenty five edition of the

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Sort of the Lord Newspaper. I think I've already referenced

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this edition multiple times, because what happens when I get

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a sort of the Lord newspaper, I go through the

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thing over and over and over and over again. I

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will pick it up and just go through page after

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page and just look and look and look and cont

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I mean, sometimes one issue of the Sort of Lord

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Newspaper can lead to I don't know, five ten hours

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of broadcasting. It's really crazy. Even though I may disagree

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with a lot, one of the reasons I always want

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a subscription to the Sort of the Lord newspaper is

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because whether I agree or disagree, it always just gives

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me so much to think about and unpack and interpret. Well,

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there's been this article that I've been just I've been

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keeping the paper folded with this article open for I

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don't know, well since since I receive the addition the

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issue of sort of the Lord Newspaper for January the third,

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twenty twenty five, it's been a while. I've just had

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it here, and I keep saying I'm going to do

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a broadcast on it. I'm going to do a broadcast

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on it because it brings up this concept that I'd

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never heard before, right, that there's that we that there's

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these different things that we get after salvation. And I'm like, well, this,

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this is kind of it raises this question. I don't

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think I've ever heard it this way. And then all

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of a sudden, I was like, wait a minute, there's

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a bigger problem here. So at some point I will

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go through the article and get to the problem I

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first was going to address. I'm not going to get

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to it now because then everyone will be focused on that,

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but I want to. But the more I looked at it,

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I'm like, well, there's a bigger problem here. So here

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is the article. All right, I'm gonna I'm just gonna

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go through a little bit of it here. Right. The

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article is found on page twenty one of the January

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the third twenty twenty five issue of the sort of

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the Lord newspaper. It is entitled seventeen Thing that Come

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with Christ. Seventeen Things that Come with Christ. And now

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I was a student at a Bible institute and I

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can't remember how many we had to There was twenty five,

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maybe thirty I can't mab there's like twenty five or

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thirty things that follow our salvation there, or that comes

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with our salvation, or that we receive and light of

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our salvation, right, And we had to find all the

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scriptures for it, and we had to do this kind

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of like mini project. It was really I really liked it.

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I really enjoyed it. I utilized it early on in

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my ministry as a pastor. I thought it was really

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good and I had a good time with the project.

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I don't remember everything about it, but when I saw

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seventeen things that come with Christ, it reminded me a

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little bit of that course that I had to take,

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and I'm like, hmm, that's interesting. I remember that maybe

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this will be you know, maybe I will enjoy this

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like I did that. So I started reading. Right under

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the title things that Come with Christ, we have a

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quote quote from the Book of Hebrews. Uh oh. Now,

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as soon as I see Hebrews, my mind as soon

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as I see a verse from the Book of Hebrews,

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it's the second my mind immediately goes seventy eight. As

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soon as I see a verse and a verse from

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Hebrews seventy eight, I cannot see a verse from the

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Book of Hebrews and not think seventy eight. If you

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don't do that, I know you may disagree, but I'm

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just gonna be bold here. You're wrong. If you if you,

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if you disagree with me that you should see seventy

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eight with every verse in the Book of Hebrews, I'm sorry.

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I'm just gonna we're We're not going to get along

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here because I am dogmatic about it. I am sick

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and tired of hearing sermons on the Book of Hebrews,

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and the book and seventy a d is not mentioned.

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What are you doing? You are mishandled it. So that's

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where my mind immediately goes. But I went ahead and

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read the partial quote here of the verse. But beloved,

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we we are persuaded better things of you and things

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that accompany salvation Hebrews six ' nine. Now immediately what

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you hear me stressed it? Who are the we and

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who are the you? Well, I can tell you that

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you is not you, all right. I can tell you

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that the you is to a specific audience which I

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don't know. The book is called the Book of Hebrews.

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I would believe it would be written to Jewish individuals, right,

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I think that's I don't think it requires a lot

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to figure that out. Right. So that but then look

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at how the article begins, good news exclamation point. When

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you received Christ, you received not only eternal life, but

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also many other things that came with Christ. At that time,

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you may may have been unaware and unknowing. Even now,

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you may be unaware and unknowing of all the bundled

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things you receive with Christ. Inconceivable. Now here's an article

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taking a verse from the Book of Hebrews, taking the

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you in the in the Book of Hebrews and making

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that you about you, and making it about me. And

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I get sick and tired of this happening. This is

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where I get frustrated with pastors in the Book of Isaiah,

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the Book of Jeremiah. It's just everything is you, you, you, you,

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and it's like, no, what about the original recipients. So

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this article turns into about us, Well, what I want

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to do? And at some point we're going to take

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this article apart and we we will talk about the

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things that they say are applicable to us, and we'll

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get into it. But you can't open up the book

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of Hebrews and not see seventy eighty. I wish there

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was a with modern technology. With modern technology, I wish

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when you opened up the Book of Hebrews, alarms would

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go off seventy eight's and red lights would start flashing

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seventy A D. Seventy eight and then you close it,

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like what was that? And every time you open up

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your Bible, warning sirens would go off in seventy eighty

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and red lights would start flashing. It would just start

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yelling seventy eight. That's what we need, all right. I

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think people would be like, this Bible is broken. No,

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this Bible's trying to get you to interpret it the

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correct way. So I'm going to try to demonstrate to

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you the absolute significance of seventy eight when it comes

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to the Book of Hebrews. And I'm going to do

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so by focusing on five specific passages that everyone now

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in my early Christian life, these five passages in the

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Book of Hebrews, everyone argued about, does it prove you

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can lose your salvation? No, it proves you you could

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claim to be saved, but not save unless you do this.

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And everyone starts arguing from a sew teiological point of view,

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and it drives me crazy when everyone's arguing about it

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from a soteriological point of view, because I want to scream,

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I don't know, could we consider seventy eight day? But

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nobody wants to listen. Now, what are these five passages? Well,

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I'm just going to go through these quickly, all right.

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The first one is Hebrews Chapter two, Hebrews Chapter two,

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Verse one. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest

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heed to the things which we have heard, less at

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any time we should let them slip. For if the

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word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and

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disobedience received a just recompensive reward, how should we escape

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if we neglect so great salvation which at the first

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began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed

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unto us by them that heard him. God also bearing

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them witness, both with signs and wonders and divers, miracles

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and gifts of the holy ghosts, according to his own will?

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How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? Now,

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of course, the we becomes us, we take it out

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of its context. That's one of the That's what this is.

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What is called a warning passage. Most believe the Book

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of Hebrews contains at least five warning passages where there's

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a warning, how shall you escape if you neglect so

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great of salvation? And we make it about us, we

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make it about lost people, and we remove it from

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its context. I believe that should be first and foremost

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interpreted in a lot of the historical context, which is

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seventy a D. And we will explain. So there's the

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first passage, he Bruce two, how will you escape if

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you neglect so great a salvation? Right? I think it

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has to be first understood in light of seventy a d.

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The second one is Hebrews Chapter three. So the first

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is Hebrews two one through four. The second one is

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Hebrews chapter three, Hebrews chapter three, starting in verse I

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think we can go verse seven to nineteen, where four

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I'll just read a little bit of it Hebrews. You

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can just write down the reference Hebrews two one through four,

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Hebrews three seven through nineteen above all of these passages

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you should just write down, maybe in pencil, seventy a d.

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Hebrews three seven where four as the Holy ghoes saith today,

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if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts,

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as in the day of provocation and the day of

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temptation in the wilderness when your fathers. See, there's the

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first there is the first clue hermeneutically speaking. See wait

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now it's been talking about we and you Wei and

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you and immediately what do you see when your father's

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tempted me and proved me and saw my works forty

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years who were your father's Oh that's Israel. Oh, so

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the you there is referring to Jews, Hebrews, Israelites. That's

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who the book is. Two it's oh, it's not even that.

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You don't even need to go to Bible college, your

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seminary to figure this out. This is basic reading comprehension.

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See that article took Hebrew six ' nine and you

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became you. But just the context here, the you, uh,

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the you here clearly now is referring to Israel. When

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your father's tempted me, wherefore I was grieved with that

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generation has said they do all alway air and their heart,

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and they have not known my way. So I swear

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in my wrath they shall not enter into my rest.

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Take heed brethren, who had the brethren there who's the brethren.

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Lest there be in any of you in evil heart

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of unbelief, in departing from the Living God, but exhort

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one another daily will it is called today, lest any

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of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. So

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this idea, in departing from the Living God, do not

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have a heart of unbelief and depart from the Living God.

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Again this we'll be talking about us and how we

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can depart from God and how we can have unbeliefd Well,

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does this mean departing from God in a soteriological way

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so that you lose your salvation and you can hear

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all of the debates in Christianity. Well, that cannot be understood.

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In fact, I don't even know why we make it

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about us. It's about Israel, you can see right there

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from the context. But Hebrews two one through four, that's

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warning passage number one. Warning passage number two is Hebrews three,

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seven through nineteen, Warning passage number three. I'adly the one

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that really gets all of the attention, I believe is

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Hebrews chapter six, starting in verse four. Hebrews chapter six,

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verse four. For it is impossible for those who were

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once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and

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were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted

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the good word of God and the powers of the

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world to come. If they shall fall away, to renew

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them again under repentan seeing they crucified themselves the Son

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of God afresh and put him to an open shame.

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While this turns into again being interpreted from a soteriological perspective,

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and it becomes about can people then are these people

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where they saved? Were they not saved? Did they lose

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their salvation? And it turns into all of this, But

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once again, you got to interpret it in light of

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seventy a d. That's the correct way to interpret it,

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all right. So warning passage number one is Hebrews two

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one through four. Warning passage number two is Hebrews three,

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seven through nineteen. Warning passage number three. And if we go, oh,

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if we continue reading here in Hebrews six, yeah, I

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think that's good. We could read a little bit more.

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But you get the basic idea, Hey, if they shall

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fall away, to renew them again unto repentance, and they're like, well,

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if they fall away, in other words, then can you

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be saved again? Can you not be saved? I've heard

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all of the debates about this. Usually it's people arguing

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about it. I hate to say they shouldn't be arguing

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about it because they obviously don't have the hermeneutical knowledge

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to be arguing about it, because they keep ignoring seventy AD.

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All right, So Warning passage number one Hebrews two one

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through four. Warning passage number two, Hebrews three, seven through nineteen.

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Warning Passage number three hebrew six, four through eight. The

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next one is Hebrews Chapter ten, Hebrews Chapter ten, verse

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twenty six. For if we send willfully, after we have

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received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more

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sacrifice for sin, but a certain, fearful looking for of

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judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour their adversaries. Wait,

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if you can, if you sin willfully after you receive

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the knowledge, there's no more sacrifice for your sin. Wait

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do you sin willfully? I sin willfully? Don't you sin willfully? Wait?

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Wait what do we mean by this? So then it

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turns into this never ending debate. Well, it means this.

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It doesn't mean this. I can before you even get

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into that, go to seventy eight D and start there. So.

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Warning passage number one is Hebrews two one through four.

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Warning passage number two is Hebrews three, seven through nineteen.

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Warning passage number three is hebrew six four through eight.

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Warning passage number four is Hebrews ten twenty six through

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thirty one. And then last but not least, Hebrews Chapter twelve,

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Hebrews twelve twenty five through twenty nine. Hebrews twelve twenty

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five through twenty nine. See that ye refuse not him

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that speaketh, For if they escaped, not who refused him

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that spake on earth? Much more shall we not escape

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if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven?

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Say hey, don't turn away, or we're not going to escape? Escape?

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What what is? What's referring to? This referred to losing

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salvation right, And we could go all the way Hebrews

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twelve twenty five, all the way down to twenty nine,

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verse twenty six. Whose voice then shook the earth, But

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now he hath promising yet one more, I shake not

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the earth only, but also Heaven and the word yet

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once more significant the removing of those things that are shaken,

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as of things that are made that these things which

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cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receive a kingdom

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which cannot be moved. Let us have great, have grace,

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whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly

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fear for our God as a consuming fire. All right,

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there's a lot going on there. Once again, it's considered

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one of the warning passages. So what are the warning passages?

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One more time? Hebrews two one through four, Hebrews three

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seven through nineteen, Hebrews six four through eight, Hebrews ten

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twenty six through thirty one, and Hebrews twelve twenty five

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through twenty nine. My argument is, you cannot understand any

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of those warning passages even remotely correctly, if you interpret

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them apart from seventy A D. If you do not

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have seventy a D as your hermeneutical lens, I'm sorry,

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you're gonna make You're gonna just you're gonna make it.

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You're gonna rip these verses out of context. You're gonna

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make them about us. You're gonna probably end up in

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some kind of arguments about salvation, losing salvation and all

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of that, and none of and I think you're misinterpreting

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the entire situation. So what we need to do then,

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My argument is you can't interpret Hebrews without seventy a D.

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So I am going to then set up start I'm

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gonna at least start here by trying to demonstrate the

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timing of the writing of the book and the siege

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of Jerusalem. Now, the siege of Jerusalem goes from sixty

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six AD to seventy a D. I'm going to put

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forth the argument, but the writing of Hebrews occurs pretty close,

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maybe even during It's either right before sixty six, right

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before the siege begins, or I think, even more likely,

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the writing of Hebrews occurs during the siege of Jerusalem,

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which would put it somewhere sixty six, sixty seven, sixty eight,

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sixty nine. While the siege of Jerusalem is happening under

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the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The writer of Hebrews,

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I know, some say it's Paul. Whoever the writer is,

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writes Hebrews to the Jews, and they are literally living

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in the midst of the siege of Jerusalem. Oh wait,

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that's going to be the most significant religious event in

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many cases, not only religious, geopolitical, physical, I mean, this

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is gonna change their entire world. I cannot stress to

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you the importance of seventy eight D. So I'm gonna

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try to prove this, Okay, So I'm gonna be utilizing

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a lot of things here. I will argue that Hebrews

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was likely written very close to seventy eight D. And

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as I've already stated, I believe it was. In fact,

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I'm more almost dogmatic about it. I think it was

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written during the Roman siege of Jerusalem. I'm almost I

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will be almost emphatic, like you can't read Hebrews and

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not almost see on every page. Hey guys, look what's

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happening around you. Look what's happening around you. Everything's about

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to be destroyed. You need something better now. I may

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not be able to pinpoint an exact date, but I

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think there are several facts which would strongly suggest it

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was written just before or maybe the or during the

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final years leading up to the Temple's destruction. I think again,

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I believe sixty it's somewhere. I think it was written

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somewhere after sixty six, before seventy obviously before the destruction

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of the temple. So I think somewhere between sixty six

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and sixty nine, maybe sixty six and sixty eight. I

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think it was written during the siege. I don't think

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there's any way to get around it. So what is

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the evidence I have that Hebrews was written close to

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seventy AD? Number one? The first piece of evidence. If

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you read the Book of Hebrews, you will notice that

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it clearly indicates that the temple system was still functioning.

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If you look at Hebrews ten eleven. If you look

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at Hebrews ten eleven, I see some people think, well,

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this is just some dating thing. Who cares about the date?

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I don't care. I don't care. Give me something practical,

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come on, don't get all academic on me. Well, this

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is the key to understanding the entire book. Hebrews ten

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eleven says, and every priest standeth daily ministering and offering

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oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

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It literally speaks, says, if this is happening at that time.

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From another translation, in every priests standeth daily ministering and

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offering oftentimes the same sacrifice which can never take away sins.

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There's no way to get around this. This screams I

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don't think it just suggests. It screams that the levitical

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priesthood was still active, meaning that the Temple had not

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yet been destroyed. He didn't say, don't you remember when

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the priest used to do this? It's spoken of in

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the present tense. Hebrews was written after seventy a d.

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The author would have likely pointed to the actual destruction

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of the Temple as evidence that the Old Covenant was abolished.

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But he speaks of it as still ongoing, but about

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to end. Look at Hebrews, I think is at chapter eight.

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I think it's Hebrews, chapter eight, verse thirteen, in that

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he saith a new covenant. He hath made the first old.

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Now that which decayeth and waxeth, old is ready to

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vanish away. It's the Old is ready to vanish away.

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It's not gone yet. Look if if the writer of

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Hebrews is trying to say, hey, the Old is about

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to go, this is all about to gone, he would

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have just said it's already gone. It's been destroyed. Seventy

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eight is the end of the Jewish system. It's gone.

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Whatever we the Jewish system that exists today, the Jewish

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religious system today it's but a shell of itself. There's

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no priests, there's no sacrifice. It's Judaism today is not

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Judaism as found in the Bible. It's a shell of itself.

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Nobody can argue otherwise. They have no sacrifice, they have

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no priests, they have no temple, they have nothing that's required.

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Hebrews is saying, hey, it's the sacrifices were still happening,

461
00:28:24.119 --> 00:28:26.559
but it's telling them this is about to go away.

462
00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:28.960
It's about to vanish away. How is it going to

463
00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:33.160
vanish away? In the most literal way possible, the entire

464
00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:36.839
temple is going to be destroyed. It's gone. Israel's going

465
00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:40.480
to be in a sense, you know, figuratively speaking, wiped

466
00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:48.920
off the face of the earth. The temple was still standing,

467
00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:52.240
it was still functioning. That's my first evidence that clearly

468
00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:54.960
this is written before seventy eighty. There's no way to

469
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:58.400
get around it. And because it's saying, hey, it's about

470
00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:02.240
to vanish, well, oh, that'll lead to my second piece

471
00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:05.359
of evidence. So number one, the temple system was still standing,

472
00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:08.680
still functioning. Number two, Hebrews eight thirteen, which I just

473
00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:14.640
read to you, suggests the Old Covenant was about to disappear. Hey,

474
00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:17.920
let me read it again. Hebrew's eight thirteen in that

475
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:22.400
he saith a new covenant. He hath made the first old.

476
00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.200
Now that which to kaieth and waxeth old is ready

477
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:32.519
to vanish away. The phrase ready to vanish away implies

478
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:35.559
that the Jewish system was still standing but was on

479
00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:40.720
the verge of being removed. This fits perfectly with a

480
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:46.960
pre AD seventy timeframe, especially during the growing tensions of

481
00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:49.960
the Jewish Roman War, which again was sixty six AD

482
00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:53.440
to seventy a d Hey, guys, it's about just look

483
00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:55.640
out your window. I don't know if they could have

484
00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:57.160
just looked out the window and saw it, but they

485
00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:01.039
had to know the siege of Jerusalem was underway. Read Josephus.

486
00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:03.960
If you agree with his account or you believe he

487
00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:07.079
embellishes some. There's all lots of arguments about the accuracy

488
00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:10.960
of Josephus, but Josephus at least gives you some idea

489
00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:17.119
of what was happening. Guys, it's all about to go away.

490
00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:20.720
So what is my proof that seventy that hebrews is

491
00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:22.279
to be understood in a lot of the context of

492
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:25.160
seventy eighty that about its timing of its writing. The

493
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:28.519
temple is still standing according to Hebrews itself, and Hebrews

494
00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:31.400
itself is suggesting the old covenants about to disappear. How

495
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:40.880
about number three? The growing pressure on Jewish Christians seems

496
00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:46.480
to match the presiege contexts if you look at things

497
00:30:46.519 --> 00:30:53.400
like Hebrews chapter ten. I think it's verse thirty two,

498
00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:57.880
but it says, but called to remembrance the former days

499
00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:00.640
in which afterward you were illuminated, you end a great

500
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.720
fight of affliction. Partly wi while you were made a

501
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:08.039
gazing stock, both by reproach affliction, partly while you became

502
00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:11.640
companions of them that were used for you had companions

503
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:14.359
of me and my bonds. You took joyfully the spoiling

504
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:16.279
of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in

505
00:31:16.359 --> 00:31:20.559
Heaven a better enduring substance, a cast not away, therefore

506
00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:22.960
your confidence. But it seems to speak that they were

507
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:27.079
going through some pressure, they were going through some persecutions. Well,

508
00:31:27.319 --> 00:31:29.920
this seems this pressure that was being placed on them

509
00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:34.319
seems to fit the Preseiege context. Hebrews ten thirty two

510
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:37.920
through thirty four, which we just read, seems to speak

511
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:41.920
of persecution imprisonment and the plundering of their possessions. This

512
00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:45.720
speaks of the intensifying persecution of Jewish Christians around the

513
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.920
top around this time. And I don't think you can

514
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.200
get around that they were facing pressure from Jewish authorities

515
00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:54.680
to return to Judaism. I want you to say, I'm

516
00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:58.920
gonna go into greater detail in this one. The Jews

517
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:06.640
were facing pressure from the authorities to return to Judaism. Hey,

518
00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:10.160
you were a Jew returned to Judaism. And I think

519
00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:13.640
the reason they would have been facing that pressure, especially

520
00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:18.039
between sixty six and sixty nine AD, is we're under siege.

521
00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:22.160
How dare you go to Christianity? How dare you go

522
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:26.200
to this Messiah who wasn't the Messiah. He didn't defeat

523
00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:29.559
our enemies. If he was the Messiah, we wouldn't be

524
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:32.880
under siege from the Romans. He would be ruling and

525
00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:37.079
reigning in Jerusalem. He died, he was crucified. Stop going back.

526
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:41.480
You are disloyal to your country, you're disloyal to your family,

527
00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:45.880
You're disloyal to your religion. Return to Judaism. That would

528
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:51.359
explain the pressure in the historical context. And I'll go

529
00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:54.240
into greater detail about that there's no way to get

530
00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:57.640
around that. That would have been suffering possibly economic and

531
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.440
social penalties for leaving the Jewish system. This would then

532
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:06.839
explain the urgency of the warnings. Not not only was

533
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:11.079
apostasy spiritually dangerous, but staying within Judaism was about to

534
00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:16.119
become physically dangerous due to the war. So in some ways,

535
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:19.279
if if you they could have been tempted, there was

536
00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:21.359
two things going on. Hey do I want to be

537
00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:24.759
associated with Judaism? I mean we're under siege. Maybe I

538
00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:26.799
want to run to Christ or run to Christianity to

539
00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:28.440
get away from it. But then the Jews would have

540
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:30.160
been like, who whoa, whoa, whoa whoah, No, no, no, you

541
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:34.119
better stay with us. You your country is under attacked.

542
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:37.000
We're about to be where we're under siege. You need

543
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:38.880
to be loyal. There would have been They would have

544
00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:44.480
been pulled in two different directions. That fits all, and

545
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:52.160
that all of Hebrews fits this whole thing. Because Hebrews

546
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.480
are saying who whoa, no, no, no, goude, don't go

547
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:57.640
back there, don't go back to Judaism, stay with Christ.

548
00:33:57.759 --> 00:33:59.599
They would have had other people saying no, come back

549
00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:09.360
to jute Hebrews is the book for them. So what

550
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:11.760
is the evidence that this was written close to seventy eight?

551
00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:14.519
Number one, the book itself speaks of the temple system

552
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:17.800
still standing functioning. Number two, it suggests that the old

553
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:20.360
Covenant was about to disappear, but it had not been

554
00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:23.000
gone yet. Number three, you have this growing pressure and

555
00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:27.239
persecution on Jews. Seems to match the context of the presiege.

556
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:33.079
Number four, Jesus, Oh, Jesus in the Book of Hebrews,

557
00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:40.280
the urgency aligns with jesus prophecy about Jerusalem's fall. Now

558
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:43.679
this becomes very key, right. Remember I said seventy eighty

559
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:47.599
seventy eight D. You can't understand anything. If we understand

560
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:51.760
Hebrews and the context of seventy a d. Then this

561
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:55.639
makes perfect sense. Because we have Jesus himself who gave

562
00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:59.960
prophecy about the coming destruction of the Temple, which everyone

563
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:04.159
seems to conveniently make it about us and make it

564
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:09.280
about the Second Coming, and Matthew twenty four to go

565
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:13.280
to Matthew twenty four. All of this fits together like

566
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:18.159
a puzzle as long as you get away. If you

567
00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:20.719
just don't go to church and you don't listen to sermons.

568
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:23.840
You can do better in understanding this. Matthew twenty four.

569
00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:26.559
I hate to say that Matthew twenty four. And Jesus

570
00:35:26.599 --> 00:35:28.840
went out and departed from the temple, and this is

571
00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:32.199
Matthew twenty four, verse one. And his disciples came to

572
00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:34.159
him to show him the building of the Temple. And

573
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:36.760
Jesus said, see you not all these things barely asked,

574
00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:38.559
saying to you that there shall not be left here

575
00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:42.239
one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.

576
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:44.719
And then they want to know what what are you

577
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:47.280
talking about? Please to when is this going to happen?

578
00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:49.599
Because for them, the destruction of the temple is basically

579
00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:52.480
the end of the world. And Jesus then tells them

580
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:55.920
all the signs. Those signs are pointing to seventy a D.

581
00:35:56.559 --> 00:36:02.239
Seventy a D. Jesus warned, not only here in Luke

582
00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:05.719
chapter twenty one, and I quote this is Luke twenty one,

583
00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:08.719
twenty through twenty four. And when you shall see Jerusalem

584
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:12.440
compassed with armies, then know it that the desolation thereof

585
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:17.039
is nigh. Jesus instructed his followers to flee Jerusalem when

586
00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:20.800
they saw these signs. If Hebrews was written during or

587
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:24.960
just before the siege it repeated. Its repeated warnings would

588
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:28.360
make even more sense. The Jews who rejected Christ were

589
00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:32.360
about to face God's judgment through Roman destruction. If Jewish

590
00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:35.559
Christians went back to the temple system, they would be

591
00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:40.840
destroyed along with it. Don't go back to Judaism. It's

592
00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:44.119
gonna be destroyed. If you go back to Judaism, you're

593
00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:46.079
gonna be wiped off the face of the earth. You're

594
00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:48.360
not gonna have a sacrifice for sins, You're not gonna

595
00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:51.679
have anything. It's gonna be gone. Flee. Listen to what

596
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.719
Christ said, get out of Jerusalem. Run for your life,

597
00:36:55.079 --> 00:37:00.400
get out, go, don't stand if you stick around. Whoever

598
00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:07.639
sticks around is going to be taken. Go. So when

599
00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:11.480
you take Jesus of prophetic words and Luke twenty one,

600
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:16.239
Matthew twenty four about the coming destruction, you look at

601
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:20.360
the warnings and Hebrews, it all fits together. Seventy a

602
00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:26.760
D seventy a D. You've got to listen to Christ,

603
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:29.519
you've got to flee to him, and you've got to

604
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:33.960
get out of Jerusalem. You're going to die, and the

605
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:36.440
temple is going to be destroyed. You may think God's

606
00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:44.800
going to protect it. It's all coming down. So what

607
00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:47.199
is the evidence that this was written close to seventy eighty.

608
00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:49.880
Number one, the temple system was still functioning, who was

609
00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:53.960
still standing? Number two. Hebrews eight thirteen says that the

610
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:57.239
old covenants are just about to disappear. Number three, the

611
00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:00.280
growing pressure on Jewish Christians matches the presiege co txt.

612
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:04.800
Number four the warnings and the urgency, and Hebrews aligns

613
00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:08.760
perfectly with jesus prophecy about Jerusalem's fall and Luke twenty

614
00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:13.920
one in Matthew twenty four. All right, now, could Hebrews

615
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:19.400
have been written during the siege? During the siege? Now

616
00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:21.320
what I did here is I went to look at

617
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.039
another source that we may would be was not as

618
00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:27.320
convinced as I am. I am utterly convinced it's written

619
00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:29.039
during the siege. I don't know how you can get

620
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:33.480
around it. It has to be. So the argument here is, well,

621
00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:35.960
it's possible was written during the siege, but we don't

622
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.039
have enough evidence to confirm it. However, if it was

623
00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:42.000
written between eighty sixty six and seventy, it would have

624
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.159
been during the Jewish revolt eight sixty six. It would

625
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:51.280
have been the beginning of Titus's military campaign and what's

626
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:55.000
the other person, Vespasian, I think was his name, their

627
00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:57.599
military campaigns, and then of course the siege of Jerusalem

628
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.559
itself in seventy a d. If Hebrews was written during

629
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:03.360
this time, the warnings about judgment would have been unfolding

630
00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:08.000
right before their eyes. And I think that's what was

631
00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:19.840
a curry, all right. So I think, so Ai said this,

632
00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:24.519
the AD sixty six through seventy timeframe is most likely,

633
00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:28.480
is most likely, making Hebrews a document written on the

634
00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:31.039
sea on the edge of one of the most pivotal

635
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:35.679
moments in Biblical history, the fall of Jerusalem and the

636
00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:42.320
definitive end of the Old Covenant system. So Ai says,

637
00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:45.239
it's most likely that this is the timeframe, and all

638
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:48.280
of that other evidence, the internal evidence of the book

639
00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:58.239
screams it. Now, if that's the context, If sixty six

640
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.960
to seventy is the con text, that would have had

641
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:05.519
a significant impact on the Jews at the time. So

642
00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:13.519
let's put this then altogether, Hebrews are written to Jews

643
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:24.519
during the siege of Jerusalem. If Jerusalem was under siege

644
00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:30.119
sixty sixty, seventy eighty, which is a historical fact. There

645
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:36.480
would have been immense pressure on Jewish Christians to return

646
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:39.599
to Judaism, and this would have been done as a

647
00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:44.519
sign of loyalty, a sign of loyalty to Israel, a

648
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:48.840
sign of loyalty to their fellow Jews, a sign of

649
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:54.679
loyalty to their culture. And this would add another layer

650
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:58.119
of urgency to the Jews. So the Jews are being tempted.

651
00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:02.800
They're facing a strong timation to be pulled back, because

652
00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:05.239
it would have been like, how don't look around. We're

653
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:08.159
under siege and you're gonna turn your back on your country,

654
00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:10.519
You're gonna turn your back on your family, You're gonna

655
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:13.760
turn your back on your culture. How dare you do that?

656
00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:24.280
The siege created a nationalistic and religious crises for the

657
00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:27.199
Jews at that time. If you don't understand this, you

658
00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:30.360
don't understand the Book of Hebrews. I am so sick

659
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:34.239
and tired of listening to sermons, and it's like, Hebrews

660
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:36.360
is about us and about us and about us, and

661
00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:39.679
just stop it for crying out loud. If you don't

662
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:50.360
know how to teach the book, don't The siege created

663
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:53.159
a nationalistic and religious crisis. There's no way to get

664
00:41:53.159 --> 00:41:57.039
around this. The Jewish Roman War between eighty sixty six

665
00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:01.079
and eighty seventy was a nationalistic and religious struggle against Rome.

666
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:05.199
The Jews saw the war as a fight for survival,

667
00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.119
and there was a strong pressure to unite under Judaism

668
00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:11.760
to resist Roman oppression. Jewish Christians would have been seen

669
00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:15.320
as traders for following Christ instead of standing with the

670
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.199
Jewish nation and its religious system. The Jews would have

671
00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:23.079
you are a trader. And the writer Fever's like, whoa wha, wha,

672
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:26.119
wha whah woa. No, no, no, don't go back. If

673
00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:30.159
you go back, you're placing yourself under judgment. And the

674
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:33.599
specific judgment that's being referred to, we want to make

675
00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:36.519
it about heaven or Hell. It's the judgment that's coming

676
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:41.320
upon Jerusalem. God is going to wipe them off. They

677
00:42:41.599 --> 00:42:45.840
they rejected the Messiah, they rejected their king, and judgments

678
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:49.400
coming upon them, They're going to be destroyed. That doesn't again,

679
00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:51.800
I don't believe God is done with Israel, because He's

680
00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:54.360
going to fulfill his promise. But they are set aside.

681
00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:57.840
The jew The gentiles are ingrafted in and at the

682
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.760
time of the Gentiles are fulfilled, then God will return

683
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:05.639
back to Israel. He will keep his promise. But at

684
00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:08.960
this time, so the writer of Hebrews is like, no, no, no,

685
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:11.880
don't go back there, don't go back to the jew

686
00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:16.480
To Judaism, you need something better. There's something better. Then,

687
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:19.599
so it takes everything Judaism would offer and say, no,

688
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:21.639
you have a better this. You have a better priest,

689
00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:23.719
you have a better high priest. You ever better this.

690
00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:26.880
You have something better than the prophets. You have something

691
00:43:26.920 --> 00:43:29.480
better than Moses. You have something better than this. You

692
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:34.079
have something better than this. Don't go back. But then

693
00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:36.559
their families and everyone around them would be like, you

694
00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:38.880
are a traitor. Can you imagine living in such a

695
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:42.039
difficult circumstance. Well, you would need the Book of Hebrews

696
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:48.920
specifically for them. What would be some of the pressures

697
00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:51.719
that they would have been facing. Religious pressure. The Temple

698
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:54.360
was the center of Jewish faith, and rejecting it was

699
00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:59.400
seen as rejecting God, Israel and their Jewish identity. You're

700
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:03.440
rejecting everything. You're rejecting God, you're rejecting your nation, you're

701
00:44:03.480 --> 00:44:07.239
rejecting your identity of who you are. There would have

702
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:10.960
been political pressure Christianity was seen as a was disloyalty

703
00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:14.119
to the Jewish cause. To not participate in temple rituals

704
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:17.239
would be seen as siding with Rome. Basically, you'd be

705
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:20.679
like you, you're going for the Romans, You're going for

706
00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:23.840
the very countries trying to come kill us. How dare you?

707
00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:30.800
Can you imagine the social and family pressure. Jewish Christians

708
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:32.880
would have been urged to return to the synagogue and

709
00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:36.320
temple worship and sacrifice to show solidarity with Don't you

710
00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:42.840
care about your own family? And food and resources would

711
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:46.880
have been scarce during the siege. Josephus speaks of this.

712
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.480
Staying with the Christian community might have been socially and

713
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:53.920
economically costly. Oh you're gonna go stay with the Christians, Well,

714
00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:55.760
then when you're not, we're not gonna feed you. We're

715
00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:58.039
not gonna give you any food, and there's limited food

716
00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:01.599
going around. And I belie, well you can read Joseph's

717
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:05.840
I believe Josephus speaks of possible cannibalism happening during the siege.

718
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:08.039
I would have to verify that. I don't have Josephus

719
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:09.719
in front of me, And it's been a while since

720
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:12.400
i've read it, so don't don't. I'm not citing that

721
00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:15.519
as a fact. I'm saying that is a question mark,

722
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:17.599
so you can go verify that. I could look it

723
00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:20.400
up right now, but we're already at forty five minutes,

724
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:26.199
so you can do some research on that so you

725
00:45:26.239 --> 00:45:29.800
can see. Then the context Hebrews is like don't go back.

726
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.920
Everything around them would be like go back, and they're

727
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:37.719
caught in the middle. Now Hebrews then comes along and

728
00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:41.639
warns against returning to the old system. That's what Hebrews is,

729
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:48.920
don't go back now, and that context, all of those warnings,

730
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:56.639
now they make a lot of sense, don't they. Now

731
00:45:56.679 --> 00:45:59.599
those warnings make perfect sense. And the next time you're

732
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:03.320
in Sunday school or some small group and Christians start

733
00:46:03.400 --> 00:46:06.719
arguing about the warnings and Hebrews. I hate to say it,

734
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:10.000
but there's times I've almost wanted to stand up and

735
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:14.519
just scream, shut up, all of you stop talking. Nobody

736
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:17.000
here knows what you're talking about. And it's not because

737
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:20.159
I'm smarter, it's not even anything to do with it.

738
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:24.599
It's just it's basic historical context. I get so sick

739
00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:27.239
of Christians saying, well, you need the proper context. You

740
00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:29.280
need the proper context, and then over and over and

741
00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:32.760
over ignore the proper context. And this is not even

742
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:36.239
a difficult context to demonstrate. Almost anything you look up

743
00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:40.880
will say Hebrews was written somewhere between somewhere in the sixties.

744
00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:44.079
They may make it early sixty eighty, sixty four eighty.

745
00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:47.559
I think it's between sixty six and seventy eighty, but

746
00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:51.199
it's going to be somewhere very close within within nine

747
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:54.840
eight seven, five four three years of the temple being

748
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:57.159
wiped off the face of the earth. But again, you

749
00:46:57.159 --> 00:47:00.519
know why Christians don't interpret Hebrews that way, The interpret

750
00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:03.480
Matthew twenty four and then the passage in Luke that way.

751
00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:06.039
They make it about the end times. And you know

752
00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:10.079
what pastors and churches are preoccupied with. They're preoccupied with

753
00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:14.639
their stinking self, and they gotta make every passage about me, me, me, me, me,

754
00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:29.559
me me. You gotta make it all about themselves. Now,

755
00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:34.280
if you look at these if you look at these warnings, now,

756
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:38.000
if you go to these warnings, they make more sense. Right,

757
00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:42.760
Hebrews two one through four, don't neglect salvation. We already

758
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:46.199
read Hebrews two one through four. Don't neglect salvation. Well,

759
00:47:46.199 --> 00:47:48.159
what does this mean. In the context of the siege,

760
00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:52.320
the pressure to return to Judaism was strong, but abandoning

761
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:58.440
Christ would mean judgment. Don't neglect salvation. Don't one listen

762
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:01.199
to what Christ has said earlier when you see these signs,

763
00:48:01.239 --> 00:48:05.639
get out of Jerusalem, don't neglect it. Stay with Christ.

764
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:09.880
Or if you go back and you stay here and

765
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:12.199
you're you're going to get wiped off the face of

766
00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:17.920
the earth. Hebrews three seven through nineteen. Don't harden your

767
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:21.159
hearts like Israel in the wilderness. Just as Israel perished

768
00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:23.599
in the wilderness, those who reject Christ now will perish

769
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:32.159
in the siege. Stay with Christ and get out, Go leave.

770
00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:41.400
If you stay, judgment's coming Hebrews six four through eight.

771
00:48:41.960 --> 00:48:44.639
Those who fall away cannot be renewed. Those who return

772
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:48.480
to Judaism might not get another chance before destruction comes.

773
00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:53.639
Not only that, the idea here is those who fall

774
00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:56.960
away cannot be renewed. If you go back to Judaism,

775
00:48:57.239 --> 00:48:59.000
you're not gonna have any You're not gonna have a

776
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:01.239
system where you can do it. Anything to be renewed. Right,

777
00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:03.679
There's not gonna be any more animal sacrifice you're not

778
00:49:03.719 --> 00:49:07.239
gonna have a priestthood. Everything's gonna be destroyed. There's not

779
00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:10.360
gonna be another sacrifice for sin that you're not going

780
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:16.760
to have anything Hebrews ten twenty eight through thirty one.

781
00:49:16.840 --> 00:49:18.760
No more sacrifice for sins. If they returned to the

782
00:49:18.800 --> 00:49:21.320
temple system, that would be left with nothing after it

783
00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:24.679
was destroyed. There's no chance for renewal. There's no blood,

784
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:28.280
there's no sacrifice, there's no priest Hebrews twelve twenty five

785
00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:30.960
through twenty nine. God is shaking the earth. The coming

786
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:34.840
destruction was a final shaking of the old covenant system.

787
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:40.320
The entire argument of Hebrews is that Jesus is greater

788
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:43.239
than the Jewish system, so returning to Judaism in this

789
00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:47.000
moment of crisis would be a fatal mistake, both spiritually

790
00:49:47.440 --> 00:50:02.119
and physically. That's the book. It drives me crazy. So

791
00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:04.960
if you put it in this context, everything makes sense.

792
00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:07.159
And then again, let's put it back in it again.

793
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:09.320
I believe this is all written during the siege. I

794
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:11.360
think this is all And if it's written during the siege,

795
00:50:11.400 --> 00:50:15.039
there's all these implications. Again, I'll go back to Jesus

796
00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:19.239
prophecy and the escape of Christians and Luke twenty one

797
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:22.800
twenty four. Jesus explicitly warned his followers about the coming

798
00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:26.079
destruction of Jerusalem and told them to flee when they

799
00:50:26.079 --> 00:50:30.039
saw it surrounded. Hey, when you see these signs, get out.

800
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:34.159
Early Christian tradition, I don't know if this is fact,

801
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:38.960
records that many Christians fled to I think it was

802
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:43.639
called Pella pe l La when the Roman siege began.

803
00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:46.159
So many Christians like, we gotta go, we gotta go,

804
00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:50.159
we gotta get out. We were told by Jesus himself

805
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:56.039
to get out. This would mean that Jewish Christians who

806
00:50:56.079 --> 00:50:59.239
remained in Jerusalem were facing intense pressure from fellow Jews

807
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:03.199
to stay and fire rather than flee. Stay fight. Well,

808
00:51:03.360 --> 00:51:06.639
but Jesus said to flee, Well, who you're going to follow?

809
00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:11.119
You're going to turn to your dead supposed messiah? Or

810
00:51:11.119 --> 00:51:13.079
are you're going to stay and fight for your nation,

811
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:17.079
your family, and your identity and your culture. You see

812
00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:27.800
the pressure. I believe it was written during the siege.

813
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:30.280
And if it was written during the siege, then the

814
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:35.159
siege created a nationalistic and religious crisis, all right, they

815
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:40.280
would have faced immense pressure. Once we understand then all

816
00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:42.679
the pressure that we're facing, everything that was going on.

817
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:47.719
Then the Hebrew warnings make all. The Hebrew warnings are

818
00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:52.000
about returning to Judaism. That's what it's about, and the

819
00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:55.960
context of seventy a d. If it's written during the siege,

820
00:51:56.039 --> 00:52:00.840
then Jesus prophecy to get out of Jerusalem. It's not

821
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:04.360
about the Second Coming, it's about right there. It all

822
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:09.800
makes sense. So the real danger that they're being warned

823
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:15.440
of is that judgment was coming. Literal physical judgment was coming,

824
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:19.360
and those who stayed Judaism would those who stayed with

825
00:52:19.480 --> 00:52:22.960
Judaism would face not just spiritual loss, but physical destruction.

826
00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:26.639
This aligns perfectly with the warnings and Hebrews. They were

827
00:52:26.679 --> 00:52:33.360
not just theological, but eschatological destruction was coming, and eschatological

828
00:52:33.440 --> 00:52:37.519
not in the Second Coming, but eschatological in that, Hey, guys,

829
00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:43.760
this is coming, this destruction, this judgment was foretold, it

830
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:47.280
was prophesied. This is a fulfillment of the prophecy Jesus

831
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:54.920
gave during his ministry. To stay within Judaism was to

832
00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:59.559
remain under God's judgment, to hold on to Christ was

833
00:52:59.599 --> 00:53:02.239
the only one to escape. Literally, hold onto Christ, to

834
00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:09.039
his words and get out. So then, how do we

835
00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:16.599
understand Hebrews. Hebrews was a I think we could see

836
00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:20.239
it this way. It was a final our. Hebrews was

837
00:53:20.280 --> 00:53:22.559
a last warning. Let's go with that. It was a

838
00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:28.679
last warning before disaster. The Siege of Jerusalem intensified the

839
00:53:28.719 --> 00:53:31.760
pressure for Jewish Christians to return to Judaism as a

840
00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:35.719
sign of loyalty to Israel. Hebrews was written as a

841
00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:40.079
final warning, do not go back. Judaism is ending. Christ

842
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:42.800
is your only hope. Those who held onto Christ and

843
00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:46.280
fled were spared. Those who rejected Christ's and stayed face

844
00:53:46.599 --> 00:53:51.599
God's judgment in seventy a d. This makes Hebrews one

845
00:53:51.639 --> 00:53:54.840
of the most this is Ai Now, this makes Hebrews

846
00:53:54.840 --> 00:53:59.440
one of the most urgent and historically significant books in

847
00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:04.320
the entire New Testament, as it was written on the

848
00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:10.360
brink of one of the most catastrophic events in Jewish history,

849
00:54:11.639 --> 00:54:24.119
and yet Christians think it's all about us. Now. I

850
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:25.719
thought I was gonna do maybe a part two of

851
00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:27.119
part three. I don't think I need to do a

852
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:29.639
part one, part two, part three. I've got plenty of

853
00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:32.880
notes here, I got plenty of notes. I didn't even

854
00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:35.960
get to I skipped a bunch of notes here. I

855
00:54:36.039 --> 00:54:39.039
skipped a bunch of these, But I have a whole

856
00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:43.679
thing now looking at all of those warning passages and

857
00:54:43.800 --> 00:54:46.079
light of seventy eighty, which I have already kind of done.

858
00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:48.280
I could go back through it again, but I think

859
00:54:48.320 --> 00:54:55.320
I've already demonstrated it. I mean, I got a lot

860
00:54:55.360 --> 00:54:57.400
more I could go into, but I think that just

861
00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:03.239
gives you the framework and if you put it all together.

862
00:55:03.639 --> 00:55:06.239
Matthew twenty four, is that like Luke? Was that Luke

863
00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:08.159
twenty one? I think it's Luke twenty one, and we

864
00:55:08.199 --> 00:55:10.920
look here, I have to look at my notes going

865
00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:18.719
by memory. Here is that Luke twenty one where he says, uh,

866
00:55:18.719 --> 00:55:21.159
I think it's Luke twenty one. Yeah, Luke twenty one

867
00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:25.760
where Jesus says, no stone and all of that. Let

868
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:27.880
them which are in Judea fleet to the mountains. Let

869
00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:30.920
them which are in the midst of depart okay. And

870
00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:33.519
when you shall see Jerusalem come pass with armies, then

871
00:55:33.559 --> 00:55:36.159
you know that the desolation therefore is not Christians take

872
00:55:36.199 --> 00:55:38.440
that and make that about some second coming, and what

873
00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:41.239
do you There's about seventy eight d for crying out

874
00:55:41.280 --> 00:55:46.440
loud Okay, you take Luke twenty one, Matthew twenty four,

875
00:55:46.679 --> 00:55:50.159
seventy a d. Hebrews, all of Hebrews and all those

876
00:55:50.159 --> 00:55:53.320
warning seventy eight d. He put it all together. Now

877
00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:57.639
you have some capacity to interpret scripture correctly and light

878
00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:08.800
not only if it's textual, but historical context. Now you say, well,

879
00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:10.840
what how is it applicable to us? Well, it tells

880
00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:13.119
us there's no point in going back to Judaism, right.

881
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:15.840
People who want to return back to Judaism and Judaism

882
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:19.199
and Judaism and and and seem drawn back to wanting

883
00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:21.760
to do passover and wanting to do this and want

884
00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:26.280
to wanting to supposedly explore their Jewish roots of Christianity.

885
00:56:26.639 --> 00:56:29.880
I got no problem understanding it. But we don't go

886
00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:34.239
back to that. That's gone, It's vanished, it disappeared. We

887
00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:37.480
look to Christ. Christ is better than all of that. Now,

888
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:43.679
you may want to look at how it pointed to Christ. Okay,

889
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:47.679
but it was written to a specific people and a

890
00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:50.840
specific context for a specific reason. You've got to be

891
00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:52.960
careful when you go take a book who has written

892
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:55.800
to a specific people and a specific situation for a

893
00:56:55.800 --> 00:56:58.960
specific reason, and then just throw them out and move

894
00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:00.960
us in and then turn it into some kind of

895
00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:06.119
debate about salvation and eternal security, not eternal security. Whenever

896
00:57:06.159 --> 00:57:08.639
I see that, I'm just like, you know what, I'm

897
00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:11.280
just walking away. You people have no clue what you're

898
00:57:11.280 --> 00:57:13.840
talking about. And I know it comes across as arrogant,

899
00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:15.760
and I'm not trying to be. It's just I get

900
00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:19.320
sick and tired of it. This information about Hebrews connection

901
00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:22.400
to seventy A. D Is not hidden in some dusty

902
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:26.119
library somewhere that you have to, you know, cut through

903
00:57:26.159 --> 00:57:29.800
a jungle to find this hidden library from antiquity, and

904
00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:32.639
you've got to break in and hopefully you can grab

905
00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:35.320
the book before the large ball. Okay, I'm using Raters

906
00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:38.719
of the Lost Start. You get the idea. You don't

907
00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:44.599
have to do that. You can just simply you can

908
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:47.000
just simply do a little bit of research and go, huh,

909
00:57:47.079 --> 00:57:50.199
seventy eight what happens seventy eight temple is destroyed? Hmm.

910
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:54.400
This is written to the Jews. Maybe we should interpret

911
00:57:54.480 --> 00:57:57.400
it that way. It doesn't require Bible college doesn't require

912
00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:00.679
you can use a Bible dictionary. Most study Bibles. Their

913
00:58:00.719 --> 00:58:03.199
introduction is gonna connect it to seventy eighty. You don't

914
00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:05.320
need anything, you know. What you do need to do

915
00:58:05.559 --> 00:58:09.639
is not go to church and listen to sermons. Now

916
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:12.639
I'm not saying that every church does. I'm saying that

917
00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:17.199
I am baffled by how frequently I hear Hebrews taught

918
00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:20.440
with very little reference to seventy eighty. They may throw

919
00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:23.280
a little bit of lip service to it. And the

920
00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:27.800
same thing with Matthew twenty four and Luke twenty one.

921
00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:34.519
I've said it before. The sermon, because it's almost designed

922
00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:39.679
to always be about us, is almost inevitably the culprit

923
00:58:39.960 --> 00:58:43.480
and actually keeping people from the true meaning of the text.

924
00:58:43.719 --> 00:58:46.199
All right, fifty eight minutes, I'm gonna stop. You could

925
00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:49.239
hear the iPad there. That's my daughter calling me, So

926
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:52.360
she's probably gonna call me about some political rant. So

927
00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:55.320
I'm gonna go listen to her. All right, So thank

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you for listening. Now my rant is over, ladies and gentlemen,

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seventy a D. If you don't know what happened, if

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you don't understand the significance of that, learn that. Don't

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ever forget the significance of seventy a D. On biblical interpretation,

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If you interpret the Bible with very little knowledge or

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even acknowledgment of what happened in seventy A, d Inevitably

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you're gonna misinterpret scripture. God bless