In the last video, we discussed the foundation of the Scriptures, which is the Torah that Yahweh had His children follow. We discussed some of the men in the Scriptures who kept the Torah and were found right in the sight of Yahweh. This is a continuation of that discussion.
If you have not watched that video, please watch that one first in order to follow the discussion, because when people skip, they tend to raise points that were covered in a video made earlier. If you watched it, your question may have been answered. Now, if you watched that video, the question was raised: Why is the longest chapter in the Bible about a Torah that many of you feel should not be followed or kept?
Also, in that video, the question was asked: How can these people that were found to be right with Yahweh by being ones who kept His Torah, why do you feel you will be accepted by Him when you are someone who says you don't have to keep His Torah? Why did Yahweh reject His children and put them in bondage in captivity for rejecting His Torah, only to give you a new covenant where there is no law, no Torah? Again, He wouldn't, and He did not do this.
Before it came, He prophesied about this new covenant, and if you're going to understand it, you cannot look at it through this lawless lens that you have been conditioned to understand it through. The understanding most people have when they reject the Torah is that Yahusha fulfilled the law, and by His sacrifice, the new covenant was set. The most commonly used rebuttal is that Yahusha fulfilled the law and, therefore, we don't need to keep it.
As we discuss the Torah, this is one of the most commonly used rebuttals against keeping the Torah. Again, the problem is the foundation that people have understood the new covenant from. It is important that each of us go back and reflect on how we have learned about the new covenant.
Did you learn about it first in church or from your parents? Did you first learn about it from reading the Gospels, or did you learn about it from reading about it when Yahweh prophesied about establishing it? You see, there are a lot of views about the Torah and the new covenant, a lot of remarks about the Torah versus grace, which really makes no sense when you truly understand grace.
There are a lot of remarks about the fact that we do not need to follow the Torah because we are under the new covenant. It honestly makes no sense when we actually read what was prophesied about this new covenant that Yah spoke about before He established it through Yahusha. He said He would be writing His law on our hearts, which clearly should establish that His law was not going anywhere, except how it was going to be known.
He said it was going to be written on our hearts; it wasn't going away. One of the reasons why I am such a strong advocate for reading the word is that once a believer becomes born again and is indwelled with the Holy Spirit, the Ruach speaks Yahweh's righteousness to him. Because Satan knows this, he has desperately worked in confusion to quench the Ruach in our lives, so that what Yahweh is writing on our hearts, Satan leads us to reject because we are following man more than we’re following Yah.
Does that make sense? It has been my experience that when we go back to the word from the beginning and read it, we allow Yahweh to speak to us, and we are reigniting the fire of the Spirit that was being quenched by Satan's falsehoods, which is why he does not want us reading the Scriptures. Understanding the new covenant is one of the most important things we can do, and unfortunately, though people claim to accept this covenant and be under it, they do not completely understand it, nor do they understand Yahusha and what His sacrifice actually was.
They say they know He is our High Priest, but because they don't understand the Torah, they don't truly understand what that High Priest title even means and what was actually changed in this new covenant. So, I am going to really explain this deeply for those that do not understand. In Hallelujah, Yah revealed to me the source of the answer that should bring about this understanding.
So, in order to understand the importance of the Torah and how we should still follow it, what we need to do is deal with the major misunderstanding, which is the new covenant. We must understand more about the new covenant, and so this is exactly what we're going to be dealing with right now. Let’s begin.
Okay, so what I realized is that this teaching is long overdue. I've tried to explain the new covenant by explaining it from what was prophesied in the Old Testament and bringing it into correlation with the New Testament, but because people have not actually read these books from the prophets in order to really grasp them, there’s a lot of time that's needed; there’s a lot to read first in order to even get to these prophets. So much of this can go over one's head.
What was revealed to me recently is to teach from a book that covers the new covenant as directly as possible. It’s a book that people seem to ignore and don’t go to in order to understand this important topic, but they absolutely should in order to understand the new covenant in the clearest way. The book of Hebrews is a book that must be studied because this is precisely what the book was written for.
The confusion about the new covenant is removed when the book of Hebrews is studied, and so in. . .
In order to understand the New Covenant, we will understand it from the book of Hebrews. Let's get something straight first: understand that this faith that you claim is not a one-world religion; it is a faith that was established from a nation of people, the Israelites, who were in covenant with Yahweh, but they broke it. They were Hebrews.
Yahusha himself was a Yahud, what they call in these modern times a Jew, but he was a Yahudi, a man from the tribe of Yahuda, which is Judah. Yahusha's disciples were Yahudim, and the first to come into this New Covenant were Yahudim. The first meetings took place in their synagogues, and the first controversies about this New Covenant were about adherence to the Torah given to Yasharel, which, of course, the Yahudim were a tribe of.
This was not Christianity that they were following; they were following the Way, and the Way was a faith of the Hebrews. These first Yahudim believers, who began to believe in Yahusha, raised many questions: What about the temple and animal sacrifices? What about the law of Moses?
Did believing in Yahusha negate the law that they grew up under? The book of Hebrews was written to address the doubts of those who were second-guessing their conversion to the Way. If this book is read from beginning to end, it can truly clear up all misunderstandings about the Torah and the New Covenant and what was changed.
So I am going to go through this book and break it down chapter by chapter, piece by piece, so that in the end, there is a resource that all can have that has broken down the covenant that all have claimed to have accepted. So if you don't mind, let's read the book of Hebrews. **Hebrews Chapter 1**: Elohim, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who, being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
(Hebrews 1: 1-4) Okay, so real quick, this was just the intro. The people were obviously more eloquent back then than we are today, so he uses a lot of words. What the writer is doing is just bringing out the power and supremacy of Yahweh.
He mentions that at various times and in various ways, Yah has spoken to them—them being the Hebrews. He says Yah has spoken to them through the prophets. Again, not to keep repeating the same thing, but this is why we read the Scriptures from the beginning, because when we read it all on our own, we know of this too.
We know of how Yahweh spoke to them through the prophets, but in this intro, he's just making the case for Yahusha, saying that Yahusha has obtained a more excellent name than the angels. Let's keep reading. "For to which of the angels did He ever say, 'You are My Son; today I have begotten You'?
And again, 'I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son. ' But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says, 'Let all the angels of Elohim worship Him. ' And of the angels He says, 'Who makes His angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire.
' But to the Son, He says, 'Your throne, O Elohim, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore, Elohim, even Your Elohim, has appointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions. ' And, 'You, Yahweh, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands; they will perish, but You remain, and they will all grow old like a garment; like a cloak, You will fold them up, and they will be changed; but You are the same, and Your years will not fail.
' But to which of the angels has He ever said, 'Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool'? Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation? " (Hebrews 1: 5-14) You see, this part of the chapter is explaining that the Son is better than the angels or higher in rank.
This is because He sits at the right hand of Elohim and because of His eternal inheritance, the Son has obtained a greater name than the angels. He uses Old Testament references to explain this. All of what he was using were Old Testament references.
Let me show you. Like in verse 5, when he says, "For to which of the angels did He ever say, 'You are My Son; today I have begotten You'? ” he is referencing Psalm 2:7: "I will declare the decree: Yahweh has said to Me, 'You are My Son; today I have begotten You.
'" You see? And when he says, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son," he is referencing 2 Samuel 7:14. This chapter is bringing scriptures from the Old Testament to show how Yahusha, the Son of Elohim, is exalted above the angels.
Like how verse 8 says, "But to the Son, He says, 'Your throne, O Elohim, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. '" Therefore, Elohim, even your Elohim, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions.
This is directly from Psalms 45:6-7, like verse 10 is from Psalms 102:25-27, and verse 13 refers to Psalm 110:1. He is using the Old Testament to establish the belief in Yahusha, but you see, if you never read the Old Testament, how would you understand what he is trying to say? Let's continue on to chapter 2, Hebrews chapter 2.
Therefore, we must give the most earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by Yahweh and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him? Elohim also bearing witness, both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will, for He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels.
But one testified in a certain place, saying, "What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You take care of him? You have made him a little lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of Your hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet.
" For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him, but we see Yahusha, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of Elohim, might taste death for everyone. That's Hebrews 2:1-9.
Okay, so as he is talking to these Hebrews, he is just introducing Yahusha to them through the understanding of the scriptures that were their foundation. In verses 6-8, he is referencing Psalms 8:4-6. You must understand all of this is pointing the Hebrews back to Old Testament prophecy.
You must understand that for them, it was not considered the Old Testament; it was just their scriptures. But from this, right now, I hope you may be understanding that if you read this book first without really reading the Old Testament and understanding all the prophetic things spoken of the Messiah before He came, as you're reading this, I'm sure it's easy for you to just gloss over all of this. You see, he is developing bayin by correlating the scriptures to Yahusha.
Now we know it's Yahusha he's speaking about, of course, because in verse 9, he calls out Yahusha by name for the first time in this letter. So we clearly know who he is referring to. Let's keep reading, for it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, "I will declare Your name to My brethren; in the midst of the assembly, I will sing praise to You. " And again, "I will put My trust in Him. " And again, "Here am I and the children whom Elohim has given Me.
" Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death, He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For indeed, He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham. Therefore, in all things, He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to Elohim, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted. Hebrews 2:10-18. And he's saying a lot here.
He again is pointing to more Messianic prophecy, but verses 14-16 go more in depth about His purpose. The Son became human so that He could destroy the devil and release those who were in bondage to sin. But it is verse 17 that I really want to highlight because it is the first time this title is used, but it's very important to understand this is where the understanding starts.
Verse 17 says, "Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to Elohim, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. " You see, Yahusha is a merciful and faithful high priest to make propitiation for the sins of the people, and it is this point that needs to be emphasized and not glossed over. You see, these first two chapters were just about establishing Yahusha and reinforcing some of the Messianic prophecies that were given about Him.
When you're reading it, I know it's just easy to read them and understand that he's explaining the importance and the special nature of our Messiah, and then you just keep it moving. So then, as you keep reading, we get to verse 17 of chapter 2, and you can easily gloss over this title and not put it into full perspective. Now, this is not going to be the last time he mentions this title of high priest, but if we do not understand what this is, then it can be a clear reason why the New Covenant.
. . is not understood by many.
So, in order to understand the role of the high priest, we must go back to the place where many people want to reject, which is the Torah. The Cohen Gadol, or the high priest, held the holiest position of the priest. The high priest's job was to oversee the temple service and act as a spiritual leader to Israel.
Aaron, brother of Moses, was the first high priest. The most prominent responsibility of the high priest was entering the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The high priest was the intercessor between Yahweh and His people, acting as their representative before Yahweh.
The priest offers sacrifices and gifts on behalf of the people to reconcile them to Yahweh. This is a role according to the Old Covenant: Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house. He shall take the two goats and present them before Yahweh at the door of the Tabernacle of Meeting.
Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for Yahweh and the other lot for the scapegoat. Aaron shall bring the goat on which Yahweh's lot fell and offer it as a sin offering, but the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before Yahweh to make atonement upon it and to let it go as a scapegoat into the wilderness. That's Leviticus 16:6-10.
We went over this in more detail in the video about the Feast and the Day of Atonement. Here's more understanding: we'll keep reading in the chapter. So he shall make atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions for all their sins.
And so he shall do for the Tabernacle of Meeting, which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness. There shall be no man in the Tabernacle of Meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Holy Place until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself, for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel. That's Leviticus 16:16-17.
You see, this was the role of the high priest, and if you're going to understand what has changed in the New Covenant, you cannot — I say you cannot — ignore this role that is according to the Priestly office founded in what we call the Old Covenant. The role of the high priest is essential to understanding the New Covenant. You will see more of this later, but it is important that I emphasize this now.
Let's keep reading Hebrews chapter 3: “Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Messiah Yahusha, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is Elohim.
And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward. But Messiah, as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. ” That's Hebrews 3:1-6.
In this, he writes that Yahusha is the Apostle and High Priest of our faith, and Yahusha was faithful to Yahweh, who was the One who appointed Him in that role. He was just as faithful as Moses but counted worthy of more glory than Moses. In verse 6, he is implying that the Son is the One who will sit on the throne in the coming Kingdom.
Those who endure to the end, steadfastly placing their hope in the Son, will live with Him in eternity. Again, this is why we should never lose focus on the promises. Let's keep going: “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years.
Therefore I was angry with that generation and said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways. ' So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest. ' Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living Elohim, but exhort one another daily while it is called 'Today,' lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
For we have become partakers of Messiah if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, while it is said: 'Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. '” That's Hebrews 3:7-15. Okay, so in these verses, he is now quoting Psalms 95:7-11.
He's using those verses to warn the Hebrews about hardening their hearts to Yah and the salvation that He offers. He was showing that Moses's generation had refused to trust in Yah to provide their needs in the wilderness, and many of these Hebrews who were hearing the Gospel of Yahusha were in danger of the same thing, of not trusting in the salvation offered through Yah's Son. It's always important to understand the audience of who is being spoken to in these letters, and that is another reason why Paul's letters are so misunderstood.
But I don't want to get off track; it is important to understand the audience. What I'm saying is that he is speaking to Hebrews who are rejecting this gift from Yah. was explaining that they must renew their belief in Yah's Word by placing their trust in Messiah and obeying Him.
Now, before we go any further, let me also deal with another topic, and that's the word "rest. " Rest is a key concept in the book of Hebrews. In the Old Testament, the conquest of the promised land and the stopping of fighting in the land was viewed as a form of rest.
Let me show you: "Until Yahweh has given rest to your brethren as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your Elohim has given them beyond the Jordan, then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you. " That's Deuteronomy 3:20. So, Yahusha took the whole land according to all that Yahweh had said to Moses, and Yahusha gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes.
Then the land rested from war (Yahusha 11:23). Now we're going to deal with more of this in the next chapter, and it's important that you understand what is being spoken of when rest is being referred to. In this section, He is referring to the Israelites' unbelief as sin and disobedience.
You see, some of the Israelites did not enter Yah's rest, the promised land, because they did not believe in Yah's promises to them. They failed to possess their inheritance because they did not trust in Yah. Those to whom this letter was being written were in danger of following their ancestors' footsteps; they were tempted to doubt Yahusha's words.
He was encouraging them to place their faith firmly in Messiah. Let's move on to chapter 4, where the promise of rest is spoken of more. Hebrews chapter 4: "Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them, but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: 'So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest,' although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: 'And Elohim rested on the seventh day from all His works.
' And again in this place: 'They shall not enter My rest. ' Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, again He designates a certain day, saying in David: 'Today, after such a long time as it has been said, today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts. ' For if Yahusha had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
There remains therefore a rest for the people of Elohim. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as Elohim did from His. " (Hebrews 4:1-10).
So this goes back to what I was just speaking of: the unbelief of the Israelites in the desert serves as a warning for believers today to enter into Elohim's rest. And He used this when speaking to these Hebrews back then, but this promise is still offered to the faithful today. He writes that the good news was preached to us as well as to them, them being the Israelites in the desert, as verse two states.
But if you're trying to correlate the gospel, that doesn't make sense because Yahusha did not die for our sins back then when the Israelites were in the desert. But the writer says the gospel was preached to them too. You see, the gospel, or the good news, was the promise of entering His rest.
This has always been the promise Yah has offered His children. Christians believe that the promise is going to heaven, but the promise is rest. This has always been the promise He's offered to His children.
This promise was proclaimed to the Israelites in the beginning when they got the Torah. The generation that left Egypt, led by Moses, had failed to enter their rest, which was the promised land. "For as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which Yah your Elohim is giving you.
" (Deuteronomy 12:9). Do you get it? The Israelites did not enter their rest because of their lack of faith, and the writer uses this to contrast with the same way the good news of Messiah that has been proclaimed is calling us to Yah's rest.
But he was warning these Hebrews that their unbelief would hinder them from entering into it. So when reading this about rest, it is important to understand what is being spoken of. It is not talking about taking a break or something like we know rest to be—relaxing.
I mean, in a way, it is, but it's not how we use it in our modern day. It is a promise of peace, and this is the good news. This is what we're waiting for to this day.
Let's continue. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For the word of Elohim is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Seeing then that we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Yahusha, the Son of Elohim, let us hold fast. Our confession, for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:11-16. So, he is exhorting these Hebrews to be diligent, meaning make every effort to enter that rest.
The rest isn’t automatic; he warns these Hebrews to be diligent because the danger is that, like the Israelites of the past, they did not stand; they fell into disobedience. This is the danger we face today as well. Now, verse 12 is one of the most known lines from the book of Hebrews: "For the word of Elohim is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
" You see, what this is proclaiming is that the word of Elohim is alive and it's active; it exposes the natural and spiritual motivations of a believer's heart. Yes, this is one of the most known verses from this book, and people love to use it while the rest of this book they really don’t understand. So, we're going through this in depth so that this is no longer the case.
After verse 12, he then goes back into Yahusha being the high priest. Verses 14-16 say: "Seeing then that we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Yahusha, the Son of Elohim, let us hold fast our confession; for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
" Again, this role of the high priest is so incredibly important. In the Old Testament, the high priest passed through the courts and veils into the most holy place. Now, in this new covenant, Yahusha is our high priest, and as verse 14 says, he passed through the heavens to the very presence of Elohim, where he sits at His right hand.
Hallelujah! You see, I'm trying to be meticulous through all this because you can read these chapters over and over and still not really understand what is being said if you never actually understood the foundation of the Scriptures, which this is all based upon, which is the Torah. Yahusha is our high priest, and again, if you do not understand this role according to the Torah, you cannot understand the New Covenant.
As we keep reading, chapter 5 will go into more of this role of the high priest, so let's keep going. Hebrews 5: "For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to Elohim, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness.
Because of this, he is required, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins. And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by Elohim, just as Aaron was. " That’s Hebrews 5:1-4.
Okay, so let me just stop here real quick. These verses explain what it means to be a high priest. A high priest must be a person appointed by Yah.
You see, a priest represents the people, and thus he must be able to identify with their human nature. As verse 2 says, he can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness. But the priest also represents Elohim to the people, and because of this, he must be called by Yah to his office.
Aaron, the first high priest, was appointed to the position of priest by Yahweh Himself; he did not appoint himself, nor did his successors after him. Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the order of the land of Edom, saying: "Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. Take Aaron and Eleazar, his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor, and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar, his son, for Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there.
" That’s Numbers 20:23-26. That should be pretty clear, and it's also important to know that those who challenged Aaron's call, where they tried to appoint themselves as priests, were put to death by Yah. If you want an example of this, read Numbers chapter 16.
For time’s sake, I will not read it, but if you want to understand what I'm saying, just read that chapter. What I’m saying is that it's important to understand that this position of high priest is something that Yah has created, and He appoints. In verse 1 of chapter 5, when he says, "Every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to Elohim, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins," this is primarily in reference to the work of the high priest on the Day of Atonement, the one day of the year when a priest entered into the most holy place to atone for the sins of the people and intercede for them.
This position of high priest is highly important. Let’s keep reading: "So also, Messiah did not glorify Himself to become high priest, but it was He who said to Him, 'You are My Son, today I. .
. '” Have begotten you, as he also says in another place: "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek," who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with vehement cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death, was heard because of his godly fear. Though he was a son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered; and having been perfected, he became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him, called by Elohim as high priest according to the order of Melchizedek, of whom we have much to say and hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing.
(Hebrews 5:5-1). Okay, so verse six reinforces that Yahusha did not appoint himself to become high priest, but it was Yah who appointed him, and he did this by citing Psalm 2:7 and Psalm 110:4. There will be more on that later.
Verse 8 says, "Though he was a son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered. " You see, Yahusha experienced all of what a person goes through on this Earth; he knows how difficult it is to obey Yah completely, just as he understands the attractions of temptation. Yet he persisted in obedience, leading a sinless life.
Remember, he was sinless because he lived perfectly according to the Torah. He was and is our example. As verse 9 continues: "And having been perfected, he became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him," it shows and confirms that he successfully carried out Yah's plan for him.
He endured suffering and temptation so that he could truly function as our high priest, understanding our weakness and interceding before Yahweh for us. When he calls him the author of eternal salvation, it means he is the cause or the source. His sacrifice in our place makes him the source of our salvation.
Hallelujah! Chapter 5 ends with, "For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of Elohim, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of unrighteousness, for he is a babe.
But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. " (Hebrews 5:12-14). You see, he was definitely throwing jabs at them.
In verse 8, earlier, he said that he had much to say but that it's hard to explain since they had become dull of hearing—dull meaning sluggish. When these people were hearing the word of Yah, they were not quick to accept it; they had grown lazy in the faith, and he was calling it out. So, explaining the truth to them would have been difficult.
It's unfortunately no different today. Again, the reason for this video is people expecting to understand the New Covenant but never taking the time to understand the Old Covenant it was replacing. He said these Hebrews he was speaking to had come to need milk and not solid food, and therefore were unskilled in the word of righteousness.
You see, these Hebrews did not necessarily lack information concerning righteousness. No, that was not their problem; they lacked experience in practicing the information that they had. They were unskilled.
It's like people that have been going to church all their lives but don't understand how to fully trust and depend on Yah when it actually matters. They hear about it in church all day long, and they know they should trust Yah, but when they need to actually do it, they are unskilled in it and they fall. Maturity comes from practice.
Those who make a habit of obeying the message of righteousness mature in the faith and are able to discern both good and evil. And this is unfortunately the case for many believers today; still, they only want milk and therefore are unskilled in matters of righteousness, and they fall to the enemy because they cannot discern between good and evil. The writer of the book of Hebrews is definitely trying to school these Hebrews on how to accept this New Covenant, and it is important that if you want to understand the New Covenant, you understand what the New Covenant actually is.
You cannot understand the new without understanding the old. The Hebrews during this time would understand the role of the high priest. You know why?
Because this was their foundation. Today, because so many reject the Torah, they don't fully understand the function of this role and therefore do not fully understand what Yahusha actually is in this New Covenant. They are on milk and they sum up our faith as simply believing in Yahusha, but they don't fully understand the function and role that Yahusha took on that enables him to be our atonement.
What am I getting at here? Belief in him does not allow us to be lawless; it allows us to accept Yahusha as our sacrifice for atonement. But I am not going to rush through this understanding and rush through this book, so I'm going to stop here and pick it back up in the next video.
So from this point in the study, the important point to understand is that Yahusha is our high priest, and through these first five chapters of Hebrews, the writer was bringing back remembrance of the Messianic prophecies and also themes of the Torah to help the Hebrews who were still not ready to accept Yahusha. The writer was bringing clarity to who Yahusha truly is in this New Covenant. I believe that once we finish this, many of you with ears to hear will truly have a better understanding.
Understanding of Yahusha, and not just why He is our Messiah. I mean, we should all mostly understand that He fulfilled many of the prophecies pertaining to the coming Messiah, so we all know why He is the Messiah. But after this, you will understand His function and role in this new covenant that you're coming to Yahweh through.
You will understand that you cannot and should not use Yahusha's sacrifice as an excuse for lawlessness. Yahusha is our High Priest, and if you understand this title and role, you can understand the New Covenant that we are in. So, in the next video, we will continue this discussion in this study, but we will definitely get deeper, because as you will soon see, the writer really begins to bring it all together as we get to chapter 6.
So, please read the book of Hebrews on your own and understand that it is very hard to grasp all of this when you don't have a solid foundation of the Old Testament. Please know that you must read the Scriptures on your own, diligently and daily. Start from the beginning and read it straight through.
You now should have a more clear understanding that Yahusha is our High Priest. We will soon see what that means in this new covenant. In the end, always know that you must follow Yahusha, and you must let Him be your example of righteousness.
In the end, He will present you to Yahweh as one who is acceptable and one who is redeemed. Remember this and be blessed. Allelujah!
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