What Can We learn from Hebrews 10

For the Torah has in it a shadow of the good things to come, but not the actual manifestation of the originals. Therefore, it can never, by means of the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, bring to the goal those who approach the Holy Place to offer them. 2 Otherwise, wouldn't the offering of those sacrifices have ceased? For if the people performing the service had been cleansed once and for all, they would no longer have sins on their conscience. 3 No, it is quite the contrary - in these sacrifices is a reminder of sins, year after year. 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 5 This is why, on coming into the world, he says, "It has not been your will to have an animal sacrifice and a meal offering; rather, you have prepared for me a body. 6 No, you have not been pleased with burnt offerings and sin offerings. 7 Then I said, 'Look! In the scroll of the book it is written about me. I have come to do your will.'" 8 In saying first, "You neither willed nor were pleased with animal sacrifices, meal offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings," things which are offered in accordance with the Torah; 9 and then, "Look, I have come to do your will"; he takes away the first system in order to set up the second. 10 It is in connection with this will that we have been separated for God and made holy, once and for all, through the offering of Yeshua the Messiah's body. 11 Now every Cohen (priest) stands every day doing his service, offering over and over the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this one, after he had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from then on to wait until his enemies be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has brought to the goal for all time those who are being set apart for God and made holy. 15 And the Ruach HaKodesh  (Holy Spirit ) too bears witness to us; for after saying, 16 " 'This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days,' says ADONAI: 'I will put my Torah on their hearts, and write it on their minds . . . ,' " 17 he then adds, " 'And their sins and their wickedness's I will remember no more.' " 18 Now where there is forgiveness for these, an offering for sins is no longer needed. 19 So, brothers, we have confidence to use the way into the Holiest Place opened by the blood of Yeshua. 20 He inaugurated it for us as a new and living way through the parokhet, by means of his flesh. 21 We also have a great cohen over God's household. 22 Therefore, let us approach the Holiest Place with a sincere heart, in the full assurance that comes from trusting - with our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us continue holding fast to the hope we acknowledge, without wavering; for the One who made the promise is trustworthy. 24 And let us keep paying attention to one another, in order to spur each other on to love and good deeds, 25 not neglecting our own congregational meetings, as some have made a practice of doing, but, rather, encouraging each other. And let us do this all the more as you see the Day approaching. 26 For if we deliberately continue to sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but only the terrifying prospect of Judgment, of raging fire that will consume the enemies. 28 Someone who disregards the Torah of Moshe is put to death without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.p 29 Think how much worse will be the punishment deserved by someone who has trampled underfoot the Son of God; who has treated as something common the blood of the covenant which made him holy; and who has insulted the Spirit, giver of God's grace! 30 For the One we know is the One who said, "Vengeance is my responsibility; I will repay," and then said, "ADONAI will judge his people." 31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God! 32 But remember the earlier days, when, after you had received the light, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings. 33 Sometimes you were publicly disgraced and persecuted, while at other times you stood loyally by those who were treated this way. 34 For you shared the sufferings of those who had been put in prison. Also when your possessions were seized, you accepted it gladly; since you knew that what you possessed was better and would last forever. 35 So don't throw away that courage of yours, which carries with it such a great reward. 36 For you need to hold out; so that, by having done what God wills, you may receive what he has promised. 37 For "There is so, so little time! The One coming will indeed come, he will not delay. 38 But the person who is righteous will live his life by trusting, and if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him." 39 However, we are not the kind who shrink back and are destroyed; on the contrary, we keep trusting and thus preserve our lives! 

When we look at Hebrews 10 and realise that this is the Messiah – Yeshua/Jesus who came and died for our sins and to help us to be reconciled back to God the Father of creation, I am in awe of the power of the Creator who would see fit to send his beloved son amongst us to show us compassion and mercy and offer us an opportunity to be released from bondage and slavery to our addictions and perversions.  To our adulterous natures and behaviours.  To offer us an opportunity to have a life more abundantly as we learn to trust in Him and to obey him and understand that He is the Word of God and that He himself said that man cannot live by bread alone but also by EVERY WORD THAT GOD HAS SPOKEN therefore it stands to reason that as we read through the Word of God and discover just how powerful and mighty God truly is that we can see just how important these words are.

For we have all sinned and we have all fallen short of the Word of God and his Truth and His Way.  Therefore is it any wonder that God himself will place His Truth and His Torah (teachings into our minds and hearts) how can we start to comprehend just how important this is until we start to recognise just how little we really know the True God of the Bible.  The God that parted the red sea, made the plagues in Egypt, raised the dead, healed the sick, the lame, the halt and the blind, those with leprosy, epileptics, so many that when Yeshua/Jesus spoke he touched the hearts and minds of the people to such a degree that their lives were forever transformed by his words. Bearing in mind He is the Word of God – He is Logos – He was at the beginning with God – so why is it so strange that we now turn around and say ah but that is all done away with.  When God himself said that His word will never pass away.  

Sometimes when I think about Gods word and what it means to me and how I live my life I am in awe at just how uplifting and encouraging it really is.  When I read the stories of David and his battles with his own issues throughout his reign and his battles with himself over his disobedience and his depression and joy – if gives me hope that in all our dark hours no matter how much we may think we are alone – we are not – God is there all the time just waiting for us to cry out to him and truly ask for his help and his guidance, He is willing and able to transform your dark corner into one of shinning hope and life.  

So if you are considering yourself unworthy to be touched by God – remember Mary Magdalene – she was classed as a prostitute – but by her actions and repentance before Yeshua/Jesus her sins were forgiven and she was a changed person after that.  So could your life be transformed if you would open your heart to let Yeshua/Jesus in to restore your soul to God and show you a way of life that is better for you.  A way of love and peace, a way of grace and mercy.  There are rules we have to live by they are for our benefit – he shows you the way into the life that will bring about the peace that you are searching for.

So when you are sitting eating your family meal together and sharing time with your family give a thought to who has actually brought all this about.  The creator God made this planet for us, he took his time to get it just right for us, yet we mankind have been so destructive with the very gifts that God has bestowed upon us it is amazing that he still sees fit to show us his mercy by sharing his beloved Rainbow as a sign that He will not flood the planet again. 

Yet there is coming a time of testing, a time of great torment amongst the people because of their fears and anxieties, there is going to be a time of great wailing for not knowing where to turn. Yet those who have found refuge in the cave of his presence, hiding in his wings and under his mantle of protection – people who trust his word – they will be separated from those who are living in fear and anxiety.  

We all have a choice – we can either be filled with fear and anxiety or we can really start to take God at his Word and trust in Him.

For me trusting Him is the only way to life. Because His Word says – Yeshua/Jesus said that He is the way to the life and to peace.  Therefore surely it is time for you to consider your own belief – do you trust him or do you think it is ok just to go to church on Sunday and to prayer meetings and not really know him as your own personal saviour who is there for you to teach you His ways, His laws, His Teachings.  How will you learn if you do not take the time to study His Word.  

Or do you take what is said in the churches from the people in the pulpit – do you accept that they are speaking from the Word of God – can you really trust what they are teaching. Or are they the hirelings that will speak half-truths.  

For me, reading the scriptures for myself – asking God to teach me Himself, leading me to find out just how to live the life that God had originally wanted to live.  That has been my quest for over 30 years.  So the more I read in the Scriptures the ways of man and their ways of disobedience and see the same today as there are in the scriptures and see the result of what happened to the nations and kings who choose to disregard God and His ways – they are no more.  The great Temple of Solomon destroyed, the beautiful ornate decorated temple utensils and everything that Solomon had made dispersed because of the disobedience of the kings after him.  How when we consider how our own society has disintegrated as we  continuously disregard rewrite the Word of God – bearing in mind there is a  warning in Revelations about adding and subtracting from the Word of God – God made it very clear that all the plagues and diseases would come on the people who would dare to change Gods Word.  We can expect to see more and more devastating plagues and misery due to the fact that there has yet again been another version of the Bible (queens bible) which takes away Gods Word and destroys the whole purpose of the Scriptures – when you try to make the Bible say something it clearly is not and changing it to fit into your ideals or desires you will receive the curses that God has written in His Word.  There are very great warnings about changing the Word of God.  

Mankind has decided they want to follow their own version – well that has only one end – destruction, death and disease.  

For me, studying the scriptures discovering the incredible journey that mankind has come on and how Gods intervention has been obvious throughout history.  Even in Ezekiel when it speaks about the Store houses of weather conditions saved for the time of war – you can look through History at the great wars and how the weather was very much against man.  Napoleon had severe winters, when world war 1 was fought there too was horrendous weather.  Throughout most of mans history at the time of great wars the weather systems were against man.  God in his wisdom deemed it so.  Showing that it was a frightful thing to kill and murder ones fellow human being.

God said – do not kill, do not murder – yet that is what is happening all across the planet in one country or another.

Do not commit (take another man's wife/or husband - adultery – yet that happens all the time and is not even seen as a sin now just a matter of course – people divorce and remarry, and do not consider what they are really doing – the devastating affect it has on their families – only interested in their own selfish lusts of the flesh wanting something that is not theirs to have – they married in haste and repent at leisure – that is such a true saying.  Today’s promiscuous society see it as “modern free thinking” yet it is so devastating to the whole of the structure of society.  We are just as the romans were at the end of their civilisation – ruined by their own lusts, greed, and military might – which we can see throughout Europe how it affected most of the countries bringing their people into slavery under the Roman Emperor – yet again there is a rising of something that will cause again much devastation throughout the whole of society which is going to cause many to faint from the terrors of what is coming.  Yet we do not know exactly when it is coming we just know it is. 

God’s Word warns us of such a time, yet it is only a short time then the Kingdom of God will come and it will be Established on the Earth and we shall all learn to live according to His Word, and His Teachings.

When you consider the Lords Prayer

Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be your name

Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will be done as it is in heaven so shall it be on earth

Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one

For thine is the power and the glory for ever and ever

Amen.

When we say Our Father – do you believe that He is your father or do you do it out of duty or because it is tradition – do you consider him to actually be your father creator?

We say your kingdom come – do you really believe that this is going to happen and what it actually means, do you think you will still be able go on doing what you have always done, and continue to think that Gods word has not meaning in your life only when go to your places of worship whichever day you may celebrate.  Do you not realise that we shall be keeping Gods timetable, His holy Shabbats, His feast days, his commandments.  Everything that we have been taught is not important  - yet that is exactly what the Word says – that He is going to teach us all how to live according to His teachings and His ways. 

Forgive – forgiveness is not really part of today’s society in many ways.   WE find it hard to forgive those who have wronged us – and sometimes looking for revenge in some way, teaching people a lesson when they have hurt us.  Yet God says unless we forgive there is no forgiveness because if we cannot forgive our brother, neighbour or friends how can he forgive us.

Lead us not into temptation – well that is such a full in your face thing  - in today’s society we are tempted by many things which would never have occurred to others in earlier times.  Our society today has so many new ideas and toys, gadgets that makes it hard not to want them. Yet in some homes it can bring hardship and misery, because the advertising industry drives the needs of the people to desire the latest gadget and toy not really caring about the consequences.

Deliver us from the Evil One – people completely disregard that the Evil one actually exists – so they do not understand that this is not an invisible force that has disappeared but rather he is a fallen angel who because of his own greed and lust for power was banished to the world – who fills the hearts and minds of people to do wicked and evil actions, fills their minds with dark stories to tell, to share fears to encourage fear and horror and torment – he has driven a wedge between man and God because of his control over their minds in the way he uses the tools of modern society to share his information his fear.  You only have to watch the films and games and tv programmes to see it in action.    You can see it in action when you hear of tragic events where children are killing children in their schools and homes.  Do you think that these children are evil – they are brainwashed by the very things they are learning in the homes from the games they watch and what they hear around them.  When man fights with man or fights with woman and they see these very actions happening do you not think that it affects them.  ( I witnessed my parent fighting when I was 4- I saw the pain and anguish of what it caused, as I grew up I saw it more and more until they parted, not just the brutality of husband and wife beatings, but also beatings on children) if that is what they see it is very hard for them to learn a different way – that is why it takes a miracle from God to change people’s lives and turn them into something worth living.

Remember the Evil one tempted woman in the garden of Eden in the first place that caused us to be separated from God – therefore it takes the reconciliation by coming to the Messiah and accepting Him into your life and wanting to learn from him to make a difference in your life.

For thine is the power and the glory

Do your really believe that He has the Power to change lives, do you really believe in the Glory that surrounds his throne.  Do you only consider it as just a nice thing to say. Or do you really consider what you are saying.

I can remember my first experience of singing Amazing Grace and how I felt the power of the Words that really drove deep into my heart.  When I heard and sang a hymn as a child offering my life in to living service of God I felt the surge of the power of the Words that were there. Yet it was not until I became an adult did the Power of those Words really have the affect on my life – words that I sang that I would serve Jesus all the days of my life really did permeate my life. Now I serve God by writing these blogs in the hope that they may help someone else realise that they are not alone.  That God does love them and wants to help them change their lives around.

So please if you are reading this, consider that what Yeshua/Jesus said, “no man can come to the Father unless they come thru him, and no man come to Yeshua/Jesus unless the Father is first drawing them to Him.  Each person has the opportunity to hear the call of God in their lives.  It is up to each individual to respond one way or the other.  For me to choose God was one of great joy as it has given me a life of peace and contentment even through my darkest times, for I have known that God had his hand on my life and knows exactly what my destiny is. 

So I hope that someday you too will  have the blessed assurance that God loves you and wants to bless you and keep you safe.

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