H E B R E W S . 3
1 So, my set-apart brothers (those called to be partakers of the Supernatural/Heavenly Calling), closely consider MESSIAH YAHUSHA, the Great Apostle and High Priest of our confession!
2 For He was trustworthy and obedient to Him Who appointed Him, just as Moses was trustworthy in all His House ....
6 Messiah was a Son over His own House (and we are that House IF we hold fast the confidence and keep rejoicing firmly in the hope, until the end).
7 So YAHUSHA'S Spirit says, “Today, if you will hear My voice,
8 don’t harden your hearts like that bitter rebellion (in the days of the wilderness trials),
9 where your fathers tempted Me, provoked Me, proved Me, and saw My works for forty years.
10 For I was grieved and devastated with that generation, and said, ‘They always rebel in their hearts, and refuse to know My ways.’
11 So I swore in My rage that they will never enter into My rest ...’ ”
12 So take heed and watch out my brothers, incase there’s any of you with a wicked heart of unbelief, causing you to fall away from the living Alahim.
13 So encourage one another daily, while it’s still called 'Today,' incase any of you become hardened and `ripped off' by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have become partakers of MESSIAH YAHUSHA if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence and trust Him firmly to the end.
15 Just as it’s said, "Today, if you’ll hear My Voice, don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
16 For most of them who Moses led out of Egypt (and heard Alahim) indeed rebelled, but not all!
17 So who was Alahim actually grieved with for 40 years? Obviously with those who sinned, and whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18 Those who YAHUAH swore would never enter into His rest because of their disobedience!
19 So we see that they couldn’t enter in because of their unbelief and disobedience!
TODAY IF YOU WILL HEAR HIS VOICE
PAUL MENTIONS THAT YAHUSHA IS SPEAKING ALL
THROUGH HIS LETTER TO THE HEBREWS :
(A) YAHUSHA (ALEF-TAU) SPOKE AS THE FATHER (HEB 1:1)
(B) YAHUSHA (ALEF-TAU) SPOKE BY THE PROPHETS (HEB 1:1-2)
(C) YAHUSHA (ALEF-TAU)) SPOKE AS THE SON (HEB 1:2)
(D) YAHUSHA (ALEF-TAU) SPOKE BY THE ANGELS (HEB 2:2)
(E) YAHUSHA (ALEF-TAU) SPOKE BY HIS APOSTLES (HEB 2:3)
(F) YAHUSHA (ALEF-TAU) IS NOW SPEAKING BY HIS SPIRIT (HEB 3:7)
(G) YAHUSHA (ALEF-TAU) HAS SPOKEN FROM HEAVEN (HEB 12:19-26)
PSALM 95: 7-11 "For He's our Alahim and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. So today if you will hear My voice, 8don't harden your heart, as in the provocation (in the day of temptation in the wilderness): 9when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw My work. 10For forty years I was grieved with this generation and said, 'It is a people that do err in their heart, and refuse to know My ways: 11and to who I swore in My wrath that they should never enter into My rest".
YAHUSHA’S ALEF TAU SPIRIT SPOKE AND INSPIRED ALL THE SCRIPTURES AND WE (HIS SHEEP) CAN HEAR HIM IF WE ARE WILLING TO GET CLEAN AND FOCUS ON HIS STILL SOFT VOICE ... DROWNING OUT ALL THE WORLDLY CHAOS !
THE PSALM ABOVE IS ONE OF WARNING TO THE HEBREW BELIEVERS (THE SECOND GREAT WARNING IN HEBREWS). YOU SEE THE JEWS MAGNIFIED MOSES ABOVE ALL THE PROPHETS, BECAUSE ALL THEIR KINGS AND PROPHETS WERE JUDGED BY WHETHER THEY LIVED ACCORDING TO THE WORDS GIVEN TO MOSES ON MOUNT SINAI (OR NOT). BUT IT WAS UNDER MOSES THAT THE FIRST GENERATION FAILED TO ENTER INTO THE ULTIMATE REST OF THE PROMISED LAND IN CANAAN. IT WAS THE NEW GENERATION THAT ENTERED !
NOW (ONCE AGAIN) THE JEWS HAVE THE PROMISED MESSIAH PRESENTED TO THEM, SO WILL THEY FAIL AGAIN TO ENTER INTO THIS SUPERNATURAL PROMISED LAND OF REST, ALL BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF?
THE CONNECTING THOUGHT IS THAT ISRAEL (THE GENERATION WHO CAME OUT WITH MOSES) FAILED TO ENTER INTO THE VERY LAND THAT YAHUAH HAD PROMISED FOR THEM. SO IN HEB.3 HERE PAUL BRINGS MOSES BACK INTO THE PICTURE AS WELL THE GENERATION THAT WERE UNDER HIS MINISTRY, AS THE SERVANT OF HIS (OLD COVENANT) HOUSE.
8 ... don’t harden your hearts like that bitter rebellion (in the days of the wilderness trials),
ISRAEL AS A NATION HEARD YAHUAH’S VOICE, BUT HARDENED THEIR HEARTS AGAINST LISTENING, KNOWING AND OBEYING HIS WORDS (EVEN THOUGH YAHUAH HAD SPOKEN DIRECTLY TO THEM NATIONALLY AND THEN BY MOSES, AS WELL AS OTHERS). SO PAUL IS POINTING OUT A WICKED WHORISH HEART CONDITION HERE IN ISRAEL. AFTER ALL THE SIGNS AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES THE NATION HAD WITNESSED, THEY SHOULD HAVE BELIEVED YAHUAH!
DON'T HARDEN YOUR HEART
BUT HERE, IT IS THE INNER CONDITION REVEALED - THE PRONENESS OF THE HUMAN HEART TO UNBELIEF IN SPITE OF ALL THE SUPERNATURAL MIRACLES. AND THIS WAS THE WARNING TO THE HEBREW BELIEVERS, TO WATCH AND GUARD AGAINST THE HARDENING OF THE HEART. AND THIS WARNING OF COURSE APPLIES FOR US STILL!
THAT BITTER REBELLION
( AS IN THE PROVOCATION )
'PROVOCATION' MEANS 'TO PROVOKE TO ANGER, TO STRIFE, TO CONTENTION, A VERY BITTER PROVOCATION, LIKE POKING A BEAR WITH A STICK, OR 'TALKING -SMACK’ TO AN OPPONENT' ... THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL ACTUALLY BEGAN TO PROVOKE YAHUAH SOON AFTER THEY LEFT EGYPT, AND DID SO FOR 40 YEARS!
AFTER ALL THE PATIENCE, THE LONG-SUFFERING AND FAVOUR OF YAHUAH THAT ISRAEL HAD EXPERIENCED, THEY STILL PROVOKED YAHUAH! MAN IS EASILY PROVOKED, BUT WHEN YAHUAH IS PROVOKED, IT IS THE ONE WHO IS POSSESSED OF INFINITE PATIENCE (YET JUSTICE) WHO IS PROVOKED !
8 ... don’t harden your hearts like that bitter rebellion (in the days of the wilderness trials),
TO TEMPT YAHUAH, IS TO TEST AND TO TRY HIS PATIENCE AND LONG-SUFFERING BY DISOBEDIENCE AND UNBELIEF - TO SEE WHETHER HE WOULD PUNISH THEM OR NOT. IT IS TO PRESUME. ISRAEL KNEW YAHUAH HAD PROMISED THE LAND TO ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED UNCONDITIONALLY, AND YET THEY PROVOKED AND TEMPTED, TRIED AND PROVED HIM.
DAYS OF WILDERNESS TRIALS
THEY THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD KEEP HIS PROMISE REGARDLESS OF THEIR ACTIONS AND BEHAVIOUR. BUT THE THING THEY FAILED TO REALISE WAS THAT YAHUAH COULD MAKE A ‘BREACH OF PROMISE’ OR ALTER HIS PURPOSE FOR THAT GENERATION AND YET STILL KEEP HIS WORD AND PROMISE BY FULFILLING IT IN THEIR CHILDREN, THE NEXT GENERATION OF ISRAEL. AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YAHUAH DID !
NOTICE THAT THE SAME WARNING IS ALSO GIVEN TO THIS NEXT GENERATION OF ISRAEL. THEY TOO COULD HAVE PROLONGED THEIR STAY IN THE WILDERNESS.
9 ... where your fathers tempted Me, provoked Me, proved Me, and saw My works for forty years ...
ISRAEL TEMPTED YAHUAH TEN TIMES (THE NUMBER OF TRIAL, TESTING AND RESPONSIBILITY). YAHUAH ACTUALLY WANTED TO PROVE ISRAEL, BUT INSTEAD THEY PROVED HIM, BY PROVOKING HIM TO ANGER. ‘MASSAH´ MEANS ‘TEMPTING OR PROVING’ AND `MERIBAH’ MEANS ‘CHILDREN OF STRIFE’. THESE WERE 2 PLACES WHERE ISRAEL COMPLAINED AND DEMANDED WATER .
YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME!
AND SAW MY WORKS FOR 40 YEARS
HERE WE HAVE THE WHOLE PERIOD OF TIME IN THE WILDERNESS WANDERINGS. MIRACULOUS WORKS SEEN FOR FORTY YEARS.
THIS PERIOD OF TIME COVERS THE COMPLETE JOURNEY FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN LAND. UNBELIEF MADE THE ELEVEN-DAY JOURNEY INTO A FORTY-YEAR JOURNEY. (NOTE: THE JEWISH NATION REJECTED THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND FACED JUDGMENT IN AD.70 (40 YRS LATER).
ALL YAHUAH’S WORKS
THE TEN PLAGUES, THE PASSOVER DELIVERANCE, THE RED SEA, THE CLOUD, MIRIAM DANCING AND PRAISING YAHUAH, THE SONG OF MOSES, THE MANNA AND WATER, THE QUAILS. THEN THE HEALING COVENANT, THE BRAZEN SERPENT, MOUNT SINAI, THE TABERNACLE ESTEEM AND PRESENCE, AND ALL THE MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION OF THE WILDERNESS - THESE ARE ‘MY WORKS’ … ISRAEL SAW THEM ALL AND STILL REFUSED TO BELIEVE!
10 ... For I was grieved and devastated with that generation, and said, ‘They always rebel in their hearts, and refuse to know My ways.’
GRIEVED & DEVASTATED
'GRIEVED OR DISPLEASED' IE ... TO FEEL DISGUST WITH'. IT WAS JUST LIKE WHEN YAHUAH BECAME YAHUSHA AND WAS LATER GRIEVED AND DISGUSTED WITH THE GENERATION OF THAT TIME ALSO, AFTER ALL THE MIGHTY MIRACLES, WONDERS & HEALINGS THEY HAD WITNESSED, THEY STILL FAILED TO ENTER INTO YAHUSHA - THROUGH UNBELIEF, JUST AS THEIR WILDERNESS FATHERS FAILED ALSO.
THE OLD GENERATION / BRIDE OF ISRAEL MISSED OUT ON THE PROMISED LAND, THROUGH UNBELIEF. AND THE GENERATION HERE IN YAHUSHA'S TIME ALSO MISSED OUT ON THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND DELIVERANCE, THROUGH UNBELIEF.
'THEY ALWAYS REBEL (ERR) IN THEIR HEARTS'... TO REBEL OR 'ERR' MEANS TO GO ASTRAY, TO WANDER'. THIS IS NOT A HEAD, BUT A HEART CONDITION. YAHUSHA SEES THE HEART. IT IS A PICTURE OF THE OLD HUMAN HEART (WITHOUT THE INCORRUPT-IBLE SEED PLANTED), WHICH HAS A PRONENESS TO WANDER, AND A BIAS TOWARDS EVIL. REMEMBER THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER?
AND REFUSE TO KNOWN MY WAYS ... IGNORANT (NOT KNOWING) YAHUSHA’S WAYS AND ALSO VERY HOSTILE TOWARDS THEM. TO KNOW YAHUSHA'S WAYS AND HEART IS TO KNOW HIM! TO KNOW HIS WORKS IS TO KNOW HIS BEHAVIOUR. THEN THERE’S ISRAEL WHO SAW WHAT HE DID BUT NEVER GOT TO KNOW HIM, BUT WANTED THEIR OWN WAYS, WHICH ENDED IN DEATH,
(THOUGH IT SEEMED RIGHT TO THEM). YAHUSHA’S THOUGHTS AND WAYS ARE TOTALLY OPPOSITE TO OURS, 'AND AS HIGH AS THE HEAVENS ARE ABOVE THE EARTH'.
11 ... So I swore in My rage that they will never enter into My rest ...’
ISRAEL HAD EXPERIENCED YAHUAH'S FAVOUR, HIS LOVE AND HIS COMPASSION, LONG-SUFFERING AND PATIENCE! BUT THE OPPOSITE TO THIS IS WRATH AND RAGE. IF MAN REJECTS THE ONE, HE FALLS INTO THE OTHER. THERE IS THE LOVE AND COMPASSION OF YAHUSHA OR THE WRATH AND RAGE OF YAHUSHA. LET IT BE REMEMBERED THAT IT WAS YAHUAH’S WILL AND PURPOSE AND DESIRE FOR THEM TO ENTER INTO HIS LAND OF REST.
NEVER ENTER MY REST !
THIS WAS MAN'S REPLY TO YAHUAH’S OFFER. SO YAHUAH TOOK MAN UP IN IT, AND SWORE THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO ENTER IN, EVEN IF THEY WANTED TO DO AFTER THAT.
HE HAD PROMISED IT TO ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED. HE HAD BROUGHT ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT IN ORDER TO BRING THEM INTO HIS PROMISED LAND OF REST - BUT THEY REJECTED THAT LAND AND REFUSED TO ENTER OUT OF FEAR (THE 12 SPIES).
SO THE FAULT LAY ENTIRELY WITH ISRAEL FOR HER REFUSAL TO ENTER INTO THE PROMISED LAND, AND THERE WAS NO FAULT WITH YAHUAH. THEY REJECTED THE LAND PROMISED TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB ... AND TO THEMSELVES AS A NATION.
THE PROMISED LAND OF REST WAS A TYPICAL LAND OF REST FOR THEM AND A SHADOW FOR US OF WHAT YAHUSHA WOULD ACCOMPLISH WITHIN OUR HEART AND LIVING TEMPLES WITHIN THE BRIDAL ASSEMBLY. TO POSSESS THIS REST, THE ENEMIES HAD TO BE OVER-COME AND CAST OUT. THE LAND WAS PROMISED AND GIVEN TO THEM, BUT THEY HAD TO GO IN AND POSSESS IT. THEY WERE TO FIGHT FOR THE LAND OF REST, BUT YAHUAH WOULD WIN THEIR BATTLES FOR THEM! IT WOULD BE REST FROM EGYPT, REST FROM THEIR WANDERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS ( BEING TOSSED
AND TURNED ON EVERY WAVE OF BELIEF), REST FROM THEIR ENEMIES, WHEN ALL THINGS WERE CONQUERED AND PUT UNDER THEIR FEET. THERE WAS NO REST IN EGYPT OR IN THE WILDERNESS. BUT ONCE THEIR ENEMIES HAD BEEN CONQUERED, THERE WOULD BE REST. YAHUAH CALLS IT `MY REST!’ SO IT IS ENTERING INTO HIS REST, WHICH YAHUSHA NOW PROVIDES DAILY TO HIS BRIDE WHO ARE WILLING TO TOSS OUT AND OVERCOME THE ENEMY WHO SEEKS TO INHABIT HER VESSEL FOR SIN AND FILTH.
12 ... So take heed and watch out my brothers, incase there’s any of you with a wicked heart of unbelief, causing you to fall away from the living Alahim ...
SO TAKE HEED NOW !
'TAKE HEED TO THEIR FATHERS EXAMPLE'. WILL WE BE UNBELIEVING TOWARDS YAHUSHA AS ISRAEL WAS TOWARDS MOSES? 'TAKE HEED IS TO PAY ATTENTION AND WATCH OUT' TO WHAT IS BEFORE US, TO LISTEN CAREFULLY TO WHAT IS BEING SPOKEN.
'A WICKED HEART OF UNBELIEF' A HEART THAT IS WILFULLY INCLINED TO A STATE OF UNBELIEF AND REJECTION OF THE WORD OF THE LIVING ALAHIM IN THE FACE OF ALL HIS MIRACULOUS SUPERNATURAL DEALINGS.
THIS IS A CHOICE!
THE WHOLE CONDITION OF ISRAEL WAS A HEART CONDITION ... "THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, AND DESPERATELY WICKED, AND NONE BUT ALAHIM CAN KNOW IT" (JER 17:9-10). THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER AND THE SEED REVEALS THAT THE TROUBLE WAS WITH THE HEART OF THE PERSON, AND NOT WITH THE SEED SOWN! THAT SEED IS THE WORD OF YAHUSHA, THE INCORRUPT-IBLE SEED OF HIS SPIRIT. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE SEED. THE STATE &
THE CONDITION OF THE HEART HAS TO BE RIGHT IN ORDER TO BRING FORTH GOOD FRUIT FROM THAT SEED AS IT TRANSFORMS AND METAMORPHS THE CANDIDATE THROUGH THE FEAST-SHADOWS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE !
12 ... (a wicked heart of unbelief) causing you to fall away from the living Alahim ...
`FALL AWAY' MEANS ‘TO PLACE OFF FROM’ AND IS USED IN 1 TIM 4:1 WHERE IT SAYS THAT 'MANY WILL DEPART FROM THE BELIEF IN THE LAST DAYS'. IT IS THAT DRAWING BACK AND AWAY, TURNING ASIDE FROM FOLLOWING THE TRUE AND LIVING ALAHIM YAHUSHA !
FALL AWAY FROM ALAHIM
SATAN FELL FROM THE LIVING ALAHIM AND ALEPH-TAU, SO IT'S THE STEP TOWARD APOSTASY. NOT JUST THE FALLING AWAY FROM A CREED OR A SYSTEM, BUT FROM THE ACTUAL PERSON, WAY AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE LIVING ALAHIM YAHUSHA. THE EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF CAUSES THE PERSON TO DEPART, TO BE REMOVED FROM FOLLOWING THE ALEPH-TAU YAHUSHA.
13 ... So advise and encourage one another daily, while it’s still called “Today,” Incase any of you become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin ...
ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER
THE MINISTRY OF EXHORTATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT IS IN THE BODY OF YAHUSHA AND IT’S IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE OUR OWN VISION IS CLEAR WHEN WE ENCOURAGE OUR FAMILY IN YAHUSHA. PAUL IS EXHORTING (ADVISING) HERE ALSO. IN THE TABERNACLE THERE WAS THE DAILY SACRIFICE AND THE DAILY INCENSE AND THE DAILY BREAD, IN THE SERVICE OF THE SANCTUARY - TO SUSTAIN & STRENGTHEN THE PRIESTS IN THEIR MINISTRY TO THE PORTAL-ARK. SO TODAY IN THE TRUE ASSEMBLY THERE IS ALSO THE DAILY SERVICE FOR THE BRIDE AS SHE SERVES YAHUSHA.
HARDENED BY SIN
SIN IS DECEPTIVE. SIN IS DECEIVING. IT DECEIVES THE PERSON WHOM IT CONTROLS, AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW A LIFE OF SIN. THE HEART THAT HARDENS ITSELF AGAINST THE WORD OF YAHUSHA, AND IS UNBELIEVING, THAT HEART IS DECEIVED BY SIN.
DECEPTION WAS SATAN'S FIRST WEAPON IN OCCASIONING THE FALL ON MAN, AND IT IS HIS LAST DAY WEAPON ALSO. HERE IT IS THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN! 'THAT NONE OF YOU MAY BE HARDENED INTO SETTLED REBELLION, BY THE DECEITFUL-NESS OF SIN' ... THAT IS, BY THE FRAUDULENCE AND TRICKERY WHICH THE DELUSIVE GLAMOUR, DELIGHT AND SEDUCTION OF HIS SIN MAY PLAY ON HIM.´
DOING ONE’S OWN WILL IS THE ROOT AND SOURCE OF ALL SIN WHICH DECEIVES AND HARDENS THE HEART.
THE MAJOR SOURCES OF DECEPTION ARE:
(A) SATAN OR DEMONIC DECEPTION,
(B) HUMAN DECEPTION, BY OTHER PEOPLE,
(C) SIN’S DECEPTION, AND
(D) SELF-DECEPTION!
THE ONLY ANSWER TO DECEPTION IS TO
HAVE A LOVE FOR THE TRUTH ...
EVEN IF THE TRUTH HURTS !!
(THE ONLY TRUTH IN THIS WORLD IS YAHUSHA'S LIVING WORDS !!)
14 ... For we have become partakers of MESSIAH YAHUSHA if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence and trust Him firmly to the end. 15 Just as it’s said, “Today, if you’ll hear His Voice, don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER
16 ... For most of them who Moses led out of Egypt (and heard Alahim) indeed rebelled, but not all!
THOUGH THE MAJORITY RULED IN FAVOR OF THE REPORT FROM THE SPIES AND WERE AFFECTED BY THE SLANDEROUS REPORTS, 'YAHUAH STILL PRESERVED FOR HIMSELF A REMNANT - SOME WHO DID NOT PROVOKE HIM AT ALL (JOSHUA AND CALEB)'. NOT ALL THAT CAME OUT OF EGYPT BY MOSES REBELLED.
UP UNTIL NOW PAUL HAS NOT MENTIONED THE NAME OF YAHUSHA, BUT HE WANTS TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THE ONLY WAY TO `ENTER INTO THIS NEW REST' (THAT ISRAEL COULD NOT EXPERIENCE) - IS THROUGH THE BODY AND BLOOD OF THE CREATOR AND ALEPH-TAU YAHUSHA !!
SUCH WAS THE COUNTERPART IN THE DAYS OF PAUL ALSO. MOST OF THE JEWISH NATION HAD SEEN THE SIGNS AND WONDERS OF YAHUSHA BUT MOST REFUSED TO ENTER INTO HIS REST, THROUGH THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN, HARDENING OF THE HEART, AND UNBELIEF! THESE WERE THE COUNTERPART OF THEIR FATHERS, WHO, AFTER WITNESS-ING THE FRUITS OF THE PROMISED LAND TURNED AWAY IN UNBELIEF, AND SO DIED IN THE WILDERNESS ... SO DID THIS GENERATION OF YAHUSHA’S DAY ... AS SEEN IN THE GOSPELS.
BUT YAHUSHA AGAIN PRESERVED A TRUSTWORTHY WITNESS TO HIMSELF. OUT OF THAT VERY GENERATION THERE CAME THE `JOSHUA-CALEB COMPANY' WHO DID BELIEVE AND RECEIVED A NEW HEART AND SPIRIT, AND FOLLOWED ON TO KNOW YAHUSHA, TASTING THE FIRST-FRUITS OF THE LAND OF PROMISE IN HIM THROUGH HIS SPIRIT.
17 ... So who was Alahim actually grieved with for 40 years? Obviously with those who sinned, and whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
THE WORD `CARCASE´ HERE IS ACTUALLY ‘LIMB´ … THE DISMEMBERED BODIES, CARCASSES OR CORPSES THAT WERE STREWN AND LEFT IN THE DESERT. THE WORD IMPLIES THAT THEIR BODIES FELL LIMB FROM LIMB! SO NEAR, YET SO FAR FROM THE VERY LAND THEY WERE TO ENTER INTO. SELF-INFLICTED TERRIBLE JUDGMENT CAME
THE HEBREW BELIEVERS IN YAHUSHA BELONGED TO THIS NEW COMPANY OF BELIEF, WHILE THE NATION GENERALLY DIED IN UNBELIEF. ALL ABOVE 20 YEARS OF AGE REJECTED THE MESSAGE OF THE LAND AND PERISHED IN UNBELIEF .
UPON THEM BECAUSE OF THE SIN OF UNBELIEF. SO THE THOUGHT HERE IS THAT THE WILDERNESS JOURNEY WOULD EXHAUST THEM, CAUSE THEM TO FAINT, AND UNDER THE JUDGMENTS OF YAHUAH, THEY WOULD FALL TO PIECES, LIMB FROM LIMB!
18 ...Those who YAHUAH swore would never enter into His rest because of their unbelief! 19 So we see that they couldn’t enter in because of their unbelief and disobedience!
HOW MANY WILDERNESS WANDERING `BRIDAL BELIEVERS' ARE SICK & DYING FOR NOT DISCERNING AND SEEING WHO YAHUSHA REALLY IS AND THE BEHAVIOURAL (METAMORPHIC) REQUIREMENTS ?
SO WE SEE THAT THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF - THE ONE THING THAT KEPT ISRAEL OUT OF THE LAND WAS UNBELIEF! IT WAS NOT THE GIANTS IN THE LAND, NOR YAHUAH, BUT THEIR OWN UNBELIEF - THEMSELVES! THE GREAT GIANT THAT KEPT THEM OUT WAS UNBELIEF. UNBELIEF IS NOT A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING BUT AN UNWILLINGNESS TO TRUST YAHUSHA.
UNBELIEF IS THE GREATEST SIN AGAINST YAHUSHA FOR IT IS DISOBEDIENCE, INFACT UNBELIEF AND DISOBEDIENCE MEAN ONE AND THE SAME THING! ONE IS THE INNER ROOT, AND THE OTHER THE EVIDENT FRUIT. UNBELIEF IS A CHOICE OF THE HEART, NOT MERELY A CONFLICT OF THE MIND. TO BELIEVE IS TO SEE AND FOLLOW YAHUSHA WHERE HE IS GOING. BELIEF IS OBEDIENCE. UNBELIEF IS DISOBEDIENCE!
So here in Hebrews 3 Paul uses Yahusha's first Bride Israel (the Wilderness Assembly) and her quest to enter a luscious promised
land of milk and honey (and failure) ... as a type and SHADOW for the heart condition of the Bridal Assembly today and her UNBELIEF to enter a promised place of rest and elated joy after her journey through the REDEMPTIVE WILDERNESS FEASTS of testing and trial (from her Passover Exodus and Pentecost Spirit - Empowerment onto Tabernacles Overcoming and Maturity).
