Hebrews 3
Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Our Father tells us in His Word, we will Live by every Word of God. And then, He says we should renew our minds and see old things in new ways.
We always consider God to be so angry in the Old Testament. Really, God did not care for the infant sacrifice for prosperity so common in Baal worship around Israel. God, in fact, said come out from among them. Blood on the fields will grow crops, but what people do this?
And when we consider the Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow video of Israel, we might think of Ezekiel 37. Old Testament...
This surely does not sound very angry.
And the Resurrection? Began to be part of God's Plan as God spoke Light into True Light. Before Abraham. In the Old Testament.
The Bones so dead, would rise up and Live. From God's Spoken Word - Jesus - incarnate Word of God, Jesus, Himself.
Ezekiel 37 is Old Testament.
In the New Testament...
Does God repent of all of the wars the earth has seen from the dawn of time to our time? No. God tells us in Hebrews 3, mankind has free will. Father God desires us to employ Life, given to us to stand every day before God, in Jesus, and we will Live.
Hebrews 3 points out the analogy of making choices to Live during the tribulations of the Exodus. God our Father is still talking about this through out the Gospels and New Testament. God is the same Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. God promised the Children of Israel, Israel would be a land of milk and honey. God knows what God Himself is doing.
Consider what God told Micah, Old Testament, in the Holy Spirit:
Our Father God, Father of Jesus Christ, showing His exact personality, is the same always.
Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
Psalm 121
My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Isaiah 66:13
700 years before Jesus arrives as Grace upon Grace
700 years before Jesus arrives as Grace upon Grace
As a mother comforts her child,
so will I comfort you;
and you shall will be comforted in Jerusalem.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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