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There are no Apostles today. Note the past tense;
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?” Hebrews 2:3–4 (KJV 1900)
This verse is in the past tense simply because it is speaking of those apostles in Israel, not in the sense of cessation. The writer of Hebrews is self identifying as Jewish believer. You are seeing this from from both a cessationist point of view and in a titular point of view.
Post Script
We know the final book of the Bible, Revelations, was written at the end of the 1st century, which means many, if not all, the known apostles were still alive when Hebrews was written. It would be highly presumptive on the part of the writer (Paul imo) to assume the apostolic ministry was over while they were still actively doing the work.
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