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Heb 4:9 "there REMAINS therefore a SABBATH rest for the people of God" (uses the word "remains" instead of "deleted")
Heb 3: (Quotes Ps 95 at the time of DAVID)
7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today if you hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,
As on the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers put Me to the test,
And saw My works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with this generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they did not know My ways’;
11 As I swore in My anger,
‘They certainly shall not enter My rest.’”
12 Take care, brothers and sisters, that there will not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we keep the beginning of our commitment firm until the end,
Note that the risk of rebellion and falling away was not limited to the OT - the risk is the SAME in both OT and NT. This is not about a "Change in the NT".
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Heb 3: 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
Disobedience and unbelief are "the risk"/"the danger" to be avoided.
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Heb 4
Therefore, we must fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed we have had good news (GOSPEL) preached to us, just as they also did;
SAME Gospel according to Heb 4:2 - and SAME warning given to us in Heb 3 and 4 as we see in Ps 95 given to Israel by David. And the SAME example of "failure" given to BOTH the saints of David's day AND the NT saints - regarding the ones who rebelled against God in the wilderness.
Obviously Moses, Aaron, Miriam and others who died in the wilderness were prophets of God , faithful saints and Moses is affirmed in Heb 3 as well as Heb 11 as a saint. In fact in Matt 17 Moses appears in glory with Elijah and Christ on the mount of transfiguration BEFORE the cross even happens.
Heb 4:6 Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who previously had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,
Heb 4:7 He again sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,
“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. 9 Consequently, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.
The "rest" is past tense in Heb 4. "HAS also rested", "HAS entered His rest". Heb 3 ends on the note of "perseverance" to continue 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we keep the beginning of our commitment firm until the end
Heb 3: (Quotes Ps 95 at the time of DAVID)
7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today if you hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,
As on the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers put Me to the test,
And saw My works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with this generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they did not know My ways’;
11 As I swore in My anger,
‘They certainly shall not enter My rest.’”
12 Take care, brothers and sisters, that there will not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we keep the beginning of our commitment firm until the end,
Note that the risk of rebellion and falling away was not limited to the OT - the risk is the SAME in both OT and NT. This is not about a "Change in the NT".
========== part II
Heb 3: 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
Disobedience and unbelief are "the risk"/"the danger" to be avoided.
=========== Part III
Heb 4
Therefore, we must fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed we have had good news (GOSPEL) preached to us, just as they also did;
SAME Gospel according to Heb 4:2 - and SAME warning given to us in Heb 3 and 4 as we see in Ps 95 given to Israel by David. And the SAME example of "failure" given to BOTH the saints of David's day AND the NT saints - regarding the ones who rebelled against God in the wilderness.
Obviously Moses, Aaron, Miriam and others who died in the wilderness were prophets of God , faithful saints and Moses is affirmed in Heb 3 as well as Heb 11 as a saint. In fact in Matt 17 Moses appears in glory with Elijah and Christ on the mount of transfiguration BEFORE the cross even happens.
Heb 4:6 Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who previously had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,
Heb 4:7 He again sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,
“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. 9 Consequently, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.
The "rest" is past tense in Heb 4. "HAS also rested", "HAS entered His rest". Heb 3 ends on the note of "perseverance" to continue 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we keep the beginning of our commitment firm until the end
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