Falling back from the Lord is the message of Hebrews.
Those who are not ready will enter the Tribulation and it will cost them their lives to hold the testimony of Christ.
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Whst do you make of those who did not have enough oil ?
They will enter into the tribulation
But they knew the Truth.
Could they possibly fall back from following the Lord?
Or will they hold to the testimony of Jesus and therefore be killed
Are these included in with those who did not love their lives even to the death.
what do you mean is the message from Hebrews?Falling back from the Lord is the message of Hebrews.
Those who are not ready will enter the Tribulation and it will cost them their lives to hold the testimony of Christ.
i believe that there will be those who will rise in the judgement (who did not have a part in the resurrection) whose names will be found in the book of Life
I drawn to the verse where it is said blessed
what do you mean is the message from Hebrews?
The reminder that we have a High Priest. And that we do not need to revert back to sacrifices to clear our conscience
Was the letter to the Hebrews written during the time when the earthly temple had been destroyed?
Got it. I was under the impression that they were confused with the temple destroyed on what they were supposed to do and somehow couldn't make the connection that One Sacrifice is sufficient since the High Priest who entered in by the True Veil lives forever to make intercession for all those who come to Him through faith in His BloodI'm in the camp that believes Paul wrote Hebrews, regardless of that, Hebrews was written to the Jews as a warning from departing from God.
The author (I believe to be Paul) makes it clear that many who accepted Christ had turned back and were turning back to temple worship, Judaism.
Can you refer to the chapter where you understood that some of the believing Jews were falling back to the temple rituals.
Will another temple be built and with it the reinstatement of sacrifices for sin and GuiltWe know there were thousands of Jews who accepted Christ as the Messiah, but still held to the law of Moses.
When Paul came to Jerusalem to see the brethren, the Judaizers laid in wait to kill him because Paul spoke against the law of Moses.
Acts 21:20-21
"And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs."
Now I ask you, is there a gospel for the Jew and another for the Gentile. NO, there is not. This is the framework of the book of Hebrews. A new and better covenant with better promises.
The Christian Jews were being persecuted by the Judaizers because of the law of Moses that Paul said the Christian gentiles were not to do. They hounded Paul throughout his entire ministry holding to the law. In fear of the Judaizers, the Christian Jews were turning back.
Paul compares the priest of the old covenant to the priest of the new covenant, the animal sacrifices to the sacrifice of Christ. Paul is telling the Christian Jews that Christ has met the demands of the law and He Himself is now the High Priest and Mediator. He tells them that if the first covenant had been sufficient, there would be no need for a second. Remember that Paul is speaking to the Jews who have accepted Christ.
He warns them against letting the New Testament slip away (2:1-4), against hardening the heart against the Holy Spirit (3:7-19) against falling away (5:11-6:12), against committing the willful sin of treading underfoot the Son of God, counting His Blood as common Blood, and doing insult to the Holy Spirit (10:26-29), all this being involved in the act of renouncing professed faith in Christ and returning to the Levitical sacrifices.
Ritual sacrifices of what?"Will another temple be built and with it the reinstatement of sacrifices for sin and Guilt"
Not before or during the coming tribulation .... He said that not one stone would be left standing during the tribulation .... there has not been and still is not [Revelation 11:2] .... the mount "without" his temple
His next temple will be built after the days of the tribulation for His millennial kingdom upon the earth [Ezekiel 40]
He will require ritual sacrifices during the period, but only for a symbolic reminder of His own sacrifice on the cross before .... there will be mortal populations in the kingdom who will need salvation just like people do today
And the temple on the mount today is that of the Muslim Dome of the Rock of the false "god" Allah .... this is the temple that Satan's "man of Lawlessness" will sit in during the tribulation [2 Thessalonians 2:3-12]
This is whst I believe as wellPaul said the man of sin (the anti-christ) will sit in the temple of God showing himself to be God. The Dome of the Rock is not the temple of God, and never will be. I believe a temple will be built.
Where and how, I don't know. But I do believe the anti-christ will have something to do with it being built, probably during the first half of the tribulation, just before turning on Israel. It is the determination of the anti-christ to destroy God's chosen people. He came close in WW11 using Hitler to kill some 6 million Jews. He will gain their trust and then destroy them, but not all. The Second Coming will stop him.
That's right! Jesus doesn't mention the rapture in Matt. 24, all of this happens immediately after the rapture. Christ comes back to the rapture beginning in chp. 25 with the parable of the ten virgins.
Matt. 25:6
"And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him."
This is the rapture.
vs. 7-9
"Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves."
The oil represents the Holy Spirit. These were the foolish who departed from the truth and lost their souls, no longer led by the Spirit of God.
vs. 10
"And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut."
The marriage spoken of here is the marriage supper of the Lamb for those who were ready when the Lord came. "The door was shut," and now Matt. 24 begins.
Although I disagree with a lot of what you said, I like that you brought up the point about Lot's wife. However, after that point you seemed to lose focus a little bit. Or maybe I lost focus. Not sure which. Perhaps the video should only be two minutes long, and focus on your one strong point that people will remember.
"One will be taken and the other left" is not referring to the rapture,
My comment
Post-tribulation thinking has many flaws .... but here is just one
If all living believers will be made immortal just after the days of the Lord's coming tribulation and judgment upon the earth, then there will be no moral believers left to [procreate] populate His Millennial kingdom upon the earth .... but there will be
An immortal believer cannot be deceived by Satan [Revelation 20:1-3; 20:7-8]
Immortal believers will not disobey the Lord's dictates during His millennial kingdom .... but there will be mortals who will [Zechariah 14:8-19]
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