Israel had just been mightily redeemed and delivered from Egypt. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had done as He had promised: He saved his people from slavery, brought them safely through the Red Sea, and soundly destroyed their enemy through powerful signs and wonders. Yet in no time, barely started on their desert journey, the people found themselves unable to trust in their self-evident Savior. Already, they were threatening and grumbling against God’s man Moses because they were without water. So God instructed Moses to strike a rock with his staff, producing a miraculous outpouring from which the people could drink. Moses then called that place Massah and Meribah (Exodus 17:7)—meaning “testing” and “provoking”—because they had tested and provoked God through their unbelief of His presence and power.
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The awesome and deeply profound book of Hebrews (Iv’riym) begins with a revelation of the Son—not only of His divine preeminence, but of His Deity. In other words, the Son of God—Yeshua—is God. Yet it is not the Son’s deity alone which makes Yeshua perfect. Surprisingly, as we learn in Hebrews chapter 2, there was something that at one time even God couldn’t do. That’s why the Son’s perfection comes through His humanity.
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Perhaps one of the most awe-inspiring pieces of writing in all of Scripture—and more than worthy of this new series—is the anonymous letter to a group of Messianic Jews, commonly known as the book of Hebrews (Iv’riym). The letter is believed to have been written in 69 AD, shortly before the destruction of the Temple and during a time of continuing oppression and persecution of the believers. In it, the author aims to encourage and strengthen his fellow Jewish believers who were having difficulty staying true to their brand-new, Messianic faith, and does this by expertly building a case for having complete trust in the author and perfecter of that faith: Yeshua.
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