Hebrews 1:1-2
Complete Apostles' Bible (1) God,
who in various ways and in many ways spoke in time past to the fathers
by the prophets, (2) has
in these last days spoken
to us by the Son,
whom He has appointed heir of all
things, through whom also He made the worlds;
Hebrews 1:10-12
Complete Apostles' Bible (10) And:
"You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the
heavens are the work of Your hands. (11) They
shall perish, but You continue; and they all shall grow old like a
garment; (12) and
like a cloak You will roll them up, and they shall be changed. But You
are the same, and Your years will not fail."
Hebrews speaks of the church days way back in the fist century as THESE
LAST DAYS.
It is language that is very popularly mistaken as being the end of time.
Ephesians
1:10 KJV That in
the dispensation of the fulness of times he
might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in
heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Paul called it the FULLNESS OF TIMES.
- THE ADVANCED STATE OF THE
WORLD in which God set out to bring the FULLNESS OF ALL his will for
the entire human race.
- I am glad we have come to
the day when ISRAEL is not the only nation who can have a relationship
with God, BUT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE ADAM'S FALL, God has dealt with
the ENTIRETY OF NATIONS ON THE EARTH in this new and last covenant.
Acts
2:16-17 Complete Apostles' Bible (16) "But this
is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
(17) "And
it shall be in the last days",
says God, "that I will pour from My Spirit on all flesh, and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy; and your young men shall see
visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;"
1
John 2:18 KJV Little children, it
is the last time: and as ye
have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many
antichrists; whereby we
know that it is the last time.
Hebrews 1:2 KJV Hath in
these last days spoken
unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom
also he made the worlds;
1 Corinthians 10:11 KJV (11) Now all these things
happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon
whom the ends of the world are come.
1 Corinthians 7:29 KJV But this I say, brethren, the
time is short: it remaineth,
that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
Hebrews 10:37 KJV For yet
a little while, and
he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Matthew 16:28 KJV Verily I say unto you, There
be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see
the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Matthew 26:64 KJV Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said:
nevertheless I
say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the
right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
And Israel could be considered the HEAVENLY people since they had a
divine law, covenant, government and doctrine.
- Rest of the nations are
considered gentile and had nothing to do with anything from heaven in
their nations.
And as we read through Hebrews, the mention of the idea of something
waxing or growing old and rolled up and changed like old clothing, that
referred to heaven and earth, is applied to something that would really
jolt you and let you realize what he meant by heaven and earth removed
and rolled up like old clothes.
Hebrews
8:7-13 Complete Apostles' Bible (7) For if that
first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought
for a second. (8) For finding fault with them, He
says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will
establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of
Judah, (9) not according to the covenant which I
made with their fathers, in the day when I took their hand to lead them
out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not persevere in My
covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.
(10) For this is the covenant which I shall covenant with the
house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in
their mind, and I shall inscribe them upon their hearts; and I will be
their God, and they shall be My people. (11) And by
no means will they teach each one his fellow citizen, and each one his
brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for all shall know Me, from the least
of them to the greatest of them. (12) For I will be
merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless
deeds I shall by no means remember anymore." (13)
By the saying "new ," He has made the first obsolete. And the one
becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish.
He uses the same language he did in chapter one to speak of HEAVEN AND
EARTH taken off, rolled up and thrown aside for new clothing AND
APPLIES IT TO COVENANTS.
- FIRST COVENANT
- SECOND COVENANT
Notice he uses GENESIS language of creation from Gen 1 of HEAVEN AND
EARTH, and NOW A NEW ONE.
1
Corinthians 15:46 Complete Apostles' Bible (46)
However, that
which is spiritual is not first, but that which is natural, then that
which is spiritual.
We read of this principle in 1 Cor 15.
- Everything that God did
PHYSICALLY in the NATURAL WORLD of NATURE, is to be DONE A SECOND TIME
SPIRITUALLY.
- Never a second time
naturally.
The Old Covenant was FLESHLY and NATURAL covenant.
- It dealt with very fleshly
and natural rules.
Hebrews
9:8-12 Complete Apostles' Bible (8) the Holy Spirit
signifying this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet
revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing,
(9) which was symbolic for the present time, according to
which both gifts and sacrifices are being offered, which are not able,
in respect to conscience, to make perfect the one performing the
service, (10) concerned only with foods and drinks,
various washings, and fleshly ordinances which are imposed until a time
of reformation. (11) But Christ came as a High
Priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect
tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this
creation. (12) Not through the blood of goats and
calves, but through His own blood, He entered once for all into the
Holies, having obtained eternal redemption.
After we read of NEW COVENANT coming like a new set of clothes to
replace the old worn out clothing God removed and rolled up and cast
away, we read these words.
- FLESHLY ORDINANCES made up
the OLD COVENANT.
- They were so outward that
they could do NOTHING for the inner part of us, our consciences.
Hebrews
9:13-14 Complete Apostles' Bible (13) For if the
blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those
having been defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,
(14) by how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, will cleanse
your conscience from dead works in order that we might serve the living
God?
Those things purged the FLESH but not the conscience.
Hebrews
9:22 Complete Apostles' Bible (22) And according to
the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding
of blood there is no remission.
Almost all. BUT NOT CONSCIENCE.
And then we are taken back to ANOTHER ASPECT OF CREATION, apart from
the idea of HEAVEN AND EARTH.
- It appears that GOD NEVER
MAKES ONE VERSION OF SOMETHING IN THE NATURAL AND MAKES A SECOND NEW
NATURAL VERSION.
- He MAKES THE FIRST VERSION
NATURAL AND MAKES THE SECOND VERSION SPIRITUAL ONLY.
