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Hi Kenny, what you post has no truth in it but let me show you what the scriptures actually say now so we can see what the scriptures (not me) say. I have studied this topic in detail Kenny, let it be a blessing for you.
GOD'S WARNINGS AGAINST SIN AND UNBELIEF AND BREAKING THE SABBATH HEBREWS 3 and HEBREWS 4
Let's look at the scriptures in detail that prove that Gods people in the wilderness did not enter into Gods Sabbath rest because of their sins defined in the scriptures as breaking Gods law and unbelief or not believing and obeying Gods Word (see 1 John 3:4 and Romans 14:23).
HEBREWS 3:8-19
8,
HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS, AS IN THE PROVOCATION, IN THE DAY OF TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS:
9, When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10, Why
I WAS GRIEVED WITH THAT GENERATION, AND SAID, THEY DO ALWAYS ERR IN THEIR HEART; AND THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN MY WAYS.
11, SO I SWORE IN MY WRATH, THEY SHALL NOT ENTER INTO
MY REST.
12, TAKE HEED, BROTHERS,
LEST THERE BE IN ANY OF YOU AN EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF, IN DEPARTING FROM THE LIVING GOD.
13, But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day;
LEST ANY OF YOU BE HARDENED THROUGH THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN.
14, For we are made partakers of Christ, IF WE HOLD THE BEGINNING OF OUR CONFIDENCE STEADFAST TO THE END;
15, While it is said, To day if you will hear his voice,
HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS, as in the provocation.
16, For some, when they had heard, did provoke: however, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17, BUT WITH WHOM WAS HE GRIEVED FORTY YEARS? WAS IT NOT WITH THEM
THAT HAD SINNED, WHOSE CARCASSES FELL IN THE WILDERNESS?
18, And to whom swore he THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO
HIS REST, BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT?
19, So we see that they
COULD NOT ENTER IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.
KEY POINTS TO NOTE FROM THE SCRIPTURES IN HEBREWS 3 WORD FOR WORD
- Hebrews 3:8 A warning not to harden our hearts to God's Word
- Hebrews 3:9-10 Those in the wilderness tempted God 40 years and did not obey him or his ways
- Hebrews 3:11 God swore they would not enter into "His Rest" (Genesis 2:1-3; see Ezekiel 20:10-13)
- Hebrews 3:12 Another warning not to harden our hearts in unbelief departing from God
- Hebrews 3:13 Encourage one and other lest we harden our hearts in sin (breaking Gods' law 1 John 3:4)
- Hebrews 3:14 We are only partakers of Christ "IF" we hold the the faith steadfast to the end
- Hebrews 3:15-17 More warnings not to harden our hearts as those who sinned died in the wilderness
- Hebrews 3:18-19 God did not let them enter into "His rest" because they were in unbelief
Note: Hebrews 3 and it's link to Ezekiel 20:10-13 how God's people were breaking "
His Sabbath" and God poured out his judgements on them...
EZEKIEL 20:10-13 [10], Why I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt and
BROUGHT THEM INTO THE WILDERNESS. [11], and
I GAVE THEM MY STATUTES, AND SHOWED THEM MY JUDGMENTS, WHICH IF A MAN DO, HE SHALL LIVE IN THEM. [12], MOREOVER ALSO I GAVE THEM
MY SABBATHS, TO BE A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND THEM THAT THEY MAY KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THAT SANCTIFY THEM. [13],
BUT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL REBELLED AGAINST ME IN THE WILDERNESS: THEY WALKED NOT IN MY STATUTES AND DESPISED MY JUDGMENTS WHICH IF A MAN DO THEY SHALL LIVE IN THEM AND MY SABBATHS THEY GREATLY POLLUTED: THEN I SAID I WOULD POUR OUT MY FURY ON THEM IN THE WILDERNESS, TO CONSUME THEM.
Note: Hebrews 3 and it's links to Psalms 95:2-11 and Ezekiel 20:10-13 which is also over worshiping God as the God of creation and the Sabbath commandment and not entering God's rest (the seventh day created from the foundation of the world)...
PSALMS 95:2-11
[2], Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
[3], For THE LORD IS A GREAT GOD, AND A GREAT KING ABOVE ALL GODS.
[4], In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
[5], THE SEA IS HIS, AND HE MADE IT: AND HIS HANDS FORMED THE DRY LAND.
[6], O come, let us worship and bow down: let us KNEEL BEFORE THE LORD OUR MAKER.
[7], FOR HE IS OUR GOD; AND WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF HIS PASTURE, AND THE SHEEP OF HIS HAND.
TODAY IF YOU WILL HEAR HIS VOICE,
[8], HARDEN NOT YOUR HEART, AS IN THE PROVOCATION, AND AS IN THE DAY OF TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS:
[9], WHEN YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME, PROVED ME, AND SAW MY WORK.
[10], FORTY YEARS LONG WAS I GRIEVED WITH THIS GENERATION, AND SAID, IT IS A PEOPLE THAT DO ERR IN THEIR HEART, AND THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN MY WAYS:
[11], TO WHOM I SWORE IN MY WRATH THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO
MY REST.
Note the link back to what Hebrews 3 is quoting....
- Psalms 95:2-7 is worshiping the only true creator God of heaven and earth. Today if you hear His voice…. (“This is the another day” in Hebrews 4:7-8 spoken of by David ….. for if Joshua had given them rest – (promised land) David would not have spoken of “another day” saying “Today if you hear His voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the wilderness. Gods’ people were still hardening their hearts in sin and unbelief)
- Psalms 95:8 "Harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the wilderness (see Hebrews 3:8)
- Psalms 95:9 "When your fathers tempted me 40 years" (see Hebrews 3:9)
- Psalms 95:10 40 years Gods' people did not know God's ways (Hebrews 3:10)
- Psalms 95:11 Because God's people did not know God's ways they did not enter His rest (Hebrews 3:11)
SUMMARY: Hebrews 3 is has links to Ezekiel 20:10-12 and is directly quoting from Psalms 95 which is about worshiping the only true God and creator of heaven and earth. God's people did not know God's ways and broke His Sabbaths and God did not give them His rest. They could not enter into God's rest because of unbelief and sin and God poured out His judgements on them because they broke his Sabbaths and they died in the wilderness because of their unbelief and sins.
Let's define what Gods' rest/My rest/His rest is from the scriptures in the next post
