Hebrews Introduction

 

After a wonderful pilgrimage through the Psalms of the Bible, it became a dilemma to try to work out where to go next in our musings. I pondered Ephesians, since that is a wonderful, heavenly explanation of who we are and all that the Lord has done for us, it also covers the relationship between Jews and Gentiles and the nature of the spiritual war that we are involved in. However, it is impossible to take a verse from Ephesians and writer a bite-size commentary on what it means!

Then it became clear, it has to be Hebrews. No Scriptures are more quoted in the Book of Hebrews than the Psalms, in fact the writer composes much of his letter as a series of arguments from the Psalms showing us how Jesus came to fulfil so much of what is written by the ancient songwriters. The Book of Hebrews was written for Jewish believers in Christ, and it sets out to confirm that He fulfilled the Old Testament Scriptures particularly as High Priest. 

The author of Hebrews remains anonymous although some speculate that he was the Apostle Paul. No community of believers is addressed in Hebrews; it is a letter written around AD 67-70 to the Jewish members of the universal church. I invite you to come with us on this journey of discovery as we delve into the wonderful truths contained in this sacred text and may the Holy Spirit be our teacher, as we seek to understand what God is saying at this time in the history of our world. 

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