Hebrews Introduction
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The recipients of Hebrews clearly had been undergoing persecution for their faith (10:32-34; 12:4). They were also giving of themselves, busy serving others (6:10). And yet they were immature (5:11–6:12) and needed to be taught again the elementary truths of God’s Word (5:12). The warnings issued in this book show that many of these Christians were wavering in their faith and tempted to desert it altogether (2:1-4; 4:12-13; 6:4-8; 10:26-31; 12:25-29). They stood in danger of falling away from Christ, probably to avoid persecution.
A recurring theme throughout the letter is Christ’s superiority over everything in the Jewish religion to which they wanted to return. Jesus is far above and beyond the Old Testament prophets, the angels, Moses, Joshua, and the Aaronic priesthood. So why would the Hebrews ever want to go back to that old system when the new had come?
Jesus is God’s final and full revelation to the world. Therefore anyone who claims to be a prophet with a new revelation must be considered a false prophet (Mt 24:5,11,23-26).