The Daily Word

 

Hebrews is above all a book on contrasts. The key thought is the word ‘better’, because a contrast inevitably compares one thing with another and one generally comes out better. So the very first verse of Hebrews which starts out so dramatically and which we considered yesterday has the very first contrast in it.

So we will consider first what the old system of approaching God had to offer and the way God interacted with His people. “God, Who spoke to His people at various times and in various ways in the past.”

If we go through the Old Testament and look at the ways and means God used to seek to get His People to listen to Him and to follow His commandments, we do have a multiplicity of occurrences and many times God physically appeared and took on the form of an angel or another human being. The people whom He appeared to were generally in awe of the vision they had seen but it never had a lasting effect. Always, the people lapsed into sin again and eventually God just spoke through the prophets and then the were some hundreds of years of silence before the birth of Jesus.

There was no lasting vision of God that carried His people forward to righteous living and a stable relationship with God. But that was about to change for ever…...

Article written by Brian Preston, Elder @SFGH Church