Nearly 2,000 years ago some Jewish separatists who lived near the Dead Sea labroriously copied down the Hebrew scriptures. Between 1947 and 1949 around 1,000 of those documents were discovered in some eleven caves. Some sixty years later, thanks to Al Gore inventing the internet, the average person is now able to view many of [...]
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The Priesthood of Melchizedek in Hebrews
Introduction
Against the backdrop of biblical literature there are many varied and colorful characters. For many of these characters we have a plethora of information while information on others remains clouded and even mysterious. Among the pages of the Bible comes one of the most mysterious of these figures, the pries-king [...]
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Rest in Hebrews Three and Four
The term rest is used no less than eleven times from Hebrews 3:11-4:11 {Net Bible}. There are many varied interpretations of this term, and its meaning for Christians today. It is this author’s contention that the term rest is an corresponding term to inheritance. The teaching of this passage [...]
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