Melchizedek was both a king and a priest. He also was superior to Abraham, since Abraham paid him tithe. Likewise,...
The basic purpose of the Levitical priesthood was to mediate between sinful people and God. Priests were appointed by...
Join Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and this quarter's author, Félix Cortez-Valles, as they provide additional...
Our own corrupted nature separated us from God, just as two magnets in the wrong orientation repel each other. In...
From the second century A.D. forward, we find evidences of a decisive change in the church. Sabbath observance ceased...
God commanded us to celebrate His acts of redemption through Sabbath observance because Sabbath pointed forward to...
In Deuteronomy Israel is commanded to keep the Sabbath in view of God’s finished work of deliverance from Egyptian...
God invites us “today” to enter into His rest. “Today” is a crucial concept throughout Scripture. When Moses renewed...
The sad story is that those who were delivered from Egypt were unable to enter into the rest that God had promised...
When God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt, His purpose was to bring Israel to the land of Canaan, where they...
Hebrews 3 and 4 introduce Jesus as the One who will provide rest for us. This progression makes sense once we...
Hebrews 2:13 contains the words of Jesus to His Father talking about His brethren: “‘Here am I and the children whom...
Another reason Jesus adopted our human nature and lived among us was so that He could be our Example, the only One...
Jesus did not have to overcome any kind of moral or ethical imperfection. He was perfect both morally and ethically....
Hebrews says that Jesus was made like His brothers “in all things” (Heb. 2:17). This expression means that Jesus...
Hebrews says that Jesus was not ashamed to call us His brethren (Heb. 2:11). Despite being one with God, Jesus...
Jesus adopted our human nature and became flesh and blood like us. He became our nearest Relative and redeemed us. He...
The presentation of Jesus as a faithful and merciful Brother is depicted in the description of the Son as the...
The coming of Jesus to this earth as the Son of God fulfilled several functions at the same time.
Jesus was begotten in the sense that He was installed, or “adopted,” by God as the promised Ruler, the Son of David....
Hebrews affirms that God created the world “through” or “by” Jesus and that Jesus sustains the world with His...
Just as the sun cannot be perceived except by the radiance of its light, God is known through Jesus. From our...
For the Jews in the first century A.D., the Word of God had not been heard for a long time. The last revelation to be...
Scripture employs two expressions about the future that have different meanings. The prophets used the expression...
Right after Adam and Eve sinned, God promised them a “seed,” a Son who would deliver them from the enemy, recover the...
Paul says that we, like the desert generation, also are at the border of the Promised Land. Our privileges and...
The sacrifices of animals prefigured the death of Jesus as a sacrifice in our behalf, but their blood could not...
