Shuva Israel

Readings Lev. 17:11, Ps. 40:6-8 Heb. 10:19-25 The book of Hebrews was written to encourage Jewish believers in Yeshua not to return to the old covenant system of sacrifices. In Hebrews 10, the writer’s focus is that the sacrifice of Yeshua is far superior to the repeated sacrifices of the Older Covenant, which could never … Read more

The main message of Hebrews 8 is why God gave Israel a New Covenant. The Lord spoke of this New Covenant through Jeremiah, as Israel was taken into captivity.  We learn both from Jeremiah 31 and here in Heb. 8 that the New is better in every way than the Older Covenant. What connects both … Read more

As we continue our studies in the book of Hebrews we come to one of the most important themes of this Letter.  It is the concept of Yeshua as our High Priest. For us to appreciate the importance of this role by Yeshua the Messiah, we need to understand the significance of the High Priest from … Read more

Our society wants more: Much of our society is focused on doing more – getting more – fast food chains and becoming more – Join the Army be all you can be, there is nothing wrong with any of this but are we losing sight of something important? A study in the 70’s based on … Read more

The Book of Hebrews was written to the Jewish people in a key point in their lives.  This letter was written to us as well.  As the French writer so aptly put it “The more things change the more they stay the same.” Our passage this morning is a timeless warning to those who are God’s children.  It … Read more

This morning, I want to consider Verses 5-18 where we learn what man’s intended destiny is – how and why it was lost – and how it can be recovered. In v 5-8: For He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking. But one has testified somewhere, saying, … Read more

The first 6 verses of chap. 3 present an important teaching that lays a foundation for the exhortation that is in this chapter.  It has to do with Moses and comparing him to Yeshua. Moses is esteemed by our people as far above any other Jew who ever lived.  God had miraculously protected him as a baby … Read more

In our study of Hebrews, we have come to realize that the circumstances surrounding why this letter was written was the pressure on the Jewish believers in Jesus in the 1st century. Pressures from the leadership of Israel as well as from Nero, the Roman emperor who sought to divert attention from himself for the … Read more

One of the most significant books of the New Covenant is the letter to the Hebrews, or Messianic Believers.  Hebrews touches the (Tanaka Older Covenant) more than any other book in the New.   This letter was written in the 60’s of the first century.  Many of the Jewish people who had come to believe in Yeshua as … Read more

This morning, we are going to focus on Heb. 7. But by introduction on want to give us a bird’s eye view of the first 6 chapters. The book of Hebrews was addressed to Jewish Believers in Yeshua while the Temple was still standing. Because of pressures from their home Synagogues and unbelieving family there … Read more