What does this mean?
2007-09-11 07:05:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Edit: Hear O Israel: Whose ears?
2007-09-11 08:13:26 · update #1
It means the same thing as James 2.
Faith without works is dead. Everything in the context of this passage has to do with Israel's unbelief and that unbelief was shown outwardly by their disobedience. The golden calf, The rebellion of Korah, the refusal to go into the land at Kadesh Barnea, The insistence to try and go into the land when they were punished for not going into the land, the whining about the mana, the breaking of the sabbath, etc etc etc.
You can claim to love Yahweh all you want, If your not obeying Him you Don't. 1 John 5:3
You can claim to belong to Yeshua and that he has saved you from your sins but if your not obeying him you are not His. Rom. 6:16
Just like it says in James 2 outward works is the proof of the pudding, If you truly believe and love God your works will make it obvious.
Truly it is sad that for the most part my brothers and sisters will have to suffer during the tribulation period because they refuse to believe and obey. Repent! The Kingdom of God is at hand!
2007-09-11 07:51:57 · answer #1 · answered by Tzadiq 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It means that, although they heard it, they did not really believe it. If they had truly believed it, then things would have gone so differently.
It's just like when the spies were sent and when they came back some were saying "these people are too great for us to conquer", and all of the wishy-washy people who had already SEEN what God would do for them agreed.
Faith IS. The people around us can see the obvious changes that this religion (and it IS a religion) makes in our lives, and they still refuse to believe. We can preach to people all day long...but if the Father hasn't opened their eyes, we are wasting our time.
Yeshua said that NO man comes to me unless the Father draws him. It's not so much us, but the Father, that draws people to Yeshua. We just have to live lives that are so different from the world (that those Israelites in the wilderness wanted to go back to) that the world will see that we are different. Being "different"...set apart...Holy. We don't do what they do. We don't watch what they watch (TV). We live our lives as though someone else is in control, and He had very well better be in control. It's too deep to be able to express it in this forum. That's why Paul's (Sha'ul's) words are so easily misunderstood and perverted.
2007-09-11 09:01:08 · answer #2 · answered by NXile 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heb 4:2 For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.
If you read the last part of Heb 3 it is refering to the Israelites when they were given the law by Moses after the exodus from Egypt. They heard the law and the promises given to them from God, they heard but their hearts were hardened by unbelief. It was this belief that God couldn't give them the promised land that was responsible for the 40 years of wandering in the desert until that generation of unbelievers had passed away.
So it means that only through faith can the message be of any value to you.
2007-09-11 07:23:14 · answer #3 · answered by x 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The book of hebrews chapter 4 verse 2
2007-09-11 07:09:21 · answer #4 · answered by misty_dawn1100 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Simply that some beleived and some beleived not because the word which went forth fell on def ears.
Aditional note:--------------- Ears reffers to the receptical hearing of an individual wether jew or gentile if you want to know whoose ears is the writer refering too, I would need to read the entire context to determine that, but I think he is just generalizing.
I am just answering you as you post your comments, whatever the spirit moves me to teach on the basis of what I know that I will write.
2007-09-11 08:06:30 · answer #5 · answered by Free Cuba 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The gospel was offered to ancient Israel
2007-09-11 07:11:53 · answer #6 · answered by phrog 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are right in rightly dividing the Word of Truth. Paul because the creator of among the New Testament addresses his letters to the church buildings with, "God the Father and Jesus Christ His Son." When persons learn the Word they need to first pray over their studying and ask God to disclose the reality of scripture to them. David prayed this in Psalms. May the phrases of my mouth and the meditations of my middle be fulfilling and appropriate in Thy sight, oh Lord. We have got to search to realise as we're understood. The Word is ideal and precise in all it is approaches. There is none else just like the Lord. It's overwhelming with all He's performed for us that He could name us pal and household, then take us into His bosoms. God is High and Holy and Jesus grew to be meek and lowly for us, for Him in view that of His love for us. What a Savior!
2016-09-05 10:16:34 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the writer was speaking on a day that will always be kept as a perpetual covenant in heaven and as Jesus would in the L-rds prayer "on earth as it is in heaven" "SABBATH" this one needs a bit more than whats given, read before and after 4-2 to see what i being talked about.
2007-09-11 08:47:29 · answer #8 · answered by Bob d 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without faith, they could not understand or respond to the gospel.
BTW; They did not enter into God's rest; but they did enter into the weekly sabbath that was a shadow of this rest, found in Christ. This rest is not the shadow-day, but literally IN Christ.
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2007-09-12 07:59:27 · answer #9 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hebrews 4:2
"For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith."
The people who heard the gospel truth were not enabled by the Lord to understand it.....and were still adhering to works + grace....rather than just grace & faith
2007-09-11 07:11:26 · answer #10 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋