MIKE BALLOUN | HEBREWS CHAPTER 12:18-24

Mike Balloun teaches today. 07-11-2020
HEBREWS CHAPTER 12:18-24

VERSES: Exodus 19-34; 1st Corinthians 10:11; Revelation 19:7-9; John 4:23-24; Hebrews 9:13-15

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Hebrews 12:18-24 (the 5th warning continued)

“For ye (we) have not come unto the mount that might be touched (that might be felt, not only seen) and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of trumpet, and the voice of words; (the terrifying voice of God; “I am the Lord thy God… thou shalt have no other gods but me”… “I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God”) which voice they (the elders) that heard entreated (Moses) that the word would not be spoken to them any more: (For they could not endure (or bear the thought of the prohibition) that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” [Hebrews 12:18-24 (These verses have Exodus chapters 19-24 in view.)

Obviously this 5th warning of falling from grace (verse 15) and shunning the promised privileges of the Gospel, as those other four warnings previously discussed in other lessons, is being addressed to born again Christians. The Author begins to make parallels of the honors bestowed and lost between them and the redeemed Israelites from Egypt. “For ye are not come…But ye are come…” (verse 22) The Israelites were in the third month from coming out of Egypt and were being led to the mount of God and now camped close to the foot of Mt. Sinai / Mt. Horeb, where God had determined to frighteningly reveal Himself to them. (Exodus19-24) This sets the scene for these warning and instructive verses before us in the 12th chapter of Hebrews. Compare with Galatians Chapter 4 where the inferiority of the earthly Mount is declared. (In verses 18-21, there is a further fulfillment which answers to the future terrifying day of the great tribulation of Matthew 24:21, expounded upon in the Book of Revelation.)

The Author’s idea is to comfort and warn these Hebrew Christians, who although having lost their Jewish privileges of Temple sacrifice and priestly intermediacy, are now guided and instructed. For those historical happenings at Mt. Sinai were but shadowing examples of the heavenly realities. (1st Corinthians 10:11) Privileges now were being granted unto all these Hebrew Christians who had been led by Christ, the true and great Mediator of a new and better covenant, (that covenant being with all mankind) to the foot of that heavenly Mount Zion. And that being on the same basis as those led to Mt. Sinai; that basis being God so loved the World, and because he would keep the oath which He spoke to Adam and swore to Abraham. (Deuteronomy 7:8 with Genesis 3:15; 15:18; 22:17) This new covenant heavenly access was solely granted by the sprinkling of Jesus’ Blood; the Lamb of God. (See Exodus 24:6-8 where the covenant of Moses was ratified and sealed by the sprinkling of the inferior blood… “And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.” See also Hebrews 9:13-15… “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.” And also Hebrews 10:22… “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts.......

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