Promise of Millennium rest / Hebrews Bible Study (Part 11) / Chapter 4

‘Seeing therefore that it remains that SOME must enter, and those to whom it was first preached didn’t go in because of unbelief… again God set a certain day, saying to David, “Today after so long a time… today if you will hear His Voice, do not harden your hearts!”’ V8, ‘For if Jesus had given them rest, He would not afterwards have spoken of another day’! Jesus came offering us a way of escape, a way of salvation, a way of deliverance, but, just as Israel had long ago stood on the borders of the Promised Land and because of unbelief didn’t go in, when He came, Israel as a nation again rejected. They rejected Christ and crucified Him; Paul was also among them! 

But, Paul writes, in the days of David, God was saying, “Today, if you don’t harden your hearts, you can receive...” In those 40 days after Jesus had risen from the dead, before He ascended to Heaven, He spoke many things about the Coming Kingdom… So that when He instructed His Disciples to wait in Jerusalem ‘for the Promise of the Father which you have heard from Me’ – He was speaking about the Baptism of the Holy Spirit – the immediate reaction of the Disciples was, “Will You at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?” In other words, “When the Holy Spirit is come, is that the moment when we enter into the Millennium Rest?”

No. We’re still waiting for that! IF, v9, Jesus HAD given them that Rest, IF He had fulfilled that Promise 2000 years ago, there would be no future fulfilment… IF He had done it, He would not have said, there is yet a day coming. It’s no use saying Jesus has come and has already ushered in the Kingdom… We have NOT YET entered! It’s in the future. It’s STILL TO COME! So, v9, there still remains a Promise to be fulfilled!