The Epistle to the Hebrews part CCXLVII

Hebrews 10:27
"But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversary."
Judgment because they had spurned God’s Grace. As found only in Christ for in Him was the fulness of the godhead within His bodily form [as the God ruled man] and as Jesus God in Himself and expressed His Faithfulness. This Faithfulness is God, for God is the Faithful one. What’s it speaking of? The Great White Throne Judgment when lost Hebrews are going to be condemned to the Lake of Fire just as well as lost humanity in general. If they’re going to turn away from God’s offer of Grace and Salvation by faith in that Grace alone, which is Christ alone; if they’re going to go back to animal sacrifices, or some other form of pagan worship in the guise of bring glory to god through their disobedience then they’ve got nothing facing them but the fiery indignation of eternal doom.

Now, to chapter 6; I said it’s referring to the same thing. So if somebody asks you, "Well what about Hebrews 10:26?" You tell them it’s the same thing as Hebrews chapter 6 and then you’re out of it! So let’s review Hebrews chapter 6 verse 4 for a moment.

Hebrews 6:4a
"For it is (what?) impossible (and that means what it says, it’s impossible) for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,"
People respond, that they never realized before that you do not sustain any amount of energy by simply tasting something. You can taste from now until doomsday and you’ll starve to death because you don’t really latch on to something if all you’re doing is tasting it. That is why the Lord said to eat of His flesh and drink of His blood because in so doing we begin the process of growth, spiritually and slowly at first. But like the snowball that is released at the top of the hill and allowed to roll down hill gains momentum and grows is size so the Spirit [seed] within us when restored to Christ will grow in Christ [becomes a mighty tree] and we become as He is, God ruled ones.

And that’s what the people did. They looked at Paul’s program. They looked at this offer of salvation through trust alone. The Holy Spirit enlightened them enough for them to consider it, and they could have stepped over the threshold. They could have had it but did they? No. Now read on.

Hebrews 6:4b-6a
"…and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, (the Gift, the Holy Spirit had come) And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, (In other words, the view of the coming Kingdom) If they shall fall away,…"
Remember when I taught this, I explained that this word in the Greek is not the same that translated ‘a falling away’ in Thessalonians. This is a Greek word that is never used any other place in Scripture. ‘Parapipto.’ And that means turning your back scornfully. (Psalm 4:2, 101:3) This is exactly what Israel as a nation did to Christ Jesus as recorded in Acts on three occasions. And this is what those Hebrew Christians were on the verge of doing, just as the Galatians were under the pressure of the Judaizers.

Now the word for ‘falling away’ in Thessalonians is ‘apostasia.’ Two totally different words. All right, so this parapipto meant to turn your back scornfully, as a woman who was turning her back on her husband and going into an adulterous situation. Now that’s what the word implies. Not just someone who hadn’t quite understood it. Not someone who was caught in a moment of weakness but someone who had fully comprehended all this. Someone whom the Lord has opened up their heart to receive of Him but in a scornful rejection they just said, "I’ll have nothing to do with this. I’m going back to my religion, nationalism and superior attitude as a chosen nation, we're the head not the tail." Now do you got the picture?

When I talk about cult people, that’s exactly where most of them are. Even when they see the truth, they get all the pressure from their fellow cult people and back they go and they scorn what they have been enlightened to see. All right, so now then, if you want the answer to Hebrews 10 verse 26, you just tell folks to read Hebrews 6 because it means the same thing. Another example is when these people willfully, scornfully said, "we’ll not have anything to do with this Jesus of Nazareth, crucify Him, give us Barabbas instead[Acts 3:14-15]." Now verse 27 again.

Hebrews 10:27-28
"But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:"