What is the correct meaning of Heb 11:13?
What is the correct meaning of Heb 11:13?
"All these, not attaining the things promised, seeing them afar off, believing and embracing them, declaring themselves strangers and aliens on the earth, died in faith."
What is the blessing that God promised to Abraham?
To understand this Heb 11:13, you must combine Gen 22:16-18 and Gal 3:16
There are three key verses in the passage.
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1. I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the sky and like the sand on the seashore.
2. In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
3. I ordered in my name.
"Thy seed" here refers to the seed of Jesus.
Paul explains this clearly in his epistle to the Galatians (3:16).
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
They are a new spiritual seed born through Christ.
The Son of God, the second part of the Trinity, was born as a man in Abraham's seed.
After this, it was said in Genesis 17:8, "And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God." The promise should be observed. correctly
Abraham. Isaac, Jacob, and none of his sons ever owned anything as long as they lived.
About 500 years later, Abraham's descendants took possession of the land of Canaan.
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But they never obtained the whole promised land of Canaan.
The Hebrew nation never occupied all the land that had been promised to it.
What Heb 11:13 refers to is not the land of Canaan that their descendants will inherit.
God sent his Son into the world and will be born in their dynasty. They saw from afar that great salvation would come to the world through it, and they all believed it and died in faith.
It represents a purely spiritual blessing. This is what Jesus Christ said to the Jews: "Your father Abraham longed to see my day, and he rejoiced when he saw it.
Moses also considered this blessing to be greater than the reproach that would come for the sake of Christ in the treasures of Egypt.
They did not die in the faith, facing worldly blessings and seeing them in the distance.
This is the true interpretation of this passage.
The spiritual blessing that our God gave to Abraham should not be confused with the worldly blessing.
Ref: "The DAILY STUDY BIBLE: THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS” BY W.BARCLAY
1. AN EXPOSITION OF HEBREWS-A.W.PINK
2. AN EXPOSITION OF THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS-JOHN BROWN
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