Chapter 8 – One God Translation

Hebrews

   8 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such a high priest, who has taken his seat at the right hand[1406] of the throne of the Majesty[1407] in the heavens, 2 a servant in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. 4 If he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, because there are priests who offer the gifts according to the Law. 5 They do their service in a sanctuary which is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly one, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle: “See that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.” 6 But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been given as Law[1408] based on better promises.
    7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then there would have been no need for a second covenant. 8 But finding fault with them, God says, “Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 9 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I had no regard for them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put My laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people. 11 And each one will not teach his fellow citizen or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because all will know Me, from their least to their greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their evil actions, and I will remember their sins no more.”
    13 At the time when He said, “A new covenant,” He made the first covenant obsolete. And what has become obsolete and has grown old is near to disappearing.

Hebrews

[1406]

The adoni, my lord (not Lord) of Ps. 110:1 which is the golden text from the Hebrew Bible, more often quoted in the NT than any other verse. Adoni in all of its 195 occurrences means a non-Deity superior, i.e. a man, occasionally an angel, but never God. The idea of GOD speaking to GOD is profoundly contrary to biblical unitary monotheism. In Ps. 45:6 the Messiah is addressed as “god,” where elohim is used in a Messianic sense. Moses was also called “god” (elohim) as representing the one true Lord God (Ex. 7:1). Jesus is never called “the Lord God,” nor “the Almighty” — El Shaddai in Hebrew and pantokrator in Greek.

[1407]

God, the Father’s throne (Rev. 3:21). Jesus will sit on his own throne in Jerusalem in the millennium.

[1408]

“en-Torahed” on better promises. This shows that the New Covenant Torah of Messiah (Gal. 6:2; 1 Cor. 9:21) supersedes the Old Torah in the letter. The New Covenant was introduced and ratified by Jesus (Lk. 22:28-30) and Paul was “a minister of the New Covenant” (2 Cor. 3:6). At the Parousia it will be made with Jews who accept the Messiah at that time (Rom. 11:26). Meanwhile any Jew or Gentile is urged to believe and obey the Messiah Jesus.