06/20/2024
Hebrews 11 is known as the chapter of faith. There is much to be learned but I want to point out that the writer says that the promise of land that was to be given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was not something that was of this Earthly creation and temporal but of the New/Heavenly Creation and is eternal.
In fact, this promise is also described as a city that is not made by anyone from this world but is created and made by God. This heavenly country, this God-made city is better than any Earthly inheritance.
Then at the end of this chapter, the writer makes it clear that this inheritance is not just for them and those of the Old Covenant but for all of us who had come after and were part of the New Covenant.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off [e]were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15 And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
39 And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, 40 God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.